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Scary, because I see it happening. No western country will cut entitlements since it would be political suicide for any government. So we will continue to play this shell game until the world economy falls apart. Much like Nero playing the violin while Rome burns.
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Average pension benefits will be cut 11 percent; wages for government workers will be cut 14 percent; the basic rate for the value added tax will rise from 21 percent to 23 percent. These measures will plunge Greece into a deep recession. In 2009, unemployment was about 9 percent; some economists expect it to peak near 19 percent.
You have to wonder why governments are so "neutered" to do anything. I swear, if our Congress stayed home for several years we might would all be better off. All government spending (past, current, and future) has to be looked at with the idea of cutting. Recession doesn't necessarily have to follow cuts. The option to not getting the government on a sound fiscal footing is chaos--America then becomes Detroit or Greece.
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Terrorist - no will. Pirates - no will. Massive entitlements - no will. It's amazing that the ruling caste has demanded and consolidated so much power, but spend so much effort to avoid using it to solve real problems. Their real time and energy is spent consolidating even more power. Power, the ultimate opiate.
Protecting our border and stopping Illegal Immigration - no will. Cutting reckless spending - no will. Actually following the U.S. Constitution - no will.
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The one thing they always have plenty of will for is staying in elected office and arrogating power to themselves. Look at Senator McCain and his flipped stance on illegal aliens now compared to the amnesty he was trying to pass with Kennedy.
Some of them continue to run even when their own party has told they they were done. I am looking at YOU Arlen Specter and Charlie Crist.
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I suspect there will be some will to go after Somali pirates at some point. It allows the elites to look like they are taking charge and drown out the other issues for a media cycle or two, it allows them to pick the timing for such statements, and as long as they don't try to go after Somalian bases and such there is little downside because few will support the rights of pirates to attack people.
Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American who tried to set off a car bomb in Times Square, has numerous links to the Taliban in Pakistan and there are increasing indications that he was not a lone wolf' as was initially assumed. The plot is proof that the Taliban is just as much a terrorist group as Al-Qaeda and must be treated the same way.
The media and public officials were quick to say that the attacker was probably a lone wolf' and perhaps not even a Muslim. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, If I had to guess 25 centers [it's] somebody who's homegrown, maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill or something, it could be anything.' General Petraeus, amazingly, has just said that Shahzad is a lone wolf' that was only inspired by Pakistani terrorists, and did not have direct contact with them. This theory is laughable in the face of new evidence.
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The insinuation here is that everyone is supporting the "America is better because of Obama's kinder on muzzie stance". Just maybe they know there are literally hundereds of these sleeper cells here that are activating and they don't need panic. They need the time to sort it out. Our nightmare is when a few hundered cells go active and we can't control it, the public will go mad.
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Yeah, but what did he think about health care reform?
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'A Muslim has no nationality except his belief," the intellectual godfather of the Islamists, Egyptian Sayyid Qutb, wrote decades ago. Qutb's "children" are everywhere now; they carry the nationalities of foreign lands and plot against them. The Pakistani born Faisal Shahzad is a devotee of Sayyid Qutb's doctrine, and Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, was another.
Qutb was executed by the secular dictatorship of Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1966. But his thoughts and legacy endure. Globalization, the shaking up of continents, the ease of travel, and the doors for immigration flung wide open by Western liberal societies have given Qutb's worldview greater power and relevance. What can we make of a young man like Shahzad working for Elizabeth Arden, receiving that all-American degree, the MBA, jogging in the evening in Bridgeport, then plotting mass mayhem in Times Square?
The Islamists are now within the gates. They fled the fires and the failures of the Islamic world but brought the ruin with them. They mock national borders and identities. A parliamentary report issued by Britain's House of Commons on the London Underground bombings of July 7, 2005 lays bare this menace and the challenge it poses to a system of open borders and modern citizenship.
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This is a long twilight war, the struggle against radical Islamism. We can't wish it away. No strategy of winning "hearts and minds," no great outreach, will bring this struggle to an end. America can't conciliate these furies. These men of nowhere--Faisal Shahzad, Nidal Malik Hasan, the American-born renegade cleric Anwar Awlaki now holed up in Yemen and their likes--are a deadly breed of combatants in this new kind of war. Modernity both attracts and unsettles them. America is at once the object of their dreams and the scapegoat onto which they project their deepest malignancies.
What's the answer? It seems like immigration from this part of the world must be banned. These people can't be trusted with our country.
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