Pity the Imperialists

Pity the Imperialists
By Jacob Hornberger

Pity the imperialists. What do they do? They must realize that the longer they continue occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, the more they weaken the Empire. Hey, they don't call Afghanistan the "graveyard of empires" for nothing.

America's imperialists are discovering what imperialists throughout history have discovered: empires are costly. This one is no exception. Military spending on Afghanistan and Iraq and the rest of the Empire all over the world continues to soar out of control.

Combined warfare-state and welfare-state spending is producing a budget deficit of 1.4 trillion dollars. That's the difference between what the federal government brings in with taxes and how much it's spending.

And that's just for one year!

The debt owed by the federal government now totals $11 trillion. That's almost $39,000 per citizen. What would you do if you had to pay off your $39,000 share of the debt this year?

Social Security is busted -- there never was a fund and never will be one. Same for Medicare and Medicaid. No fund there either. Hey, don't worry -- we can just keep borrowing to make all these increasing welfare payments, thereby adding even more debt to the national debt.

Maybe -- if we're lucky -- by the time it all has to be paid off we'll be dead and it'll be the young people's problem.

Or better yet, why not just double or triple the income taxes on young people right now to keep the welfare largess flowing? The young people can easily handle it.

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