Osama bin Laden's goal to bankrupt America is workingThat's because he has Obama Bin Lyin' to carry on his work.
Posted on 05/28/2012 9:46:41 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
One year ago American forces killed Osama bin Laden the mastermind behind the 9/11 attack against the United States. Obama took a victory lap. It was a triumph of symbolism over substance. As George Bush said, “It was just a matter of time.”
It is widely believed that Osama’s aim was just terrorism, but terrorism is only a tactic. What was he really trying to do?
Michael Scheuer who was the head of the CIA get bin Laden team under Bill Clinton said bin Laden’s goal was to bankrupt America and thus destroy its influence in the world. With the help of Washington politicians he is well on the way to having met his goal.
The national debt was $5.8 trillion on 9/10/2001. Today it is $15.7+ trillion and rapidly rising…almost $10 trillion in just 10 1/2 years. Not a bad start toward bankruptcy if you ask me.
The escalation of our debt was totally irresponsible, is unsustainable, and will lead to the downfall of the United States if we do not get it under control very soon. It was not bin Laden who ran up this debt. He just accelerated the process.
Americans should be really agitated about this, but they are either ignorant or apathetic.
There are 83 million families in the United States and each family’s share of the total U.S. debt is about $700 thousand. The administration’s answer to this problem is smoke and mirrors. They want you to believe the upper 1 percent will pay it. Don’t be fooled.
Officially there are 113.5 million taxpayers in a workforce of 141.6 million. One percent of taxpayers would be 1.14 million, or they would each need to pay $51 million to eliminate the total debt. All we need to do is wipe out most of the upper 1 percent and their assets and only God knows how many jobs will also be wiped out.
Lord Kelvin, famous physicist and mathematician, said, “I often say . . . that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.”
Lord Kelvin was right. Without reliable numbers we are all fooled by silver tongued devils. My hope is that looking at just a few numbers will help you understand why Osama bin Laden may have won even if we did kill him. In his view, he is now in paradise while we are headed for hell.
In retrospect, the 9-11 strikes were strategically successful. If the US did nothing, we’d slow the rate of spending , but look ineffective and weak in our response. Attack the middle east, at a near invisible target, and we spend a large fortune and waste significant resources doing so.
You would think Osama’s cousin is Obama.
Bin Ladin failed.Our own government is doing what BinLadin only dreamed about.
Exactly!!! Bin Laden had nothing to do with our economic problems, Democrats and their unrestrained love of spending tax-payer dollars are the source of our economic woes.
Hmmm. American bankruptcy Osama’s Plan???? Was it his plan for Greece, Portugal, Italy, and the Euro too?
In the US, Trillions of dollars of debt were added by the housing collapse, courtesy of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and derivative brokers. Even without this insult to injury, America was going to go bankrupt because of out of control entitlements: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid,welfare, food stamps, housing subsidies, transportation subsidies, student loans.
The 789 billion bail out of the banks was more than ALL of the wars that the US has ever fought.
Compared to the price of massive government failures, the ENTIRE war on terror is just a cheap carnival side show.
It would be nice to have a convenient scapegoat like Osama, but the truth is still, an out of control government is imploding, not that the WOT is bankrupting us.
Osama bin Laden's goal to bankrupt America is workingThat's because he has Obama Bin Lyin' to carry on his work.
Obama, and a cowardly congress is doing a better job than Osama.
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Americans should be really agitated about this, but they are either ignorant or apathetic.
This is an incredibly true statement. I have a slightly different take on this. I have for sometime now been thinking about how nations inevitably end. And are reborn into a either a better or worse nation than what they started out with.
In our case I see two nearly equal groups with a vast apathetic portion of the population in between. One group wishes to tear down the nation and rebuild it into a form of Utopia. The other group wants it to remain the same or better yet go back in time to a Better America.
What I believe and yes, FEAR, is that the group that wants to go back to a better time will eventually throw up their hands in disgust and work actively to destroy the nation from within hoping that they will be the victors and the nation will be rebuilt anew into a facsimile of what once was.
In any case the vast apathetic portion of the populace will be the biggest losers. Why? Because the comforts and cradle to grave welfare they now receive and covet will by necessity be removed from them. On one side by the necessity that it cannot be afforded any longer and by the the side in repudiation of the policies that brought that welfare state into existence.
Mark my words BAD times are a-coming.
America is lulled to sleep through bread and circuses, sports and entertainment.
Nation Building and coalitions are a modern failure, yet another failed policy one can blame on (as others posted) apatheic, television addicted Americans dulled by decades of affluence. It’s coming to an end.
Solving Muslim’s problems are not our concern, we only need to make them understand to leave us out of it. Nuke Islam’s top holy locations and it will all be ended quite cheaply. No more Haj, Allah as extinct as Thor. Before WW2 the USA knew that to win wars it was necessary to kill the enemy until they tired of dying, and control them by force for however many generations it took to make them understand.
You cannot nation build ignorant Muslims into anything, they are primitives, mired in the Dark Ages.
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