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| 2009-02-11 |
| From In many ways our economy already resembles a European one. As boomers age and spending grows, we will become even more French. Damned boomers again. America's worst generation (and yes, I am one of that generation much to my shame), even though I'm like many here, one of the few to fight against the boomer tide it was, again, under a conservative GOP administration that we enacted the largest expansion of the welfare state in 30 years: prescription drugs for the elderly. People on the right and the left want government to invest in alternative energies in order to break our addiction to foreign oil. And it is unlikely that even the reddest of states will decline federal money for infrastructural improvements. Back that truck the hell up! This was NOT NOT NOT a "conservative" GOP Administration - Bush was a moderate, and a "Big Government" type, as were Delay and the idiots in Congress. They ABANDONED basic Reaganist small government and fiscal conservatism, and the only reason they were there was the alternative (which we are seeing now) was far worse. SO that's a HUGE lie at the core of this. The rest you can fisk on your own If we fail to acknowledge the reality of the growing role of government in the economy, insisting instead on fighting 21st-century wars with 20th-century terms and tactics, then we are doomed to a fractious and unedifying debate. The sooner we understand where we truly stand, the sooner we can think more clearly about how to use government in today's world. As the Obama administration presses the largest fiscal bill in American history, caps the salaries of executives at institutions receiving federal aid at $500,000 and introduces a new plan to rescue the banking industry, the unemployment rate is at its highest in 16 years. The Dow has slumped to 1998 levels, and last year mortgage foreclosures rose 81 percent. All of this is unfolding in an economy that can no longer be understood, even in passing, as the Great Society vs. the Gipper. Whether we like it or not--or even whether many people have thought much about it or not--the numbers clearly suggest that we are headed in a more European direction. A decade ago U.S. government spending was 34.3 percent of GDP, compared with 48.2 percent in the euro zone--a roughly 14-point gap, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In 2010 U.S. spending is expected to be 39.9 percent of GDP, compared with 47.1 percent in the euro zone--a gap of less than 8 points. As entitlement spending rises over the next decade, we will become even more French. And the left is so tickled that we are going to become "French" and demolish American Excpetionalism and cripple ourselves and our posterity. Traitorous SOBs. Time to dismantle DC, either now vial the ballot box, or within a decade via the cartridge box. |
| Posted by:OldSpook |
| #14 A "Socialist" speaks out against tax cuts. The Guvment knows best how to spend your money. |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-11 16:34 |
| #13 hamburger-eating surrendering monkeys Can I have some cheese on my burger? Oh, and hold the Socialism, please. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-02-11 15:04 |
| #12 What's an "American sandwich"?? BLT Philly Cheesesteak Patty Melt etc. |
| Posted by: Trader_DFW 2009-02-11 13:18 |
| #11 What is this 'we' shite kemosabe? Oh, you mean the 'we' which is a little over 50% of a 30% registered voter turnout and msm decision makers, 20% approval rating congress. American sandwich...the D.C. delight: chicken fried pork hock gone a rye. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2009-02-11 12:46 |
| #10 I'll have to read it next time I'm at the doctor's office... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-11 12:40 |
| #9 No, it is not that bad in the USA right now. This is Newsweek - Pravda with better graphics. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2009-02-11 12:36 |
| #8 Have things gone this far bad in the USA? This is astounding, even in Sweden there are non socialists |
| Posted by: Lagom 2009-02-11 12:02 |
| #7 What's an "American sandwich"?? |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2009-02-11 12:02 |
| #6 Have things gone this far bad in the USA? This is astounding, even in Sweden there are non socialists |
| Posted by: Lagom 2009-02-11 12:01 |
| #5 JFM... that is way to close to the truth and it kinda hurts. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-02-11 10:13 |
| #4 In fact if Obama has his way you will surrender to Islam, will be known as hamburger-eating surrendering monkeys and the French will rename their American sandwiches to freedom sandwiches. |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-02-11 09:51 |
| #3 If you read the Communist Manifesto, pretty much all of its precepts (universal free schooling, etc) have been adopted by Western countries. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-02-11 04:29 |
| #2 I kinda like 'socialsits'. Australian Aborigines used to call government welfare 'sit down money', because they weren't required to do anything for it. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2009-02-11 04:00 |
| #1 AH, duped - and I typo'd the title. Mods please fix if the article stays. [Title fixed - Army of Scooter] |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-02-11 01:45 |