Much will be written about head to head polls between Romney and Obama, but I’m here to tell you that they don’t matter. Ronald Reagan trailed Jimmy Carter by over 30 points six months before the election. President Obama trailed John McCain two months before the election. President Obama will be judged on his record and on the economy. Say what you want about Mitt Romney, but trying to brand him as an extremist will not work.

Mitt Romney is boring. He’s not quite as robotic and uncharismatic as John Kerry, Al Gore, or Bob Dole, but it’s not a stretch to compare him to those gentlemen. Romney is the steady hand. He’s the guy you call when everything else has failed. In other words, he’s the guy who will beat Obama if the economy doesn’t improve before November.

President Obama’s problem is that people have tuned out. Obama has no plan to make the economy better. He’s out of ideas. After all the adulation and all the grand speeches, what is Obama’s core conviction? Sure, the liberals still love him, but they loved Clinton. Democrats are a loyal bunch. It’s a collection of voter blocs. Give us your subsidies, affirmative action, unions, trial lawyers, hand-out recipients and those who’ve been brainwashed into believing that abortion is the ultimate civil liberty. The Democrats love to pat themselves on the back for their diversity, but no one is immune from the pandering hand outs. That is why the Democrats are fundamentally opposed to reducing the size of goverment.

If you reduce the size of goverment the Democrats would suddenly have issues with their voting base. Can any argue otherwise? How many people on food stamps vote for Democrats? Wouldn’t it bad for Democrats if any of the people dependent on the goverment could take care of themselves? So President Obama is out of ideas. If he allows pipelines, invests in real energy, or really reduces the size of the goverment he would be hurting his political party.

In the grand scheme of things far too many people are dependent on the goverment. It will be nearly impossible to roll back the tide. However, there aren’t enough dependents to keep Obama from losing. If gas prices go up over the summer Obama could lose in a landslide. The Republicans could have a super majority in the Senate. That would be the true test of our goverment. Would the Republicans have the guts to starve the beast? It will be very unpopular. Look how the union thugs in Wisconsin have behaved. Liberals and conservatives have very different ideas about the role of goverment. The reckoning is here.

I had hope that Obama would be a president that transformed the debate in the United States. Instead, he made things worse. He loves to talk about himself except when he’s blaming others. I don’t dislike the President. He seems like a nice guy. Most Americans like the 44th president, but that doesn’t mean they think he should continue.

Will Mitt Romney be any better? I doubt it, but could he be any worse?

I’m sure Republicans will be up in arms because they never ever want to cut defense. The entire budget needs to be cut and defense is one of those areas. But let’s be real: this President is a pandering coward with no real intention of reforming our nation’s budget. The fact is that we could eliminate our entire defense department and still be on the road to bankruptcy. Cutting defense is the only move a Democrat will make because it won’t hurt them with their voting bloc.

What is Obama’s plan to fix our fiscal nightmare? Raise taxes, subsidize companies going bankrupt and eliminate defense. That’s the reality. President Obama’s poll numbers aren’t great right now, but they’re not as bad as they should be. He could still get reelected. Obama has done nothing to address our fiscal crisis. He’s just stepping on the accelerator.

For over a decade I’ve marveled at liberals’ paranoia about people without health care and about climate change. It’s shocking because the biggest problem facing mankind isn’t health care or the weather. If the United States goes bankrupt the world with fall into a type of chaos that hasn’t been seen since the 1930s. Enjoy it while it lasts, America. The freeloading is almost over and you’re living on borrowed time, both figuratively and literally.

The farming industry has its stupid subsides. Health care is bankrupting the West. The United States paid for Europe’s defense for a half century and the continent is still going bankrupt. Shouldn’t that be a warning for the United States? If Europe is going bankrupt on unsustainable health care entitlements, government pensions, and bureaucracy why do we think this will it work in the United States? It’s just not liberals who are stupid. The Republicans have grown into government caretakers. No one is talking seriously about the world’s fiscal problems. Restoring the United States government to year 2000 levels would be a good start, but it needs to go back to 1960 if there’s ever a chance of climbing out of the hole.

