Posted on 04/19/2011 4:00:26 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Edited on 04/20/2011 8:48:42 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Wandering round this great republic predicting the apocalypse, I
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
What he said!
The historical clock is ticking, even if the economy isn’t.
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Excellent column. I wish more people were listening.
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Steyn always has a way of crystallizing seeming disparate things with the big picture ... the escalators that only go down, for example ...
And pointing out that the 1099 means an inability to conduct a person to person business deal without involving the government ... I’m sure most people don’t even begin to think of it that way ... that you cannot have a transaction between private citizens, mutually agreed upon, without involving the feds ...
In a way I look forward to the whole f%$#ing thing crashing down, because it is obviously too late to fix it working inside the system.
I suspect it is actually too late. The politicians have known this since that “double top secret” meeting they had at night in March 2008, I imagine.
Yep.
” What was it they used to say? If we give up our freedoms, the terrorists will have won! Whether or not the terrorists have won, the bureaucrats have. And they’re a more profound existential threat to America than the terrorists will ever be. “
Tyranny comes, not with the blaze of gunfire, but with the quiet rustle of paperwork....
I believe the Cloward-Piven strategy *is* to make it all come tumbling down. Of course, their fantasy is that somehow a socialist utopia will be born out of the ashes...
One of Steyn’s best.
”What was it they used to say? If we give up our freedoms, the terrorists will have won!”
Clearly the terrorists won. The “average” American has descended from being a proud, free being to a willing ward of the state. Anything for safety and “not having to worry about anything”.
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Ben Franklin
Steyn, always good, ripped it out of the ballpark with this column.
Once that was decided, the government earnestly began its quest to take it all away from us.
Abolish the IRS and the rest will fall.
Love Mark Steyn!
Amen! I've come to the point where I resent any attempt to fix the current system since such efforts only delay its inevitable crash. The sooner it crashes the sooner we can get busy building a new one.
I resisted coming to this conclusion but now that I'm in my 70’s I have lost the will to resist. Hopefully the crash will come soon enough that there will be some of us left around to tell those setting up the new system “how it used to be.”
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