It’s time that people in the West opened their eyes to the present world realities that they live in. The present economic threat to the West is caused by socialism, living beyond one’s means, high energy prices and trading with China. The present military and stability threat to the West is Islam. The primary religious threat to the West is not Islam, it is secular humanism, religious pluralism and New Age spirituality.<\/p>\n
Most in the West will learn to find a job if the West stops paying people to do nothing, and stops giving people entitlements that they have not earned. The icing on the cake for not giving a lot of unearned assistance is that immigrants that will not assimilate into our Western Nations will either try a little harder to fit into the native societies and become more productive citizens or they will go back to where they came from.<\/p>\n
We have high energy prices because control freaks and environmental wackos wanting global governance have succeeded in brainwashing our gullible people. The other main reason for the high energy prices is that Western Governments have allowed their respective countries to be held hostage by an oil cartel that is mostly hostile toward the West. If government regulation, environmentalists, federal judges and OPEC would get out of the way, we would have energy for less than half the cost that we pay today.<\/p>\n
If we had fair world trade, China would not have half the manufacturing capability in the world and people in the West would have millions more jobs.<\/p>\n
If the West were in a war like World War II, we would not be having many of these problems. People would work. Those that hate us would be rounded up. Environmentalists would be muzzled. Energy would be developed in the name of national security or seized and we certainly would not be depending on China to meet our manufacturing needs. Yet, if we continue on the path that we are now taking, the realities will be that conditions will deteriorate in the West to worse than they were for most during World War II.<\/p>\n
Here are some actions that I think the West needs to take before our idealist unrealities actually destroys our Western Societies:<\/span><\/p>\n Elect leaders that actually understand the problems and that have realistic common sense solutions. People like\u00a0Geert Wilders\u00a0 and Sarah Palin come to mind.<\/p>\n Balance our budgets by eliminating as much socialism and restrictive government regulations as is possible. Get rid of all CO2 regulations and Big Brotherism. Decentralize as much as possible and turn these functions over to local governments.<\/p>\n In the United States, get rid of the IRS and go to a truly flat tax or a consumption type sales tax.<\/p>\n With over 17 percent of the United States GDP going to medical care\u00a0(this is double the percent of other developed nations) the US needs to get rid of Obama Care and most medical insurance plans. The government and insurance layers of administration double the costs of most visits and procedures. We need to go back to paying directly to the provider for most medical treatment. (Catastrophic health coverage should be available to all at reasonable rates and on a sliding scale for the poor.)<\/p>\n Identify Islam as the grave and present danger that it is to the West and contain it by any means necessary, much like we did with Soviet Communism. Combating the spread of Islam should become the major focus of NATO and homeland securities. Remove Turkey and Pakistan from NATO and add Israel and India.<\/p>\n Establish a NATO doctrine that says that vindictive cuts in production of oil or conspiracy to raise prices by production cuts by any group of oil nations against the West will be regarded as hostile action against the West and they will be dealt with accordingly. (The West can seize oil wells and ships if that becomes necessary. After all, the West developed almost all oil in the Middle East. They should not be biting the hand that fed them.)<\/p>\n Allow and enable private enterprise to develop energy resources by removing unreasonable restrictions to the development of oil, shale oil, natural gas, and coal. Energy development should be a matter of national security and it should be exempt from certain environmental laws until we have achieved energy independence.<\/p>\n Tell China that their imports from Western NATO Nations will have to be within ten percent of their exports to each respective nation or they can expect to be tariffed by that nation.<\/p>\n People in the West need to be schooled in reality. People need to be told that world history proves that man is yet to make a long-term working society so what we have now in the West is only a holding action against what seems to be almost unrestrained evil in many nations. 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