I think we have passed the point of no return and there is no peaceful/bloodless way back from here. (These folks agree)
Prepare now.
(BTW, are you all aware the the US military has been conducting urban warfare drills in the major cities of this country? They are, Los Angeles was just the latest)
I think we have passed the point of no return and there is no peaceful/bloodless way back from here. “
Let er rip! Let’s have them take picnic baskets and get all dressed up and drive out to watch the confrontation at Third Manassas.
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Starting with FDR, the Democrat Party began their attempt to incorporate the teachings of Karl Marx into the fabric of America by converting Marx’s dictum of “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” into what we know today as “Class Warfare,” “the disparity between the haves and the have nots,” “wealth/income redistribution,” “progressive taxation,” etc.
It took less than 80 years for the Social Security System to become a financially destructive program. This was FDR’s largest part of his New Deal. Since then, almost all Presidents, (from “both” political parties), have added their programs to the financially predatory, share-the-wealth, social-engineering plans started by FDR.
The result has been a pervasive appetite on the part of voters to expect each new presidential candidate to buy their votes with new “free” Federal programs that they think that they are entitled to. The Federal politicians in “both” political parties have been only to happy to comply.
Since we are a consumer-based society, we the consumers pay all the taxes. Businesses do not pay taxes. We pay the businesses for all additional expenses that the Federal, State and Local politicians add to the cost of selling goods and services to us.
Consider for a moment what the financial impact would be if there were no Federal, State, or Local taxes on any fuel used by trains, planes, ships and trucks that are part of the supply chain that delivers goods and services to us, the consumers. Would the cost of a loaf of bread, cell phone, or cost of gasoline at the pump go up or down?
The entitlement mentality of the American voter is still very strong. Consider for a moment who among us really wants in 2013 to receive 35% less financial payments from the Federal Government for our entitlements, including Food Stamps (Nixon), No Child Left Behind (GWB), Medicare (LBJ), Medicaid, and Social Security (FDR)?
Certainly not the Republican In Name Only, (RINO), Party, or the Democrat Party. Thus, we come to today where the RINOs are asked to accept the political plank that the Entitlements of the past are now liabilities for the future.
This concept was brought home forcefully in September, 2008 when the US Government’s Federal Housing Agency went Bankrupt. Americans lost 35 % of their wealth, but the US Federal Government has yet to cut its baselevel spending by the same 35 %.
The US Federal Government continues to live in denial by printing money backed only by the unsolicited pledge of American taxpayers to pay any future downside risk to owners of that money. This money is printed in the futile attempt, (it hasn’t worked yet), to stimulate the return of the 35 % loss of wealth.
The probability is that market forces of supply and demand will force the voters to choose politicians who will adjust Federal Entitlement spending down below market expectations.
The question of that voter mentality change relative to a financial collapse of the US Federal Government is still an open question. Greece and California will be interesting future shock examples of what this Nation can expect.
Romney personifies the denial of the RINO Party to recognize that the primary problem in America is the Entitlement mentality of the American voter. Our National Election of 2012 is all about the money, our money. The RINO Party continues to endorse their best Entitlement Liberal, as just business as usual.
Neither Romney or the GOP has definite plans to change anything of significance to the Entitlement expense that is essentially paid for by strangers who buy our Government Bonds.
Obama”care” not only is the fatal wound to America, it is also destructive to our Freedom of Religion, as well as Separation of Church and State.
Obama”care” is also the clearest definition, so far, of what the Democrat Party has stood for since FDR began to weave Marxism into the daily fabric of the United States of America, the home of the formerly Free and the formerly Brave.
To the best of my knowledge, since that time until now, not one Federal Politician has accepted responsibility for their actions, and inactions in this Federally-caused financial disaster, currently called “The Great Recession.”
Instead, two administrations, from “both” political parties, have successfully been able to convince the voting public, and their children, (especially the OWS), that the FHA/Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Bankruptcy was not the fault of Federal laws, regulations, regulators, or Congressional watchdog committee failures.
The CYA scapegoat was chosen to be only private business people who work on a highly Federally regulated industry on a street in New York City.
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“Looking at the numbers behind our federal budgets reveals that the majority of our government’s spending goes not to running the day to day operations of government, but rather, to social safety net programs like Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, welfare, food assistance, rental stipends and a host of other entitlement programs. “
I’m sorry, but when I see “social safety net” and Social Security in the same sentence, it makes me puke. As long as Bill Gates can qualify for Social Security, it is not a “safety net” program, rather it is a transfer of wealth from my kids and their future kids, to a couple of deadbeat generations that decided (collectively) to borrow money for their indulgences, rather than tax themselves for it at the time.
We are indeed past the point of no return. There is nothing anyone can do to stop the spiral. The only question is, how long do we have? Anyone care to make a prediction (and explanation)?
When were the LA drills done?
One thing is for damned sure. We ain’t voting our way out of this.
It’s too late now!
Bump for later.
What states and local communities need to think about is how they take care of the most vulnerable in the face of financial disaster at the national level.
No, it has to be cut even more than that.
Remember that some government spending comes back to the government as tax revenue. If that spending goes away, that partially-offsetting revenue also goes away.
I confess: endtimers and preppers and such used to make me snicker a just a hair not too terribly long ago. But it’s just not funny anymore. If somehow His Evilness, along with his bloody merry band of oppressors retain power after this yr, we are all probably screwed silly.
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