Death Valley, CA 2011: When Sea Level charts upon a cliffside, how long can life be sustained in the valley? At some point, the sea exacts its reach, and those ignoring truth and warning disappear in the washout. Must it always go this way?

From Trent Ling:

Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his Vice-Presidential running mate resolves several variables while bringing a laser focus upon the nation’s impending yet fully avoidable economic doom.  But whether Ryan’s new role will ultimately matter remains an open, populace-dependent question.

Those paying any attention at all cannot help but be keenly aware of the country’s runaway annual budget deficits and accumulating debt now casually measured in trillions.  Unsustainable, incoherent, and reckless, the Obama course serves only to suffocate any remnant economic pulse with throwaways, entitlements, and blank stares.  Despite guinea-pig warnings emanating from collapsing Greek and Eurozone trajectories, nothing seems remotely capable of assuaging the current U.S. government from its over-the-cliff joyride.

The U.S. Senate has abandoned the notion of budgeting while the President has forsaken the uttering of anything novel or noteworthy.  As if pre-packaged for the dumpster, the United States appears perfectly content to call it a good run and go out with the puniest of whimpers.  Broken down and bereft of any connection to reality, the nation’s financial house would already have been euthanized if it were luckily enough to be an animal.

It seems Romney toyed with summoning Senator Marco Rubio (to get Hispanic votes), Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (to get minority and female support), and Senator Rob Portman (to get Ohio).  In a surprise shift, Romney chose Ryan, who unlike the others, and for whatever reason the lot fell to him, reduces the campaign to its core, singular issue—the prospective end of the United States.

“Yet these men speak abusively against whatever they do not understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals—these are the very things that destroy them.”  Jude :10.

True to the verse, many are the acerbic opinions but few are those understanding of how economies actually function.  Worse yet, and also true to the verse, things birthed by instinct (fear, flattery, what-about-me paralyses, and the heinous joys of casting off responsibilities, to name a few) eventually self-annihilate the simpletons.

The clock ticks.  Paul Ryan has long said that this election cycle presents the last chance for the American people to get it right.

We are not about to find out if Obama has been right all along.  We are not about to learn whether Romney is the Man.  We are about to find out whether Americans’ instincts will self-mutilate as suspected, or whether people made in God’s image will arise and outwit expectations and pull civilization from the foreseeable brink.  Paul Ryan will find himself at the epicenter of this debate, not because he’s anyone special, but because God has sent him in to elicit an answer to this very specific and pressing question from heaven.

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