[ExI] dolchstosslegende, was: RE: cost of SBSP and thorium

[BillK]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 2:34 PM, spike wrote:
> Here's what I find most astonishing.  The current party in power projects
> increasing deficit with the resulting runaway debt, with no attempt at
> projecting an eventual breakeven.  They offer no hope of long term survival.
> The other party is suggesting a plan that does in principle the same thing,
> only it takes 50 years instead of 20 before we have sold our country to the
> Chinese.  Yet anyone who suggests we need to both raise taxes and cut
> spending at least until the deficit is zero (never mind attempting to hack
> away at the debt) that person is a Tea Party whacko, a crazy, a radical.
>
> The Tea Party has been vilified in every way, yet its main message is that
> perhaps we really aren't bankrupt yet.  But the solutions are painful.  We
> need to call home all troops overseas everywhere, and lay off most of the
> ones we currently employ, retire the more expensive weapons systems, end
> most government assistance to the poor, stop offering unrealistic
> government-funded retirement promises to those currently working, end the
> war on drugs, etc.  This was all great fun, but we have run out of other
> peoples' money.
>
> All this change is painful of course, but the alternative is worse.  By
> saying this, *I* am the one who is labeled the crazy.  Apparently the sane
> ones are those who want to continue until it all crashes with such violence
> it destroys our economy and others' economies all over the world.
>
>

You're outvoted, Spike.

<http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/08/15/165-million-americans-are-dependents-of-the-state-is-tyranny-next/>

New research from Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee Jeff
Sessions (R-AL) reveals that this reality may already be here, with
more than 107 million Americans on some form of means-tested
government welfare.

Add to that 46 million seniors collecting Medicare (subtracting out
about 10 million on Supplemental Security Income, Medicaid, and other
senior-eligible programs already included in Sessions’ means-tested
chart) and 22 million government employees at the federal, state, and
local level — and suddenly, over 165 million people, a clear majority
of the 308 million Americans counted by the U.S. Census Bureau in
2010, are at least partially dependents of the state.
-----------------------

So who were you calling Socialist again?   :)

The article is saying that so many people in the US are on benefits
that the majority will vote against any cuts to those benefits. In
theory, he is probably correct. But majority voting isn't the way the
US is run. It is the top 0.1% that decides what happens, not the
voters. The benefits system is only to keep the population quiescent
while the rulers loot the country. The Tea Party needs to take back
the country from those who have stolen it.


BillK