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Mark Steyn: 2012 Election Is The Last Exit Ramp Before The Death Spiral
Investor's Business Daily ^ | August 10, 2012 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 08/10/2012 4:54:41 PM PDT by Zakeet

The other day, I passed a Republican Party county office here in my home state, its window attractively emblazoned with placards declaring "Believe in America. Romney 2012" and "New Hampshire Believes. Romney 2012." There's not a lot of evidence for the latter proposition, but I'm certainly willing to believe that Romney believes that New Hampshire believes.

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If it were up to me, the {Romney's] campaign slogan would be "You're screwed, losers. Steyn 2012" — or, after yielding to the consultants' internals showing that moderates want something more sunny and upbeat, maybe "Get real, you chumps. Steyn 2012." That's the reason I'm not running. Well, that and the Hawaiian birth certificate.

I wouldn't claim to know what America believes or even what "New Hampshire Believes," but this is what I believe — that another four years of the present statist ascendancy will seal America's fate.

As noted here previously, the International Monetary Fund predicts that China will become the world's dominant economic power by 2016. So the guy elected in November will be the first president since Grover Cleveland to know what it feels like to be the global also-ran.

Even this, however, understates the size of catastrophe the United States faces. There are no precedents in history for a great power spending itself to death on the scale America is doing. President Obama has added $5 trillion to the national debt, and has nothing to show for it. Do you know how difficult that is to do?

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012election; 2012issues; romney; slogan; steyn
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Steyn's at his best in this one!

1 posted on 08/10/2012 4:54:51 PM PDT by Zakeet
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Classic Steyn:

In the last three years, he has "created" 2.6 million new jobs — a number that does not even keep up with the number of (legal) immigrants who arrive each month. Obama does not "create" jobs, he creates disabled people: in the same period as 2.6 million Americans signed on with new employers, 3.1 million signed on at the Social Security Disability Office.

Obama is the first president in history to create more disabled people than workers. He is the biggest creator of disabled people on the planet. He has disabled more people than the Japanese tsunami. More Americans have been disabled by Obama than have been given cancer by Mitt Romney. "Ask yourself, 'Are you more disabled now than you were four years ago?' Obama 2012." Followed by the wheelchair logo with the Obama "O" where the wheel should be. In the Democrats' Dependistan, the wheelchair ramp is downhill all the way.

Don't you just live the Mark Steyn? And don't you wish you could rip the Wee Wee just one tenth as well as this guy?
2 posted on 08/10/2012 5:01:21 PM PDT by Zakeet (If you don't like abortions, don't get one. If I don't like guns, we should ban them.)
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To: Zakeet
2012 1992 is was the last exit ramp before the downward spiral.
3 posted on 08/10/2012 5:01:59 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Nope 2012)
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To: Zakeet
President Obama has added $5 trillion to the national debt, and has nothing to show for it.

Obama has A LOT to show for it. He's been able to buy the complacency of America. We know something is wrong, but the checks keep coming, so America is not worrying too much.

4 posted on 08/10/2012 5:04:09 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Zakeet

Thanks Zakeet. That out-take was killer. He nailed him.


5 posted on 08/10/2012 5:04:20 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Nope 2012)
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To: Zakeet

btt


6 posted on 08/10/2012 5:05:41 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: PGR88

On top of that Obama has avoided so much blame that there are actually some freepers willing to sit this one out.


7 posted on 08/10/2012 5:05:44 PM PDT by tatown ( FUMD, FUAC, and FUGB)
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To: DoughtyOne

Yep.

Electing Romney will just slow it down a bit.

I always say: It doesn’t matter if Thelma is driving the T-Bird at 80 MPH, or Louise is driving it at 100, the car is still going over the cliff.


8 posted on 08/10/2012 5:07:15 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: tatown

Unbelievable isn’t it?


9 posted on 08/10/2012 5:07:27 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehring

Sure is....


10 posted on 08/10/2012 5:09:15 PM PDT by tatown ( FUMD, FUAC, and FUGB)
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To: Zakeet

“Get real, you chumps. Steyn 2012.”

That be funny. I don’t care who you are!


11 posted on 08/10/2012 5:11:54 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: Zakeet
"President Obama has added $5 trillion to the national debt, and has nothing to show for it. Do you know how difficult that is to do?

Apparently, not very hard, it happened in less than 3 years.

12 posted on 08/10/2012 5:12:59 PM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political party's in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Zakeet

Funny but it misses the point: how do you deal with a debt that exceeds the net wealth of the average American?

Answer: you don’t because you can’t.

We’re well into the spiral. That may be why the gop isn’t making much of an effort. They don’t want to be as associated with it.


13 posted on 08/10/2012 5:14:32 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Romney/Pelosi 2012- the Spirit of Bipartisanship!)
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To: Zakeet

Steyn is, as usual, right on the mark!!! I agree 100%!!! Now....I know Romney is really McCain repeated, a weak sister that does not fight for neither his political life, his dignity, his reputation, and his country. He’d rather be a nice guy, shoved around like a paper doll or tiger by the Obama dirt bags!!! Problem is: He is all we have!!!

So......this weekend, as he travels through the so-called toss up states in his campaign tour bus, I ask, I request, I implore, I beg for thousands of America patriots and lovers to turn out publicly, show up at his stops and rallies and cheer him on.

The visual impact of large, motivated, excited, supportive crowds is impressive and meaningful in TV land, plus.....you can coax Romney to courage by your presence and words to stick it back to the Obamabots. I know all of you get it. Thanks!!! We must win this one. Romney is not at stake, our great, magnificent, free country is!!!


14 posted on 08/10/2012 5:14:39 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (My only objective is defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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To: Zakeet
"Ask yourself, 'Are you more disabled now than you were four years ago?' Obama 2012." Followed by the wheelchair logo with the Obama "O" where the wheel should be.

Clear, concise, and to the point.

15 posted on 08/10/2012 5:16:06 PM PDT by Excellence (9/11 was an act of faith.)
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To: Zakeet

Steyn makes me so jealous I could spit.
I wish I could write only 1% as good as he does.


16 posted on 08/10/2012 5:17:03 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: Zakeet
America's been taken over -- and Obama isn't the beginning of it, he's the culmination.

If anything is going to improve, it needs to be taken back. It will be long, hard row to hoe.

17 posted on 08/10/2012 5:17:36 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (At what point does an escalated effort to remove this traitor commence, and what form does it take?)
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To: Zakeet

If not the last exit, at least it amounts to a rest area. Demographics will eventually doom America, but a Romney victory and GOP majorities in the House and Senate would at least slow the dying process long enough to allow people time to prepare for it.


18 posted on 08/10/2012 5:20:05 PM PDT by ScottinVA (If Obama is reelected, America will deserve every mockery that follows.)
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To: Zakeet

Maybe the milquetoast pantywaist candy-assed soft-focus “Believe in America” shtick will prove sufficient under a relentless barrage of nakedly thuggish attack ads designed to Barry Goldwater the guy.


19 posted on 08/10/2012 5:20:14 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Whatever a homosexual union might be or represent, it is not physically marital. - F.Cardinal George)
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To: RKBA Democrat

I’ve had that same thought. Who would even want to tackle this mess? Things are such a mess, you’re chances of turning it around in 4 or even 8 years would be slim but your chances of being forever associated with decline are damn near 100%.


20 posted on 08/10/2012 5:21:20 PM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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