School Board Meeting

I attended the school board meeting in West Bend this evening.  It was… interesting… I have pages of notes.  I may blog about it tomorrow or I may save some or all of it for a column.  I’ll figure that out later

Violent Revolution

In an earlier post, I said this in reference to the health care bill:

I’ve said in the past that I think we will see violent revolution in our nation within my lifetime.  If this passes, I will be certain.

I must say that the comments from lefties have been highly entertaining.  No, I am not advocating violent revolution.  No, I don’t think that people will rise up with pitchforks and bazookas tomorrow.  But I am a student of history.

Revolutions rarely happen because of single incident.  There have to be certain conditions in place that are sparked after years, decades, centuries of grievances.  Just look at our DOC and see the entire list of grievances.  It wasn’t the Stamp Act, the Intolerable Acts, or any one thing that sparked it.  It was a compilation of things. 

At this point, America is still too fat and happy to be revolutionary.  But we were already facing that decline.  Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc. are all heading quickly to insolvency.  At the same time, our demographics are trending badly to support such a welfare state.  Our birth rate has been stronger than most Western countries, but we have also relied on strong immigration.  That immigration is driven by our strong economy. 

So we get to the health care bill and the now nearly inevitable socialized health care system… it will stagnate our economy.  Just look at European countries and their economies.  The economic condition will reduce immigration and our birth rates will likely drop (the evangelical movement is the wild card).  So we are headed down a path with exploding entitlements funded by taxation and the prospects of a less robust - or declining - economy and a demographic shift.  Fewer and fewer people paying more and more to support out of control entitlements that are tweaked at the whims of politicians.  It’s a powder keg. 

So I stand by my statement that I expect to see violent revolution within my lifetime.  If I had to pick a date, I think it’ll be around 2035 or 2040.  That’s when the crushing weight of what we are doing will no longer be able to be sustained and it will only take a small spark to ignite a conflagration. 

I don’t want this.  I don’t wish this.  But mankind is not so evolved to thwart our nature and America is not immune to these things.  Our nation was a gift from our forefathers.  We have a responsibility to preserve it.  If we choose not to do so, we will reap the whirlwind.

Baby Born Wounded By Gunfire

Wow. 

Three adults, one juvenile and a fetus were shot in front of a house near 4300 N. Teutonia Ave. early Sunday, Milwaukee police said.

All the victims are expected to survive.

One of the two critically wounded victims delivered a baby girl at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa shortly after the shooting.

The baby suffered a flesh wound during the shooting but is otherwise healthy, police said.