The End of America?
Patrick Buchanan and other conservative thinkers are scared to death that the America as they know it is gone.

They’re right, but for the wrong reasons.

Buchanan lists and subsequently whines about every tax imaginable: income taxes that are too high (especially for the top 1 percent earners), state and local taxes that add another burden, payroll taxes, drug taxes, and sales taxes. He says that Americans are taxophobic, which is true. What Buchanan neglects to mention is that human beings in general don’t like taxes, but in most other civilized countries they stopped throwing hissy-fits about paying them a long time ago.

Ever hear of the saying render unto Cesar what’s his? The guy who said it wasn’t exactly a commie.

But no, today’s conservatives can’t be counted on to do anything but complain. Nevermind that this country needs to collect taxes in order to function and operate in the 21st century. They’re only interested in mindless dissent to please an ever-shrinking, increasingly isolated and paranoid base.

In the midst of these rants about high taxes and government intrusion, they include thinly veiled appeals to the racism of the far right:

Diana West: “the consolidation of a new power structure derived from a government-dependent population and animated by the kind of identity politics exemplified by Sonya “wise Latina” Sotomayor, whose self-contradictory Senate testimony this week…”

Buchanan: “Coming to America to feast on this cornucopia of freebies is the world. One million to 2 million immigrants, legal and illegal, arrive every year. They come with fewer skills and less education than Americans, and consume more tax dollars than they contribute by three to one. Wise Latina women have more babies north of the border than they do in Mexico and twice as many here as American women…”

Let’s rewind the clocks back 150 years. My guess is that both Ms. West and Mr. Buchanan would be lamenting the power grabs of big government Abe Lincoln and warning about the dangerous influence of the dirty Irish immigrants coming ashore every day.

Furthermore, they would claim that the cheap slave labor provided by the negroes was the very engine that drives the economy, and that to free them we would be just surrendering profits to countries without our high moral standards and human rights guarantees.

Then in the same breath they would claim that all of these dramatic new developments would somehow equal the death of the American experiment.

Nothing really changes, especially for the rabid, racist right wing in this country that has been around since the Revolution and will be around until this all actually does come to an end.

If the American century has truly ended, we should know who is responsible for it:

The very same far-right wing whackjobs who can’t bear the thought of a Latina justice on the Supreme Court deregulated the financial sector and destroyed American labor through union busting.

The very same neoconservative nutjobs who call any reductions in military spending tantamout to surrendering to the terrorists, all the while warning that our national deficit was getting far too large. If they hadn’t been so busy playing a game of global conquest, we might not have been wasting half of our tax base to begin with.

Yes, America is going to have a hard go at it for the next several years. Who knows? We might never recover. And it’s not activist judges, Mexican immigrants, big government liberals, or gay marriage that punched a giant whole in the U.S.S. USA.

If this recession does bring the ship down, then we’ll know who to blame.

http://timm84.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-end-of-america/

all this may be true but you may be forgetting that OUR government is the one who campaigned for us not to have more than two kids per family . its our government who have refused to close the borders . its our people that have been sticking it to us . not outsiders we are the enemy and to stupid to stop it .

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln