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Mark Steyn : 'Life on this planet' about to change
Orange County Register ^ | July 30, 2011 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 07/30/2011 9:35:14 AM PDT by Clairity

That thoughtful observer of the passing parade, Nancy Pelosi, weighed in on the "debt ceiling" negotiations the other day: "What we're trying to do is save the world from the Republican budget. We're trying to save life on this planet as we know it today."

It's always good to have things explained in terms we simpletons can understand. After a while, all the stuff about debt-to-GDP ratio and CBO alternative baseline scenarios starts to give you a bit of a headache, so we should be grateful to the House Minority Leader for putting it in layman's terms: What's at stake is "life on this planet as we know it today." So, if right now you're living anywhere in the general vicinity of this planet, it's good to know Nancy's in there pitching for you.

What about life on this planet tomorrow? How's that look if Nancy gets her way? The Democrat model of governance is to spend four trillion dollars while only collecting two trillion, borrowing the rest from tomorrow. Instead of "printing money," we're printing credit cards and preapproving our unborn grandchildren.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bipartisan; budget; congress; debtdeal; debtdealcavein; debtdealshowdown; default; economy; marksteyn; pelosi; socialism; spending; steyn; tyranny
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To: geologist

Revelation 13 is what I think you may be referring to, whether you know it or not.


21 posted on 07/30/2011 10:20:08 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Terry Mross

They make their self to be objects for the anger the nation is going to express somehow.

Too little too late is not the path to success.


22 posted on 07/30/2011 10:21:22 AM PDT by geologist (The only answer to the troubles of this life is Jesus. A decision we all must make.)
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To: Terry Mross

“Maybe the “elites” of both parties KNOW this can’t continue so they’re just going to kick the can down the road so they can live the high life as long as possible.”

It must be something like that, but most of them have children and grandchildren, what on earth do they think will happen to them? Can they really be that shortsighted and callous ?

And the way things are headed now, they’d better have someplace really safe to unass to, ‘cause when the Morelocks come out it ain’t gonna be safe around here.


23 posted on 07/30/2011 10:30:49 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: RobRoy

Did a two year study on Revelations ...

So much is symbolic and there is much offered as possible connections. It is vague and realistic at the same time.

Since America is not mentioned in Revelations, it is likely not a power or still called America. It seems to me that chapter 18 reads like it is describing America. Because ‘the buyer’ of the worlds precious goods is destroyed and is no more. MOO!


24 posted on 07/30/2011 10:33:55 AM PDT by geologist (The only answer to the troubles of this life is Jesus. A decision we all must make.)
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To: Travis McGee

Good find.


25 posted on 07/30/2011 10:35:28 AM PDT by verity (The Obama Administration is a Criminal Enterprise.)
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To: PLMerite

I’m sure most of them have already set their kids up to make their millions. So they’ll be okay for a generation and they can’t see past that.

As for someplace to hide, maybe they have a place.

But for some reason they’re trying to keep their gravy train running for as long as possible.


26 posted on 07/30/2011 10:37:15 AM PDT by Terry Mross (I will only vote for a SECOND party.)
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To: dhs12345
And we trust the CBO to rate the various bills that come out of Congress? What a sham.

The accounting tricks used by Congress would mean lengthy jail time for anyone who used them outside of government.

27 posted on 07/30/2011 10:43:29 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: TheOldLady; Rummyfan; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; ...

Mark Steyn ping.

Freepmail me, if you want on or off the Mark Steyn ping list.

Thanks for the ping Gene Eric.


28 posted on 07/30/2011 10:43:48 AM PDT by JLS (How to turn a recession into a depression: elect a Dem president with a big majorities in Congress)
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To: PLMerite
when the Morelocks come out it ain’t gonna be safe around here.

This fella will build you and your loved ones a Fortress of Solitude. I've heard rumors about a compound community in the Adirondacks that's ready for the collapse.

29 posted on 07/30/2011 10:50:01 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: PLMerite
It must be something like that, but most of them have children and grandchildren, what on earth do they think will happen to them? Can they really be that shortsighted and callous ?

