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America’s Biggest National Security Threat: U.S. Debt
Yahoo Finance ^ | 04/03/2012 | Morgan Korn

Posted on 04/03/2012 12:21:00 PM PDT by Vintage Freeper

The biggest threats to U.S. national security are the nation's domestic policies and not Iran, China, North Korea or Russia says Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations. (Snip)

A Council on Foreign Relations Task Force released a report last month that found the nation's ailing public school system "threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy..(snip)

Haass says these policy failures and intransigence by lawmakers to seriously and vigorously tackle the looming budget crisis portends a weaker U.S. in an increasingly competitive global economy. (Snip)

Entitlement reform, typically a "third rail in American politics," will be the top priority after the November election, regardless of who wins the White House, says Haass. The nation's current fiscal situation cannot be reversed without changes to these entitlement programs..

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections
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How bad is it when one of the groups that has historically been considered to be part of the problem begin publishing comments that are extremely critical of results which their policies may have brought about?

Free Republic has a plan to deal with this problem starting with engineering the right out come for the 2012 Election.

1 posted on 04/03/2012 12:21:09 PM PDT by Vintage Freeper
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To: Jim Robinson; Jeff Head; Cen-Tejas; sport; MWS; seekthetruth; Liz; ForGod'sSake; DollyCali; ...

Thank you Jim Robinson for Free Republic and thank you for giving me a reprieve.


2 posted on 04/03/2012 12:24:45 PM PDT by Vintage Freeper (We have it in our power to begin the world over again.)
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To: Vintage Freeper

Indeed. Even some of my lib friends are beginning to understand this.


3 posted on 04/03/2012 12:41:16 PM PDT by Pharmboy (She turned me into a Newt...)
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To: Vintage Freeper
Debt is fine when incurred for investment in productive efforts. Such as starting a business, acquiring a rental property or a professional degree which has demand in the economy.

Debt is poison when incurred for CONSUMPTION. There lies the problem with federal debt...lion's share of it is for consumption.

4 posted on 04/03/2012 1:11:28 PM PDT by entropy12 (Every tax payer now owes $150,000 towards the national debt. Greek tragedy on the way here.)
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To: Vintage Freeper

Actually;.....
America’s Biggest National Security Threat... IS...
Some domestic cabals ability to force lame republican candidates into viable federal offices.. and making them SUCCESSFUL..

Covert and Overt RINOs.. or democrats wearing Elephant costumes..
Take Willard Romney as an example..

Or a HornDog wearing a Donkey costume...
Take Bill Clintoon as an example..

Or a witch wearing a Pantsuit..
...you know.... she who should not be named..

America seems to be “bewitched”....


5 posted on 04/03/2012 1:17:49 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: Vintage Freeper

Exacalacy. The Reserve is the _only_ weapon is capable of destroying USA. I can see USA crashing onto the rocks, from my porch. MOOTA kills.


6 posted on 04/03/2012 1:42:21 PM PDT by veracious
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To: Vintage Freeper
A Council on Foreign Relations Task Force released a report last month that found the nation's ailing public school system "threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role"

Lets import millions more foreigners to take more of the millions of great jobs available~

And while were at it, lets throw more money at the leftist public government schools

7 posted on 04/03/2012 1:50:13 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Vintage Freeper
The biggest threats to U.S. national security are the nation's domestic policies

The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
[Obama's strategy for destroying the economy]

frontpage.americandaughter.com
| August 31, 2008 | Jim Simpson

Liberals self-righteously wrap themselves in the mantle of public spirit. They ardently promote policies promising to deliver the poor and oppressed from their latest misery — policies which can only find solution in the halls of government. But no matter what issue one examines, over the last fifty plus years, the liberal prescription has almost always been a failure.

Why is this so? Why does virtually every liberal scheme result in ever-increasing public spending while conditions seem to get continually worse? There are a number of reasons:

  1. The programs usually create adverse incentives. This is especially true in so-called “anti-poverty” programs. The beneficiaries find government subsidies a replacement for, rather than a supplement to, gainful employment and eventually become incapable of supporting themselves. This in turn creates a dependent culture with its attendant toxic behaviors which demand still more government “remedies.”
  2. The programs create their own industry, complete with scads of “think tanks” and “experts” who survive on government research grants. These are the aptly named “Beltway Bandits.”
  3. They create their own bureaucracies, whose managers conspire with interested members of Congress to continually increase program funding, regardless of merit.
  4. Members of Congress secure votes and campaign donations by extorting them from beneficiaries of such programs, either through veiled threats — “vote for me or those mean Republicans will wipe out your benefits” — or promises of still more bennies.

In short, all develop a vested interest in the program’s survival. But if the result is always more and more government, of government, by government, and for government, with no solution in sight, then why do liberals always see government as the solution rather than the problem?

Similarly, liberals use government to promote legislation that imposes mandates on the private sector to provide further benefits for selected groups. But the results are even more disastrous. For example, weighing the laws or stacking the courts to favor unions may provide short term security or higher pay for unionized labor, but has ultimately resulted in the collapse of entire domestic industries.

