SUICIDE OF A SUPERPOWER

From a new book my Pat Buchanan as seen on drudge, sure hope he is wrong:

"As the faith that gave birth to the West is dying in the West, peoples of European descent from the steppes of Russia to the coast of California have begun to die out, as the Third World treks north to claim the estate. The last decade provided corroborating if not conclusive proof that we are in the Indian Summer of our civilization."
"Will America Survive to 2025?"
"America is disintegrating. The centrifugal forces pulling us apart are growing inexorably. What unites us is dissolving. And this is true of Western Civilization....Meanwhile, the state is failing in its most fundamental duties. It is no longer able to defend our borders, balance our budgets, or win our wars."
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Chapter 1: The Passing of a Superpower
“We have accepted today the existence in perpetuity of a permanent underclass of scores of millions who cannot cope and must be carried by society -- fed, clothed, housed, tutored, medicated at taxpayer’s expense their entire lives. We have a dependent nation the size of Spain in our independent America. We have a new division in our country, those who pay a double or triple fare, and those who ride forever free.”
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Chapter 2. The End of Christian America
If [Christopher] Dawson is correct, the drive to de-Christianize America, to purge Christianity from the public square, public schools and public life, will prove culturally and socially suicidal for the nation.
“The last consequence of a dying Christianity is a dying people. Not one post-Christian nation has a birth rate sufficient to keep it alive....The death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western nation.”
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Chapter 3. The Crisis of Catholicism
“Half a century on, the disaster is manifest. The robust and confident Church of 1958 no longer exists. Catholic colleges and universities remain Catholic in name only. Parochial schools and high schools are closing as rapidly as they opened in the 1950s. The numbers of nuns, priests and seminarians have fallen dramatically. Mass attendance is a third of what it was. From the former Speaker of the House to the Vice President, Catholic politicians openly support abortion on demand.”
“How can Notre Dame credibly teach that all innocent life is sacred, and then honor a president committed to ensuring that a woman’s right to end the life of her innocent child remains sacrosanct?”
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Chapter 4. The End of White America
“[W]hite America is an endangered species. By 2020, whites over 65 will out-number those 17 and under. Deaths will exceed births. The white population will begin to shrink and, should present birth rates persist, slowly disappear.”
“Mexico is moving north. Ethnically, linguistically and culturally, the verdict of 1848 is being over-turned. Will this Mexican nation within a nation advance the goals of the Constitution -- to “insure domestic tranquility” and ‘make us a more perfect union’? Or have we imperiled our union?” (Page 134)
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Chapter 5. Demographic Winter
“Peoples of European descent are not only in a relative but a real decline. They are aging, dying, disappearing. This is the existential crisis of the West.” (Page 166)
“Not any Iranian weapon of mass destruction but demography is the existential crisis Israel faces....By mid-century...Palestinians west of the Jordan river will out-number Jews 2-1. Add Palestinians in Jordan, it is 3-1.”
“In a startling development of history, Russia’s population has fallen from 148 million in 1991 to 140 million today and is projected to plunge to 116 million by 2050, a loss of 32 million Russians in six decades.”
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Chapter 6. Equality Vs. Freedom
“Those who would change society begin by changing the meaning of words. At Howard University, LBJ changed the meaning of equality from the attainable -- an end to segregation and a legislated equality of rights for African-Americans -- to the impossible: a socialist utopia.”
“Where equality is enthroned, freedom is extinguished. The rise of the egalitarian society means the death of the free society.”
“A time for truth. As most kids do not have the athletic ability to play high school sports, or the musical ability to play in the band, or the verbal ability to excel in debate, not every child has the academic ability to do high school work. No two children are created equal, not even identical twins. The family is the incubator of inequality and God its author.”
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Chapter 7. The Diversity Cult
“The non-Europeanization of America is heartening news of an almost transcendental quality,” Wattenberg trilled.4 Yet, one wonders: What kind of man looks with transcendental joy to a day when the people among whom he was raised have become a minority in a nation where the majority rules?”
“Historians will look back in stupor at 20th and 21st century Americans who believed the magnificent republic they inherited would be enriched by bringing in scores of millions from the failed states of the Third World.”
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Chapter 8: The Triumph Of Tribalism
America’s war of revenge against Japan was a race war. Newsreels, movies, magazines, comic books, headlines treated “Japs” as a repulsive race whose extermination would benefit mankind....Only well after the war was over was it re-branded a war to bring the blessings of democracy to...Japan.
We may deny the existence of ethnonationalism, detest it, condemn it. But this creator and destroyer of empires and nations is a force infinitely more powerful than globalism, for it engages the heart. Men will die for it. Religion, race, culture and tribe are the four horsemen of the coming apocalypse.
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Chapter 9. ‘The White Party’
“Through its support of mass immigration, its paralysis in power to prevent 12-20 million illegal aliens from entering and staying, its failure to address the “anchor-baby” issue, the Republican Party has birthed a new electorate that will send it the way of the Whigs.”
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Chapter 10: The Long Retreat
“We borrow from Europe to defend Europe. We borrow from the Gulf states to defend the Gulf states. We borrow from Japan to defend Japan. Is it not a symptom of senility to be borrowing from the world so we can defend the world?”
“Are vital U.S. interests more imperiled by what happens in Iraq where were have 50,000 troops, or Afghanistan where we have 100,000, or South Korea where we have 28,000 -- or by what is happening on our border with Mexico?...What does it profit America if we save Anbar and lose Arizona?”
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Chapter 11: The Last Chance
“We are trying to create a nation that has never before existed, of all the races, tribes, cultures and creeds of Earth, where all are equal. In this utopian drive for the perfect society of our dreams we are killing the real country we inherited -- the best and greatest country on earth.”

