Peggy Noonan:
Here's the point: Bad things are coming, and we all know it. But most of us can't afford to buy a farm in the Hudson River Valley. Most of us can't afford to buy the safety of being far, far away on a lake in the mists. Many of us are stuck living near Port Newark.
What are we to do? This is the great domestic policy question of our time. Why doesn't our government provide us all with the means to survive an expected nuclear, biological or chemical attack? Why doesn't our government provide us with what I think of as a "get out of Dodge" kit--a protective suit, a regulation gas mask, information on which direction to walk in, or rather run in, and how soon, after Port Newark, or Times Square, or the Sears Tower, or the Shrine Auditorium, is hit? Why aren't they doing this?
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1134704/posts
If I hadn't clicked the links, I wouldn't believe it was a real article.
Sounds like she has been reading FR perhaps??
Simple answer. Money doesn't grow on trees. It is earned by productive people and confiscated from them by the government via taxation. The list of "do good" programs is already impossibly large and the burden is falling on fewer taxpayers as the baby boomers retire. The socialist programs are going to collapse. There is no pot of gold to pay for government silver bullets.
You guys have GOT to read "Memorial Day" by Vince Flynn!!
I've mentioned it before on this thread. Great TM material!
Every thing we have talked about and so much more. Even Rush Limbaugh is touting it.