Is This Where the US is Headed Someday?

[Old Rocks]

We're becoming more
Hispanic 17% up from 12.3% in 2000.
More black 11.5% in 1980 to 12.6% today.
More Asian...Hell as of this year this is our fastest growing group.

Hispanics will be over 20% by 2020....

Actually, we are becoming more 'mixed'. All of these groups, by the second generation, are intermarrying with whites, and other groups. So you insult one group, you end up insulting several members of other groups. The GOP has, in the last few elections, been stereotyping too many of the groups, and offending all. Not the way to win elections. Instead of concentrating on issues that would unite the groups, and improve all of their chances, the GOP has been running divisive campaigns. Not wise at all in the present, and, especially, future demographics.

In order to win future elections, choose issues that unite. Don't stereotype. Work as hard for the working poor and middle class as the 1%. Realize that we are all Americans, and can that stupidity about 'Real Americans'. Or go the way of the Whigs.

 

[Katzndogz]

Hispanics matter a lot as they just voted 71% against the republican party. Mainly because of the fact that the republicans oppose legalizing other Hispanics.

Could it be that the Republicans have a good reason for not allowing legalization of the undocumented immigrants. Could it have something to do with the fact that these folks broke the law?

Democrats are all about breaking the law. They legalize the act that broke the law, and then there are no more laws to break.

 

[kwc57]

We're becoming more
Hispanic 17% up from 12.3% in 2000.
More black 11.5% in 1980 to 12.6% today.
More Asian...Hell as of this year this is our fastest growing group.

Hispanics will be over 20% by 2020....

Actually, we are becoming more 'mixed'. All of these groups, by the second generation, are intermarrying with whites, and other groups. So you insult one group, you end up insulting several members of other groups. The GOP has, in the last few elections, been stereotyping too many of the groups, and offending all. Not the way to win elections. Instead of concentrating on issues that would unite the groups, and improve all of their chances, the GOP has been running divisive campaigns. Not wise at all in the present, and, especially, future demographics.

In order to win future elections, choose issues that unite. Don't stereotype. Work as hard for the working poor and middle class as the 1%. Realize that we are all Americans, and can that stupidity about 'Real Americans'. Or go the way of the Whigs.

You're so full of shit that your eyes are brown.

 

[kwc57]

It must be good to be king! If only Obama could do this to the evil rich bastard 1%'ers. Someday.....someday. Lean forward.

Venezuelan president tries out new emergency powers

"Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro exercised new emergency powers for the first time Thursday, signing decrees limiting business profit margins and tightening regulation of imports.

He acted as part of a so-called "economic war" against a crisis for which he blames the opposition "bourgeoisie" and imperialism.

Under new powers granted to Maduro on Tuesday, the two new laws aim to control prices and profits in the business sector and closely monitor imports and exports and hard currency that comes in from oil sales, Venezuela's main source of revenue."

 

[BlindBoo]

Because that is just another step in the progression of entitlement. When you've exhausted the tax base and still need the suppor that the entitlements you dole out brings, you find new ways.......like actually forcing companies to sell their goods at deeply discounted prices. You know, so there is more equality between the classes. How can someone be moronic enough not to see how one step leads to another?

That not a step, that's pole vaulting. President Obama is the worst Socialist Ever! Where is that confiscation and redistribution of wealth and property we were promised?

Well no, no it's not. A step in progression is just that.......a step in progression. You know, like evolving over time. There is no pole vaulting involved in my comment about a step in progression and what could be the eventual future of the US on our current trajectory. But nice try at deflection. You've won a rainbow colored unicorn.

I'm beginning to see why you have the word "blind" in your name.

Nope it's a record breaking pole vault. Congress will never vote to give the President legislative power like we see in Venezuela.

 

[kwc57]

That not a step, that's pole vaulting. President Obama is the worst Socialist Ever! Where is that confiscation and redistribution of wealth and property we were promised?

Well no, no it's not. A step in progression is just that.......a step in progression. You know, like evolving over time. There is no pole vaulting involved in my comment about a step in progression and what could be the eventual future of the US on our current trajectory. But nice try at deflection. You've won a rainbow colored unicorn.

I'm beginning to see why you have the word "blind" in your name.

Nope it's a record breaking pole vault. Congress will never vote to give the President legislative power like we see in Venezuela.

uh-huh.......and I bet 30 years ago you'd say the same thing about what I pointed out in our earlier discourse......

"However, did you ever think you'd see Congress passing a law that forces citizens to buy a product whether they want it or not while giving it away to others? Or that the SCOTUS would rule it constitutional? Or a president who believes he can just go around Congress and decree which pieces of the law will or will not be enforced? "

Obama has already proven his dislike for Congress and the Constitution. He has determined that he can do what he wants and ignore the rest. If you have an objective bone in your body, you know this to be true.

