Lt. Colonel Allen West: "2010: America's Decisive Year" - Atlas Shrugs

Lt. Colonel Allen West: "2010: America's Decisive Year" - Atlas Shrugs: "Greetings fellow riders, South Floridians, and indeed America, time for another monthly installment of our Wheels on the Road (WOTR) political assessment.

By the time this edition goes to print we shall be in the New Year, 2010, one decade down into the 21st century. What amazes me are the challenges which face our Republic and its future.

We are embroiled in a new style of conflict whose nuances are confounding but yet the solutions are clear, if we only recognized the threats as they present themselves. There are two critical social phenomena, which if not checked, will result in the destruction of our Country; political correctness and multiculturalism. These two factors preclude us, as a Country, and indeed western civilization from saying what needs to be said.

This 21st century battlefield combines economic, informational, and military aspects which together has brought America to a critical point in its existence.

Our government fails to recognize that strengthening our economy is a part of our National power. We currently live under a goverment which fails to recognize that the indomitable entrepreneurial spirit of its citizens will unlock our economic growth. We have seen over the past 10 years an unprecedented growth of government, debt, and the deficit. We now find ourselves having our debt owned by a communist Country, China. I do not assess that the Chinese will do anything to collapse the US economy, but they will leverage this for their own foreign policy gains. But what is more disturbing is that our government continues on a path of astronomical spending by way of printing more money (hyper inflation to follow), raising taxes (meaning that Americans cannot invest nor innovate), and as stated, borrowing more money (selling our Country).

This is being done under the auspices of creating more unnecessary government social programs in order to increase a societal dependency....enslavement instead of empowerment. If we do not transfer our national wealth from Washington DC back to Americans, not Wall Street, we will continue on the road to perdition."