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April 18, 2024
Congressional Spending Goes Full Weimar
By Jeff Lukens
It has become a speculative game in the blogosphere to predict what black swan calamities could lead to a breakdown in civil order and the imposition of some form of martial law. Wars and rumors of war abound. We have already seen a container ship mysteriously knocking down a bridge and closing a key port. Other such scenarios include massive cyber-attacks that shut down the grid and block communication and transportation networks nationwide. The speculation on the variations of such events is virtually endless.
However, one crisis is no black swan and is entirely expected, already happening, and growing in scale by the day. That would be the ballooning debt crisis. If Washington does not change its free-spending ways, the debt will become a catastrophe of devastating proportions that will tear the nation apart. So long as Congress continues its multi-trillion-dollar deficit spending, we will have a financial death spiral, similar to events a century ago in the Weimar Republic of Germany.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/04/congressional_spending_goes_full_weimar.html
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And this path isn't inevitable. Or at least it doesn't have to be
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And this path isn't inevitable. Or at least it doesn't have to be
There is a point at which it is written in stone and doom must follow.
Whether we have surpassed that point is debatable.
But we will never know when we have surpassed it and can no longer go back unless we try (hard) to turn it around. That is not happening. And no one has the political cajones to care.
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