
One morning shepherd Pyotr Malinkin in Russia took his cows
out to the pasture as usual. Having gone five kilometers into the field the man
was shocked to find a huge hole in the ground six meters in diameter. The pit
was not on the spot the day before, it appeared overnight. No cows have been
reported missing or mutilated.
A vast, unexplained sinkhole threatens to swallow the small
East Texas town of Daisetta. This Sinkhole
started as a small pocket of disturbance but has grown and continues to expand
its devastation encompassing the entire town and the surrounding farms and
homes. No one knows why this hole is there,
the towns’ folk only know that their town will soon be history.
A giant 200ft-deep crater appeared after Guatemala was hit
by tropical storm Agatha. When you look
at the pictures of the shanty type village it’s like a swath of earth has been
transported, simply removed from the middle of the street, leaving only an
unexplained hole.
Many around the world are showing similar levels of fear,
fear of being swallowed while asleep or taken down into bowels of the earth as
they walk to work or school. Some of the
sink holes can be explained by broken pipes leaking massive amounts of water
under the ground but many more have no explanation leaving experts scratching their
heads over the increases in terrain activities.
Some are suggesting alien involvement; others are convinced
that governments are constructing huge underground tunnels, modern catacombs obviously
for nefarious purposes and yet others are claiming that the earth itself is
waging a campaign of selective reprisals, a terrorist tactic to create global
unrest. There is even the suggestion
that global warming of the earth has altered the very balance of the earth with
a resulting shift of equilibrium creating pockets of instability, sink holes.
There are other types of sink holes as well, most not so
obvious but just as devastating. A black
hole is a type of sink hole in a region of space-time from which gravity
prevents anything, including light, from escaping. These cosmic sinkholes like their muddy
earthy counterparts start with a weakness and exploit that weakness creating a
void. That void continues to expand
until sufficient resistance and equal power regulates its expansion causing
them to stop. Very little is known about
the black whole, at least from what I’ve read.
Another type of sink hole is the process of federal
spending. This may not fit the physical explanations
but it does fit the general idea of the how a sink hole works. Our government starts with a well-intentioned
program but each year the budgetary requirements continue to grow, the organization
grows the people hired continue to expand and the financial needs also enlarge ,
creating a cycle of expansion and depth so large that no one can see the
bottom. Be careful not to get to close
you may get sucked into the sliding mud or pulled into gravitational forces
that will eventually rip you limb from limb as your body passes over the event
horizon, the pain and discomfort lasting an eternity as time slows but your
body is stretched well beyond it physical limits.
The sequester means to Isolate or hide away (someone or
something): "the artist sequestered himself in his studio for two
years".
As a noun it’s been developed as a general cut in government
spending. How they co-opted the word to
mean a general cut in spending actually comes as a result of a legal term of
sequestration meaning the seizure of property for creditors or the state. All I know is that the government’s black hole
of spending will not be affected by this level of sequestration. It has been suggested that the automatic cuts
amount to about 500 billion, the total debt is approximately 16 trillion, that’s
about .03 cents per dollar. Not much of
a cut.
The sink hole that is our government is growing by leaps and
bounds and the edges of the chasm are growing closer and closer to each of
us. This sequestration is nothing more
than a spoonful of sand thrown into the vast Pacific Ocean in an attempt to
stop the constant force of each and every wave.
3 cents for every dollar, do they really think we’re that stupid? Yes they do, that’s why their doing it…..
Hi Richard, I enjoyed reading this one, and as we were all horrified by the earth swallowing a man in his bedroom, if we but realized we are going over the event horizon! I know that being in debt feels like you can never dig your way out! toni encheff
ReplyDeleteToni, event horizon will ultimately be the death of us all, especially if we continue down the chaotic path were on.
ReplyDeleteThanks again for reading.