U.S. Imperial Overreach - Repeating Roman History! - Rome, America, and the Collapse of the Welfare State

October 8, 2016

Christopher Cook's 2011 article is still very timely today.

Rome, America, and the Collapse of the Welfare State
http://www.westernfreepress.com/2011/06/08/rome-america-and-the-collapse-of-the-welfare-state/

It actually does appear that government powers have set up big welfare systems in wait for the arrival of all the waves of immigrants to literally plunder. Rome also fell due to immigration woes. With waves of new immigrants came disease. No doubt Romans saw this as a cause to lose faith in their government. You can now see why some learned Americans are 'taking the knee', etc., at national anthem events, etc.. Many do not believe in the U.S. now.

The Bush Regime had no right to loot the U.S. Treasury and/or Social Security Fund to wage a phony war on Iraq, and, there were no weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. phony wars, also like Afghanistan, etc., are similar to the Roman Overreach which eventually ended Roman power. You can 'go figger' what is in store for Neo-Colonial United States which has over-extended to the max all over the world!

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"Posted: June 8, 2011 at 7:06 am / by Christopher Cook

Every so often, mankind learns a major lesson in governance:

The Romans learned the perils of imperial overreach.

The feudal system got a major upgrade with the Magna Carta.

Mankind continues to enjoy the benefits of the revolution in governance produced by the 18th century classical liberal enlightenment.

And there were others. I am going to go out on a limb here and predict now that humankind is about to go through another such sea change: The Collapse of the Welfare State.

All the signs are there, from Greece to Portugal to Ireland to the U.S. It's all coming unraveled, and I believe that is because the welfare state cannot work. Not that it isn't working or "isn't being done right," but because it is literally not possible for it to work. Fully socialist states have already proven to be failures. And now we are seeing that welfare-state capitalism, while more stable than socialism, also becomes unsustainable eventually."

More at the link.
http://www.westernfreepress.com/2011/06/08/rome-america-and-the-collapse-of-the-welfare-state/

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