Is America Doomed to Become a Failed European-Style Welfare State?

Townhall.com ^ | February 20, 2014 | Daniel J. Mitchell

[jeffc]

I say yes because the media have been thoroughly corrupted and now belong to one side of the argument.

[Buckeye McFrog]

1) Yes
2) Yes
3) Yes
4) Yes

or

5) Yes

Mainly because our people suffer from too much insular tunnel vision to realize this idea has already FAILED everyplace else in the world.

[ScottinVA]

Considering the concept of the “American Dream” is moving away from earning the fruits of hard work and toward collecting government checks and benefits...

Yes.

[WayneS]

Become?

[ScottinVA]

Well.. with rapidly rising muslim populations.. yeah, they do.

[WayneS]

I’m worried about my 12 year old son.

He’s going to need to be one tough SOB to survive in the hell that is coming to this country (and the world).

I’m trying my best to prepare him, while at the same time allowing him to have a relatively worry/trouble-free childhood - but I am still worried.

[WayneS]

Yup.

[SkyPilot]

Published June 28, 2012.

http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/the-republic-if-finished-and-the-america-we-knew-is-gone/

[circlecity]

"I speculated in the interview that we probably have a couple of decades to save the country"

He's way more optimistic than I am. I can't believe we can continue to spend a trillion dollars a year in imaginary money for two more decades. And once the first financial domino fall the whole house of cards collapses.

[Capt. Tom]

The proof of the tipping point for me was Obama being elected for a second term.

That's how I felt about it.
If you paid attention you knew what Obama was all about based on his books , family history,and statements made all prior to his first election.
You would have thought Americans after the first 4 years would have figured him out.
Romney was a decent person and a reasonable candidate but the voters went again with Obama.

Where would we be right now if the Socialists/Communists that have the Presidency and Senate had control of the House of representatives?-Tom

[LowTaxesEqualsProsperity]

Trey Gowdy supports amnesty, no thanks.

[freerepublicchat]

There's an invisible civil war going on and the takers are cranking out more and more troops. Unless conservatism finds a way to accept subsidized contraception of the takers, all is lost.

Opposition to contraception is a bit like being a conscientious objector. I can appreciate the principle, but there are times when we need a draft and stiff penalties for desertion.

[Graewoulf]

Why would anyone as smart as Trey Gowdy support amnesty for Illegal Alien Invaders from Mexico?

It doesn’t make sense!

[familyop]

"Is America Doomed to Become a Failed European-Style Welfare State?"

No. The piece doesn't even depict the situation as it is. The bureaucrats and their associates are not pulling a wagon. They haven't done any real work in their lives. From desks, they're piloting the economy and society to ruin while sucking far more money out of the kitty. They've outlawed most kinds of work with their regulations and laws.

[RinaseaofDs]

America, as it is today, is a kleptocracy. The rich join Congress, become governor, join a city council, and then get richer.

DC and NY are basically the same city separated by some coastline.

What’s going on is essentially Guan Xi. A pay to play system.

[Oatka]

[RedMDer]

We don’t retreat, we reload!!

Resolutely!

[trisham]

Not if we don’t surrender.

Never give-in, never give-up, never surrender!!

We don’t retreat, we reload!!

We are the resistance.

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Amen, Jim.

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."

~Thucydides

[nascarnation]

Yes we certainly agree the time will come when the markets puke on our fake money.

The challenge (to become wealthy and avoid the ongoing problems) is to have a good forecast of timing.

[catnipman]

“Is America Doomed to Become a Failed European-Style Welfare State?”

Absolutely not! America is doomed to become a failed FASCIST European-style welfare state.