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The Coming Collapse of the Welfare State: We're running out of people; not just money
FrontPage Mag ^ | 02/25/2014 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 02/25/2014 7:16:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 02/25/2014 7:16:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Libertarians don’t want the government to take anything from anyone for these purposes.


2 posted on 02/25/2014 7:19:10 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Add to that, our government is allowing the dregs of other countries to come here illegally and hand them a monthly checks.


3 posted on 02/25/2014 7:20:33 AM PST by soycd
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To: SeekAndFind

I believe it was in 2009 when it was figured that if every person cashed out of everything they had this nation couldn’t come up with $900 billion. Most “assets” are stock based; meaning, they are worthless if everyone cashes out. the second largest holding is real-estate; again, worthless if everyone cashes out.

We simply do not have the personal cash on hand the liberals think the “rich white guys” have.


4 posted on 02/25/2014 7:23:36 AM PST by CodeToad (Keeping whites from talking about blacks is verbal segregation!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Obamassiah Barack so loved the poor that he
labored mightily to create millions more of them.


5 posted on 02/25/2014 7:24:08 AM PST by Iron Munro (Eight died on that bridge at Concord, back in 1775. How many will it take this time?)
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To: SeekAndFind

We can’t just replace Americans with Mexicans. Soon the new mantra will be Family and kids, not Gays and Abortion. What happens when there is a big war and we need a 13 milllion man army—drafting women will not fill the ranks. You say there will never be a big war? To think that is to mock history. Wait till we face off with a real enemy and not a third world thug. What did Socrates say so long ago: “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” We can spend all our money on welfare and vow to make war no more—but it will come or we will face domination by other lands and empires. The worst thing I see is we may well face civil war. I would never have said that ten years ago—but with Obama...


6 posted on 02/25/2014 7:25:22 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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7 posted on 02/25/2014 7:29:41 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, providing every woman with FREE Birth Control will certainly fix it! /sarc


8 posted on 02/25/2014 7:29:44 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

The welfare state will never run out of money; they’ll simply print more, and pay today’s debts with increasingly worthless fiat money in the future.

Meanwhile, the American economy - fueled by hard-working and honest men and women - is slowly ruined by America’s corrupt politicians.


9 posted on 02/25/2014 7:36:44 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: SeekAndFind
Why is everyone worried/ Just bring in millions of immigrants to replace the missing babies. I wonder who is really running this country because they knew. BTW, this has been openly discussed in Europe as the problem and the solution.
10 posted on 02/25/2014 7:36:53 AM PST by I am Richard Brandon (center)
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To: SeekAndFind

An ever expanding population is only required if society relies on socialist pyramid schemes.


11 posted on 02/25/2014 7:38:03 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SeekAndFind

People with half a brain and a desire to WORK, will always be OK.


12 posted on 02/25/2014 7:41:12 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Liberals and libertarians both act as if the crisis facing us can be fixed if we take more from the “wealthy elderly” or give them less.

No libertarian in their right mind would proposing simply stealing more taxes from "the wealthy."

13 posted on 02/25/2014 7:42:35 AM PST by PGR88
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Its all enabled by the Federal Reserve, debt monetization and political control of interest rates.

Get rid of the FED and 1000 problems solve themselves.


14 posted on 02/25/2014 7:43:42 AM PST by PGR88
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To: DJ MacWoW

THE OBAMA TROJAN HORSE TROOPS PARTY

The “Republicans” are really just Trojan Horse troops sent in by Obama.
They do as they are told to avoid Left Stream Media jeers.
John “The Doormat” Boehner has his paranoid fears:
Obama and the Left Stream Media Journalists will drive him to tears.

And then there is “Capitulation” Cantor,
With a soft Virginia Drawl,
Who wears patches on his knees
From his frequent Cave-In crawls.

Don’t forget “No Resistance” Ryan,
Appeasement is his long suit.
No wonder “Romneycare” Romney
Was such a big Ryan fan.

Obama’s Trojan Horse is now filled with House RINOs,
All promising that in 2014 they will ALL be silent.
The Republican’s RINO Rove, and “Wacko Birds” McCain,
Act as the Loyal Rear Guard for the Obama Trojan Horse.

What have we here? So say the skeptical.
Forward, ever FORWARD rolls the Obama Trojan Horse,
Crushing the Constitution, all Checks and Balances, and all who complain,
While the RINOs in Obama’s Trojan Horse stay always silent. and do not complain.

Did Obama capture the House RINOs inside his Trojan Horse?
Or did the Loyal RINOs stampede on to get there first?
The “What” and the “Why” are just idle chatter,
The RINO Five Years of failure, is what the to voter matters.

With only two plus years left to Impeach Obama,
Can the Trojan Horse House RINOs be trusted,
What the Constitution requires elected Stewards to do?
Or will re-elected House RINOs just continue the destructive Obama trauma?


15 posted on 02/25/2014 7:44:42 AM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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16 posted on 02/25/2014 7:46:11 AM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Liberals and libertarians both act as if the crisis facing us can be fixed if we take more from the “wealthy elderly” or give them less.”

That is not a libertarian position at all. There are libertarians who think it can be solved by opening the borders to one degree or another, but that is another argument, and they are wrong on it for other reasons. Taking stuff from other people is pretty much the opposite of libertarianism.


17 posted on 02/25/2014 7:48:31 AM PST by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: PGR88

The Federal Reserve is a problem, but let’s not pretend it’s the only problem. The author identified several issues that need to be addressed.


18 posted on 02/25/2014 7:48:53 AM PST by volunbeer
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To: SeekAndFind
In 1935, the year that FDR signed the Social Security Act into law...

Let's see; it took the Soviet Socialist Union about 69 years to collapse.
2014 minus 1935 = 79.
Looks like we're about 10 years overdue.

19 posted on 02/25/2014 7:54:48 AM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Note tagline.


20 posted on 02/25/2014 7:58:25 AM PST by Savage Beast (Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy always follow.)
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