Tuesday, February 25, 2014

After America Defaults

The Horizons Shrink :: SteynOnline: "The Obama Administration planned it this way, and they did it in the right order: First, massively expand domestic spending, inflate the deficit ballooned, blow through the debt ceiling. So now you have to cut ...something. And in a democracy food stamps and Medicare beat overseas bases and aircraft carriers.

How welcoming the Europeans et al will be to the news that the Great Satan's taking his ball and going home remains to be seen. As I've said for many years, the only reason Sweden can be Sweden and Belgium can be Belgium is because America's America. For two-thirds of a century, it has absolved Continental social democracies of the need to pay for their own defense. Now America wants to be Sweden. We'll see how that works out.

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