Posted on 12/31/2009 11:37:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Wait till 2011.
At this point I’m not sure what a Republican victory would bring. The GOP is still in an internal battle for control between the conservative core base and the “big tent” establishment (McCain, Steele, Graham). If the GOP wins the House in 2010 and is controlled by the big tent wing, it will fail by attempting to govern through compromise.
Governing through compromise is the road to disaster. It means the Republicans will acquiesce to the President’s agenda and therefore be blamed for its failure. Better for the Democrats to win and be accountable than for the Republicans to be willing partners in the failure.
There might be a chance if the limited government conservatives wrest power in the GOP from the big tent wing. Even if the Dems retain power in the Senate in 2010, a scrappy and vocal limited government conservative GOP house majority can apply a brake on the President’s policies. The Constitution gives the power of to raise revenue to the House as well as the power of impeachment.
Why do you think the Democrat-Marxists passed expensive Healthcare legislation?...to help usher in the new Government by collapsing the old system. Bye, bye USA, nice to have known you. Welcome USSA, Obama and Marxists take over with new ruling elite! Communist Manifesto and Fascism trumps former U.S. Constitution, and you guys thought there would be an election in 2010!
Keynesian economics NEVER works, nor has it EVER worked. Pouring massive amounts of public supported funds into more public works, designed to make government much bigger, government hiring laid off private sector workers, to create an even larger taxpayer funded liability, is in itself a guaranteed failure.
The only alternative is for government to take over private industry and force everyone to work for the government. Most all of America is now working in an 85% service based economy, in contrast to the World War 2 era, over 85% of the population worked in a production based economy and the average debt/asset ratio then, was only a small fraction of what it is today.
In addition to that, in the ‘30’s most people lived in rural areas, could grow and produce their own food and there was not a massive credit based society to deal with.
This coming new depression will set all the records.
There are few indicators of how well we are doing as a country better than the health of our trucking companies and the fleet of owner/operators. When times are good you see rest areas and truck stops full, no room for another truck. Travel right now and there’s lots of room for trucks on break.
If I had to choose a single indicator as to the health of our economy it would be the trucking industry. I can’t think of another thing that so closely follows the ups and downs of how well Americans are doing from day to day, month to month.
I am preparing, for the worst, and will not heistate to blow away any intruder trying to get tap into my supplies.
I have plenty of land to bury the bodies.
Our elected officials don't care about debt, just their ROYAL retirement and benefit package
To paraphrase one of my favorite freepers: “Shoot; shovel; and shut up.” :-)
Is Breeding-
Dopes in Chains
Can someone prove to me that's not part of the plan? Soros & Obama; the Clower & Piven Strategy....
Maybe so, but we've got a long way to go 'til we get there! It will be a very difficult 10 months until then.
Mostly, it's creeping me out.
yep, our society punishes responsible people and rewards the irresponsible. That’s the basic jist of their “stimulus”: “don’t pay your debts off, take your money and gamble it at the giant wall street casino. Oh, you wanted to invest conservatively in money markets and CDs? no no no, sorry, we’re gonna eff that up for you too by creating so much money that a money market won’t even pay interest anymore so now you don’t really have a choice but to gamble irresponsibly with the rest of America. happy speculating prole”.
That’s got a very nice ring to it!
“I don’t think I want the fascists in charge when it collapses. Remember FDR?”
Without a doubt when this thing comes down it will make the last two years look like some of our better days. The point in my musing, exploration of the possibilities is all, is that Democrap leadership now is predicated upon their promise of a “new direction” in the face of what they convinced everyone was Republican failure to the point of the financial system collapse. They are expected to make things better not worse, although many economists are saying that it is a near impossibility even if they had the right strategy, which they don’t. FDR gained power much the same way because Republicans were in power when the dodo hit the fan.
I was just imagining the real and tangible gains conservatism could make if the political situation of the Great Depression and the Great Recession were reversed especially when over 2/3 of the debt problems have to do with entitlements, things of the New Deal, the Great Society, and all the rest of the socialist garb. I can just hear modern Liberalism being eulogized for decades and deservedly so.
Put what money you have into tangible assets (food, precious metals, etc). This will give you a better chance at surviving the coming collapse better than those who put all their faith in green wrapping paper.
"The possibility of losing our form of government is a real risk under any of the alternatives. So is civil unrest and strife."
Some say there is no bloodless way back from here.
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