From David Warren:***
...There, as here, the chariot of state is driving over the cliff. In every Western polity of which I am aware, the entitlements are backed with the force of law, and cannot be withdrawn with anything like the ease with which a government can cut the police, the military, and essential public services -- even on paper. Thus, at the moment when fiscal catastrophe strikes, we find the government has already "downsized" the instruments of public order.
I'm still trying to imagine the scenario in which this ends well. (Give me more time!)...
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Read it all.
What comes after "recovery summer", pray tell?
After? The Fall of our discontent and (sadly) likely a Winter of bloodshed
ReplyDeleteThat measure is, quite frankly, the complete dismantlement of the Nanny State
ReplyDeleteAmen.
An agonizingly slow, out-of-control collision with reality, and piecemeal obliteration of infrastructure, order, and nation. Zombie Apocalypse would be better.
ReplyDeleteNot a bad piece, other than the above quoted paragraph.
ReplyDeleteComplete BS.
The police and military in this country are the entitlement programs, created / taken over by the government, that are and/or will be used by that same government to back, by force, all the other entitlement programs.
I will never understand what makes folks think that any government entity of a completely corrupt and out of control government is going to save them from that government.
Government is going to do everything within it’s power to save itself, period.
Therefore if the government is the problem……………….anything that IS government…………………is the problem, no?
WWalker
Obama aides object to redistribution of their PERSONAL wealth, neglect to pay taxes. $830,000 worth.
ReplyDeletehttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/09/congress-taxes-irs.html
During his press conference today, Obama says "We haven't done enough."
ReplyDeleteCommenter on freerepublic.com points out that SENATOR Obama was one of those at the wheel when the country ran off the road.
Too many people interprest that as an accident. Incompetence and ignorance couldn't have destroyed a prosperous economy this quickly.
no matter how much time, I cannot imagine this ending well either.
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That measure is, quite frankly, the complete dismantlement of the Nanny State, and the restoration of the status quo ante -- governments focused on the provision of national defence, and domestically on the machinery of law and order. Full stop.--David Warren
ReplyDeleteThe Tea Party is presently our best hope of realizing this goal. Let's get on with it while we still may.
MALTHUS
III to get ready!
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