The Rebuke of Sam Slick
1. A large dependency class, as Romney justly pointed out, constituting 47 percent of an electorate that does not pay taxes and in too many cases lives parasitically off government largesse. Which is to say, it enjoys the redistributed benefits culled from the salaries, savings, and investments of the productive class. Although many in this group would surely have it otherwise and would much prefer to find decent, remunerative employment, one cannot expect a vast cohort of the beholden to vote for a free market exponent like Romney who champions the ethos of individual initiative and self-determination. Moreover, this class of dependents is as likely to grow as to shrink. Economist Milton Friedman has cogently posited a 50 percent-plus entitlement red line that signals the point of no return to normative democracy.
2. The so-called intellectual and celebrity elite: left-wing academics and the students they have successfully indoctrinated, public intellectuals with an ingrained hatred of their own country, Hollywood’s beautiful emptyheads, and almost the entire media empire that has made common cause with the Democratic Party and invested its ideological stock in the president’s plainly neosocialist agenda.
3. The plutocratic left whose obscene money machine, as David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin have meticulously documented in The New Leviathan, funds Obama’s electoral campaign via every avenue of public suasion available.
4. A union thugocracy using every means at its disposal, from financial contributions to overt coercion, to ensure the re-election of their candidate.
5. The swelling roles of government employees, all of whom are sure to cast their ballots with a view to preserving their featherbedding billets.
6. That portion of the educated populace whose trendy, reflex liberalism flies in the face of political and economic reality, namely, that wealth must be continuously created, that untrammelled entrepreneurship is vital to an expanding economy and social stability, that socialized medicine is a bottomless sinkhole producing more rather than less suffering, that “social justice” is merely a slogan behind which oligarchs and bureaucrats enrich themselves and the well-off hypocritically salve their consciences.
7. Not to mince words and recognizing the dumbing down of American education—the dysfunctional public schools and the university propaganda factories—the alarming number of the miseducated and the flatly illiterate who have no understanding of economics, are devoid of historical knowledge and blissfully indifferent to the exigencies of realpolitik, and who are prey to the influence of urban myths and the oiled churnings of the rumor mill. They will naturally tend to succumb to the president’s meretricious charm and populist incantations or render judgment based on sheer ignorance. (Cases in point: a woman interviewed on the TV news who likes Obama because he is “straight” and who would never vote for Romney “because Mormons have many wives”; people interviewed by radio and TV host Howard Stern who did not know that Osama bin Laden was dead and who thought Paul Ryan was Obama’s running mate; the lady who believed Obama would pay for her gas and mortgage.) As Victor Davis Hanson notes, “fantasies, not realities, are what half the population may now live for.”
“One might also mention Obama’s empowering of the anti-American Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the hospitality extended to Islamic organizations and individuals at home.”
Another George Bush, just the advanced model.
There is a vast difference between naively trying to encourage democratically minded Muslims and actively championing the ideological fore bearers of Al Qaida.
Feral, you are indeed correct. The purposeful empowerment of the Muslim Brotherhood Mafia is of piece with the economic/social disaster-in-waiting.
To be sure, the re-election of the Radical/Islamist-in-Chief will be the eventual death kneel to the U.S. In fact, that’s their plan.
Those who are paying attention understand the stakes, as well as the players. Similarly, ‘The One’ has not appointed a single patriot to steer the ship of state back on track, and said malfeasance should be indicative of his plans for transforming the U.S.
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/05/if-it-looks-like-a-socialistmarxistcommunist-plan-it-is-peekingpeeling-back-into-obamas-looking-glass-his-surrogates-too-their-bomblets-waiting-to-explode-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
Besides, does anyone even care to know the genesis of ‘patriotic economics’? Hint: it’s basis is anti-American!! How ignorant does he think the citizens are? Very.
“… fantasies, not realities, are what half the population may now live for.”
I posit that it is only through fantasies that America has prospered. For what are ‘fantasies’ but creations of the mind? And there can be no greater creation of the mind than America. What were the great speeches of Reagan but word-pictures, fantasies if you will, that inspired Americans to turn our ship around (well, at least change course for a bit).
