It could happen here

Isn't it nice to sit in our safe, well protected home and watch the evening news while having desert sitting in our comfortable chair?  Great huh? 

Then, you bite into your cake or pie for your desert, or if you're like this old-timer, you sip on some single malt Scotch as you channel surf for your dose of evening news on the TV.

Now please be objective with this next question. Your TV is blaring away with all the riots and violent protests in the streets of Egypt, Greece, Brazil, and many third-world countries. Do you pause, or miss a bite of your desert, or miss a sip of your Scotch?  Come on now be objective and truthful.

As we watch the rioting in the streets of these countries we might say, "Gee that's bad, but it won't happen here". Then we may become bored and switch over to Seinfeld re-reruns.

My wife and I can relate to these street riots in one of these countries. In fact we actually hear and read e-mails about it first hand. My wife has a close family friend she grew up with here in northeast Ohio. My wife's friend  married a fine Greek man; a restaurant and property owner,  and then they relocated to a small town in the outskirts of Athens.

Our friend and her husband has lived in the outskirts of Athens, Greece for over thirty years. My wife and her friend talked about twice a year, but when this thing called e-mails started they communicate about twice a week.

Well, the rioting and violent protest in the streets of these countries began when the governments of these countries tried to restructure the pay, vacation status, and pensions of citizens, mostly government workers. Our friend living in Greece says she remembers when Greece was a prosperous country. Greece became broke and could not live up to their promises.

She says people now do not want to walk the streets at night. She claims all most citizens have now are memories. The country is broke. Workers are so angry at the government for not living up to their promises that the rioting and violent protests are on-going.

And, as we see in other countries these riots and violent protests continue to go on. What's my point in all this?  What will happen in the streets of our country when we run out of money to sustain welfare, subsidized housing, food stamps, and extended unemployment? 

Our national debt and escalating unemployment could bring frustrated and outraged Americans who depend on welfare and food stamps for survival, to rioting in our own streets if we do not have the funds to take care of America's "nanny" state.

Our close friends in Athens, Greece witnessed this first hand, and said they wished America would wake up before this happens here.  Why do you think there are so many TV commercials advising Americans to buy food for storage? Why do you thing Goering Napolitano is buying up billions of rounds of ammunition?

Oh yeah, now let's grant millions of illegal aliens amnesty so they can become citizens to live on welfare, subsidized housing, food stamps, extended unemployment, education, and health care. All this means is there will be more people to riot here in American streets.  

Wake up America. Does anyone think adding millions of "legals" to our work force will lower unemployment? The only thing that will change is there will definitely be an increase in unemployment. It's very simple: Still no jobs, and more people wanting government help. Guess who's going to pay for it? Yep, good old American taxpayers. And you can bet our efficient IRS will make sure you pay "your fair share".

And that's Politics with Pete for today...God bless our country..and our troops.