Your Friday Morning Dose of Doom & Gloom
December 7th, 2012 - 7:11 am
540,000 people gave up hope and left the workforce in the month of President Obama’s re-election, compared to just 146,000 new jobs. That’s an almost four-to-one ratio.
We live in the Welfare State. Act accordingly.
Honestly, I am starting to hope that the entire fiscal situation unbalances even more to hasten the day the whole system collapses. It seems to be the only way of solving the entire “welfare state” problem as it will not happen politically.
Am I an awful person or what!?
Remember my tepid argument in favor of Romney? The closest I could come to endorsing him (my actual endorsement went to the Sweet Meteor of Death) was to argue that he could buy us some breathing space or, falling that, a turnaround guy might be the right guy to have in the Oval Office when it all comes crashing down.
Now that we have FORE MOAR YEERS! of Teh Won, I don’t see how we escape a crash, or even delay it.
So bring it on. Let it burn.
“…a turnaround guy might be the right guy to have in the Oval Office when it all comes crashing down.”
For Mitt’s sake, the best place he could possibly be when that happens is as far away as possible. Whoever holds the stick at the time of the crash is going to get blamed for it; see both Bushes, Carter, Hoover, etc. Anywhoo, good to know I am not alone in my expectations.
I gotta disagree, CR. I’ve got liberal friends who will absolutely not, under any circumstances believe that democratic policies are to blame. Just the other day, one of them was blaming Republicans for the massive tax hikes coming on the house he just bought. In CA. *WTF!*
Part of it is they have their own set of facts delivered to them by NPR and the NYT. And part, I think, is that these policies define who they are. You’d have an easier time converting a Mideavil (sp) monk to militant atheism.
Kevin, there are liberals and then there are die-hard liberals. Most of them haven’t thought long and hard about their political beliefs, but when the shit hits the fan, there won’t be anything the NYT and NPR can do to save them (and they’re fiscally dying, anyways). If Obama gets caught with a fiscal crap sandwich in the next few years (highly likely), he’ll be the one blamed for it. Not Bush. Not Republicans. And they won’t be able to stop that, outside of their usual concern-trolling bullcrap.
The last thing to go for them will be their worldview. But it’ll go, along with Gollum in Mount Doom, at the last days of the third age.
We’ve been plastered with Band-Aids for years to keep the entitlement state afloat, and all official Washington has to offer is more Band-Aids (at prices inflated by ObamaCare). Tear them all off quick and let the new skin grow back at its own pace under the scabs that result.
The best alternate metaphor I can offer would be singularly inappropriate on a blog called Vodkapundit, so I won’t go there.
Don’t. Go. There.
Not to worry. I’d hate to give up my cheap Scotch.
Where is Thatcher when we need her?
I’m also going to totally enjoy watching Democrats tell me how awesome Romney is sometime next year.
I’ll hand them a binder full of women and tell ‘em to sod off.