Posted on 03/11/2012 5:18:06 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
March 11th, 2012
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum; Govs. Bob McDonnell, R-Va., and Martin O'Malley, D-Md.; Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Chuck U. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
The other possibility is that "our" people wanted what's happening and wanted it for the purpose you state.
It is natural to want to believe that our elected leaders are simply in error rather than deliberately treasonous. All I can say is that we've had three years to observe repeated instances of such decisions or "making calls" if you will, and there is a consistent pattern of such which invariably benefit our enemies and hurt us or our allies.
As the adage goes, once is an accident, twice is coincidence, but three times is a plan.
Partisan politics aside, what we are witnessing is the collapse of the welfare state. It is happening here and in Europe. Regardless of what party is in power, the reality is that we cannot remain on our current course. We will have to make some very painful decisions and the longer we wait, the more painful they will be.
Those decisions will have to be made in the context of what we perceive the role of government to be. The Left has created a growing culture of dependency on government. They will resist cuts in the entitlement and welfare programs for both political and philospohical reasons. Our founding documents will come under the greatest stress in our history because the Left sees them as an impediment to their agenda. The Left will try to keep the welfare state going a little longer by increasing taxes and reducing defense expenditures, i.e., the classical guns versus butter battle we have seen played out in Europe. The strategy may work in the short term and be to their political advantage, but the in the long term it is doomed to failure just like the bailouts in Greece.
The GOP establishment has failed to address the issue in terms of its larger context, i.e., the role of government. Instead, they are framing the issues in terms of making the welfare state work more efficiently and effectively. They had to be drawn kicking and screaming into supporting Ryan's plan to change Medicare, which really is not that radical. None of our current Presidential candidates are really discussing rolling back the welfare state. Newt and Rick have expressed their support of the prescription drug program, a $7.2 trillion unfunded liability. Mitt has Romneycare, which says a lot about how he views the role of government. I recall Daniel Hannan at CPAC paraphrasing Mark Twain, that if all you have is a hammer (government spending) then everything (problems) starts to look like a nail.
What I fear will happen is that nothing will be done until a real crisis develops (similar to Greece) and by that time it is probably too late. The economic, political, and human costs could rend the fabric of our society and result in the loss of individual liberties and personal freedoms. The politicians prefer their short term survival to the long term interests of this country. Our political leadership has failed us and ultimately, we the public deserve most of the blame for being uninformed and disengaged.
Good analysis and exposition. What we’re talking about here in a larger sense is civilizational collapse. In addition to the collapse of the Western welfare state and financial bubble, both Islamic and Chinese civilization are facing existential crises as well.
A lot of the horrors which will soon be manifesting themselves in the Islamic world will be the result of famine and demographic pressures exacerbated by a religion/ideology incapable of coping with them. Many observers believe China’s vaunted economy is precarious and hollow too.
And as you’ve described so well in many previous threads, we’re facing our own catastrophic demographic invasion here also.
We are indeed living in interesting times.
You’re right! I had forgotten about her.
I had not thought of that but it might explain the high cost for her coupling. I had STD’s and AID’s testing in mind, or the other tests a licensed woman of the night might incur.
I like your idea better.
I’m hoping for a VP choice who will seize these issues and show them for what they are, simply diversionary.(and his name is Marco)
That would be a good choice. Let us hope!
Willston ND. And why North Dakota of all places? Because the shale oil under the ground they are pumping is mostly on PRIVATE land. The Do Nothing 0 regime in DC can do little to block it's exploration.
Thanks for letting us know.
I don't put it as eloquently as you but Americans have been too fat and happy. Obama has gotten their attention! Hopefully they have waken up in time!
NOrth Dakota is the left’s worst nightmare. If it comes u up it will be because our side brings it up.Great to hear from you John!
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