SOME STARTLING REVELATIONS.

Mark Steyn, the Canadian born observer and writer, following his book, 'America Alone', has been forced to have a rethink. The manifestations in his latest publication, triggered by what is happening in the USA today, not being dissimilar to appalling happenings in Europe. His latest findings paint a disturbing picture of large, obtrusive, overtaxing government getting in the way of any form of progress. The book is entitled, 'After America, get ready for Armageddon'.

Let us commence with the size of the American National Debt, or more interestingly, the size of the repayments, which the book shows as a mind boggling statistic; explaining, that within a very few years, the annual interest payments alone to it's largest creditor, China, will cover the annual cost of the Chinese armed forces. He can't resist a humorous aside regarding the so-called progressives, in suggesting that if the Hoover Dam is not made wheelchair friendly, it should be closed down.

Overbearing big government has become the norm in the States, as in Europe. Steyn makes the point, that when seven million Americans were made redundant in the downturn, the number of staff in the vast area of state employment taking home 100,000$ per year, went up from 14% to 19%. However, his most frightening disclosure is what is going on in Greece; highlighting the appalling incident, when the demonstrators/rioters blockaded a bank with staff inside, setting fire to the building, killing a number of the bank workers, and blocking the fire service from any rescue attempt. The reason for this demonstration, according to Steyn, was based on the fact that the Government was to stop the practice of state employees receiving 14 monthly pay cheques per calender year, a practice that carries on into retirement in their late fifties.


WHO WANTS TO PROP UP THE EURO NOW?