'13: Any Reasons To Be Cheerful?

Let me see.Well, as that Labour chap said as he left the office,'There's no money left'. So we have reason or cause to think the age of Big Government is coming to an end.If not now,when.In a boom,however artificially created by government there is no appetite for prudence but now the coffers are empty we should expect fiscal rectitude,a time of State contraction.Regrettably, whilst a Conservative government might normally be relied upon and able to achieve this it is of course shackled to the liberals and consequently hamstrung when it comes to making the real lasting changes needed in order to ensure some future for the country so one's optimism is tempered with some realism about what will be achieved.It is however moving in the right direction.The EU remains an obstacle to liberty and freedom but perhaps we may even come to grips with this monster and finally decide to a parting of the ways.Better late than never.A dark cloud hangs over America as it lurches ever leftwards to a European type of State and the last great hope for mankind becomes a laboratory for failed discredited calamitous Socialist programmes of government expansion,dependency and ruin - truly an American Tragedy unfolding, like a slow motion train crash.The Randian vision of a small delimited State seems further away than ever alas.So a little bit of cheer but mostly gloom I am afraid.One has to look dispassionately at the facts and not engage in wishful thinking.Happy New Year to my tiny readership and - tell a friend!