What is the new answer from the conservative establishment? Rick Santorum? A culture war hero who is against free trade, in favor of corporate welfare, and thinks birth-control pills are a problem. Mitt Romney? The former governor of Massachusetts who thinks RomneyCare is fundamentally conservative? This is how a Republic ends folks. Since the FDR administration the populace has traded more and more freedom to the federal government for welfare, health care, and social security. None of these things are sustainable and the size of the government grows ever larger. The bureaucracy’s reach grows ever further. You can’t sell homemade pies in Pennsylvania without a permit. You can’t sell lemonade on your street without paperwork. Did you catch a fish by accident? Yep, the government has a role in that as well.

In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century the government fought large corporations. The same can’t be said now. Major corporations learned their lesson. Now they give generously to both parties. Their lobbying efforts have not gone unrewarded. The government has bailed out airlines, car manufactures, and banks. What is the risk in running your company into the ground if the state is always there to bail you out? It’s just not bailouts. The government has become a tool for telecommunications companies. The United States telephone, cable, and internet infrastructure is at the disposal of AT&T and Verizon. Not too big to fail, but too big to allow competition.

It should be embarrassing to the average American that our internet speeds are slower than Europe or that our airline industry doesn’t allow competition. However, most Americans don’t know. The product of a prosperous nation is to be run by corrupt leaders and corporations with too much influence. When you boil it all down we’re past the point of elections having any special significance. If you’re driving off a ledge does it really matter how fast you’re going?

Bureaucrats and corporations are corrupt, but they’re not dumb. They see the handwriting on the wall. This is a scary time to be living in the United States because some action has to occur to keep this business model afloat. Usually that means war. This time next year it’s likely that there will be a new President-elect, but I won’t be any more optimistic. The names change but the policies remain the same.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-yVjQzq7W0

The silence on the left when it comes to the debt is unbelievable. Their only plan is more taxes and less defense, even though that won’t solve the problem. The real problem is the American people. Americans love their subsidies, pensions, entitlements, and tax breaks. We’re a nation drunk on selfishness and guilt. We’re too selfish to take responsibility. This creates guilt that we outsource to the federal government. “Let someone else do it” is the rallying cry. This cancer exists on both sides and I’m not sure the nation can escape the future.

As time goes by I become ever more convinced that we’re living in America’s twilight years. The tide is turning from a nation of go-getting, productive and unabashedly ambitious people to one of whining crybabies, paralyzed by the fact that life can be a real bitch, with all due respect to my neighbor’s dog. Americans have lost all sense of proportion, and it gets worst each passing day.

While there are people being slaughtered in other parts of the world simply because of their beliefs, we’re worried about finding a WiFi hot spot in Starbucks so we can Tweet about Demi Moore. Yet many of our fellow countrymen have decided that America is awful and the epicenter of all that is wrong in the world. They pine for an America that’s more like a cross between Denmark and some basket-case third-world backwater.

The Magical Mystery Tour is hoping to take you away... Hoping to take you away.

The Occupy Wall Street (and other cities across the nation) crowd is a spectacular example of bratty baby talkers who apparently want Big Daddy government to take care of their every need. They are the Entitlement Generation, spawned by the Worst Generation, a.k.a., Baby Boomers.

While compared to the Tea Party by the media, the Occupy “movement” has nothing in common with those protests. Where the Tea Parties are civil, law-abiding and respectful, the Occupy urchins are uncivil, profane and law-breaking. They are, in short, the definition of a mob.

The Tea Party’s message was for government to back off and allow us the freedom to take care of ourselves. The Occupiers’ message, as far as anything cohesive can be discerned from it, is more government, more intrusion and more entitlements, all paid for by everyone but them.

The element of the Occupiers that irks me most is the college grads who sunk tens of thousands of dollars into a pointless education, expecting to immediately emerge as middle-class urban hipster dufuses with loads of disposable income.

The first thing they should have learned at school was that it might help to have a marketable skill. I’m sorry, but constructing and using a beer bong or rolling a joint doesn’t count, nor does all the progressive multicultural claptrap that passes for scholarship at our increasingly irrelevant universities.

