DeToqueville's prediction just came to pass

DeToqueville's prediction has come to pass, effective two days ago: once the voters realize they can vote themselves money from the common trough, our great American experiment is over. Done. Kaput.

We have crossed over the point of no return.  Alexis DeToqueville made this prediction in the 1820's, after observing our then-40 year old republic and how it functioned in the world.  With amazing accuracy, his observations 190 years ago have become reality.

The Obamaphone Lady in Cleveland is the poster child of this truth.  She gets a free Obama phone, and now she expects more.  All she has to do to get these goodies is to vote for the guy that promises to give them to her.  She doesn't care where the money comes from (that would be the rest of her fellow citizens), all she knows is that she has goodies, and she got them for free.

Mitt Romney offered a change to this course in our history, a path of self reliance, where people worked for what they wanted and took pride in their efforts.  The majority of voters in the country rejected that old fashioned philosphy: they want the government goodies, to hell with that self reliance garbage.

These free loaders now outnumber the hard working schlubbs at the polls.  The days of American exceptionalism and self reliance have hit a tipping point: DeToqueville probably thought that the American voter would have figured this out a century ago, but in the fullness of time, his observation and prediction proved correct.

The only thing that remains fuzzy going forward is just what our society will look like after a few decades of this kind of voting.  The people that pay for all the free goodies given to others will not stand for this forever.  And just because the laws of the land say that the earners have to cough up all their dough to the government doesn't mean that people will not try and find a way around this.  They simply will not become slaves to the majority.  Human behavior is not wired that way.  Once they lose the fruits of their labor, they will revolt, much like the French Revolution.  Americans will not be told year in and year out 'let them eat cake.' 

Either through mobilization of resistance, or through mass exodus, Americans will reject this subjegation to slavery, as their labor is confiscated and given to others who vote the right way.  Or perhaps another dynamic will develop.  In any event, the America that our Founding Fathers gave us has come, and now sadly, gone.

It will take awhile to manifest itself, but the moochers now smell blood in the water.  Abuse of their votes will now take place enmasse.  DeToqueville's prediction has become a reality as of around 11:14PM Eastern Standard Time, November 6th, 2012.  That is when Ohio's 18 electoral votes were projected to go to Barack Obama.

That is the precise time when the first of many dominoes of America's fall from greatness fell. 

Hollywood types should stick to acting...

...and leave the important political discussions to adults who took the time to educate themselves as to the issues.

Eva Longoria, an ardent supporter of Obama tells us that it is a huge mistake to vote for a misogynist such as Mitt Romney.  And what are Eva's credentials and standing in the political arena?  She got her degree in kinesiology from some podunk college in Texas.  Kinesiology?  That's the study of basically 'working out.'  Eva has spent her entire life working on herself, practicing yoga and pilates, emerging herself in the world of cosmetics and body image all the while promoting one and only one person: herself, Eva Longoria.  And now she tries to come across as someone who cares about others.  That's quite a stretch, much like Ghengis Khan, who was a master of wiping out populations deciding he needs to spread himself out a bit and seek  a gig in the nursing profession. 

But at least Eva bothered herself enough to get a college sheepskin.  Her fellow shallow, uneducated actors and actresses didn't even lift a finger to stoop to hitting the books.  Fellow Obama supporter and Hollywood heavyweight Leonardo Dicaprio never went to college, but tries to come off as someone who deeply understands the issues, and urges us to vote for Obama.  The guy can barely read, but he's the one to trust when he tells you how you should vote. 

Fading singing star Cher Bono is the poster child for the leftists who call all conservatives idiots, while she herself dropped out of high school to pursue her singing career.  Recall, she's the one who called Harvard MBA grad George W. Bush 'stupid.'  That's like Michael Moore calling supermodel Twiggy 'fatso.'  It just doesn't quite resonate with anyone with even one ounce of intelligence.

Ditto the resume of Barbara Streisand.  She is a radical whacko lefty, who scolds Democrat office holders constantly for not going further to the crazy left.  Babs dropped out of high school to hit the nightclub circuit as a singer.  I also recall her labeling Dubya as an idiot, much akin to the emaciated has-been pop singer Billy Idol calling the hulking body builder Lou Ferigno a weakling. 

These Hollywood morons have absolutely no standing in the poltical arena.  None whatsoever.  All of these stupid Hollywood types should stick to what they do best: look good on TV and on the big screen.  Leave the important conversations to those of us who actually took the time to inform ourselves on the issues of the day. 

