David Brooks on Republican Thought...
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny For those wondering why republicans (some anyway), conservatives, and libertarians are not bullish on America's future the following excerpt from a The New York Times opinion article sums it up pretty well I think. As such it needs no further commentary or analysis. The New York Times , David Brooks - “We have a sense that the economic order we knew in the second half of the 20th century may not be coming back at all — that we have entered a new era for which we have not been well prepared. ... We are, rather, on the cusp of the fiscal and institutional collapse of our welfare state, which threatens not only the future of government finances but also the future of American capitalism.” To Republican eyes, the first phase of that collapse is playing out right now in Greece, Spain and Italy — cosseted economies, unmanageable debt, rising unemployment, falling living standards. America’s economic stagnation is ju...