While other developing nations are focusing on engineering and technology, American universities increasingly focus on regressive nonsense. For instance, the mission statement of the University of Texas’ Center for Women’s and Gender Studies says, in part: “The mission of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) is to create committed communities that address the challenges faced in the areas of gender, sexuality, diversity, and equity.”

Note that the Center’s mission is not to impart useful, practical knowledge that someone could apply to be a productive member of society, but to “create committed communities.” In other words, its entire mission is propaganda.

I assume that someone who graduates with a BS degree in Women’s and Gender Studies could get a job as a diversity manager at some corporation, creating rules and red tape that hinder and harass those who have real jobs at the company. It’s no wonder that America is becoming less competitive in the global market.

Moreover, while these graduates may be well-versed in Gay and Lesbian Literature and Culture (an actual class in the Center’s curriculum), they will be perplexed by the most basic of economic principles. Because they don’t understand economics, they will assume governments are instituted to secure their right to a flat screen TV, round-the-clock WiFi Internet access and health care, among others, without having to do anything to get whatever goodies they might want… Strawberry Fields Forever.

Unfortunately, there’s something called reality that smacks all of us in the face, and that reality is human nature. As I’ve written here a million times, all people, and I mean all people, are selfish. Whether you want to call it Original Sin or Natural Selection, it is an incontrovertible fact.

America’s founders worked human nature into the fabric of the founding documents in order to protect the people from the people who would govern them. According to the founders, governments are instituted for a very simple purpose: To secure life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They are not instituted to take money from someone else and give it to you so that you live a more comfortable life.

But in the mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world that is 21st Century America, lawless, unproductive wussies take to the streets to protest the fact that hard-working Americans are making money. They say the system is rigged, and I agree; it’s rigged to reward those who work hard and aren’t afraid to start at the bottom of the ladder and work their way up.

There is no other nation in the history of the world that has allowed so many from the lowest rungs of the socioeconomic ladder to become wildly rich and successful. This is not possible in the fantastical dream world Magical Mystery Tour of the Occupiers and their ilk, who would love to destroy the pillars upon which our nation’s success was built and lead us into the Strawberry Fields of universal poverty and despair… Forever.

“This unsustainable fiscal insanity is the true legacy of Social Security and the New Deal. Deceptive accounting has hoodwinked the American public into thinking that Social Security is a retirement system and financially sound, when clearly it is not….Now if you say Social Security is a failure, as I have just done, you will inherit the wind of political scorn. Seniors will think you want to cut the benefits they have paid for…We are told that no politician has the courage to raise these issues, even if avoiding them puts us on the fast track to financial ruin. But by remaining quiet, politicians are really saying they think the American people won’t understand it if we share the grim details of our financial future…Is that how we should respect our fellow citizens? By underestimating their intelligence, their desire to retire with greater stability or their commitment to the next generation?”

Huh? Maybe this is controversial to someone who’s uninformed, but there’s nothing wrong with that passage. Social Security is an accounting Ponzi scheme that hoodwinked the American people. The program is a failure. It’s going bankrupt. Liberals like to pride themselves on how smart they are, but they’re stuck on stupid when it comes to entitlements. Social Security hasn’t reduced senior poverty and it’s going bankrupt. If this is success, what does failure look like?

Is this a problem for Perry? I’m not sure. Americans’ willful ignorance about entitlements is a threat to the Republic. Sadly, progressives are too invested in the idea of fairness that they haven’t bothered to realize their programs don’t work.

No plan under serious consideration cuts spending in the way you and I think about it.  Instead, the “cuts” being discussed are illusory, and are not cuts from current amounts being spent, but cuts in projected spending increases.  This is akin to a family “saving” $100,000 in expenses by deciding not to buy a Lamborghini, and instead getting a fully loaded Mercedes, when really their budget dictates that they need to stick with their perfectly serviceable Honda.  But this is the type of math Washington uses to mask the incriminating truth about their unrepentant plundering of the American people.

We can certainly raise taxes and reduce defense spending. That will eventually happen; however, that’s not even close to being enough to solve our fiscal issues. The sheer amount of debt is almost unfathomable. Apparently, the average American is too distracted to pay attention.

