The American Thinker and Three Crises

A Decade and Its Three Crises
By Sammy Benoit

When we look back at the decade 2000-2009, we may well define it by three crises: the crisis that didn't happen, the crisis that wasn't supposed to happen, and the crisis that we don't realize is happening. We haven't learned the lessons of the first two, and our ignorance of the third may doom us to be slaves to our government, rather than the other way around.

The first two listed are easy to see, but many do not realize the third one is happening.
Benoit writes: 

The third crisis is the one that very few realize is happening. This may well be the crisis that defines the next decade: a government takeover of our lives.

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