I did read your last, and I don’t agree that paying for free sh*t with borrowed money is, necessarily, a “losing” issue.
The People don’t like it, in principle. But they sure aren’t willing to pay for all that free sh*t (Medicare first and foremost), and I think they won’t give it up either.
If I’m right, Obama is in like Flynn.
Well, the People are divided right about down the middle, so I've proposed a few times -- to JimRob just today -- that we need to peel off New England and NYC to get rid of enough of the tax-eaters that we can take matters in hand and give ourselves a good cleanout of the citizen body. Not by classifying citizenship or initiating a Spartiate republic such as Robert Heinlein once dreamed of (Starship Troopers), but by basically giving the people who don't want to work and want to game the system, or have shown their hand by gaming the system in the past, one-way boat tickets to someplace else.
Or loading a bunch of them up on a fleet of converted supertankers, grounding the transports on West African beaches, and giving the exiles all the guns and ammo they need to reestablish themselves on the very people who once sold their asses into slavery.
Something like that.
Lincoln wanted to send them to Panama to dig the Canal -- and before Walter Reed. How 'bout that? He wasn't sentimental about much of anything -- Myers-Briggs personality sorting calls Lincoln a "Rational", meaning the kind of guy who'll settle your hash for a ducat.
If that's true, we'll have to spend 2013 on FR deciding whether to bolt or revolt....