Back in December President Obama refused to raise taxes and in the past he’s on record as saying, “You don’t raise taxes in a recession.” Obama’s obsession with raising taxes would be bewildering if you believed he had the nation’s best interests in mind. Obama fanatics love to cite the President’s “intelligence,” but his current position is sickest form of cynical politics.  The President’s position is political. He has chosen his political future over the nation’s economy. New Jersey Governor Chris Cristie’s characterization of the “old playbook” is the embodiment of Obama.

The 2008 Obama campaign slogan was hope and change, but the President’s true mantra is to lie, deceive, obfuscate, make it to the next election. President Obama’s position is to appease the left. They have become disillusioned with some of Obama’s policies, but nothing fires up the base up more than tax increases. Obama also hopes to splinter the GOP and blame Bush for the economy. If he’s able to get tax increases he hopes it would crush the GOP. He is far from a brilliant tactician because this move would seal his fate as a horrible one term president.

Obama will not be running against the House GOP in 2012. He’ll most likely be running against a Washington “outsider” who will point out that Obama raised taxes during the worst recession in a generation. The President can blame Bush until he’s blue in the face but raising taxes now is dumb. Obama will be the President who faced an entitlement crisis and shrugged. The President decided it was more important to increase entitlements,  spending, and taxes.

The only thing that can rescue Obama’s presidency is luck. How much more can he have left? So many people on the left cited Obama as the arrival of a new kind of politician. I know most liberals have their blinders on and can’t admit to themselves what is happening. He’s the worst kind of politician. All of his promises were lies. Liberals, you’ve been had. For the first time in Obama’s life he’ll have to run on his record. President Obama’s record is debt, taxes, war, new entitlements, and a bad economy.

Like I said, the Republicans have a plan to end Medicare as we know it. What they would do is they would take the people who are younger than 55 years old today and tell them You know what? You’re on your own. Go and find private health insurance in the healthcare insurance market, we’re going to throw you to the wolves and allow insurance companies to deny you coverage and drop you for pre-existing conditions. We’re going to give you X amount of dollars and you figure it out.

This is complete and utter nonsense. Wasserman-Shultz uses the clever “end X as we know it” ploy that is practically meaningless. If you add Makers Mark to Coca-Cola it ends Coca-Cola as we know it. Medicare as we know it is going to end. It’s going bankrupt. No one is talking about abolishing the entitlement. Just look at her rhetoric… throwing people to the wolves? Is there anything these liars won’t say to gain a political advantage? It’s disgusting.

The Democrats don’t have a plan. Their only strategy is to tear down any idea that involves reform. Just a few weeks ago President Obama delivered his disgraceful remarks about Paul’s plan for reforming entitlements. Politicians are cowards. The most important thing to the Republican and Democratic parties is to strengthen their voting base. If the President was truly concerned about our current fiscal problems he would have offered a plan by now. Obama has been president for three years and he hasn’t outlined anything specific. The only person in Washington talking like an adult is Paul Ryan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJIC7kEq6kw

Paul Ryan is also the only politician in the GOP who is capable of effectively communicating what’s in his plan and the problem we’re facing. Currently, the only thing Americans know about the Path to Prosperity are lies propagated by the press, the White House, and the Democratic party. That’s not to say that Ryan’s plan is perfect, but right now there’s nothing else. Ryan’s plan doesn’t balance the budget until after 2060. This is what passes for an extreme plan? It could be argued that Ryan’s plan isn’t aggressive enough. What’s the liberal alternative? If 2060 is extreme are Democrats trying to balance the budget by 2160?

If Paul Ryan doesn’t run for the White House Democrats will effectively campaign against Ryan no matter who the GOP candidate ends up being in 2012. There is only one issue that matters in 2012. It’s reducing our debt and the only way to do it is addressing our entitlement problems. The nation needs a leader who is able to be honest and communicate effectively. Ultimately if the Congress ever gets serious about this issue the Executive Branch has to lead. President Obama is incapable of addressing this problem. He may get reelected, but it will only mean four more wasted years. I’m not sure the nation has much more time to fix this problem.

Paul Ryan needs to run for the good of the country. Not because of his own ambition, not because he has the best chance to win, but because he’s the only one serious about the biggest problem facing the country. If the nation goes bankrupt the American dream may die with it.