It may be surprising but the relative size of the government in capitalist America and communist China are similar. Economist Gary Shilling has calculated that 58 percent of the American population is dependent on the government for "major parts of their income," including teachers, soldiers, bureaucrats, and other government employees; welfare and Social Security recipients; government pensioners; public housing beneficiaries; and people who work for government contractors. By 2018, Shilling estimates, an astounding 67 percent of Americans could be dependent on the government for their livelihood. Most importantly, part of the 58% spend their time examining, monitoring, regulating the productive activities of the remaining 42%.
While it is true that 2 - 3% of the American population produces enough food for half the world, and 10% occupied in industry export a third of all world trade, the situation seems to me unheard of. I am inclined to accept the idea, like Dennis Mangan, that a democratic regime is incompatible with the majority of the population living off the State. Moreover, the producing population is ethnically different from the State-dependent population, so we have two ethnic groups with opposite economic interests. Illustration: The Grain Dole in Ancient Rome.
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I actually agree with commentators who believe that the USA is approaching a tipping point.
There are many disturbing manifestations of this: the collapse of the economy, the Fort Hood massacre AND THE TREACHEROUS IDIOCY THAT ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN; the Health Care Bill; the election of Obama and the Alinsky communists around him; the California bankruptcy; the short attention span "celebrity" culture; the persecution of the intelligence agencies; the reluctance to apply the full measure of the law for crimes against white people; the suicidal PC culture in the mainstream media and universities; de facto open borders; the falling birth rate amongst more educated people; and so on.
America now looks like a big, lumbering village idiot that anyone can rob and humiliate.
It is time for the next revolution. Overdue, in fact.
Anon.
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