The scaling down of the Welfare State in America is not a question of “if,” but “when.” The status quo is unsustainable.
“Unsustainable” is one of those Washington D.C. words with a history of meaning little -- like Foggy Bottom’s use of “unacceptable.” But unlike unacceptable, unsustainable, when applied to the Welfare State, is a derivative of mathematics -- a major determinant of the wealth of nations.
The American Welfare State is unsustainable -- destined for significant downsizing by cold, impassionate, apolitical Arithmetic.
All except the most hardcore leftist pols inside the Beltway know this to be true, but it remains mostly unspoken."....................
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Remember the 5 month-long siege on Wisconsin's state capital early in 2011?
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Democrats Unveil the Weapon of the Future "..........At the same time a campaign to recall Republicans who had voted for [Gov. Scott] Walker's budget was put into motion. (A smaller number of the Democrats who fled were also targeted.) These recall elections are still overhanging the senators.
With the bill headed for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the left next targeted an ordinary state Supreme Court election, importing hundreds of thousands of dollars in an effort to defeat incumbent David Prosser, a centrist conservative, in favor of Joanne Kloppenberg. Thanks to a comically inept local election official, it seemed at first that they had succeeded, but when the smoke cleared, Prosser had won by a healthy 7,000 votes.
And finally, we have the latest purported incident, in which we are asked to believe that Justice Prosser, in the midst of a discussion in the chambers of his liberal opposite number Ann Walsh Bradley, suddenly and apropos of nothing bounded across the room and attempted to strangle her in front of most of the other justices. The man is even worse than Clarence Thomas.
This is an extraordinary series of events, of a type that we haven't witnessed before. Even more singular is the legacy media's insistence on covering the story (with the exception of the siege of Madison, which got the standard "unions unbound" treatment) as if it were commonplace to the point of boredom. It is no such thing; it is an ideological campaign of a magnitude and breadth that we have not seen in quite some time, if ever.
What all this amounts to is the baptism of fire of what I have taken to calling the "liberal superstructure." This superstructure is the vast constellation of advocacy groups, think tanks, single-issue outfits, unions, and various other flotsam constructed by the left over the past half-century or so. There are literally thousands of these groups, ranging from the ACLU and the Sierra Club with their hundreds of thousands of members to the local "Friends of the People's Venezuela" outfit which amounts to a retired feminism professor and her six cats. These organizations are ubiquitous, universal, and networked to a fare-thee- well. They are also liberalism's last great hope of controlling politics in the United States."....
These “die ins” are just riot organizers testing the waters to see what the police reaction will be. They are likely preparing Feruson-style “protests” later on.
Police tolerate this lawbreaking at their/our own peril.
The hardest part about bring confronted by these racist looters will be, for me, pretending I am not excited about the opportunity.
Could this be what brings out the people who have had bought guns and ammo down the road to stand up to these possible troublemakers?
Ahhh... Christmastime in liberal utopia. Ain’t it grand!
This guy should have been indicted. I don’t agree with the looting of course, but damn — that cop had no business being that aggressive when faced with passive aggression ... that’s what arm lock and thumb locks are for. It would have been better for him to take a billy club and knee cap one of his knees.
Same old Occupy crowd now crying racism. Because Apple and Macys are keeping blacks down, or something.
Gee, Wally, appeasement didn't work?
The might not have died, but the place probably smelled like they did.
I wonder how many iDevices mysteriously disappeared?
Probably needed air freshener after they left.
guess they couldn’t storm NYPD headquarters.
Looks like Occupesters are back.
Did the headlock takedown kill Garner?
I think they just have nothing to do and are waiting for the IPhone 7 to come out.
Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Workboot store... you don't even need to lock the doors.
I have no problem with any peaceful demonstrations, which is what they have been so far in NYC.
This ain’t Ferguson.
Nothing racist about the take down.
Eric's resume includes 30 arrests.
From what the daughter said...I'd say she wasn't fond of her father...maybe even scared of him.
commies, occupy protestors, homosexuals and snotty nosed upper class college kids are doing this and all being directed by this administration
NYC...Im trying real hard to give a shi’ite....