No, fantasies are a very real part of what makes an IDEA like the United States of America capable of the Great Works we have achieved. To attempt to render it all down to dollars and cents is to greatly underestimate true Americans.
And many have done so to their consternation.
The (obvious) difference is between having your own dreams, that you know you have to work to make a reality, or being sold (or lazily and eagerly accepting) a bill of goods by Sam Slick (didn’t the title of this article sink in for you?)
By the way, the author of this article forgot to mention the more likely consequence of Obama being re-elected. The United States will not go down without a fight, and it will likely be world-encompassing. And if it comes to that, the world needs to know: The United States will not be the one to go down, at all. It will only be reborn.
What is the difference between a dream and a plan ?
A plan has a chance of coming true. >:)
There are dreams, fantasies and delusions. It’s important to know the difference. With work, dreams can come true.
Independent parallel: Imagination is a tool, not a toy. It is a very powerful tool. It is a very dangerous toy.
If we hope to return this country to what the framers of the Constitution intended, we must start by quickly facing another grave problem beyond just turning Obama out of office.
We must face the fact that a large number of schools in the US are now dominated by communists. Vast numbers of American high schools, colleges, and universities are now dominated by communist administrators and teachers; and these people are even extending their hold onto grade schools.
This is not by accident, or because “Progressives” (just a code name for communists) are smarter than everyone else, but it is by deliberate design. For over a half-century, since Stalin ordered that the US be destroyed by internal subversion when he failed to accomplish it by outside military aggression, the old Soviet Union has made brainwashing American youth into communist ideals its primary means to destroy the United States.
Then once the Soviet Union collapsed due to its own internal vast corruption, the center of Marxism/Leninism/Stalinism was deliberately shifted to the West, where it remains alive and well. This guaranteed that the heart of communism would survive in the West, while the Kremlin allowed its old decrepit and unsalvageable body to die inside Russia.
The bottom line is that the aim of Progressives today is to eventually destroy the US from within, by corrupting American youth into communist ideals. When these youths grow up and assume positions of power, they will eventually turn the US into a version of the communist “paradise” Western Europe has already become.
Indoctrination of youth is the same method used by Hitler in pre-WW-2 Germany by drafting German children into the “Hitler Youth”, and the same method used by Lenin, Stalin, & their successors in the Soviet Union by drafting Soviet children first into the “Young Pioneers”, and then the “Komsomol”. Thus by the time these kids grew up, they were so thoroughly indoctrinated into Nazi ideals in Germany, or communist ideals in the USSR, that they were no longer able to think independently.
This indoctrination of American school children into communist ideals is now well underway inside the US, and Obama is acting as the headmaster.
“When these youths grow up and assume positions of power…”
Many of these youths have already grown up. Some have assumed positions of power, most have assumed positions of maximum influence, the press, the news media and the entertainment industry and are already actively carrying out their pre-programmed purpose. November 6th will be the scale that will determine the balance of America’s future; Obama, we’re going down and out; Romney, a reprieve, perhaps of a temporary nature. There is much to be done if it is not already too late. The companions of ignorance, complacency and gullibility, will be our undoing if not exposed and corrected, at least to the extent possible.
The real reason why Barack Obama can win re-election:
The American electorate is changing. The composition of the GOP has not changed much.
We’ve got The First Black President at a time when the percentage of white married Christians in the electorate is at an all time low. Whites now make up only 73% of the electorate; blacks, Hispanics and Asians make up the other 27%, the highest percentage ever for minorities. Furthermore, the second fastest growing group in America after Hispanics is single women.
Meanwhile, the GOP has proven itself to be ineffective at attracting minority voters or single women voters. The GOP rarely gets more than one-third of the Hispanic vote (except under Bush who promised them immigration reform), 8% of the black vote, and one-third of single females. The GOP acts like married white Christians are still overwhelmingly dominant, but they’re not anymore.
Do the math. For a GOP candidate to win with white votes alone at a time when whites are 73% of the electorate, he would need 51%/73% = 70% of the white vote. That’s a tall order; it’s higher than any previous Republican candidate ever got.
In 1980, Reagan managed to win a landslide with just 56% of the white vote. But back then, whites were 88% of the electorate. If Reagan had to run with today’s electorate, he would have lost the election: 56% of 73% = 41%, nowhere near enough to win.
