Odds and Ends

The alleged recovery from the Great Recession is failing. The stock market is falling, states are deeply in debt while tax receipts continue to decline, the federal government is trying to keep the recovery going by printing and borrowing money and unemployment is increasing. The global economy is drifting towards deflation, depression and, ultimately, collapse.
Governments are desperately moving imaginary money around trying to keep the Ponzi scheme from collapsing but the game can't continue. No one believes a word falling from a bureaucrats quivering lips. The jig is up and everyone knows it.
What can anyone do about it? Nothing at this point. It has gone too far for too long.

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The United States of America became a failed state last week when the federal government announced that they wouldn't take custody of illegal aliens handed over to ICE for deportation. Any nation that fails to enforce it's own border and laws is no longer a functioning nation. The bickering by states reveals that we anything but united.
The federal government has sided with Mexico and against Arizona with regard to illegal immigration. Several Mexifornian cities are basically in a state of civil war with Arizona, engaging in economic warfare with an american state.
Tis interesting to me that more folks don't clearly see that the democrat controlled federal government and many urban areas have abandoned the Constitution and law to join some UN inspired, socialist one world entity that makes up rules as it goes. And this entity encourages slavery, as that is what illegal immigrants and beneficiaries of the welfare state become.
The United States of America is gone and can only be restored by a civil war. And That won't happen.

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In Winter it is difficult to determine ruins because the snow obscures the details. But Spring brings growing grass which highlights the abandoned structures. I have never seen so many overgrown lawns on residential and commercial properties in my life. Grass stands over a foot tall on properties throughout the county. In some cases you can find three or four adjacent properties that are clearly abandoned that would have fetched $150,000 just four years ago. Now they are rotting ruins that the banks don't even consider worth saving.

It is as if some great plague swept the land, killing twenty percent of the population and making these homes and businesses unnecessary. Where have the people gone who once worked and lived in these ruins? How does it serve mankind that we allow these buildings that were built at great cost to just rot away until they have to be bulldozed to preserve public safety and health?

I am disappointed and saddened by the systematic collapse of our civilization. We have failed ourselves, our ancestors and our children.

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It now appears that North Korea attacked and sank the South Korean corvette Cheonan. Another victory for ruthless thugs and a defeat for the West. Our tyrant's response shows that he embraces thugs and despises free people everywhere.
Iran will develop and deploy nuclear weapons in the near future with Russian help. The West will do nothing to thwart this program. Iran will become the guarantor of muslims globally insuring the world becomes a more barbaric place.
The US and NATO will withdraw from Afghanistan, leaving the place in the hands of Taliban thugs that will continue to export drugs and terrorism. Bin Laden was correct. The West is weak and will topple.