posting a great reader comment for my reference

From comments ChefM  relating to the article 

Obama's Teachable Truthiness Moment

by  Michelle Malkin posted on the Human Events website: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=46808

 

1) First U.S. Debt Downgrade in American History.
2) Highest Level of Federal Spending since WWII (25% of GDP).
3) Highest Budget Deficit since WWII (10% of GDP).
4) Lowest level of Employment since 1983 (58.1% of Adults Working).
5) Highest Long Term Unemployment Rates since the 1930's (45.9% of Total Unemployed for Six Months or Longer).
6) Median Income Is At Its Lowest Level Since 1997.
7) Number Of People (over 16) Who Didn’t Work At All Last Year Increased To 86.7 Million.
8) Number Of Americans Living In Poverty (46.2 Million) the Highest Level On Record.
9) Child poverty rose from 20.7 percent in 2009 to 22 percent last year.
10) Economy added no jobs in August the first time since February, 1945.
11)More than 43 million Americans receive food stamp assistance, or about 14 percent of the population or 1 in 7 Americans.
12) US housing market passed a grim milestone in the first quarter of
2011, posting a further deterioration that means the fall in house
prices is now greater than that suffered during the Great Depression.

Budgets
do not come from the White House. They come from
Congress, and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the
Democrat Party. They controlled the budget process for FY 2008 and FY 2009, as well as
FY 2010 and FY 2011. In that first year, they had to contend with
George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush
somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.

For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George Bush
entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running
until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a
massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets..
 

And where was Barack
Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress
that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he
signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009.

Let's remember what the deficits looked like during that
period:   
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the
last of the Republican budgets.  That deficit was the lowest in five years,
and the  fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats
in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama,
who voted for the budgets. If Obama inherited anything, he inherited
it from himself.

If you want to go back even further, the sub-prime mortgage disaster was Bill
Clinton's fault. In 1995 President Clinton's changes to the Community
Reinvestment Act enabled ACORN to run a politically correct extortion
campaign against mortgage lenders, compelling them by force of law to
make unsound (sub-prime) loans to poor minorities who never stood a hope
of repaying them.Bush made many mistakes, but growth was in full swing until his biggest mistake, and that was compromising with the newly elected Democratic Congress in 2007. But since he compromised, he was blamed, bit if he didn't compromise, he would have been vilified. So no matter, thanks to the MSM, no matter what he or any GOP politician did or does, they will somehow be to blame.

http://www.amazon.com/Thilo-Sarrazin-Bundesbanker-schafft-German/dp/6130108443/ref=reg_hu-rd_add_1_dp_T2


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Graham H. Seibert (Kiev, Ukraine) -

This review is from: Thilo Sarrazin: Der

 

This book, "Thilo Sarrazin:The Bundesbanker does away with himself" is not even reviewed on the German Amazon site. The discussion is about Sarrazin's book, which is not listed for sale in the US. It is available from Amazon, Germany.

What is Sarazzin's work? It is a book of statistics put together by a central banker. It is reminiscent of "The Bell Curve," another statistically heavy work which was notable only in that it addressed topics that were conventionally beyond discussion, such as the correlations among race, poverty, and intelligence. As with "The Bell Curve," only a minor part of Sarrazin's book deals with the unmentionable, politically incorrect topics.

Sarrazin devotes most of his effort to talking about ethnic Germans themselves. Each succeeding generation of ethnic Germans is approximately 1/3 smaller than the preceding. They have that many fewer children. Stated another way, the replacement rate for ethnic Germans is something around 1.4, whereas it takes 2.1 (children per woman) to maintain a steady population rate. Extrapolating, and using round numbers, the number of grandchildren is roughly half the number of grandparents. He makes the commonsense observation that this is no way to sustain a country.

