Posted by
Brian Peters on Friday, October 09, 2009 12:37:56 PM
Unintended consequences. It seems that is something never really thought out by our leadership in Washington D.C. every time they do most things. Our leadership fails to plan properly, look at every conceivable angle and outcome to their decisions, since it appears most of their decisions are based upon personal power and/or selfish ideals or greed.
Vietnam, Iraq, the Stimulus, private industry take-over, the looming health care bill, these are all major incidents that have undeniable proof of the lack of proper planning.
Fox News this morning reported that Detroit, Michigan has now 30% unemployment, that is from reported figures, that actual percentage of unemployed adults would probably hit near 45% if truly counted.
B.E.V. has pointed out in previous post about the ‘rat’ experiment we learn in grade school. I realized that there exist a real-time human equivalent of this experiment, it’s called ‘The Gaza Strip’. Before you go screaming that B.E.V. is ‘racist/bigot’, get a psychologist friend to think and question this premise. Look at how the humans there are behaving compared to the ‘rat experiment’.
The large ‘mob’ that gathered in Detroit this past week over the free Federal housing bond/dollars, is another example. That was a spontaneous ‘growth’ within a limited space, and it’s outcome the predictable results.
As for unintended consequences, something that the leadership in D.C. and Michigan, has not considered. By allowing the growing mass of unemployed to grow, the very apparent conditions of desperation and anxiety were exhibited by the mass crowd of 35,000 this week. Multiply this factor by a couple hundred thousand in a confined space, in Detroit. The possibilities of desperate measures on the masses behalf are growing with each passing day. More vocal demonstrations, violent act and riots by these distressed groups of people may very begin to take place in the near future.
Then there is a far darker side of the unintended consequences. With such a large group of people, feeling no way out, having no real self worth due to the lack of employment and achievement, will turn to something that will give them that. Radical Islam. Detroit is going to, no is, now a perfect place, with the perfect environment for recruitment by radical Islam.
We few, who still do care about this Nation, can only hope, that someone inside of D.C. has also thought and realized this very possible and likely future event.
Footnote: As Obama receives his Nobel Prize for Peace, he is talking with the Taliban about joining the Afghan Government, the same Taliban that today, used a suicide bomber to murder 49 people and wound over another 100 innocent, INNOCENT men, women, and children. In the name of Islam.