THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIII, Issue # 257, October 26, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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WHAT EUROPEAN CHAOS PORTENDS FOR AMERICA
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE FUTURE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION & THE LESSON THIS OFFERS THE U.S.A.: THE E.U. TEETERING ON TOTAL
COLLAPSE -- THE WIDENING RIFT AMONG E.U. MEMBER-STATES, AS REGARDS GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC & FISCAL POLICY --
BARACK OBAMA'S VISION FOR AMERICA -- WHAT WILL BE THE CONSEQUENCE, IF PRESIDENT OBAMA IS ALLOWED TO
PRESS FORWARD WITH HIS POLICY AGENDA? WHAT WILL BE THE IMPACT ON THE AMERICAN ECONOMY?
FULL STORY:
Those who ascribe to such quaint and sentimental notions as national sovereignty and cultural cohesiveness would
certainly not shed any tears over the demise of the European Union. Once praised as the gleaming example of the new
order, it now teeters on total collapse. And, in an inarguable statement on the reality of the human condition, its travails
do not involve any irreconcilable conflict of altruistic philosophies, or contrasting visions of the future ascendancy of
civilization. Rather, the widening rift among its members centers on the comparatively prosaic issue of money.
More specifically, those people on the street are being confronted by the harsh realities of having to eventually pay the
bill for their promised socialist utopia. And on both sides of the equation, they are not happy about it. Those who were
once told they could expect a free lunch in perpetuity, but now face the grim prospect of having to put in a good day’s
work for a fair day’s wages, have concluded instead that riots and violence in the public square can somehow make
those elusive Euros magically fall from the sky. Thus, the pandemonium in Athens, Greece, to name just one example,
represents the best efforts of hapless citizens, too long accustomed to reaping the fruits of other peoples’ labor, to
continue their parasitic existence with no expectation of accountability.
On the other end of the scale, stable and productive countries such as Germany, which have paid far more than their fair
share just to keep the European Union scheme on life support, are slowly coming to the realization that they will have to
make such sacrifices on an ever increasing scale, in order to have any hope of holding things together. Unfortunately
for them, human nature is what it is, and, as time goes on, more people will realize that it is easier to ride the cart than to
pull it. And, if some idealistic countries are congenial to accepting this travesty and thereby enable it to breach national
boundaries, then of course the field of willing takers will expand beyond anyone’s worst fears.
In light of these circumstances, it is not at all difficult to foresee the end game, the specifics of which were inevitable
from before the European Union monstrosity was ever conceived. An increasing number of people demanding “benefits”
from their respective governments means that ever larger taxes will be likewise demanded from those segments of society
still capable of paying the bills. Recipients of those monies, having done nothing to earn them, essentially devalue the
currency in general. Eventually, not enough of anything is being produced to keep funding this vicious cycle, so it
collapses.
Efforts to stave off such a collapse through austerity, venomously opposed by the dependent citizenry, will be diluted or
completely stalled, thus averting the only viable fix. Conversely, the repeated decisions among European leaders to
continue any portion of the funding will, at best, only delay the inevitable, while vastly increasing the magnitude of the
implosion once it eventuates. Thus the monotonously repetitive news reports from across the Atlantic, alternately blaring
alarmist reports of riots one day, followed by “high level meetings” among heads of state the next, can properly be
interpreted as an impotent band of national leaders desperately seeking to cure an irreparable situation.
Ironically, European socialism was long held up to America as the model for how the nanny state could be successfully
implemented. Any attempts of fiscally responsible office holders to warn of the infeasibility of unfettered socialism were
immediately countered with chastisements that, if the Europeans could succeed, it should be just as feasible over here.
And now, at the very moment of Europe’s lifecycle that its Leftist chickens are coming home to roost, America finds itself
in the clutches of an autocratic regime that endeavors to pitch this nation headlong into the socialist mire.
However, while many similarities between the two situations exist, certain ominous contrasts may ultimately prove to be
more noteworthy. To begin with, the current fiscal meltdown in Europe, calamitous though it may be, is nonetheless
taking place among nations that are allies. In recent decades, no determined effort has been made by any one of those
nations to militarily dominate another. Nor has any serious sentiment for doing so existed in their midst since the day the
Allies rolled into Berlin in 1945.
Unfortunately, America does not find itself in anywhere near as benign of a place in which to financially crumble. While
Greece’s debts are being underwritten by the Germans and French, America increasingly finds itself beholden to the still
very Red Chinese. Every dollar cast down the rat hole of state-funded Liberal “compassion” renders America that much
more beholden and subservient to China. As a result, America’s slothful class enjoys ongoing federal provision, while
the Chinese reap increasing revenues with which to modernize and expand their military, while growing their business
base throughout the world.
Were Barack Obama truly concerned about the ramifications of the nation’s current course (a notion that, in light of his
actions of the past three years, is admittedly absurd on its face), he would be doing his best to disentangle the American
people from their ever deepening dependence on the U.S. central government. Yet, he is undeniably doing exactly the
opposite. At a time when any sincere relaxation of the federal tentacles could spur an economic rebound, he insists that
only increased government involvement, control, and subsidies can provide the necessary impetus to get the economy
rolling again. And we have only to look across the Atlantic to see where his disastrous policies will lead.
If allowed to press forward with his agenda, he will ensure that, as Europe goes, so goes America.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Europe, European States, Politics, & Public Policy
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Fiscal Policy: Taxation & Government Spending
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, Marxists, & Other Leftists:
The Democratic Party, Academia, & the Mainstream Media
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
Growing up during the turbulent decades of the 1960s and 1970's, Christopher Adamo saw, to his dismay, the nation's moral
foundations being destroyed before his very eyes. But even then he was a staunch Conservative at heart, and rejected outright the
tenets of the American political and cultural Left and of America's counterculture revolution.
Contact information for Chris Adamo, and his archives, can be found at www.chrisadamo.com
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