Feb 072012
Glen Harlan Reynolds opines on why our country is in such economic trouble:A federal government that actually operated within the limits intended by the Framers would be much smaller, much less capable of creating economic distortion, and much less attractive to moochers and the politicians they enable. The bigger the pot of honey, the more flies it attracts.
His article follows:
It’s takers versus makers and these days the takers are winning
By: Glenn Harlan Reynolds | 02/04/12 6:04 PM
Examiner Contributor“Fifty thousand for what you didn’t plant, for what didn’t grow. That’s modern farming — reap what you don’t sow.”
That’s a line from a song about farm subsidies, “Farming The Government,” by the Nebraska Guitar Militia.
But these days it applies to more and more of the U.S. economy, as Charles Sykes points out in his new book, A Nation Of Moochers: America’s Addiction To Getting Something For Nothing.
The problem, Sykes points out, is that
Read more at the Washington Examiner:http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2012/02/its-takers-versus-makers-and-these-days-takers-are-winning/2170511#ixzz1lcHfl6wd
The cities are disintegrating. Detroit seem to be leading the pack.
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/02/05/020512-news-detroit-vigilantes-1-5/
This trend, if left unchecked, is bad news for everybody in every city in America and eventually in the world.
Make that “30 day”
Monty, it looks like the Europe thing is coming unraveled quickly. Might be time for you to start a 30 countdown to meltdown for Europe and the world.