THE END OF AMERICA?

Nealz Nuze ^ | November 28, 2005 | Neal Boortz

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The Drudge Report is reporting this morning that several broadcast television networks are considering a series loosely based on the concept of the end of America. Details on the various programs aren't yet available, but my bet is that the fictional end will come through either terrorism or some sort of a natural disaster.

The networks have part of this right. The end of America as we know it could well be on the horizon. The networks just wouldn't dare present the end as it very well may happen. The death of America will more likely come from the advancement of the American welfare state.

Empires have life expectancies. The history of civilization would tell us that a country based on freedom and economic liberty generally last just a bit over 200 years. If you know of such a society that has lasted well beyond the 200-year mark, let me know. I haven't been able to find one. Our Constitution was ratified on December 15th, 1791. In just a few weeks the United States of America will be 214 years old. That, for those of you who went to government schools, is just a bit over 200 years.

You can trace the decline of American to several different and varied beginning point. Among them:

1. The adoption of a graduated and progressive income tax, as envisioned by Karl Marx.

2. The adoption of a system of government education of our children, again as envisioned by Karl Marx.

3. The movement away from a rule of law to a rule of the majority (Democracy) which really took hold during the days of Franklin Roosevelt.

America, the welfare state, is growing steadily. In the last few weeks we started George Bush's Medicare prescription drug program. The original estimates for this welfare boondoggle ran at about $300 billion for the next ten years. Those estimates doubled before the program even began. The actual tab will probably be closer to one trillion dollars for the first ten years .. and growing after that. Baby boomers will be retiring over the next decade. As they retire they will start drawing down Social Security and Medicare dollars by the bucketful. The cost will be enormous. As presently structured, these income transfer programs can't handle it, but all attempts at reform, at least insofar as Social Security is concerned, have failed.

Back to the main point. Americans are no longer in love with freedom. In fact, the case can be made that Americans are afraid of freedom. Oh, they want to be free to go on vacation and to chose where to live, who to marry and what to wear each day, but that just about covers it. Americans want the government to educate their children, guarantee their jobs, determine their wages, provide them with medical care, pay for their prescriptions, insure their comfort in retirement, regulate their business competitors, and control the actions of their neighbors. If you suggest that the responsibility for any of these factors be placed back into the hands of the individual the screams and howls of outrage and indignation will be heard across the country.

If the networks want to do a series on the end of America, their script has already been written ... .by some Russian named Ayn Rand.

[2ndClassCitizen]

My thoughts exactly.

2nd class citizen uses 2nd amendment, and so do his children.

[Billthedrill]

Will a lesbian cooperative farm be holding out against the forces of the new-right fascist government of Amerikkka?

You better believe it. Post-apocalyptic Amerikkka means pretty much one thing in the heads of the "creative" community - a Republican-generated fascist police state with themselves as the heroes of the resistance. In short, they're already living it...in their imagination.

I cite as a case in point the old TV series "V." The first year was a pretty simple good guys versus the aliens shoot 'em up that was for a time about the hottest thing on the tube. Then things became politically correct and by the time the finale mercifully rolled around it showed environmentally-safe hot air balloons spreading Peace Dust all over the world. The viewership at that point was predictably subterranean.

I could, of course, be wrong, and the networks come out with a series that details a smothering, all-controlling nanny state under a female Democratic president, with a cigar-smoking, tommy-gun shooting hero who reads Ayn Rand as the head of resistance. I could also be the Easter Bunny.