Posted on 04/28/2009 8:25:20 PM PDT by neverdem
Ninety-nine days in, with 1,362 days to go, and we can see with some clarity the trajectory on which Barack Obama wants to take the United States. To put it in geographical terms, he wants to move us some considerable distance toward Europe.
This is apparent in the budget he has presented for the next fiscal year and its projections for the years to come. Government spending is scheduled to rise as a percentage of the economy. This will be accomplished by raising taxes and, even more, by borrowing that will double the national debt in five years and nearly triple it in 10 years. This trajectory can be altered in the future, but much of it is set in stone by the $3 trillion-plus deficit that will, give or take a few hundred...
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Perhaps. But one recalls that this was the European response to the genocide in its own back yard by Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic and that he was brought to justice only by the force of American arms. That lesson has not been lost on Obama who, for all his rhetoric, has ordered troop increases in Afghanistan despite the refusal of Europeans to do more.
Obama and his party were brought to power by George W. Bush's perceived incompetence on Katrina and Iraq, not because of some pent-up and suddenly overwhelming demand for the Europeanization of America.
Polls show voters ambivalent about Obama's expansion of government, skeptical of global warming theories, and appreciative despite the financial crisis and recession of the efficacy of market capitalism to produce economic growth. They are also confident, as Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy were, that America is a special and unique country. Obama audaciously believes he can lead the country in a direction it's not sure it wants to go.
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The system is going to collapse. Liberals are incompetent. Keep the powder dry.
Hell No.
Americans don’t want to go but, judging from the polls, it appears that there are fewer than 150 million of us left living in this country. The non-Americans have us outnumbered.
>The non-Americans have us outnumbered.
The questions then are:
— Do they have us out-gunned?
— Do they have any supply/logistic weaknesses that can be exploited?
— Is there a way to gain tactical superiority?
— Is there a way to gain strategic superiority?
— How do we defend our own logistics & supplies?
And so forth.
You’re jumping the gun, so to speak. There’s a lot of politics left to play out. The great mass of white liberal Obamanoids has a lot to lose, and may actually wake up when they see their world collapsing around them. At that point, who knows what may unfold.
lol - I see what you mean. Though I would be lying if I said that I didn’t see how things could go VERY downhill VERY quickly.
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We went to Europe last year. The trains were on time.
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I would call it “racing Europe to North Korea”.
For “Europe” read culturally suicidal, crime-ridden, bankrupt, brain dead, socialist sewer. Time to begin the study of Chinese/Russian and/or bone up on your Koran.
I'm also sick of hearing about the youth vote, as if it's some kind of moral paragon. The youth vote is dominated by dumbed down, spoiled brats living on their daddy's credit card. Historically, localities had a village elder, who was the embodiment of wisdom based on his many years of life experience. His advice was sought before any serious changes were made.
Today, we're told to change entire societal institutions, dating back thousands of years, because a poll shows “youth” to be 60-40 in favor of the change. In place of the village elder, who has gone by the wayside with the loss of local autonomy, is the national brat known as Barack Hussein Obama. Granted, Obama’s well into his forties and thus not really a youth agewise. But mentally he's still an adolescent, an embodiment of the narcissism that afflicts so many young people today.
Any nation that places its decision making in the hands of “youth” is asinine. I don't recall Washington, Adams, Lincoln, or even FDR worrying about the “youth vote”. Hitler did, which may be the first time in history such a thing ever occurred. Somehow, I don't think Grover Cleveland ever considered forming a regimented youth corps. But then, Cleveland wasn't trying to trash the country.
Until the 1960s generation, young voters in America were courted the same way older voters were courted. The purpose of this was to encourage younger voters to behave like older voters, which meant to vote for the national interest, not some handout or unearned special privilege. Prior to WWII, most youth were thrown into adulthood pretty quickly. People got married young and by age 20 were starting to have children. They were working and paying taxes.
The 60s generation in both America and Europe was the first in history to be pampered, spoiled, raised according to sissified Benjamin Spock rules. They were the first to go to college in mass numbers, delaying adulthood and avoiding the real life experiences of prior youth generations. They became the first “youth vote” when the left found that their utter cluelessness about how the world worked made their minds a blank slate for imprinting with propaganda. Their pampered status made them the first generation, as someone once noted, to whom everything was given and of whom nothing was asked. It wasn't true of all of them, of course. Many of that generation fought in Vietnam, but ironically were spat on by the spoiled college brats who never saw a day's action.
Today we have a youth vote that's even more spoiled, pampered, divorced from the real world, narcissistic, self-indulgent, materialistic, and clueless. They live in the most prosperous nation in history, and wallow every day in designer clothes, high tech electronics, and countless other indulgences, but still feel, like, you know, totally, like, alienated. The only way to solve their teen angst, which they still apparently suffer from at age 30, is to obediently follow after any demagogue who promises to throw away the very system that made their easy lifestyle possible. He's gonna change the world, ya know, create a real utopia.
In a few decades China will be able to pick this country up for about fifteen bucks and some spare change.
If you don’t pay Federal taxes you shouldn’t vote in presidential elections.
Government spending is scheduled to rise as a percentage of the economy. This will be accomplished by raising taxes and, even more, by borrowing that will double the national debt in five years and nearly triple it in 10 years. This trajectory can be altered in the future, but much of it is set in stone by the $3 trillion-plus deficitThanks neverdem.
**but Do Americans Want to Go?**
NO!
I just got an error message. Thanks anyway.
Either we crashed their site or they took it off. Muslim Demographics.
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