Barack Obama

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by CreativeMind

Hello, Tracy! I've never really said hello to you on these boards, but I just wanted to say I think the political comments you always make are spot and and brilliant. You've done an excellent job all through the campaign season arguing a certain perspective with facts and intelligence, so bravo you.

Thank you And hello to you!

Originally Posted by CreativeMind

And yes -- as harsh as this might sound -- these modern elections are close because of the so-called "poor" in this country...I'm talking about the 40% who don't pay any taxes AT ALL...but who likewise get a vote on election day. So, right now that's 40% of the country who are backing Obama because he's running around promising them "Hey, elect me and you'll get the sweetest deal of all. Not only will you NOT have to pay taxes, but I'll ALSO take money from the other 60% and just GIVE IT TO YOU."

Well that's the point I was getting at above. We are not the capitalist nation we once were. We are slowly changing because more and more of the population is realizing they can vote themselves an income.

Alexander Tytler (1747-1813) said:

Originally Posted by Tytler

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

* From bondage to spiritual faith;
* From spiritual faith to great courage;
* From courage to liberty;
* From liberty to abundance;
* From abundance to complacency;
* From complacency to apathy;
* From apathy to dependence;
* From dependence back into bondage.

Socialism is a cancer. First acts of charity are legislated for a few members of the population. Then more people start saying 'what about me', and more and more until the majority of the population has pretty much given up and will vote themselves generous gifts from the treasury. It reaches the point that the conservative politicians must start promising social welfare programs just to get elected (see McCain and Bush Jr). The cancer grows and grows until it becomes fatal. Since these races are so close these days, it suggests that the day is nearly here when the majority of the population is socialist, and then it's a slippery slope to financial meltdown. There is no way that a shrinking portion of the population can continue to support the growing portion of deadbeats.

Now it might be after Obama has wrecked the economy by taxing companies in the middle of a recession/near-depression that people will realize like they did after Carter that we need a real conservative in office. These lessons are costly though. Any time you have a far left liberal in office there will be lasting scars, like Carters Community Reinvestment Act, which ultimately developed into the global financial crisis we have today. But what do you do... every other generation of young idealistic bright eyed commies must learn the hard way.