In my article "The
question 'conservative' pundits fear," I commented on how pleased
I've been to see Glenn Beck talking about a subject I've been writing
about since the late '70s: a government-declared state of emergency
leading to a "temporary" dictatorship.
I have long believed that the mathematics of an insatiable
entitlement society in the U.S. guarantees a runaway inflation, which
likely would be followed by anarchy and chaos – a perfect excuse for
government to resort to strong-armed totalitarian measures to "restore
order." My model has always been Germany's Weimar Republic in the
1920s, where runaway inflation brought Adolf Hitler to power.
I originally believed that the runaway-inflation scenario in the
U.S. would play out in the early 1980s, but a combination of Ronald
Reagan and an explosion in technology headed it off. Nevertheless, the
threat of a runaway inflation has continued to increase over the years,
even while our false-prosperity economy was booming. That's because the
underlying causes (government-employee wages and benefits, Social Security, Medicare, etc.) of our
sick economy have never been addressed.
Unemployment is just a symptom; the disease is entitlements.
Throughout the false-prosperity years, Social Security did not go away.
It got bigger. Medicare did not go away. It got bigger. Virtually no
other benefits went away. They only got bigger. So the underlying
problem of entitlements not only has remained, but continued to grow. read more>>>>>>
