Posted on 12/30/2008 4:52:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
In 1990, few were predicting the breakup of the Soviet Union.
But it came – only a year later.
With 2009 set to begin in a few days, there is someone predicting the breakup of the United States – a year from now.
His name is Igor Panarin, a former KGB analyst and dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's school for foreign diplomats – in other words, a serious fellow.
For him, it's nothing new. He's been making the same prediction for last 10 years. But, until recently, no one took him seriously. And then came the economic calamity that has rocked Americans and the rest of the world, too. Now, Panarin's predictions of an end of the United States, due to economic and moral collapse, is being taken seriously by many.
Panarin blames out-of-control mass immigration, economic decline and moral degradation for what he believes could be a civil war as early as next fall and a total collapse of the dollar. By June or July of 2010, he sees the U.S. breaking into six pieces.
Now, I'm not buying into Panarin's entire prediction. But I do think there's something to it.
I've been talking about this possibility more and more in recent years. I don't see how this house of cards we're building can possibly withstand the next significant windstorm. The political ties no longer bind. Only inertia and the threat of force hold us together.
The economic crisis is clearly visible to all – but all the wrong buttons are being pushed. In fact, the same people who got us into this mess are digging a deeper hole for all of us to climb out of.
The other two crises he points to have scarcely even been recognized by many people – out-of-control immigration and moral rot.
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And as far as I'm concerned, I am making a literacy test mandatory for admission. You can sleep outside, simpleton.
It has taken us to a place where the weight of the 'takers' on the shoulders of the 'producers' has reached critical mass. The economic tailspin will effectively remove more and more producers from the 'foundation'- take enough out and at some point, collapse is inevitable.
Have governments ever reduced spending to reflect dwindling revenues? Not when they can deficit spend ('cept when they cut non-essentials like the military). Top heavy is an understatement.
So what are you going to do with the liberals in Texas? Concentration camps, gassing?
According to the Tax Foundation, SC gets back more than $1.30 for every dollar sent to Washington.
Sorry to say, your state is on life support.
If the fighting starts you mean to tell me you REALLY believe that illegals are going to stay and join the liberal forces?PLEASE,they`ll run for home faster then you can schedule greyhounds!They have no dog in this fight,why die here?No,the people you`d be facing are native born and bred,straight out of the liberal welfare mother`s mills (imagine a human puppy mill) of the “great society”.Welfare deadbeats born and bred by the liberals for just such a purpose,yea,thats very un-PC but just as true!And if recent polls are to be believed,their ranks are not just filled with “minorities”,there are plenty of welfare whites in that army.
So before you resort to rounding up the "usual suspects" remember that the times have been a changin,there`s a new dynamic afoot in America and its one wrought by liberals,bought and paid for by the hard earned tax dollars of many generations.
Nothing so crude, they’ll be deported. I’m sure they’d be happier “out there” anyway instead of with us gun-toting, God-fearing conservatives.
Table 1
Adjusted Federal Expenditures Per Dollar of Taxes by State
Fiscal Years 1994 and 2004
Alabama $ 1.34 $ 1.71 $ 0.36 10 6 – 4
Alaska $ 1.30 $ 1.87 $ 0.57 12 2 – 10
Arizona $ 1.11 $ 1.30 $ 0.19 20 19 – 1
Arkansas $ 1.24 $ 1.47 $ 0.23 16 12 – 4
California $ 0.98 $ 0.79 –$ 0.19 32 43 11
Colorado $ 1.00 $ 0.79 –$ 0.21 30 41 11
Connecticut $ 0.67 $ 0.66 $ 0.00 50 49 – 1
Delaware $ 0.79 $ 0.79 $ 0.00 43 40 – 3
Florida $ 1.06 $ 1.02 –$ 0.03 27 30 3
Georgia $ 0.99 $ 0.96 –$ 0.03 31 35 4
Hawaii $ 1.29 $ 1.60 $ 0.31 13 8 – 5
Idaho $ 1.12 $ 1.28 $ 0.16 19 21 2