"Undecided voters" are among the dumbest Americans

Love him or hate him, Barack Obama is in the news every hour of every day, and has been for the last six years.  And Mitt Romney is not exactly a shrinking violet, either, over the last 18 months or so of the 2012 presidential campaign.

So how is it that there is a single American out there anywhere who hasn't made up their minds about one or both of these guys?  They are on every media outlet spouting their message to the masses constantly.  These two guys are ubiquitous: like Chicken Man, "they're everywhere, they're everywhere."

And yet Dr. Frank Luntz seems to pack rooms and rooms full of these undecided morons.  Luntz asks these fools why they support one guy over the other and lately, these imbeciles are starting to break for Romney, and break for him in a big way.

Well duh, you idiots.  Nothing Obama has done over the last four years has worked out at all.  He is a complete and utter disaster and failure.  And you guys are just now figuring it out.

The irony of all of your awakening to the obvious, is that your vote will be the one that puts the right guy in office.  The United States of America will be put back on the right track courtesy of the vote of the truly dumbest voters: the undecideds. 

Fredd's Top 10 Evil Americans of All Time

You would think OJ Simpson, Jerry Sandusky and Casey Anthony would head up this list: but you would be wrong based on my criteria.  These jerks are simply some of the most HATED Americans, but had limited (but profound) affect on very few of our citizens.

My criteria for making the Top 10 Evil list concerns primarily how many of us are adversely affected by their actions.  OJ, for example, only killed two people (that we know of), and their families of course were profoundly and negatively affected.  Ditto with Jerry Sandusky.  Sure, lots of folks affected, but I would say it does not exceed 500, tops.

Without further ado, here are in my humble opinion the worst and most evil Americans ever:

10) Rev. Jim Jones.  This scumbag was directly responsible for the deaths of 914 people in Jonestown, Guyana in 1978.  These misguided victims believed in Jone's cult and his promises of a paradise on earth, and paid for their foolishness with their lives. 

9)  Bernie Madoff.  Convicted of defrauding thousands of investors out of billions of dollars, this guy slept like a baby at night knowing that his Ponzi scheme of several decades was providing him and his family a life of luxury.  He told authorities after his arrest that he was troubled by his deceit; yeah, right.  Evil folks are not troubled by their evil deeds. 

8)  Barney Frank. (D-Ma).  Although many fingers could be pointed in many directions as to the main cause of the financial meltdown of 2008, I would argue that Barney Frank was the proximate cause of the direct pain that millions of us were forced to endure (and are enduring this very day) during and after the housing bubble collapsed.  Barney was knee deep in malfeasance pertaining to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, while constantly banging the drum for 'affordable housing', and pressuring banks to give free houses to dead beats and free loaders.  Once they defaulted, which they were guaranteed to do from the git go, Barney's 'affordable housing' push bankrupted millions of us.  You can't get much more evil than this pus bucket.

7)  Chris Dodd (D-Ct).  Ditto all of the above Barney Frank evilness for Chris Dodd.  He was the Senate Finance Committee Chairman during the buildup to the housing bubble collapse, and was in bed with Barney Frank every step of the way, all the while taking bribes and freebies from Countrywide Financial and doing 'waitress sandwiches' with Ted Kennedy.

6).  Ted Kennedy (D-Ma):  This is the guy that murdered Mary Jo Kopeckne when he drunkenly drove off a bridge in Chappaquiddick and left her to die, alone and terrified in his car while he swam to safety.  But that is not enough for Teddy to make the list.  His long and dreary Marxist, socialist liberal stint in the U.S. Senate has enfeebled the U.S. economy in ways that are still felt today as it pertains to the progressive tax code, the choke hold that unions have on our economy and the stranglehold that liberalism in general has on each and every household in the U.S.

5)  Ralph Nader.  In the name of safety, Ralph Nader has handcuffed the American economy in ways that boggle the mind.  His successful yet misguided crusade nearly a half century ago against a relatively solid car, the Chevrolet Corvair, in his book "Unsafe at Any Speed" has given license to the burgeoning industry of public safety Nazis to ban darn near everything that is fun.  Now we have food Nazis, smoking Nazis, bike helmet Nazis, fat and cholesterol Nazis, and SUV Nazis.  You can't swing a dead cat in America anymore without hitting a damn public safety Nazi, thanks to Ralph Nader, a pox on his evil house.

