Britain: A Glimpse of America's Future?

Britain: A Glimpse of America's Future?
By Dale Hurd
CBN News Sr. Reporter
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LONDON, England - Former President Ronald Reagan said the nine most
terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government
and I'm here to help.'

Yet the size of America's government is exploding and if you want to
see where big government will lead the U.S., take a look at Britain.

European Makeover

Wouldn't it be great if America was more like Europe? You might not
think so, but someone in Washington, D.C. apparently does. Because a
lot of the legislation going through Congress, if passed, could make
America look a lot more like a European nation.

Such a scenario would include government-run health care, cap and
trade energy rationing and a massive overall explosion of government,
which means massive government spending, massive government debt, and
massive government intrusion into your life. It sounds to some people
like Britain.

British author James Delingpolem wrote a book titled Welcome to
Obamaland. He says he's seen America's future and it's in Britain. And
he says our future doesn't work.

"I've seen America's future because what is happening in America now
has been happening in Britain for at least the last 12 years,"
Delingpolem said. "I've seen my country pretty much ruined by what is
essentially a socialist administration, presented by this plausible
likable guy (former Prime Minister Tony Blair).

"And I see the same thing happening in America. And I think America
should worry about that," he warned.
Delingpole says America is on the same course toward the kind of
sprawling expensive big government that

Britain has - one that will suffocate our economy and our freedoms.

Police State

Britain today is almost a police state. The British people are under
more government surveillance than the Chinese. There are cameras
everywhere.

Dr. Eamonn Butler, Director of the Adam Smith Institute in London and
author of The Rotten State of Britain, said, "in the half mile between
Westminster cathedral near where we're sitting and Westminster abbey I
counted 160 surveillance cameras."

There's also a government plant to put cameras in the homes of
families considered "at risk."
Not only that, a new law would mandate that every phone call, e-mail
or Web site a person visits be stored for a year in case the
government wants to snoop on them.

There's also a law under consideration that would limit energy use in
Britain through an annual carbon allowance. Use too much fuel, and you
could be penalized.

And big brother is also snooping through the trash. Some local
governments are experimenting with smart garbage can sensors that can
tell if Brits are, in the opinion of some bureaucrat, throwing away
too much.

Butler said, "There's this attempt really to control our lifestyles.
Now we're having more and more pressure to drink less and eat less
fatty food and all the rest of it. All of these things are done with
the best of intentions, but in fact you have built up the apparatus of
a police state.

"We haven't voted for it, but we haven't resisted it," he said. "And
we've put enormous power into the hands of our politicians. And if bad
guys got into power they would have huge power and control over us."

Health Care Stalin Style

Britain also has government-run health care, like a lot of Democrats
want in America.

But Delingpole has a warning.

"I'm not going to try to tell you that the American healthcare system
is perfect. What I am going to tell you definitely is do not copy our
healthcare system."

"We call the NHS, our National Health Service, the envy of the world.
It's the envy of the third world, maybe. It's a form of health care
through almost Stalinist state allocation; health care through
rationing," he said.

The horror stories about care rationing in Britain's National Health
Service are many. British cancer specialist Karol Sikora told CBN News
how difficult it can be to get lifesaving medicines for some patients
if the drugs are expensive. Katie Brickell told us how she was denied
a pap smear by the NHS; after which she developed terminal cervical
cancer.

Big Government = Bankruptcy?

But big government isn't just inefficient. It's expensive. And some
analysts are now saying that the British government has run out of
money. Delingpole said, "We are bankrupt. Britain is bankrupt."
Butler added, "The official public debt figure is 47 percent. I think
the real figure is something like 147 percent because there is so much
of our debt that doesn't actually appear on the government's books."

Britain has been in this mess before. It was the sick man of Europe in
the 1970s; over-taxed, over-regulated, even needing a bailout from the
International Monetary Fund before Margaret Thatcher's fiscal
conservatism straightened out the economy.

Under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the size of
government ballooned again, and now the bill for Britain's 12-year
socialist experiment has come due.

So is bigger government better government? Some Britons would tell you
that unless you want the government snooping through your trash can
someday, it's not something America should strive for

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Britain: A Glimpse of America's Future?
By Dale Hurd
CBN News Sr. Reporter
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LONDON, England - Former President Ronald Reagan said the nine most
terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government
and I'm here to help.'

Yet the size of America's government is exploding and if you want to
see where big government will lead the U.S., take a look at Britain.

European Makeover

Wouldn't it be great if America was more like Europe? You might not
think so, but someone in Washington, D.C. apparently does. Because a
lot of the legislation going through Congress, if passed, could make
America look a lot more like a European nation.

Such a scenario would include government-run health care, cap and
trade energy rationing and a massive overall explosion of government,
which means massive government spending, massive government debt, and
massive government intrusion into your life. It sounds to some people
like Britain.

British author James Delingpolem wrote a book titled Welcome to
Obamaland. He says he's seen America's future and it's in Britain. And
he says our future doesn't work.

"I've seen America's future because what is happening in America now
has been happening in Britain for at least the last 12 years,"



LMAO

did he see 9/11 coming?

did he see any WMD's ?

did he see the economic collapse coming ?

did he foresee Obama's success in the BP cleanup ?

did he see Healthcare pass ?

did he know bush's corporate owners were going to pull the plug and
let their
economic house of cards fall just before the election ?

did he know mc**** and his slut would lose ?

is he going to tell us who is going to win the elections so we don;t have to
bother voting ?

does he know when you're going to die ?

can he speed up the process ?



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