Illinois $ 0.74 $ 0.73 –$ 0.01 46 46 0
Indiana $ 0.82 $ 0.97 $ 0.15 41 33 – 8
Iowa $ 1.10 $ 1.11 $ 0.02 22 25 3
Kansas $ 1.07 $ 1.12 $ 0.06 24 23 – 1
Kentucky $ 1.20 $ 1.45 $ 0.25 18 14 – 4
Louisiana $ 1.35 $ 1.45 $ 0.11 8 13 5
Maine $ 1.35 $ 1.40 $ 0.04 7 16 9
Maryland $ 1.27 $ 1.44 $ 0.17 15 15 0
Massachusetts $ 0.97 $ 0.77 –$ 0.20 33 44 11
Michigan $ 0.79 $ 0.85 $ 0.06 45 38 – 7
Minnesota $ 0.79 $ 0.69 –$ 0.10 44 47 3
Mississippi $ 1.61 $ 1.77 $ 0.16 2 4 2
Missouri $ 1.34 $ 1.29 –$ 0.05 9 20 11
Montana $ 1.43 $ 1.58 $ 0.15 5 9 4
Nebraska $ 1.06 $ 1.07 $ 0.01 26 28 2
Nevada $ 0.71 $ 0.73 $ 0.02 48 45 – 3
New Hampshire $ 0.73 $ 0.67 –$ 0.07 47 48 1
New Jersey $ 0.69 $ 0.55 –$ 0.13 49 50 1
New Mexico $ 1.88 $ 2.00 $ 0.12 1 1 0
New York $ 0.85 $ 0.79 –$ 0.06 40 42 2
North Carolina $ 0.93 $ 1.10 $ 0.16 39 27 – 12
North Dakota $ 1.54 $ 1.73 $ 0.18 3 5 2
Ohio $ 0.94 $ 1.01 $ 0.07 38 32 – 6
Oklahoma $ 1.28 $ 1.48 $ 0.20 14 11 – 3
Oregon $ 0.95 $ 0.97 $ 0.02 35 34 – 1
Pennsylvania $ 1.01 $ 1.06 $ 0.06 29 29 0
Rhode Island $ 1.11 $ 1.02 –$ 0.09 21 31 10
South Carolina $ 1.23 $ 1.38 $ 0.15 17 17 0
South Dakota $ 1.31 $ 1.49 $ 0.18 11 10 – 1
Tennessee $ 1.08 $ 1.30 $ 0.23 23 18 – 5
Texas $ 0.94 $ 0.94 $ 0.00 37 36 – 1
Utah $ 1.06 $ 1.14 $ 0.08 25 22 – 3
Vermont $ 0.95 $ 1.12 $ 0.17 34 24 – 10
Virginia $ 1.40 $ 1.66 $ 0.26 6 7 1
Washington $ 0.94 $ 0.88 – $0.06 36 37 1
West Virginia $ 1.49 $ 1.83 $ 0.34 4 3 – 1
Wisconsin $ 0.82 $ 0.82 $ 0.00 42 39 – 3
Wyoming $ 1.03 $ 1.11 $ 0.07 28 26 – 2
District of Columbia $ 5.39 $ 6.64 $ 1.25 – – –
Source: Office of Management and Budget; Tax Foundation.
10-Year
Change
in
State
Rank
10-Year
Change in
Spending Per
Dollar of Tax
Ranking
FY 1994 FY 2004
Expenditures Per
Dollar Taxes
State FY 1994 FY 2004
Federal
Expenditures
FY 1994 FY 2004
Federal
Tax Burdens
FY 1994 FY 2004
Comparing Each State’s Share of
Federal Taxes and Spending to the
National Average
The two components of these spending-to-tax
ratios can be examined separately. Table 2 presents
data on federal taxation and expenditures
per capita in each state compared to the national
average, with snapshots of FY 1994 and
FY 2004.
States that saw their federal tax burdens
increase the most relative to the national average
during this period include Massachusetts,
Connecticut and Wyoming. Residents of Massachusetts
went from paying 122 percent of the
national average in federal taxes to 140 percent.
Similarly, the residents of Connecticut
were paying 148 percent of the national average
in federal taxes in FY 1994, but ten years
later they were paying 166 percent.Y
Um...taking up arms against you country is called treason. You will be facing criminal penalties.
I hope they can manage without the money they are slurping away at the federal trough-yeah self sufficient types (sarcasm).
I would in a heartbeat.
These are areas that go screwed big time by China. SC, for instance, lost its textile and furniture manufacturing industries to China. They now have the third highest unemployment rate in the nation — approaching 10%.
The fault isn’t with the people of SC, but with U.S. trade policies.
You can’t take any part of the United states and claim it as your own...not even Texas. By the way, I saw that with all the immigration in Texas within 10 years, you will be a blue state...just saying.
I work for GM. I know about free trade policies. I agree with you. I am irritated with the Southern Senators (Corker ET AL) for handing out millions to foreign auto transplants and pretending they have principle or something when opposing the auto loan (bought and paid for by Toyota and others), but I have a Southern wife and have always loved the South-used to live in GA.
It's been my experience that conservatives on Free Republic would rather flee at the first sign of trouble, to some frozen burg or sweltering humid environment than to stay with the best and fight it out. Me? I'll tough it out on the front lines in Cal.
The others can just flee. Don't need them whinny losers anyway.
The best thing about the Obama Presidency: McCain isn't the President! Hmmm... Gonna make this my new tagline.
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