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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

In my opinion, this is the problem with entitlement programs like social
security-they seem unsustainable over the long term.  Even under a
stable economy, population growth seems to throw a wrench into the
system. In addition, when SS was enacted, people only lived into their
late sixties, and now, people live far longer, straining the system
resources.  My point is that very often, what sounds like a great idea
on paper that will solve an immediate problem, is not sustainable over
the long term(50-100 years) or the super long term(100+)
I think, in the 'giving it back' phrase, he could be talking about
anything from 401k savings to higher taxes, to mandatory public service
with no compensation.  I'm not even sure that would make it sustainable,
but it would help.
Also, forget the EU, NAFTA was the first step in creating an American
Union, which, in the hopes of the NWO folks, would lead including both
hemispheres.  I doubt his 2012 timeline is accurate, but I think he
describes the direction the country is headed, and I think we would be
headed in that direction with or without Obama, so I am not blaming him.
Those are my thoughts.

Bev


> The Death of the American Idea An electorate living high off the 
> entitlement hog.
<snip>. Just under half the population will be, as
> Daniel Henninger pointed out in the Wall Street Journal, on the dole.
>  By 2012, it will be more than half, and this will be an electorate 
> where the majority of the electorate will be able to vote itself more
>  lollipops from the minority of their compatriots still dumb enough
> to prioritize self-reliance, dynamism, and innovation over the
> sedating cocoon of the nanny state. That is the death of the American
> idea — which, after all, began as an economic argument: “No taxation
> without representation" is a great rallying cry. “No representation
> without taxation” has less mass appeal. For how do you tell an
> electorate living high off the entitlement hog that it's
> unsustainable and you've got to give some of it back?
>
> At that point, America might as well apply for honorary membership in
>  the European Union. It will be a nation at odds with the spirit of 
> its founding, and embarking on decline from which there are few 
> escape routes. In 2012, the least we deserve is a choice between the 
> collectivist assumptions of the Democrats, and a candidate who stands
>  for individual liberty — for economic dynamism not the sclerotic 
> “managed capitalism” of Germany; for the First Amendment, not 
> Canadian-style government regulation of approved opinion; for 
> self-reliance and the Second Amendment, not the security state in 
> which Britons are second only to North Koreans in the number of times
>  they're photographed by government cameras in the course of going 
> about their daily business.
>
> In Forbes this week, Claudia Rosett issued a stirring defense of 
> individual liberty. That it should require a stirring defense at all 
> is a melancholy reflection on this election season. Live free — or 
> die from a thousand beguiling caresses of nanny-state sirens. "

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