The GOP is doomed if it continues to attract mostly white married Christians. They are rapidly becoming a minority group in America.
In fact, if present trends continue, white Americans will be a minority group in America by the second half of the 21st century. America will be majority Hispanic. How can the GOP win elections then?
Well said.
My own worry is this…”…Add to this collection of all-too ponderables the taxonomic quirks of the Electoral College, which does not necessarily mirror the results of the popular vote or correspond to the number of a state’s congressional representatives, and from which Obama stands to gain even should the tide turn against him. For example, Obama took Pennsylvania in 2008 despite winning only a minority of congressional districts.”
I may agree with your conclusion, but I certainly don’t agree with your perceived suggestion.
Would you prefer we “white married Christians” pander or cave to become “New” Mexico, “New” China, or New “Africa” then for our grand children and great grandchildren?
If what you say is true, and I have no doubt it is, then the future is already set, and instead of changing to accommodate values I know far inferior to my own to win an election, I suggest we “white married Christian” couples begin to come up with contingency plans for our children and grandchildren.
Frankly, that is the way I think it is heading and I see war of two diametrically opposed viewpoints coming to a head sooner than later.
Somebody once said in here that if he believed that the Democratic Party was cutting off both legs of America, are we better off instead offering one leg to compromise? I think not.
Here’s what I do know. If it comes to that, I am so sure that my “white married Christian” way is superior, that I predict America as you know it could not survive long past a banana Republic without us within one generation; maybe much sooner.
We are the backbone of this country. We our the mothers and fathers of large swaths of our military. We are the sons and daughters of those who formed this country and penned its Constitution. We are the formulators of the economic machine called free enterprise.
We have cut and run, we have compromised too much, we have stayed silent too long. And for our troubles, our nation has deteriorated in my 52 years at such an alarming rate, my children didn’t have the freedoms I had as a child – fearful of what existed ‘out there.’
I’m not compromising one more minute.
That’s simply rubbish, and frankly racist rubbish to boot. What is unchanging is the ossified thinking of culture warriors, the bible beating twits who presume to claim being typical of the GOP and who presume to regard themselves as “the base.” If you socially conservative culture warrior types were to develop neurons or pay attention if you have these you would be able to do math better.
The right wing religious voters are dying off. So are churches. Culture warrior pet issues are being increasingly rejected. And yet the electorate is still split somewhere around 50/50. How can that be if your arithmetic was sound? It can’t.
The truth is that the GOP is morphing and changing and growing and the only things standing still are culture warrior fossils. Will you social conservatives please accelerate this and simply keel over en masse? Maybe at that point the GOP can get on with the stomping of socialists and not have you interfere.
I see the PJMedia version of Ellen Barkin has slithered in. Somehow, a vile imbecile like you with delusions of grandeur seems to have gotten in your mind us “white married Christians” are a bunch of wimps and lightweights, unable to fend for ourselves. If we do happen to keel ‘en masse’, it won’t the socialists getting stomped.
It is your ilk that has given us failed public schools, failed colleges, and failed policies. We’ve done it your way for 60 years and the abysmal stench of failure waffles through my screen. So whenever your ready to go to war, give the word. Because I’m just itching to make your acquaintance, coward.
And to show you both uninformed and stupid you are “Random”, Christianity hasn’t died in this country by a long shot. In fact, it has never grown faster across this globe. It is you that is the lunatic fringe and soon, will be keeling.
Keep on making your absurd claims.
Meanwhile in the fact based community –
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/10/09/study-one-third-of-adults-under-30-have-no-religious-affiliation/
The under 30 America crowd is a very small demographic of rather large world, fool. Try reading closer next time before you demonstrate your rather profound ignorance…
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700209018/Christians-number-2-billion-and-growing-worldwide.html?pg=all
So when do we meet up coward, where you can school me and prove to me how brave you when removed from the curtain of anonymity?
“No religious affiliation” is not the same as atheism. And even if it were, so what? This nation was founded on the notion of religious pluralism. Instead of offering snark, perhaps you could look into the poison of liberalism and it’s “do whatever when you want with whom you when you want and everyone else will pay for the consequences” mentality.