Another example is health care. The Dems are always trying to impose backdoor socialized medicine with incremental legislation. Why do you suppose American healthcare is in such crisis? Answer: the government has already become too deeply involved. For example, many hospitals are closing their doors because they are overwhelmed with the burden of caring for indigent patients, illegal immigrants and vagrants who must, by law, be admitted like everyone else, despite the fact that they cannot pay for services. Read about it here — Destroying Our Health Care. The net result is reduced availability of care for everyone, exactly the opposite of what liberals claim to want.

To further complicate things, liberal jurists and lawyers have created new theories of liability that utilize the legal system as a means to further redistribute income. This too, has resulted in higher costs and prices in affected industries, higher insurance costs, or in some cases, complete elimination of products or services.

Liberals’ endless pursuit of “rights” for different groups also does little but create increasing divisions in our society. Liberal policy pits old against young, men against women, ethnic and racial groups against one another, even American citizens against illegal aliens, all in the name of “equality.” The only result is anger, tension and equal misery for all.

How does any of this improve our lot?

Finally, when companies relocate overseas to avoid the high cost of unionized labor and heavy domestic regulation, liberals sarcastically excoriate them for “outsourcing” America. Yet, when it comes to certain domestic industries, liberals in Congress suddenly become free marketers and choose to buy from overseas contractors rather than domestic suppliers. This happened most recently with a huge military contract being outrageously awarded to the heavily subsidized European consortium, AIRBUS, over America’s own Boeing. Since liberals claim to be so determined to “save the American worker,” what gives?

You have to take a step further back and ask some fundamental questions. Why is the liberal public policy record one of such unmitigated disaster? I mean, even the worst batter hits one occasionally. No one bats zero. No one that is, except liberals.

Prior to the Republican takeover in Congress in 1994, Democrats had over fifty years of virtually unbroken power in Congress with substantial majorities most of the time. With all the time and money in the world — trillions spent — they couldn’t fix a single thing, not one. Today’s liberal has the same complaints, and the same old tired solutions. Can a group of smart people, studying issue after issue for years on end, with virtually unlimited resources at their command, not come up with a single policy that works? Why are they chronically incapable?

Why?

When things go bad all the time, despite the best efforts of all involved, I suggest to you something else is at work — something deeper, more malevolent.

I submit to you that it is not a mistake, the failure is deliberate!

There is a method to the madness, and the method even has a name: the Cloward-Piven Strategy. It was first elucidated in the 1960s by a pair of radical leftist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven:

The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis…. …the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

[Part II of this article will explore those organizations created to implement the Cloward-Piven strategy and their ties to the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama.]


The Complete Cloward-Piven Series

The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part I: Manufactured Crisis
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part I — print copy
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part II: Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part II — print copy
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part III: Conspiracy of the Lemmings
The Cloward-Piven Strategy, Part III — print copy
Hate Crimes Legislation — Back Door Censorship
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Also see (from David Horowitz's DiscoverTheNetworks.org) ...

THE CLOWARD-PIVEN STRATEGY (CPS):

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7522
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Cloward, Piven and the Fundamental Transformation of America

Tuesday, January 05, 2010
By Glenn Beck


Meet Richard Cloward and Francis Fox Piven,
authors of the Cloward-Piven strategy

"I'm going to give you a hard concept to get your arms around: It's the concept that there are people in this country who want to intentionally collapse our economic system."-Glenn Beck

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582097,00.html

8 posted on 04/03/2012 8:31:43 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: entropy12

Yes.

AND...

some health care is investment and some health care is consumption. Think about that. if you have the balls.


9 posted on 04/03/2012 9:53:20 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line)
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To: mamelukesabre

Are you kidding? Any investment in your health is the best investment you can make! But for most people keeping good health is not that expensive. Most important is Exercise, even just rapid walking few minutes 4-5 times a week is good start. Next comes moderation in red meat & fat intake, and eating a lot of vegetables and fruits.


10 posted on 04/04/2012 9:53:40 AM PDT by entropy12 (Every tax payer now owes $150,000 towards the national debt. Greek tragedy on the way here.)
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To: entropy12

You aren’t thinking. Some people go to a doctor for meaningless crap. That’s not investment.


11 posted on 04/04/2012 10:26:36 AM PDT by mamelukesabre (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line)
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To: ETL
We can't control what Democrats and liberals do. But we need to offer voters new ideas and genuine alternatives.
12 posted on 04/04/2012 3:05:59 PM PDT by Vintage Freeper (We have it in our power to begin the world over again.)
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To: Vintage Freeper
We can't control what Democrats and liberals do.

Education is our best weapon. Most Obama supporters are painfully ignorant. Others downright stupid. Unfortunately, there isn't much we can do about them.

13 posted on 04/04/2012 3:11:19 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Vintage Freeper

Thanks for the ping!


14 posted on 04/04/2012 8:56:05 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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