Mitt Sees the Emperor Without His Clothes: Will the Rest of America Listen?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2932983/posts
I can tell you now election 2012 will not be as momentous as the Civil War. Unless the international banking system collapses soon, which it could. More likely the EU will fizzle, though not die, and China and Russia will gang up on us and replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Which will be catastrophic, but not like 1860.
Now there's a frightening visual.
FRiends, this is my latest commentary on Patriot Post.
Wow, great quote from de Tocqueville and good post. I haven't actually seen this now famous video of Romney because although I hate the Obama presidency and want Romney to win, I generally find Romney less than inspiring.
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Excellent work Joanie, keep it up.
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.
Alexis de Tocqueville foresaw exactly this more than 150 years ago:
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.
Excellent commentary, once again, joanie! ping to my friends.