Another generation of lemmings is graduating the public school system, with neither the skills nor the intelligence to be much more than mid-level drones or govt functionaries, just as the education union intends. People are easier to control when they are unable to challenge the system, when they are unable to spot its soul-sucking flaws, and when it gives them just enough “free” stuff to keep them mollified.
You rail against a few Bible-thumpers while ignoring the secularists bent on undermining every principle that defines this country: individualism, accountability for one’s actions, helping your neighbor instead of relying on govt to do it, striving for and appreciating excellence rather than seeking ways to punish it, and so forth. To the right, free speech means tolerating folks like you; to you, it means anyone with whom you disagree should die. As usual, one count on a lefty to put the K in class.
Thanks for the thoughts, but I would insert “federal income tax” instead of citing the 47% “does not pay taxes”.
We must all acknowledge that the Obama is the bestest smartest, coolest guy not only to ever be President, but to ever walk among us. That there will not be his like again. He is Aragorn reborn. He can read into the depths of our souls and tell us what we are, and where we need to go to be better human beings. He is why we must acknowledge that not only is the Black man the equal of the white man, but because of what he has suffered, the Black man is superior to the white man. Who else has ever combined all these qualities into one human being?
“Imagine my day – riding Air Force One to a party at Beyonce’s house after a day of killing arabs by remote control, death from above style, in between fielding calls from Putin and Erdogan. And before I got on the plane, I played a little basketball with some of my other Ivy League buddies, and BEAT them. Sh*t Yeah!”
“And this stiff loser, Romney, wants to debate ME?”
“Oh, and one more thing – I achieved all this after smoking my brains out and doing coke when I was younger. And, I didn’t have to lift a finger to get through Columbia and Harvard Law. I was the editor of the ‘effin Law Review, for crying out loud. Look at me, I’m Superman! Here to spread the teachable moments to bitter clingers. And, especially, to show the Jews who’s really Boss.”
Sinz:
Are you saying those who will win elections in a more ethnically and racially diverse America will only do so by appealing to voters on the basis of their skin color, ethnic identity, faith or gender, rather than as citizens of a common enterprise?
I think the GOP failed, not by pandering too little to one group or another, but by acquiescing to the Left’s Balkanizing of the electorate into identity tribes — the more aggrieved, the better. This is a race to the bottom, with those promising the most goodies to the largest coalition of groups the winner. And it runs counter to a key difference of the American experiment — that it is not based on blood or soil.
If the Left’s vision of power is presiding over the division of spoils among groups competing for special pleading privileges, the GOP should have presented an alternative colorblind appeal to the dignity of individuals, who shouldn’t be stereotyped or shunted into one-size-fits-all narratives (or allotment of spoils) because of appearance or genitalia.
They should have warned in the very starkest terms that tribalism masquerading as ‘diversity’ or ‘ethnic pride’ would eventually trump citizenship and morph from the preservation of benign old-country traditions into debilitating forms of animosity, lawfare and worse.
But that would entail standing up to some serious mau-mau-ing, and that opportunity is now long gone. The GOP always takes the easy way out. It’s what makes them such gracious losers.
“But if Barack Obama should win re-election, America will inexorably go the way of the crushingly indebted, under-employed, imploding European Union, as well as gradually surrendering much of its autonomy to an advancing Islamic presence and the inroads of Shari’a law.”
And let’s not forget about Obama ceding all national sovereignty to the United Nations, for a one-world order government run by unelected bureaucrats from nations that despise us. I can’t stand the United Nations and socialists like Obama and Hillary Clinton are always falling over themselves to give up even more power and more sovereignty to this horribly corrupt organization. It’s disgraceful, and if (God forbid) Obama gets another term, you can kiss goodbye American sovereignty. All major global decisions will be made by the UN, no matter how crazy and how detrimental to the welfare of the United States. This is our last chance to stop this encroachment on our independence and the conservatives in Congress, as well as Romney, need to warn the American people as to what the liberals and the Democrats (well, what’s the difference these days) are doing. Stopping the takeover by the UN will be vital in keeping America safe and maintaining her as an independent world power.
And let’s not forget about Obama ceding all national sovereignty to the United Nations [snip]
Oh. My. God.
