Article from April,
2017: How Western Civilization Could Collapse
The West and the
Tyranny of Public Debt
Excerpt: The history of public debt is the very history of
national power: how it has been won and how it has been lost. Dreams and
impatience have always driven men in power to draw on the resources of
others—be it slaves, the inhabitants of occupied lands, or their own children
yet to be born—in order to carry out their schemes, to consolidate power, to
grow their own fortunes. But never, outside periods of total war, has the debt
of the world’s most powerful states grown so immense. Never has it so heavily
threatened their political systems and standards of living. Public debt cannot
keep growing without unleashing terrible catastrophes. Anyone saying this today
is accused of pessimism. The first signs of economic recovery, harbingers of a
supposedly falling debt, are held up to contradict him. Yet we wouldn’t be the
first to think ourselves uniquely able to escape the fate of other states
felled by their debt, such as the Republic
of Venice , Renaissance
Genoa, or the Empire of Spain.
The Coming Collapse of the American
Republic : And what you
can do to prevent it. By Robert A. Hall
All royalties
go to a charity to help wounded veterans. For a free PDF of this 80-page book
you can read on your computer, write me at: tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. ~Bob
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