“The Burning Platform”

If you can get past somebody quoting Midnight Oil lyrics, a new “web treatise” outlining the increasingly unsustainable nature of the U.S. government’s financial obligations is likely going to scare the pants off of you.

It’s called “The Burning Platform,” and it was assembled/ written by New York professor James Quinn.

A collection of dire charts, dour graphs and depressing statistics taken from various sources, Quinn’s treatise reads like one of those documentary films in which you know somebody’s going to die at the end of it but there’s absolutely nothing you can do to stop it from happening.

Seriously, look at this chart:

Or this one:

Or this one:

Or this one:

Packed with info like that, it’s no surprise that “The Burning Platform” has become a viral web sensation just five days after it was published.

How viral? Well, we found the treatise on one website while randomly searching for information on Medicaid expenses, and before we had finished reading it one of our longtime sources e-mailed it to us from yet another website.

Since then it’s been forwarded to us from several different fiscal and social conservative e-mail lists, each time coming from yet another new web address.

That’s viral, people.

Here is the complete, unabridged version of “The Burning Platform” from its original source.

And yeah … it’s about time to start burying the silver in the back yard and and stuffing money in the matresses again.

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