 

[Claudette]

Many of today's Progressives point to Western Europe as their model for what they want in the U.S. In Germany, for example, they have guaranteed healthcare from cradle to grave, generous and early pensions, college education is cheap, old folks homes are free, workers are paid well, and it is almost impossible (and pointless) to fire someone (pointless because you have to continue paying them anyway).

They dream of having it so well over here (although they are not allowed to say it out loud).

But there is a fundamental difference that Progressives refuse to acknowledge. We have a U.S. Constitution that PROHIBITS the Federal Government from doing any of this. Literally, ANY of it. There are two cornerstones of Congress' powers: Article I, Section 8, and the Tenth Amendment. The first one lists what Congress is permitted to do and the Amendment says that every power not specifically granted to Congress is RESERVED to the States and/or the people themselves.

All of the major Progressive initiatives since the Roosevelt years have been blatantly unconstitutional. Social Security - Unconstitutional. Medicare, AFDC, the SBA, NPR, the Department of Education, food stamps, and on and on. All unconstitutional.

Generations of subversive Progressive federal court judges and justices have systematically made a mockery of the Tenth Amendment, virtually writing it out of the Constitution. In the process, they have convinced most of America that these programs are as American and appropriate as apple fucking pie. The most recent poignant example was the USSC recently saying that Obamcare was Constitutional...because it is a TAX LAW!

Is this horse-shit or what?

But because all of these social programs are brought in through the back door, they run counter to the basic economic principles that have formed the groundrules for economic life for the past 200+ years.

We CAN'T HAVE socialized medicine, or even single payer here. Why? Because our whole healthcare system evolved under a totally different paradigm.

In Europe (and in Canada), they overtly made the decision long ago that healthcare was a "right" that would be guaranteed by the goverment. (None of them have a "Tenth Amendment." So the government runs the medical schools, employs the doctors, owns the hospitals, labs, and clinics, and controls everything from the top down. And if you want to work in the medical field, this is what you signed up for. And from what I've been able to determine it works reasonably well.

But here, essentially all provision of healthcare services is structured around the profit motive. Do you really think your Primary Care Physician, who now works 70 hours a week and makes half a mil, is going to go to work for the Government? Do you really think he's going to work that same 70 hours when he's on a salary of $150k? Do we have enough doctors to cover the demand when all of our healthcare is "FREE"?

Do you think the Government can take over hospitals and clinics and run them as efficiently as they do now? And if they decide to just take over the payment function, do you think they will do it well?

And what about the hundreds of thousands of people who work for health insurance companies? They would ALL BE OBSOLETE if we were to go to single-payer. Government going to throw them out on the street? Hell, no. They will pay them to basically do nothing (like everyone in Washington now).

Mark my words: ObamaCare was developed to make healthcare as costly and miserable as possible in the U.S., so that the population will get pissed off and demand single payer. Then we will all see how we like it when the local hospital runs as well as AMTRAK or the Post Office.

Great post and spot on.

The FF wrote the Constitution with the idea that the States would have the power, not the Fed Govt.

The Fed Govt wasn't supposed to have the power it has today. I'm sure the FF would turn over in their graves if they could get a gander at the USA of today as opposed to what they wanted it to be.

I also agree about Obamacare.

I can't see how any sane person would want OUR GOVT running HC for 300 million Americans.

The Govt has never run anything cheaply or well.

The Govt that turns everything it touches into mountains of red tape and paperwork.

Good Gawd. Talk about a fucking trainwreck.

 

[Jughead]

Yeah...shame on the Republicans for not wanting to reward criminals.

Note: I have never seen ANYONE as angry about the flood of illegal aliens as some of the (legal) immigrants I work with! One is as extreme as my wife: illegals should be rounded up and shot.

I don't blame them. They follow the rules by filling out forms, undergoing background checks, paying the immigration fees, and then waiting their turn in line. These folks worked hard by going through the process, while the illegals take the easy way out, break the law and jump to the front of the line. I'd be mad too.

 

[kwc57]

For all the naysayers in this thread.......

"President Obama’s repeated use of presidential powers is causing a tough problem — his own supporters now expect him to use it to achieve everything they want.

From immigration to the minimum wage, Congressional Democrats and liberal activists this week urged Mr. Obama to declare an end run around Capitol Hill, assert executive authority and make as much progress as he can on the expansive agenda he laid out for his second term........."


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Read more: Activists urge Obama to go rogue, sidestep Congress - Washington Times
Follow us: [MENTION=39892]Was[/MENTION]htimes on Twitter

Every Congressional Democrat willing to lay down on the job and cede power to the President should have a recall election and be fired.