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The Grown-ups Are Coming

A highly cliched societal theme is that of the parents leaving for the evening or weekend and entrusting their teenagers with the care of their home. Inevitably the teens invite their friends over to party and end up wreaking havoc. But then the parents return home and it becomes time to pay the piper. I was as uncomfortable with that concept as a teenager as a I am now. What's worse is that I feel that's what has been happening with our government over the last few decades. The "party", while the grown-ups are gone, has been steadily decaying into absolute chaos and now we have reached critical stage. It's time for the grown-ups to come home and clean up the mess and administer any and all necessary consequences. The Europeans have been laboring under the burdens of socialism for decades. But the inevitable results of socialism are being felt in full force today. The economies of Greece, Spain, France and Britain (among others) are collapsing. The grown-ups in so