4)  George Soros.  Hungarian born George Soros is the primary financier of all things liberal, left and socialist in this country.  He is the main source of funding for Moveon.org and Mediamatters.com,  and has his fingers in almost every socialist cause.  Accordingly, he is the proximate cause ('follow the money') of most of the misery in the U.S. that socialism wreaks.

3)  Jeff Zucker.  CEO of NBC Universal, this guy is a raging leftist and still thinks he can determine what is and what is not news.  As such, this is the guy that is responsible for most of the thinking (or 'non-thinking') going on in the American public today.  He and his peers at CBC, ABC and PBS, they are the folks who are in complete control of what the 'Obama-phone' lady in Cleveland spouts.  And we, the American public, are the bearers of the costs associated with keeping this stupid woman and her ilk in food stamps, alcohol and drugs.  Thanks, Jeff.  Keep up the good (or as we would call it, evil) work.

2) Saul Alinksy. The God Father of American community organizers, this is the guy that was also the father of ACORN, and the leftist thinking spawned in the 1960's.  Abby Hoffman, Huey Newton and Barry Obama all took pieces of Saul's teachings and used them to negatively affect the U.S. culture going forward.  Never trust anyone over thirty, right Saul? 

1)   TIE FOR #1: Rachel Carson and Margaret Sanger.  Although these gals are the only women on the list, they are by far the most evil, in terms of being the proximate cause of tens of millions of deaths worldwide, if not hundreds of millions.  Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot and Ghengis Khan are pikers compared to these American born gals when it comes to killing people.  Rachel Carson was the single driving factor in the crusade against banning the pesticide DDT, claiming that it was causing birds' eggshells to become too thin.  This is the reason for taking a wonderful and subsequently proven harmless mosquito killer off the market, and allowing untold millions in underdeveloped countries over the last several decades to perish from mosquito born diseases such as malaria.  Good (or evil, I say) work, Rachel.  You're #1.

Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, is another mass murderer of grand scale having founded a legal abortion culture, in which women can kill their unborn (or sometimes, born) babies for any/every reason simply because they will crimp the mother's lifestyle. 

Hard to say who has more blood on their hands: Rachel or Mags.  Rachel killed men, women and children alike through unintended consequences of her actions (legally called manslaughter, but I will stick with murder because I am not a lawyer), while Maggie has millions of babies' blood on her hands.  Who's more evil?  Hard so say, hence the tie. 

(Thanks to Hack and Joe for pointing out Margaret Sanger to me, she was not on my original list but should have been, see comments below).

Obama-phone lady in Cleveland probably won't vote for Obama

I'm fairly certain that everyone who pays even a slight bit of attention to politics has seen this video:
the Obama-phone lady in Cleveland.  She is most certainly a card carrying member of that 47% that Mitt Romney wrote off, and writing folks off like this is fairly logical:

Transcribed:

 

Bag Lady: "Everybody in Cleveland no minority got Obama phone.  Keep Obama in president, you know.  He gave us a phone, he gonna do more.

 

Guy: "How'd he give you a phone?"

 

Bag Lady: "You sign up if you on food stamps, you on social security, you got low income, you disability."

 

Guy: "I have a question, what's wrong with Romney again?"

 

Bag Lady: "Romney, he sucks. Bad."

 

 

Turns out, she is paid by the local SEIU chapter $11.00 an hour to show up and chant Obama slogans and raise awareness of the plight of the average Obama supporter.  It's also very, VERY likely that Barack Obama cannot count on her vote.  This woman is so ignorant, it's painful to watch this video, much less listen to her screeching voice (like fingernails on a chalkboard).  Does this woman strike you as somebody who will get up off their couch, shuffle on down to the polling place, wait for an hour or two in line just to vote for Obama? 

 

Fat chance.

 

Does this woman strike you as someone who feels a pride in her ability to keep herself informed of the issues, and that her vote is a civic duty that must be honored every election? 

 

Ha!

 

Unless the SEIU personally comes to her front door, pays her in cigarettes and whiskey, and hauls her to the polling place and watches to make sure that she actually casts a vote, it is almost a certainty that Obama will not receive her vote this election.  She will blow off inconveniencing herself by voting to catch 'Dancing with The Stars," "the X-factor,"  or some other bilge that passes for television entertainment these days. 

 

And that is a big problem for Obama.  He caters to a constituency that are the dumbest of the dumb, the laziest of the lazy and the most useless of the useless.

 

Good luck with that strategy, Barry.  I think that this time around, a landslide is in your future, and not in your favor.

