Posted on 07/27/2011 12:58:16 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
The Democratic Party, as we have known it for the past 70 years, is now in its last days.
Yes, the House Republicans may raise the debt ceiling for a mix of spending cuts and revenue raisers. Yes, Barack Obama may win the 2012 presidential contest. Yes, bureaucrats and judges will continue to impose new and costly regulations on the economy.
But it doesnt matter. The long-term trends are almost all bad news for the left wing of the party.
This weeks fight over raising the federal debt limit exposes a key weakness in the warfare-welfare state that has bestowed power onto the Democratic Party: Without an ever-growing share of the economy, it dies. Every vital element of the Democrats coalition unions, government workers, government contractors, entitlement consumers requires constant increases in payments, grants and consulting contracts. Without those payments, they dont sign checks to re-elect Democrats.
Like it or not, Obama is not the new FDR, but the new Gorbachev: a man forced to preside over the demise of a political system he desperately wants to save.
Democrat champions in the punditocracy confidently predict that the future of the worlds oldest political party is bright. But in fact, the coalition that is the modern Democratic Party is doomed. Every pillar upholding its heavy roof is crumbling.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.forbes.com ...
The fastest way to lose is to allow the MSM and DemocRAT cross-over voters in open primaries to determine the Repub candidate.
Romney will be McCain 2.0
You can also thank "Read my lips" Bush and Ross Perot for Bill Clinton.
Is it Romney's "turn" now? Looks that way. Look for four more years of Zero.
“Yeah and if pigs had wings, they could fly. And we would have 410 million people instead of 310 million. And blacks use abortion more than any other group. Instead of having 40 million blacks, we would have 80 million.”
So you really aren’t against immigration, just against the immigration of people who aren’t white. Glad we’ve got that clear.
“We don’t have a population problem. We are the third largest nation in the world and will continue to be for a long, long time. Only China and India will stay ahead of us in terms of numbers. Having more people does not mean you become more prosperous.”
Read de Tocqueville sometime. You cannot have prosperity without people. America is strong today because of her people not in spite of them.
“More people need more energy, roads, water, sewage treatment plants, hospitals, schools, jobs, etc. We have 25 million Americans looking for full time employment. Over 14 million need jobs. More people also mean bigger government.”
Quite the opposite. Look at Europe. Fewer people means bigger government. If you believed that your family would look after you in your old age, why would social assistance for the elderly be necessary?
“Do you have a pocket full of fairy dust to make that happen?”
This is a republic is it not? There is simply no other choice. Japan, btw, doesn’t have an immigration problem, but has a shrinking population and is now going on 2 decades of decline. Do you want that future for America? I don’t. I want an America that is proud of herself and her people, rather then despising them as mouths and stomachs rather then hands and minds.
Again, thank abortion. We could use 100 million American children and families. Where do you think the markets for many products have gone?
"But it doesnt matter. The long-term trends are almost all bad news for the left wing of the party and the rest of the country.
We will do so if we have to plot out our own reservations and fight from there. And we will win because we are organized. Liberalizm will have to be a serious crime though, or they’ll infiltrate. Oh, and they’r going to continue to infiltrate until we find a way to stop it.
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