This book frequently makes reference to a set of tables in an appendix, showing projections for the number of people within each age cohort for the next half-century, plotting an inexorable decline. He shows that the ratio of retired people to workers will shrink to about 1:1 in that time, and almost untenable proportion. He also computes that Germany's Gross National Product will perforce decline as the number of workers declines, marginal improvements in productivity notwithstanding.

What appears to be his main theme, though certainly not the chief thread and discussion of his work, is educated women's absence from the ranks of motherhood. The more educated a woman, the fewer children she has. And since, of course, education is quite highly correlated with intelligence - a statistic that Sarazzin doesn't cite, but is rather well known - this means that Germany, like the rest of the Western world, is suffering from a dysgenetic secular decline in intelligence. Each generation is not only smaller than the preceding, but it is less intellectually capable as well, simply because the most intellectually capable layers of society are not having kids.

Nobody challenges this thesis. The feminists may not like to hear it, but they do not want to acknowledge any obligation to have children simply for the sake of society. Speaking of society, Sarazzin reminds one of the eugenics advocates, discredited since Hitler's time, who would encourage the best of the Aryan race to reproduce abundantly. No doubt that would be the best thing for the future of the German state, but it is antithetical to the sovereignty of the individual, which is now taken to be the highest good in society. Women, and men, now have an unchallenged right to put their own interests above those of the society that spawned them.

Sarazzin's treatment of Jews is entirely consistent with what one routinely reads in American publications, most recently Harpending and Cochran's "The 10,000 Year Explosion." The intelligence of Ashkenazi Jews is about 15 points higher, on average, than the average American or German. This claim is controversial only in Germany, which is so touchy about its historical treatment of the Jews. Gentiles in America except the statistic rather easily; it corresponds absolutely with our everyday experience. And, thanks to the Nazis and the Eastern European pogroms, we have contact with enough Jews to anecdotally validate the claim. The only thing that is novel in Sarazzin's book is that he published it in German.

Sarazzin takes on the wishful thinking that ethnic Germans unwillingness to reproduce themselves can be offset by immigration, and the fertility of immigrants. This is where he gets into another kind of trouble with political correctness. His discussion of Muslim and African intelligence is consistent with the findings (yes, frequently vilified but never refuted) of American, Canadian and British social scientists such as Arthur Jensen, Philippe Rushton, Richard Lynn and Hans Eysenk. It surprises me that Sarazzin does not credit them in his bibliography. He backs up claims with regard to their criminality and welfare dependency with statistics from the German state. It is interesting to note that the Germans, just like the French and Americans, obfuscate these statistics by using groupings that make it difficult to tease out the relevant conclusions. Both countries' statistical offices do not want to support politically incorrect uses of their data, such as observing inconvenient truths about Muslims or Mexicans.

Sarazzin concludes that the immigrants which Germany is receiving, primarily from black Africa and the Muslim countries, are a net drag on German society. They take more in social benefits than they contribute in wealth. They certainly will never be in a position to compensate for the absence of births among ethnic Germans. He claims that it is high time that Germany abandon its wishful thinking about immigrants and perform a statistical analysis of their actual performance. They have a 50 year history with Turks - enough time to draw some reasonable conclusions about the limits on their potential contribution to German society. It is time to do so, he would say.

In summary, the most earth shaking fact about this book is that it was written by a German, in the face of smothering German political correctness. The observations are well drawn and statistically supported, but nothing is new except their application within the context of Germany. His most original proposal is that university educated women have more children. He is certainly not the first to recognize the need - Carle Zimmerman made the observation in the 1930s - but he is one of the few to make the statement so boldly in the modern age. Bottom line, its greatest claim to being a great book is that it stirs an important discussion.

The green line needs to swap places with the blue line

In order to actaully pay off our debt the green and blue lines need to swap places...for years...

Sarah Palin

I don't know who wrote this in response to Gov Palin's response to the State of the Union Speech last night, but it is good:

What distinguishes Palin from other conservative leaders in the U.S. and makes her an important figure worldwide is her indifference to the views of the Left’s opinion makers. Her capacity to steer debate in a way no other conservative politician can owes entirely to the fact that she does not seek to win over leftist elites. She seeks to unseat them.
The same can be said of the Tea Party. The reason it frightens the Left, and the Republican leaders who owe their positions to their willingness to accept the Left’s basic agenda, is because it does not accept the Left’s policy platform.

In certain ways, Palin is a revolutionary leader and the Tea Party movement is a revolutionary movement. For nearly a hundred years, the Left in its various permutations has captured Western policy by controlling the elite discourse from New York and Los Angeles to London to Paris to Tel Aviv. By making it “politically incorrect” to assert claims of Western, Judeo-Christian morality or advocate robust political, economic and military policies, the Left has made it socially and professionally costly for people to think freely and believe in their countries.