THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

THE NATIONAL DEBT | 2008-02-25

That was Perot's big issue in 1992 and it is dead now. Bush used 9/11 to write himself a permanent free ride on debt, since wars are routinely financed by debt and this war will be forever. The end of the debt issue means the end of issues about what Shari calls the consolidated state.

There are no longer any issues for elections to decide. All the money is committed. However much we talk about things government should do or not do; it is simply a cash cow now. The national debt is free money and entitlements take up about all of the rest.

Especially if you include all the REAL entitlements. Almost all black degrees are in areas which are part of government entitlements, Human Relations and Education and all the rest which are simply the result of government regulations or pressure.

The Trial Lawyers Association represents an entitlement. Three million lawyers make their livings off of games played that are totally useless.

What we say here interrelates. So when I pointed out that there is no evidence whatsoever that more legal due process produces the slightest increase in actual justice, it meant that lawyers live on a government entitlement as surely as Social Security recipients do. "Civil rights" is now a cash cow, as is the Holocaust Industry.

The PRACTICAL result here is that minorities will be bought off, one way or another. The Great Torchlight Parade will be replaced by dealing. Not with a bang but with a whimper.

And shares in a depreciated America will not be that big a deal by the time it comes due. We are already dealing with the fact that a dollar from White America and a dollar from our New Brazil melting pot is not the same thing.