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March 11, 2010
Exclusive: Change is Coming
Others who have hidden income in the underground economy, who have relied on government for unemployment checks, for free health care, and many other government programs, are still doing that, but their phones aren’t ringing at all. They’re calling others in search of work but not finding much. They’ve hired on occasionally with the reliable ones, but those occasions are fewer and farther between. Lately they’ve had more time to stand around with their hands in their pockets listening to anxious talk from those who pay attention to the wider world and understand it a bit. They don’t like what they’re hearing and now they’re worried too.
Then there are those who have never taken care of themselves, who have depended totally on government. They’re still going along as they always have, but they’re noticing the world is slowing down. Businesses are closing. Others aren’t open as much and shelves are empty. They don’t know it yet, but their lives are about to get harder.
Anybody who pays attention has seen it coming for a long time. Political leaders though, acted like it would all go on forever and most voters believed them. A growing number depend on government for everything and don’t know any other way, but with illegal immigration and refugee resettlement, we’re supporting tens of millions of foreigners as well. Some think we can support the whole world. Citizens want to seal the border, but government refuses. Republicans refuse because business constituents like the cheap labor and Democrats refuse because illegals will vote for them after amnesty. Ordinary citizens steam as their government sends so many checks to so many people it can’t cover them anymore. Rather than cut back, it has borrowed from foreigners who don’t want to lend any more. So the Federal Reserve is printing money.
The gravy train is derailing. Some of us know it. Other sense it. Most remain oblivious. Cities and towns can’t pay bills and can’t get help from states that are bankrupt. States can’t get help from a federal government in debt $14 trillion. There’s no backstop anymore. We’ve reached the end. Yet the president and Congress are still pushing health care “reform” for $2 trillion and trashing Sen. Jim Bunning for asking where we’re going to get $10 billion to extend unemployment benefits. Because he pointed out that things simply cannot go on like this anymore, Bunning was trashed by Republicans as well.
The dollar is collapsing. The euro is collapsing. It’s all going to collapse – and very soon – unless we cut everything and cut it deeply. It’s an election year and we should be hearing candidates tell us to cut government back hard now or disintegrate into anarchy, but we’re not. In bankrupt California last week, spoiled college students took to the streets over a raise in fees that will make it difficult for them to buy kegs of imported beer. Imagine what will happen when we raise retirement age, stop cost of living raises, cut entitlements 10 percent a year, seal the border, impose stiff fines on employers of illegal immigrants, and lay off government workers. It’s either going to happen methodically or everything will just fall apart at once, but it will happen.
Just as animals sense an earthquake, unease is spreading. The new president’s honeymoon ended when people began to realize that his plan to spend us out of recession has only hastened a collapse into depression. States now talk openly of nullification, of resurrecting the 10th Amendment, even of secession.
Change is coming. Not the kind for which people thought they were voting in ’08, but big change nonetheless. Hold on tight.
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Wow! That first paragraph was me to the "T" Thanks.
posted by: Steve
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 10:21 AM
Great article! This administration and congress are going to keep pushing and pushing until the American people push back. And they won't like it when that happens. They forget that it wasn't the government that made America, it was the American people. Americans know how to push back and win.
posted by: MaryAnn
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 11:38 AM
Very well put. I've passed it on to some believers and some skeptics. As for myself, I've been locked and loaded since Nov.5, 2008.
There are too many on the dole to effect a peaceful return to our beloved Constitutional Republic through the electorate.
Taking the bottle from the baby is difficult.
posted by: OregonBuzz
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 12:37 AM
“The real challenge for government is to respond intelligently and farsightedly to the changes that occur.†Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Change and a few interpretations... check Onward James.
posted by: Edmund Onward james
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 02:38 PM
We must deport all illegal aliens. We support the illegals with our tax dollars. That is not fair. Illegals come here without visas and those who come with visas overstay. Therefore, it is not our problem to create new laws (amnesty). That is their problem. They have created the problem. Deport all illegals and NO to amnesty.
posted by: Patty
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 05:12 PM
Those in the congress do not care about the people or the country. Their only concerns are getting the illegal vote and the necessary funds for reelection campaigns. The welfare of this country is furthest from their single digit intellects.
BO only cares about his socialist buddies from Chicago and his muslim allies.
It's time to take back America or give up our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
posted by: Rick
Friday, March 12, 2010 at 03:35 AM
"There's class warfare, all right, Mr. (Warren) Buffett said, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
The ongoing class war, present since 1972 or so, is finally revealing itself in an obvious manner.
The elites want an oligarchy and the continuation of the ongoing ever-upward movement of power and wealth to the apex of the socio-economic pyramid.
The USA as we know it is doomed.
Fight back against the entrenched power structures at your own peril.
I fear that only a full-scale military coup has any chance of altering the likely inevitable end of the Founder's "Great Experiment."
Prepare ye masses for an eventual 3rd-world life-style and when the ongoing invaders become the majority, when La Raza rules large portions of the USA and the "diversity is our strength" scam leads to the unraveling of the few threads holding the Union together be prepared for a possible uncivil war.
posted by: Obbop
Friday, March 12, 2010 at 03:57 AM
