Thousands of years after the Roman Empire fell, people are
still
speculating about how such a powerful empire became too feeble to
defend itself. Did it become corrupt? Was its taxes too high? Was it
widespread lead poisoning? The refusal to break up tribes it
assimilated? Was it the loss of traditional values? Did it over-expand?
There are all sorts of theories, but nobody really
knows.
However, if American falls, historians won’t have to speculate
because the problems that are destroying our country are right there for
anyone to see. You want to know how to break the greatest nation the
world has ever seen over the course of a few short decades? Just look at
what we’re actually doing because future generations will point to it
when they’re trying to figure out where we went wrong.
1) Unsustainable Debt: By 2020, projections indicate that we’d need
20% of the GDP of the ENTIRE PLANET just to finance our debt,
which will continue to increase at a rapid pace. Despite the fact that
it would require a miracle bigger than what Joan of Arc accomplished in
order for Social Security and Medicare to function for another 20 years
without enormous tax increases, we just added another costly entitlement
program (Obamacare) and politicians are incessantly clamoring for new
spending. Simply put, that is unsustainable over the long haul and
without almost
revolutionary changes that are currently
politically unimaginable,
our country will either go bankrupt or our money will be inflated so
much that we’ll need wheelbarrows full of greenbacks to buy a loaf of
bread.
2) Enormous Centralized Government: The bigger the
tick, the less blood there is for the dog and there is no larger
collection of blood suckers on Planet Earth than our own federal
government. Our government has become so massive that lawmakers don’t
even read the bills they pass any more, trivial changes to regulations
made by unelected bureaucrats can drive productive businesses into
bankruptcy and perhaps worst of all,
49% of the public gets benefits.
That has not only bled the private sector and made our economy less
dynamic, it has led to massive corruption. As P.J. O’Rourke said,
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”