Check your meds.
Before you criticize someone on his views about the UN, you need to check the various UN “proposals” coming up for a Congressional vote. As usual, we’ll be able to count on every democrat to vote away our sovereignty, BUT hopefully, they won’t have the numbers unless they can get the Twisted Sisters from Maine & a few other RINO’s on board.
You really don’t pay any attention beyond Jon Liebowitz do you?
Who? Never heard of him.
We have a new troll on our hands folks. The big question is whether “Random” (the irony is rich) is the $1 or $5 per post variety.
This is just another in a long line of chicken-little, “end of life as we know it” articles.
Barack Obama sucks, yes. But he is not the problem. The problem is (or might turn out to be) the over 50% of Americans who would vote to re-elect him.
Let’s be clear. The fact that somewhere near 50% of Americans would vote for Obama when our country is in such dire straits is testimony that our nation is in deep, deep doo-doo.
Already. Even before the election.
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president”
- Prager Zeitung of 28 April 2010
I blame the MSM & too many years of poor-quality public education for producing the conditions under which someone like Obama was elected. It’s a mistake to underestimate the capacity the MSM has in its ability to manipulate public opinion. If the media had done their job, i.e. completely vetted Obama during the presidential campaign in 2008, he would never have been elected, IMO.
Many of those Obama voters, in a mindset of “Fool me once……” won’t support him this time around. If there are enough of those (which I believe there are), Romney will win on November 6.
I’m with you on this. However, Republicans once had the Presidency and both houses of Congress and they … grew government. And never put the blade to the Liberal establishment (MSM+Hollywood+Education).
At this point, it’s either Conservatives+Tea Party or we’re off down a path that will be very, very hard to reverse. One only needs to look at Western Europe, especially Greece.
What I take into account is the nature of people who now dominate the “seats of power:” 1960s era radicals. As they retire, those coming to the fore behind them come from a much more conservative crop (generation X). Time will tell of course, but there should be a much more sensible approach that this group will want to employ. I do wonder though if things will have to get much worse before enough people adopt the necessary sense of urgency that will be needed in order to “bite the bullet” & do what will be required to set the country back on the right track.
Predated somewhat by Marcus tullius Cicero’s observations on the same issues some 2000 years ago:
Human nature has changed little since then.
And those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. There are many parallels between the fall of the Roman Republic and the Rise of the Roman Empire. Does anyone even teach that period of history anymore, and is there anyone who pays attention?
Voter fraud is the thing to worry about.
The county now knows that obama is a fraud and that Romney isn’t the cartoon ogre the criminals have painted him to be.
Dear Sir, Alas it may well NOT make any difference what the gullible public thinks nor does because you are missing one VERY important factor:VOTER FRAUD! The Obama/Dems. did a good job last election of having,the dead vote,pets,and multiple votes and losing certain votes at polling stations.They even now FIGHT “tooth and nail” to keep the legal loop holes in place which allowed voter fraud and try to prevent The Republicans from cleaning it up by requiring voter I.D in states.Now they have a new plan which takes it to whole new level:Obama has made arrangements to have the votes collected and sent to a Spanish Company in Barcelona,Spain where he and Michelle love to vacation,to a company called SCYTL which has recently appointed an ex-Democrat to a position of high power.Hmmmmm… I wonder if the “FIX IS IN”,THIS COMPANY HAS NO ACCOUNTABLILITY to the U.S,if they make a few mistakes and juggle the numbers well OOPS,we’ll get it right next time!So I don’t think it will matter what the REAL RESULTS are!
I would never vote for Obama, nor have I ever. But to claim Romney will restore us constitutionally? Romney drafted Romneycare, the blueprint for Obamacare. He drafted the government mandate of purchasing healthcare. Romney admitted in the GOP debates last year of the use of torture. He supports the Patriot Act and NDAA. How is a violation of torture, unreasonable search and seizure and indefinite detention in any way constitutional? Obama and Romney are both civil liberty crushing thugs who haven’t plan to balance the budget for decades. Romney is going to not cut Medicare, increase the military budget and cut taxes? How? By printing money like Obama?
