[kabar]

Walker is right. Our entitlement programs with an unfunded liability of $60 trillion and a flood of immigrants, legal and illegal, combine to make a giant train wreck ahead. It may already to too late to avoid the consequences. Congress must act prior to 2017 to “fix” Medicare and SS. It is just a matter of what “fix” they employ, but they must do something.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

I agree. Pretty much every single headache we have can be traced to liberal policies. This guy will talk about underfunded health care as a fiscal crisis, but as a Clintonista will back a huge government takeover which will become a bottomless pit for expenditure. He talks about extended involvements around the globe, but as a Clintonista supports ‘globalization’ and intervention in such places as Kosovo and Haiti. The answer to our problems starts with term limits and an end to government patronage.

[livius]

If we didn’t have a flood of immigrants, we’d be underpopulated and with a vast imbalance tipped towards the aging population, thanks to 40 years of abortion.

Rome was underpopulated, relative to its empire; Spain at the time of its invasion by the Muslims was extremely underpopulated; and just about any place that has ever fallen has had a severe drop in population prior to its destruction.

We need immigrants: we have to make them Americans, though, and that is where we are failing. And that’s our fault (permitting “bilingual ed,” separate language facilities for every group, special rights for Muslims, etc.).