I often do not agree with Pat Buchanan as I find him often to be too much of a “paleoconservative” unable to come to terms with some of the realities we now face. However, as I watch the direction this country is moving in, I cannot help but feel he is much more right than wrong in his recent analysis,

“While the hardest working and most productive are bled, a third of all wage-earners pay no U.S. income tax, and Obama plans to free almost half of all wage-earners of all income taxes. Yet, tens of millions get Medicaid, rent supplements, free education, food stamps, welfare and an annual check from Uncle Sam called an Earned Income Tax Credit, though they never paid a nickel in income taxes.

Oh, yes. Obama also promises everybody a college education.

Coming to America to feast on this cornucopia of freebies is the world. One million to 2 million immigrants, legal and illegal, arrive every year. They come with fewer skills and less education than Americans, and consume more tax dollars than they contribute by three to one.

Wise Latina women have more babies north of the border than they do in Mexico and twice as many here as American women.

As almost all immigrants are now Third World people of color, they qualify for ethnic preferences in hiring and promotions and admissions to college over the children of Americans

All of this would have astounded and appalled the Founding Fathers, who after all, created America—as they declared loud and clear in the Constitution—“for ourselves and our posterity.”

China saves, invests and grows at 8 percent. America, awash in debt, has a shrinking economy, a huge trade deficit, a gutted industrial base, an unemployment rate surging toward 10 percent and a money supply that’s swollen to double its size in a year. The 20th century may have been the American Century. The 21st shows another pattern.

“The United States is declining as a nation and a world power with mostly sighs and shrugs to mark this seismic event,” writes Les Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, in CFR’s Foreign Affairs magazine. “Astonishingly, some people do not appear to realize that the situation is all that serious.”

Even the establishment is starting to get the message.”

We are living in a dream world where obsession with celebrity anesthetizesthe pain of coping with catastrophic failure which is barreling towards us at unprecedented speed. We are on the verge of making decisions that will result in our irrevocable failure. 

The portents for the world truly are disillusioning. America is willingly allowing itself to sink beneath the same sands of time that have covered past great powers. Our opportunities for limiting this are becoming more limited by the day.