Mark Steyn has a good and typically energetic piece on the Ryan budget and the disaster facing the US economy. I particularly liked this passage:
“We are headed for the most predictable economic crisis in history,” says Paul Ryan. And he’s right. But precisely because it’s so predictable the political class has already discounted it. Which is why a plan for pie now and spinach later, maybe even two decades later, is the only real menu on the table. There’s a famous exchange in Hemingway’s “A Place In The Sun.” Someone asks Mike Campbell, “How did you go bankrupt?” “Two ways,” he replies. “Gradually, then suddenly.” We’ve been going through the gradual phase so long, we’re kinda used to it. But it’s coming to an end, and what happens next will be the second way: sudden, and very bad.
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I actually hope something major happens along those lines. I am not saying this is going to work out great for my side, but the current situation of unrestricted third world immigration, offshoring of traditional blue collar manufacturing jobs and the left’s continued long march through every institution is unacceptable to me. I could go on, but the point is what are conservatives conserving anymore?