Posted on 10/21/2012 11:12:01 AM PDT by morethanright
By Mr. Curmudgeon:
Here in battleground Florida, Obama received something of a shock. The Orlando Sentinel newspaper, which happily endorsed him for president in 2008, announced it is backing his Republican challenger in 2012.
"Economic growth, three years into the recovery, is anemic. Family incomes are down, poverty is up. Obama's Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, highlighted these and other hard truths in this week's second debate," said the Sentinel in its lead editorial on Friday, "We have little confidence that Obama would be more successful managing the economy and the budget in the next four years."
The newspaper even engaged in a little tough love, speaking to government-dependent Floridians as though they were subjects of a substance abuse intervention. " ... The president and his supporters are attacking Romney because his long-term budget blueprint calls for money-saving reforms to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, three of the biggest drivers of deficit spending. Obama would be more credible in critiquing the proposal if he had a serious alternative for bringing entitlement spending under control. He doesn't."
Ah yes, entitlement spending. Republicans will have their hands full reforming the unreformable. How do you fix a Ponzi scheme? These government enterprises steal from new victims to pay the gullible marks of the past. But the government does more than this; it borrows from the so-called Social Security Ponzi "trust fund" and spends it on vote-buying goodies for other gullible marks. That's why Social Security is near bankruptcy when it should be in the black.
The world is in a government-caused death spiral. The world's central banks figure they can mitigate the effects of the globe's economic depression by printing more money, buying bad government debt and keeping interest rates low. Unfortunately, governments borrow that cheep money to feed their vote-buying Ponzi schemes at the expense of the free market and jobs. I don't expect Republicans to bring up that reality during an election campaign, but it would go a long way in preparing the American people for the necessary undoing of the entitlement monsters the Sentinel correctly calls the "biggest drivers of deficit spending."
The dishonest charge leveled at Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan is that, if elected, they will work to "privatize" Medicare, Medicate and Social Security; that they will "end" these programs "as we know them."
Ladies and gentlemen, these programs are nearing bankruptcy "as we know them." They will end, one way or another, whether we like it or not. The only question for consideration is what approach we take to end them with as few dislocations as possible.
Though the two major parties won't admit it, the contest in America is between freedom and authoritarianism, between the free-market and a government-directed Solyndra economy. We already know that doesn't work. It's long past time we stop feeding the bankruptcy machine in Washington at the expense of national prosperity and jobs.
Americans just need to grow up and stop expecting big government to be our mommy. That tired fantasy is killing the last best hope for man.
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The world is in a government-caused death spiral.The world's economy is in a LEFTIST-CAUSED death spiral. The left just used the gov't and abused the Constitution to do it.
I am the sole conservative/Republican in my large extended family. In 2008, they mercilessly ganged up on me in person, and over email. After the election, the gloating began, and didn't stop for months.
I'm going to be feeling pretty smug and vindicated in a few weeks, but I'm not going to rub their noses in it. I think the 'silent treatment' will be even more devastating to their psyches.
Not only will I have 'won', it'll just kill them that I'm taking the high road and refusing to return the nasty barbs they threw at me.
But, aside from the Orlando Sentinel's endorsement of Romney, there are other signs here and there that the Obamatons might be night have as iron-clad a grip on some of their their MSM propagandists as they did even a month ago, such as Romney getting some less negative coverage in some places.
Perhaps some MSM types are thinking that Obama might not be in office very much longer.
Thanks for the ping!
I may take that route but if they are really tore up maybe not
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