Peter Schiff has given his endorsement of Gary Johnson. And don’t rail on about Perot handing the election to Clinton. Perot stopped Clinton from winning by a landslide. Bush was his own worst cause for losing the election with his promise of no new taxes and a bad recession.
If Obama wins, we’re screwed. If Romney wins, we’re still screwed, but the Democrats will blame everything that bad happens squarely on Romney’s shoulder, not giving Romney the free pass Obama got of blaming his predecessor.
We got into this mess by voting for the lesser of two evils, compromising for one mediocre candidate over one slightly more mediocre candidate.
Peter Schiff recognizes that nice hair and scripted sound bites will not save the Republic, our liberties or this economy. Only someone with a PROVEN track record like Gary Johnson will make any difference.
Romney is just Obama with an ax to grind against abortion and a different shoe size. Otherwise, they are two sides of the same pot-metal coin.
That’s certainly not what most people think, myself included. Bill Clinton even in his second run never got 50% of the vote. And pre-Lewinsky, Clinton was certainly more popular in ’96 than ’92.
Ross Perot handed Bill Clinton the vote in ’92.
Watch this argument. Relentlessly.
This is the Liber-toid “throw away your vote”, let’s get demoralized and hand the election to Obama crowd.
These people are now insinuating themselves into discussion and blog threads in an attempt to generate demoralization and to keep you from voting.
These people are called “Trolls”. Give them no victory. Vote for Romney.
I prefer Paulbots to Liber-toids. It rolls off the tongue better and gives better insight to their lockstep mentality.
Totally agree, after talking with Ron Paul supporters, I think they are a disappointing breed. They are like people who are in the midst of a burglarly on their home (and know it), but are so distraught about credit card debt, or the civic association’s duality, or some other arguably important issue (though far less urgent than a burglarly) that they will not get out of bed, not call the police, but huddle with their family out of some kind of insane spite. And to make matters worse, they advocate others to do the same.
(And I actually like Ron Paul, the man.)
In The Flight from Truth, French political philosopher Jean-François Revel remarks that “the average human being seeks the truth only after having exhausted all other possibilities.”
One of my favorite essayists. A French conservative, if that isn’t an oxymoron.
Some other truisms, especially applicable to our upcoming election.
We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
~George Orwell
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
~Albert Camus
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
~Thomas Jefferson
180 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville described the Obama administration in Democracy In America.
“Thus, taking each individual by turns in its powerful hands and kneading him as it likes, the sovereign extends its arms over society as a whole; it covers its surface with a network of small, complicated, painstaking, uniform rules through which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot clear a way to surpass the crowd; it does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them and directs them; it rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, compromises, enervates, extinguishes, dazes and finally reduces each nation to being nothing more than a herd of timid and industrial animals of which the government is the shepherd.”
A more perfect description of the PIGS countries was never written. That 47% of the US population fits the description should be terrifying to all those who love liberty.
Reality Check: The Real Numbers Behind Romney and Obama’s Deficit Plans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX0EMau8GZY&feature=plcp
Mr. Solway, I believe you have overlooked an important element when considering the reaching of a tipping point. Sure, many people are joining the band of grifters and hangers-on. However, the nature of these people is that they most often do not vote. They are too pathetic and/or lazy. The truth is, only a minority of people actually vote.
Obama won in ’08, because too many of these fools actually did vote. Voter turnout was heavy. These same fools are now not motivated to vote again. It was a tide, and the tide has receded, having lost its impetus.
Now a new tide comes in. It began in ’10 and continues now into ’12. The Right is motivated to turn out in droves, and independents are also ready to drive out Obama, just because they are unhappy with conditions, not because of ideology.
It will still be a minority of people who vote. It’s just a matter of which minority, the normally apathetic of the Left, or the normally apathetic of the Right. It is not really the independents who decide the elections, but the uninvolved who suddenly become involved, or the involved who suddenly return to being uninvolved.
While everything written in the article is true, it may provide some comfort to remember that the vast majority of groups 1, 5, 6 and 7 are too lazy to bother to vote. That’s why the Dems need to find volunteers to bus the parasites to the polls every election, while conservatives go there without assistance. I agree with the oddsmaker, Romney will win by a landslide. This year conservatives will show up in droves to vote against the racist-in-chief.