Many of them are extremely wealthy, especially the Democrats. They probably think their wealth will insulate them and their children from the havoc caused by their policies.

30 posted on 07/30/2011 10:53:47 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: PLMerite
Transgenerational ties are at a low level and the more ‘educated’ and secular the individual the more this is true. I regularly hear comments along the lines of ‘I could care less what happens after I die.’ from both friends and close family members. These people are non TP type ‘conservative Republicans’ sort of. All are ‘prochoice’, one of the women rabidly so. I have seen her ask young college women who have engagement rings why they want to ‘ruin’ their lives with marriage and family when they could have a ‘fulfilling career’. The adult children of all these people are in some significant way dysfunctional. The one who has a family married a angry control freak who has convinced his wife to work outside the home while he ‘acts as the primary caregiver’. I am afraid this rot of selfish, self centered, uncaring and unconnected lifestyle has been embraced by a Karens chance of the upper middle and professional classes. There certainly isn't a scintilla of concern for their country or the well being of the nation in these people. Like the bunny says ‘it's all about me.’
31 posted on 07/30/2011 11:03:32 AM PDT by robowombat
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To: BobL

Don’t know where I saw this, but apparently “Hilary!” has her eyes on getting out of S of S and ruling over IMF.

I know I read it on Free Republic because that’s where I get my education.

I’ll look for the site.


32 posted on 07/30/2011 11:03:51 AM PDT by hummingbird (Help keep Guam from tilting...still not tilting...)
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To: tomkat

“The US as most of us have known it prolly won’t last another decade”
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The US as I used to know it has not existed for at least two decades already.


33 posted on 07/30/2011 11:09:45 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a liberal is like teaching algebra to a tomcat.)
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To: Moonman62

Except that we have fact checkers here and on the Internet. Thanks to the free flow of information. The crooks won’t get away with it.

“The truth will set you free!”


34 posted on 07/30/2011 11:15:21 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: hummingbird

“Don’t know where I saw this, but apparently “Hilary!” has her eyes on getting out of S of S and ruling over IMF.”

Interesting - she wants to be there celebrating her final victory over America.

I’ve been thinking that she may even run, as a ‘moderate’ Democrat. It is basically her last chance.


35 posted on 07/30/2011 11:15:50 AM PDT by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
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To: Gene Eric

Does he/she have any children?

(I have two. One is currently fighting in Afghanistan, the other is a US Marine,)

I have heard this same kind of attitude expressed by the “no more children, let’s spend it now” liberals in this country.

It is offensive in the extreme.


36 posted on 07/30/2011 11:16:22 AM PDT by Sigurdrifta
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To: robowombat

I know a lot of people like that. Push comes to shove, they genuinely don’t care about anything because they don’t have kids, national pride or personal religious beliefs. They are their own universe, the borders of which run no further than their own lifespan.

Funny thing about that type. They’re happy to push the country into ruin in order to get theirs, because it’s all about getting whatever you can loot while the looting is good. Once the collapse happens, however, that kind makes lousy soldiers and poor survivors. They’ll be scattered to the winds, to whatever table scraps Fortune throws them.

People with ties, skills and a vision for the future will be the ones to survive hard times and come out on top. This is a recurring theme in human history, and will be no different this time.


37 posted on 07/30/2011 11:23:56 AM PDT by Steel Wolf ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
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To: Sigurdrifta

The cavalier expression of indifference is indeed troubling.

God bless your family, and God bless America.


38 posted on 07/30/2011 11:24:53 AM PDT by Gene Eric (May our dreams converge for a free and prosperous nation.)
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To: geologist

You and I have pretty much the same take on this, from the top of your post to the bottom.

One thing that is pretty amazing to me is the connections between Daniel, Ezekiel and Revelation.


39 posted on 07/30/2011 1:38:01 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Sigurdrifta

Thank you for your family’s service and for your valor. We who love America invest in the future with our blood, sweat, tears, service and energy, and raise children who do the same if possible. My son is a Marine as well. Semper Fi!


40 posted on 07/30/2011 2:11:34 PM PDT by Pat4ever (NO MORE!)
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