Mitt Sees the Emperor Without His Clothes

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what ... there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent on government, who believe that, that they are victims, who believe that government has the responsibility to care for them. Who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing ... Mitt Romney

In our relatively short 200+ year history, America has experienced a handful of watershed events. The Civil War was probably chief among them, with the fate of the union standing in the balance, and brothers fighting against brothers. Yet the 2012 presidential election may prove to be even more monumental than that tragic war. In large part, the 2012 election will determine whether the hard-working, taxpaying, law-abiding American citizen any longer has a voice, or whether those who have lost sight of the Founders' vision have seized ultimate control at the ballot box.

If the latter proves to be the case, the American experiment has failed, and not only our beloved republic, but the entire globe, will begin to feel the effects of the declaration, by the American electorate, that the sanctity of God-given individual liberty has been replaced by the belief that a powerful few have the right to dictate where the world's resources -- both natural and financial -- are spent, and who will benefit from them.

The Obama administration has had two main goals at the forefront of its policymaking: (1) to begin to bring America into parity with the rest of the world (since Obama himself is repulsed by our super-power status, and believes that we achieved it through colonization and oppression of the 'downtrodden') by destroying our economy and making us energy-dependent, and (2) to increase government power over our lives by making more people dependent on government for everything from food on the table to healthcare.

As regards the first goal, all one has to do is recall the fact that the president sat in a pew for twenty years in Jeremiah Wright's 'God d*mn America!' Black Liberation Theology Church, learning (or, better, justifying his own beliefs) that America is not a prosperous country as a result of the inventiveness of its people and their willingness to work hard for their own personal rewards, but rather as a result of her oppressive colonization of downtrodden people. Followers of Black Liberation Theology, and most other leftist ideologies, believe that it is time for America to 'give back', to 'do penance' for her perceived sins. They are incapable of recognizing that, despite her faults, America has proved to be the most moral country in the history of mankind, having shared her wealth and her knowledge with others, and having sacrificed more than a million of her sons and daughters on the fields of war, most of which involved fighting so that other people might enjoy the blessings of liberty that formed the foundation of the American republic.

Add to the president's church affiliation his list of chosen mentors, many of whom are card-carrying Marxists (Frank Marshall Davis, first and chief among them), and it isn't difficult to comprehend why this president is presiding over a government that seems intent on bringing America's economy, and energy-dependence, down to the level of most of the rest of the world. To him, and to his lifelong mentors, it is all a matter of 'chickens coming home to roost'.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structured feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpets or set our stereos so loud the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling conventions. We weren't indifferent, or careless, or insecure. We were alienated.

But this strategy alone couldn't provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerant. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.

Obama is still that anti-American 'rebel', only instead of being in the minority, he has most of the media, and many of the legislators on Capitol Hill, in his corner.

People who believe that America only achieved her greatness on the backs of others formulate that belief on the core idea that success is somehow a zero sum game. A nation cannot achieve prosperity unless it is somehow unfairly 'using' the people of other nations in order to do so.

This philosophy is evident in every corner of the president's re-election campaign, not only as regards America's rise to power, but also, domestically, in his view of 'the wealthy'. Successful businesses, and successful individuals, can only have achieved their success on the backs of more unfortunate, often brutally oppressed, 'others'. The 'You didn't build that' comment was not a simple slip of the tongue, but an actual indication of a deeply-held belief that has shaped much of this president's policymaking.

As for the president's dependence for his re-election on the Americans who are receiving government money, anyone who has paid attention to his 'leadership' over the past nearly four years cannot harbor any doubt about the fact that he believes that the proponents of entitlement – both those who receive government entitlement payments, and those who believe that such payments are an important part of government's purpose -- represent a large part, if not the majority, of his base.

As a result of the president's (mostly unconstitutional, and achieved by circumventing congress) policies, record numbers of Americans are moving from the unemployment rolls onto the Social Security 'disability' rolls, the number of food stamp recipients has increased seventy percent since 2008 with more than 46 million Americans (the equivalent of the entire populations of the states of Texas and New York) now on the rolls, and the requirement for welfare recipients to seek meaningful work has been gutted. The government is helping people with their mortgages, and will soon be helping them with their student loans. This administration has created an all-powerful nanny state because, by doing so, the sitting president has increased his voting base exponentially. The crusade to do so is all being done on purpose and for the purpose of insuring his re-election, and the election of nanny-state politicians from this point on.

Illegal immigrants are feeding at the through in record numbers as well, with their children receiving educations at the expense of the American taxpayer, and entire families enjoying access to free medical care, and more, with the American taxpayer footing the bill. And any attempts, even by sovereign American states, to effectively curtail the influx of illegals, have been met by lawsuits on the part of the American Department of Justice, the bill for which, once again, is paid for by the hard-working American taxpayer.

In an effort to increase the voting power of those who receive government entitlement payments, and those who are in this country illegally, this administration has also attempted to roadblock, at every turn, voter identification laws, by portraying laws that require photo I.D. as 'racially biased'. Once again, lawsuits have been filed, at the American taxpayers' expense, to declare such requirements somehow illegal and oppressive.

