Political stuff
Posted By matt on March 11, 2008
Canadian troops can be used on US soil (an the other way around). So.. we have a military force not bound by posse comitatus which is suitable for door-to-door searches and peacekeeping, with a specialist private army embodied in Ravenwood Blackwater. With many of our troops deployed… Hmmmm… I'm not saying that anything is going to happen, mind you, I just have some good wargame ideas…
On a completely different note, this article talks about how we are (potentially) ripe for revolution. While I agree that she may be right here that all the “conditions” are met, I disagree with her assignment from blame. Sure, the past 30 years can be construed as “conservative mismanagement” when framed in the preceding 50 years or so, but the problem is that that 50 years is causing the problem of which she is speaking. See, the basic overarching gist is “people get pissed off when they face a declining standard of living”. Well, hey, guess what – that is the problem with socialist programs in the first place – they cannot be maintained indefinitely. When people try to stave off the overgrowth of these programs on which people have come to depend, they get pissed off. Much easier to play for the short term, promise everyone the moon, and give them all “free money”. Then, you get to the situations where our tax burden is now about 30% and we're all pissed off because of where the money goes. In the end, this will be the downfall of the Republic – not the so-called mismanagement and belt tightening, but the programs established in the first place.
Conclusion:
- At best, it is all FDR's fault.
- At worst, it started with post civil-war reconstruction (this is a hard argument to make, but I could see someone trying to make it.. the first one is much more clear cut).
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