“Empires are very different from republics. They are no longer by, for, and of the people. They’re too big… too complex… with too many fingers in too many pies for the people or their elected representatives to keep up with.”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/would-the-founding-fathers-recognize-modern-america/
“Nations don’t have rights. Only people have rights. That’s what the Declaration of Independence says.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/27/do-immigrants-have-the-right-to-pursue-happiness/
“That a nation unable to pacify a single impoverished country like Afghanistan after 17 years of trying should contemplate attempting to control the infinite expanse of outer space will strike any sensible person as madness.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-bacevich-space-force-20180621-story.html
“Emotion, not genuine geopolitical insight, drives popular support for inflated defense spending.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-military-industrial-complexs-assault-on-liberty/
“Government is the employer of first resort — even when it has nothing much for its employees to do. That’s part of a tacit agreement between ruling families and citizens.”
“The key issue here: pension plans are almost universally toast.”
Read more: https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/the-latest-casualty-in-the-global-pension-catastrophe-is-23795/
“Finding buyers for government debt has become increasingly important since the Federal Reserve halted its bond-buying program in October 2016 after swelling its holdings to more than $4.2 trillion.”
“There were two big temptations to the American Republic of the 1950s; subsequent generations gave in to both of them.”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/ike-was-right/
“The unions are driving their own pensions into the ground; and the government has ZERO bandwidth to bail anyone out, least of all itself.”
“Who is going to bail out the government?”