Connecting the dots in all of this maneuvering does not require anything more than a rational mind. This president is not relying on the average hard-working, taxpaying, law-abiding American's vote in order to win re-election. He is relying on a self-fabricated voting base consisting of people who want their entitlements to continue to flow unabated, and people who bear no allegiance to this country other than seeing it as a source of financial support, a cash cow.

Mitt Romney sees the emperor without his clothes and, although he may not have wanted his comment to become headline news, it's about time the American electorate at least has access to the truth contained in it. They certainly aren't going to obtain that truth from the mainstream media.

Romney may have killed his election chances, if the media have any say about it, but he shot from the hip. He wasn't talking about Social Security retirement recipients, or Medicare recipients, or hard workers like you and me. He was talking about those who have embraced the entitlement/victim mentality, and those who are seeking to reap the benefits of American's working class without having legally contributed to that benefit pool. This administration has created, and nurtured, a slick PR campaign selling such a mindset as a part of the American dream, and those who have swallowed that PR will crawl to the polls, if they have to, just to see to it that the entitlement mentality continues to be rewarded.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.

People who believe that America only achieved her greatness on the backs of others formulate that belief on the core idea that success is somehow a zero sum game.

Indeed, Obummer has certainly made it clear that zero-sum thinking informs his domestic economic policies — "You didn't build that"; so why not extrapolate to the international community as well?

But his basic presupposition that the economy is a zero-sum game, though wildly unhistorical, is never challenged. Such a view displays virtually total ignorance of our economic system, which is premised on wealth creation. The zero-sum model assumes that the total economic "pie" is of fixed size; it never gets bigger.

Yet the entire history of the U.S. economy shows that the "pie" does get bigger whenever new real wealth is created. A richer society can afford to pay for safety-net programs that give people facing adversity a hand-up. A poorer society cannot do this — it can only borrow money for current expenditures which go 'way past giving people a hand-up; they rather seem to be designed to make such folks permanently dependent on government largesse.

Good economic stewardship requires the government to get out of the way of wealth creation by keeping taxes low and keeping regulation from strangling private initiative, creativity, and risk taking.

Instead, Obummer is the champion of redistribution — expropriating the fruits of private enterprise from the "rich" and giving it to the "poor." His idea of a good economic model is to take as much as he can get away with from the wealth creators, to put it all in a vast pool to be divvied out — at the sole discretion of an increasingly unaccountable federal government — to the "politically favored."

The "politically favored" are basically those people who believe they are entitled to "freebies" at someone else's expense. So Obummer is lining up as many of such people as he possibly can, by telling them that they are "entitled" to have all their needs — food, housing, healthcare, education, etc.., etc. — taken care of by the "rich," in the process making promises he cannot possibly keep.

The government creates exactly NO new wealth (capital) at all: It only shuffles it around to favored constituencies. Thus the entire idea of a "zero-sum game" becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Printing money does not represent an increase in real wealth. What Bernanke is doing is providing so much "monopoly money" to juice the system short-term. Long-term, such a tactic only further erodes the value of existing wealth, making even more people "poorer."

The question that never seems to get raised is this: Where is all the money to come from, to pay for all the promises that Obummer has already made, let alone all those that are still coming down the pike? As people become more dependent on government, government will have to do "more" for them.

But where's the money coming from, if you destroy the private sector? Not to mention that there probably isn't enough money in the world to pay for the expansion of government "obligations" that the Obummer Administration has made.

Soaking the rich isn't going to do it. If you expropriated the entire private wealth of the nation, it wouldn't be enough. The tax increase "on the wealthiest Americans" — the "1%" — set for January 1 is expected to raise only $80 billion a year — about enough to pay for 8 weeks of debt service on our $16+ trillion of national debt [which is itself roughly the size of the current total wealth of the nation] — a whole bunch of which is owed to China, not exactly our most dependable friend in the world.

Laying off the costs to subsequent generations by incurring such incredible debts — our kids and grandkids and their descendants — is grossly immoral. Why should generations yet unborn be asked to pay for current American lifestyle "choices"??? The current generation has no moral right to send its debts to generations yet to come.

Thomas Jefferson put that point thusly:

...a preceding generation cannot bind a succeeding one by its laws or contracts; these deriving their obligation from the will of the existing majority, and that majority being removed by death, another comes in its place with a will equally free to make its own laws and contracts; these are axioms so self-evident that no explanation can make them plainer. — Letter to T. Earles, 1823

That is the American understanding of our Republic, formed under the auspices of liberty and law.

Obummer is like a big, fat termite, chewing out the moral core of the nation.

It's time to call the Orkin man....

Dear joanie-f, thank you for yet another splendid commentary on the real situation that we, the American people, are now in! I hope and pray folks will figure it out before November 6th, and vote to put a stop to the Termite-in-Chief.

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