That’s exactly the point. If you add up the unfunded mandates for Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and all the other health care programs the federal government already operates; then toss Obamacare in top of it: Well; by @ 2025 the country will be nothing more than a health care program with an army. Between interest on the debt, the health care costs of all the programs and defense costs, there’ll be absolutely nothing left to fund anything.

He postulates that if it had been China or Russia that had beaten infant mortality first then the world would have developed in a decidedly different manner because it would have been flooded with a different type of people from a different civilizational makeup.

So we then look at the present birth rate map and discover that a good many of these western societies are poised to get older than they’ve ever been before because of the demographic imbalance imposed by the facts that people live longer and more people are choosing to have less babies. The countries at the bottom end of the birth rate curve are in a death spiral. Countries like Russia and Japan with decidedly low birth rates are literally depopulating themselves in front of our eyes.

Countries that are barely maintaining birth rates at replacement levels like the US are doing a little better; holding their own. The future, it would seem, would belong to the countries with the highest birth rates. Go ahead and look that one up and the challenge becomes clear. Most of the countries with the highest birth rates also share another more ominous trait; they are mostly decidedly Muslim. Go ahead and turn that around in your mind for awhile. All the countries that have exportable populations also, by coincidence, have an ‘exportable’ decidedly non-assimilating religious philosophy. When a Jew marries a Christian one or the other may convert, or not. If a Christian marries a Muslim, well let’s just say that the chances of that Muslim becoming a Baptist are somewhere between slim and none while the conversion of that Baptist to Islam is almost assured.

As populations get older, and more unable to reproduce on their own, they must import surplus population in order to survive. It usually makes for interesting times when population fluctuations cause the pendulum to drift right or left on the political scale. What happens when a country goes from a decidedly western style social democracy to a majority Shira Law, Islamic type of mentality. We’re fixin’ to find out as more and more western european countries import more and more Muslims from other countries. Interesting times indeed

Medicare is a similar scheme but with no attempt to pretend that the funds were really set aside. Why do we send white collar criminals to jail but not white collar criminal politicians?

I’ve been pondering your post, and I’m not certain I agree with it. It’s a slightly different take on the original Barry Goldwater quote; “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is also big enough to take everything you have.” isn’t really true. Look at Greece. I think it was Mark Steyn who said; “A government big enough to give you everything you want, apparently isn’t big enough to get anyone to return an entitlement once it is granted.” or words to that effect.

His meaning was that Europe, a long time ago, opted for butter over guns. They offloaded their defense to the US and started loading up the entitlement train for their people. Now the only real functioning economy in the EU is Germany; and all the other EU states are trying to figure out how to offload more of their stuff on Germany. The real issue is that any entitlement state must also be natalist.

You require a large working population in order to pay the taxes required to allow others to retire at 55 with a generous pension and medical entitlement they can enjoy for the next 30 years. Not to mention the 6 weeks of vacation, the 30 hour work weeks, and the other generous benefits that unionized workers have demanded of their employers.

Entitlement states get lazy in other areas as well. For example, take birth rates. Entitlement states tend to be so narcissistic as to deliberately eschew the raising of children. Instead of opting for three or four, they might, and I stress might, opt for one designer baby at age 35. This creates the opposite of what the nation needs. The population shrinks.

Look at this map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fertility_rate_world_map.PNG and you have a real issue. The referenced map will tell anyone at a glance that large areas of the world are going to go out of business because of this entitlement mentality. All of Europe, most of Asia, and large portions of North and South America are not breeding at rates sufficient to maintain population. And this will happen sooner than one might expect as the more intelligent realize that they don’t want to be the last worker in a particular country trying to support an entire nursing home with his tax burden and relocate to another area of the planet.

What do we need? That is difficult to answer go watch the show/movie Cabaret then multiply what you see by 1,000 or so to get a view of what Germany was like in the 1920s and 1930s. Then look around you and note we are far beyond the excesses that existed there. Past the point of no return?

Our Constitution is in danger, excess is the norm, oh poor me politics is rampant, the country is overrun with illegal entrants, hate crimes legislation protects special interest groups, and we are broke. The give me more folks held their hands out and voted in their messiah subsequently they are finding out he is as unqualified as his opponents claimed. What to do, what to do?

Is the USA on the brink of another revolution?