USA + 8 Years of Hillary = We're a GIANT ITALY

Reaganite Republican ^ | 25 October 2014 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

While fiscal-houses-of-cards like Greece, Spain, and Portugal have frightened Euro-watchers in recent years with their shaky finances/debt,
some observers even wonder-aloud whether relatively-wealthy France is next.

But Italy is truly still the 'sick man of Europe' -already past the point of no return- and of course debt/socialism/big government is what's done it
(same garbage 'progressives' have been ramming down our throats for 5+ years now):

• Italian national debt exceeds 130% of GDP (US currently = 62%, but some experts say this number is not truly representative of the dire situation we're already in)

• Italy's high tax rates and Kafka-esque bureaucracy have asphyxiated entrepreneurship -the only real engine of job growth in a free economy- same as Obama has been doing. 

• Depending on established industries (and government jobs) for 'prosperity' has killed actual Italian economic growth: as recently as 2002, industrial output exceeded that of Germany- but that seems just a distant memory now, and the Italian economy hasn't enjoyed any real growth for over a decade. Industrial output on the tattered boot has in-fact shrunk all the way back to the same levels as the 1980s.

• As with Obama's 'stimulus' and green-energy boondoggles, Rome gives cash to politically-connected companies to 'create jobs'.
  Of course that doesn't work, as witnessed by Italy's 15% real unemployment, zero economic growth, and a pitiful 58% labor-participation rate (US is at 64% -a scary record low- and trending down) -and the debt just keeps piling-up.

• However, those with government jobs have it made: many just sit-around, like a Gambino-family 'no-work' position: in Sicily there are 28,000 forestry rangers (more than Canada!) and almost 1000 ambulance drivers with no ambulance to drive. But no Italian voter with a do-nothing job or on unemployment benefits can afford to vote against all this... they're owned, as are so many Obama has handed government jobs/no-bid contracts to.

• Italy's union rules -as with Obama's UAW backers and federal government jobs- make it nearly impossible to fire anybody, taking great care of those on the inside, while depressing fresh hiring utterly. The Italian youth unemployment rate resembles
  US urban-ghetto areas, i.e. a hope-crushing 40-50%.

• As we've already seen here in the Obama era, an incredible # of Italian 20-30-somethings still live with their parents, with precious little opportunity for gainful employment as a gloom of terminal decline sets the tone for their whole coming life.

• And after being promised so much -and delivered so little- by Italy's leftists over the years, Italians have become fatally disillusioned. Rather than turn to the right and embrace the painful reforms necessary to save the nation, the people have just given up and stopped paying attention... as is often the case in the US already.

Keep it up America, and we can be sucked into 

the death vortex of socialism -never to return- too.

OR, you could start listening to the Tea Party... 

November 4th would be a good time to start.

[Reaganite Republican]

***ping***

[VTenigma]

More like Zimbabwe.

[Ray76]

Make her testify under oath about Benghazi!!! Why hasn’t this happened??? It’s been years, Congress! Let’s go!!!!

[newfreep]

Leftism, under all of its various brand names, ALWAYS fail economically, morally & culturally. ALWAYS.

Insane Stupidity: “Doing the same thing over & over and expecting different results” - Albert Einstein

Conclusion: Leftism is insane stupidity.

[Reaganite Republican]

True fact- in more ways than one lol

[KeyLargo]

Hillary: ‘Don’t Let Anybody Tell You’ That ‘Businesses Create Jobs’

VIDEO

Breitbart TV 24 Oct 2014 4406 post a comment
Appearing at a Boston rally for Democrat gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley on Friday, Hillary Clinton told the crowd gathered at the Park Plaza Hotel not to listen to anybody who says that “businesses create jobs.”

“Don’t let anybody tell you it’s corporations and businesses create jobs,” Clinton said.

“You know that old theory, ‘trickle-down economics,’” she continued. “That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly.”

“You know, one of the things my husband says when people say ‘Well, what did you bring to Washington,’ he said, ‘Well, I brought arithmetic,’” Clinton said, which elicited loud laughs from the crowd.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/10/24/Hillary-Dont-Let-Anybody-Tell-You-That-Businesses-Create-Jobs

[KeyLargo]

[Reaganite Republican]

Kook

[IMR 4350]

8 years?

You turn that psychopath loose with the power of the presidency and she will never give it up.

Had the 1st WTC bombing in 1993 been successful and the towers toppled killing 250,000 or more as planned, Clinton would still be in the WH.

[Reaganite Republican]

I do believe Ted Cruz could rip her to shreds in a debate...

[IMR 4350]

“I do believe Ted Cruz could rip her to shreds in a debate...’

No question about it.

The media would then fall all over themselves telling us how he “assaulted” a woman.

[Pollster1]

I don’t think Hillary wants a weak America - she’s not Obama. Her vision is much closer to Italy 1930-1943 than to Italy today (or Zimbabwe). If she takes power, instead of further weakening our country, she will take as much control as she can over our the smallest details of our lives.

[Vaduz]

She’s been on the train to long the Night Train that is.