But there is a bright side: they’re doomed too, but they haven’t figured this out. The lavish lives of the Beltway Select depends, as you’ve pointed out, on the copious flow of Other People’s Money. But the well is running dry.

Before long, wholesale theft and capital destruction wrought by the Wreckers will complicate life for everyone, including courtiers, lords and ladies. Along the way, printing money will stoke the fire of great inflation, or a huge financial accident will precipitate uncontrolled monetary deflation. Trouble and hardship will be intensified by some unpredictable extraneous calamity–perhaps the onset of mini-Ice Age or terrible terrorist attacks. Trouble always arrives in waves.

Self reliant and productive people can survive the bitter times ahead. Trend followers and tax takers will discover the limits of their abilities.

Sooner or later “no-name nukes” will be loose in the world, and while we won’t be certain where they’re coming from, we can be certain where they’re going – inside the Beltway to be sure.

I shall miss the Smithsonian, surely one of the ornaments of our culture.

And the irony is that an enemy that intends us harm will do us immeasurable good!

BTW, during a three-month stay in D.C. three years ago, I brought up this scenario many times. Not once did anyone call me crazy, nor even disagree.

Pardon, one man at the National Press Club did disagree, on timing. I cautiously said, “within this century.”

He demurred, “Within this decade.”

regarding your article concerning derb and northern virginia. i cannot remember ever reading you in such a negative mood. i am not saying i disagree, just that it isn’t your normal presentation.

that scares me ’cause you’re always on target. i am 62 and it’s hard to get all bubbly and confidant when considering the short term future of our once great nation. “no borders will be needed” indeed.

the demographics of those who would transform the usa into a socialist basket of rotting apples is almost too frightening to analyze and certainly most conservatives, regardless of their “level” of conservative belief, are not just afraid but loath to confront the truth.

Churchill would not approve. of course, in this world, there are no churchills to lead, just chamberlains to follow.

I just lifted this list of Republican Overlord obscenities from one of my earlier posts:

“Like the Republicans who passed the American Dream Downpayment Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Departments of HEW / Homeland Security / Veterans Affairs, Undeclared Wars in Panama / Afghanistan / Iraq / Somalia / Lebanon / Grenada / Cambodia, DEA, OSHA, EPA, TSA, DNI, Wage & Price Controls, Interstate Highway System, 21-year-old national drinking age, TARP, Prescription Drug Benefit, Auto Bailout, Auto Import Quotas, Immigration Act of 1990, Leave No Child Behind, Affirmative Action “Philadelphia Plan”, Patriot Act, Social Security Disability, Federal Aid to Education, Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae, Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, 1986 Immigration Amnesty, Faith-based Initiatives – all during my lifetime.”

Good Pharaoh Bush vs. Bad Pharaoh Obama – I prefer this week’s Torah portion Shemoth – Exodus 1:11 “So they appointed over them tax collectors to afflict them with their burdens, and they built store cities for Pharaoh”

http://www.chabad.org/parshah/torahreading.asp?AID=15559&p=1&v=ds

We’ll need a deity with signs and wonders to escape from our own Mitzrayim (the American Leviathan – the modern Egypt) and our modern
Pyramids:

http://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/

Burning Bush instead of George Bush!

Check this out. http://www.prisonplanet.com/rape-victim-arrested-for-refusing-tsa-pat-down.html

We only have two political parties. One party uses the power of government for good. The other party uses the power of government for evil. The problem is that Americans are nearly divided on which party is which. As a result, taking the power of government from one party and giving it to the other does not heal the division.

In order to bring us together, members of both parties, and independents who must ally with one party or another during an election, should come together to limit the power of government. In exchange for reducing the good one party might accomplish when in control of government, it would limit the evil the opposition party could accomplish when they control government.

It is government that is dividing us, not by race or creed or color or national origin or even by income, but by those enriched by government and those saddled by it. Only fixing government can bring us back together again.

WHEN INJUSTICE BECOMES LAW, REVOLUTION BECOMES DUTY.-Thomas Jefferson

But how could we have our FREEDOMS unless American troops are stomping around in 100+ nations (are the Finns and Swiss slaves because they don’t maintain an empire?)?

How can we be SAFE unless the TSA fondles our privates? Even now on city buses!

How can we THINK without the government running a Department of Education?

How can we LIVE without government taking care of our sick and elderly?

Most Americans gladly accept this statist thinking while nitpicking side issues such as Lesbian Colonels or a Bridge to Nowhere. WE ARE DOOMED while “the people” (Booboisie) semi-annually award statist hoodlums with votes.