Unhappy New Year.

No. not my wish for you but the new year that we are going to get:

Meanwhile, the US is sitting pretty. For now. Money is fleeing China and Europe for the perceived safety of the USA. Whatever else may happen, there’s one thing investors can count on. Ben Bernanke and his merry band of price fixers will print the money necessary to pay off bondholders.

But America is dangerous too. It has a doomed currency...an out-of- control military...and a dysfunctional Congress. Sooner or later, it will blow up too.

I don't agree that the military's the problem. Ten tons of Joint Chiefs' "recommendations" for occupying Iran or Venezuela amount to precisely nothing when the president wants something else. McArthur wanted to turn portions of China into a parking lot and ended up retired.

But "dysfunctional Congress" works just fine. Why? Because We're dysfunctional.

We still won't recognize Islam for its fundamental hostility to our core values of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the rule of law, secular government, and rationality. We tolerate massive illegal immigration, a constitutionally unqualified president with an obviously forged birth certificate, and a federal government that is to the constitutional idea of the federal government as a giraffe is to a Chihuahua. We lap this up.

We tolerate a Supreme Court that couldn't find the Constitution in a box of Cracker Jacks and is like the aforementioned Chihuahua when it comes to safeguarding the liberties of Americans instead of the pissed-off pit bull that we should have. Not what we deserve to have . . . because Americans have abdicated their citizen's responsibilities in favor of computer games, sports, and a fluff culture that denigrates our ancestors and probably makes Madonna barf.

We chip away at free speech and our right to keep and bear arms and we pander to the black underclass and hostile, rejectionist black intellectuals. We don't, in short, know who we are or what is decent, fine, and worthy of protection in our lives and nation.

But I do sincerely wish you all the best in this new year.

More than that, I wish for Americans to wake up. We don't have to become historians or a constitutional experts. We just have to start getting pissed when foreigners, barbarians, parasites, liars, and corrupt politicians tell us how great it is that we're being robbed, sidelined, and set up so our descendants, soon to be awash in a sea of hostile foreigners, can pay the bill for the looting that's been done in the name of "democracy," "equality," "human rights," "feminism," "fairness," a "living constitution," multiculturalism, libertinism, affirmative action, and anti-racism.

"Avoiding the Danger Zones in the Year Ahead." By Bill Bonner, The Daily Reckoning, 12/30/11.