I wonder if Romney’s crew has considered any contingency operations in the case that he wins, and liberal bozos express their loss in “rage” with rioting? Many riots, over the whole country. Calling for the National Gaurd to bring things to order may be his first act as president. I’m serious. I bet machine gun sales will jump a week before election day, too.
I’ve been convinced since before the last election that John McCain intentionally ran a losing campaign for just that reason…if Obama had not been elected there would have been massive rioting, with excuses and rationalizations from the MSM, throughout the country. While I’m no fan of his policies, I do believe McCain really does put the nation first and, upon realizing the results of an Obama loss, let him win.
Gallows humor prevails at my house.
What happens if (fill in the blank) is elected? Same answer. Train wreck.
I am referring to the US Treasury which is borrowing an average of $100 billion a month or 40 cents for every tax dollar collected. I cite Herbert Stein’s famous rule of economics: “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop”.
Imagine if whoever is elected announced a 40% cut in federal checks to Food Stamp recipients, unemployment recipients, Social Security, Medicare docs, Housing vouchers, etc. etc. etc. Pandemonium!
Fiscal train wreck has many forms, one of which is hyper-inflation, usually a CHOICE by the country’s government. For example, Venezuela is over-indebted & economists expect their treasury to soon devalue their currency by 50%. Imagine if you are poor and a $2 loaf of bread suddenly costs $4. Hugo Chavez has an answer: confiscate property!
The United States’ immigration policy is a curiousity. We admit 1,000,000 green card foreigners into the country every year. A recent article in the Washington Times, entitled “Slow path to progress for U.S. immigrants”, showed 43% are STILL on welfare after 20 years.
Here’s a thought. Let’s award a research contract to the fine Mathematicians at MIT. Give them the raw statistical data: age, education, command of English, etc of immigrants in the past 50 years. Cull the data. Tell the US government how to pick which immigrants are LEAST LIKELY TO BE on welfare EVER. Set a budget for those requiring welfare from the get-go. Why should middle class families have to struggle to buy groceries for two families?
Now: illegal immigration. Because of a government that favored itself, cronies, and relatives of cronies, Mexico’s wonderful resources benefitted only a few – but everybody suffered from the devaluations of their peso in 1980s and 1990s. This meant hunger and joblessness for millions of Mexicans: everything imported cost double or triple. Millions fled to the United States.
Big surprise! There IS a tooth fairy! In the United States, if you are a foreigner with no money, you do not have to pay hospital bills! In the United States, if you give birth, your infant receives US citizenship! NOT TRUE elsewhere in the world. In Europe, infants born to visitors are given a certificate of birth which they take to the embassy of the parents. For example, France DOES NOT give French citizenship to any newborn UNLESS his mother or father is a French citizen. Period.
Penniless “Visitors” to the United States who give birth get an amazing eighteen year GIFT for each child! FREE food, FREE doctors, FREE medicine, FREE dentistry, plus FREE education! In some states, apartments are given at low or no cost if you show up at the welfare office with a handful of US birth certificates!
Here’s some FACTS. Ask yourself: How long can this go on?
“The US debt has doubled in the past six years.
How dangerous is this? No one really knows.
THIS IS how fast Washington has added NEW US debt.
**** NEW DEBT ****.
$103 Billion – Average PER MONTH, 112th Congress.
$143 Billion – Average PER MONTH, 111th Congress.
$63 Billion – Average PER MONTH, 110th Congress.
$45 Billion – Average PER MONTH, 109th Congress.
$48 Billion – Average PER MONTH, 108th Congress.
$23 Billion – Average PER MONTH, 107th Congress.
Source: US Treasury Debt to the Penny.”
Many of the 47% are desperate to return to work and will vote for Mitt. Quite a few government workers are in valid jobs and have no fear of job loss. Equally, I think it’s likely that many of those in useless jobs have convinced themselves they perform vital functions and think they have job security because of that.
Right now Romney has momentum, he has the facts on his side about gas prices, unemployment and all of Our Beloved Leaders’s scandals that the Left Stream Media hasn’t covered.
So I am really starting to wonder what damage is being plotted at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the time between Election Day and Romney’s inauguration.
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