Polls, schmolls. This election is a referendum on Obama

I'm old enough to remember the 1980 election, and worrying about Jimmy Carter getting his sorry butt re-elected.  I recall the polls a few months before that election putting Jimmy back in the Oval Office by double digits, according to the polls.  Doesn't anyone remember that besides me?

And what happened?  Jimmy Carter lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan.  One of the worst landslide losses in American history.

Polls, schmolls. 

As Yogi Berra put it, it's like deja vu all over again.  I've seen this before, not all that long ago.  A really terrible first term president who couldn't manage his way out of a wet paper bag on any national issue up in the polls, with the 'underdog's' supporters wringing their hands and biting their nails. 

The economy stinks.  Just ask anybody (except Jay Zee and Beyonce).  Obama's foreign policy stinks.  Just ask Israili PM Bebe Netanyahu. Just ask the dead Libyan ambassador and all of those millions of Osama's in the Mid East (we all saw them chanting 'we're all Osama's now, Obama,' was I the only one who heard that?) what they think of Barry's foreign policy.  Go ahead, ask them.  Obama's domestic policies stink.  Just ask the 60+% of us who loathe Obamacare and demand its repeal. Just ask the 53% of us who still pay federal income taxes.

Polls, schmolls.

You might want to read Hack Wilson's latest take on the real skinny (http://hackwilson.blogspot.com/2012/09/2012-election-prediction-mitt-romney.html) as Hack digs deep into the numbers and has a credible analysis of the way things worked out in the past.  I'm just basing my opinion on what I see as to the Zeit Geist's mood, and what my aging eyeballs actually saw happen back in the day.

Polls, scmolls.  Did anyone see the landslide Republican wins coming in November 2010?  No, not really.  Did anyone dream of Republican off term wins by Bob McDonnel in Virginia,  Chris Christie in New Jersey and particularly that pickup truck driving Scott Brown in Massachusetts?  No way, Jose.

Romney wins in November 2012, and he wins big because this election is flat out a referendum on a failed Barack Obama first term. 

And I'm going to say this one more time: polls, schmolls.

The phony baloney negotiations between Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Teacher's Union.

Karen Lewis vs Rahm Emanuel: Hard core liberal Democrat politican up against a hard core liberal Democrat union leader.  Almost everybody outside of Chicago can see what kind of ridiculous, non-existent confrontation is going on here.  This stupid circus is for only one set of eyes: the dumbest population living in any metropolitan area within the United States of America. 

The Chicago voter.

Chicago, the county in which encompasses Chicago (Cook County), and the State of Illinois itself are all dead broke, penniless, and completely bankrupt.  The Chicago Public Schools have an unfunded pension liability in the untold billions, are deep in the red as to their net assets (minus 1.2 Billion dollars), and the total bleak story can be seen in the Chicago Tribune article "CPS finances tell a grim tale" (chicagotribune story here).

And yet we would be led to believe that the brave, fiscally responsible Mayor Rahm Emanuel is holding the line against these greedy selfish union thugs and their demands of ever more tax money to fund their lavish pensions, existing salaries plus a 31% raise over four years , lax work rules during their 8-month work year of showing up in the classroom from 9 until 3, where 80% of their students can't read, write a complete or meaningful sentence, or add two plus two.

All of the union tomfoolery I mentioned above is true.  What is not true is that Rahm Emanuel is holding the line against union greed: he is completely in the tank with union interests.  The teachers walked out on Rahm's offer of a 16% raise over four years.  Rahm is offering raises to a broken system with money that doesn't exist.  Both of these sides are fiscally irresponsible.  There is no money.  Chicago is broke.  The Chicago Public Schools are broke.  Cook County is broke.  Illinois is broke.

Not so, says Karen Lewis.  "The CPS is awash in cash.  It's just in the wrong hands."  If this were true, which it isn't, what difference would it make if all of this cash that the CPS is awash in were in a liberal Democrat politician's hands, or in a liberal Democrat union leader's hands - none of this cash would go towards the public good.  It would disappear faster than a case of Scotch on the Kennedy compound. 

Regardless, these guys are sparring over how much money they can borrow to pay a pack of worthless, crappy teachers who already make $76K on average per 8 month year, compared to an average Chicago citizen who makes around $46K per year. 

This phony baloney stand off is like watching Al Capone and Bugs Moran holding a meeting in which they are arguing about murder rates in Chicago: Al Capone wants to hold the murder rate increase over the next decade to only 31%, while the righteous Bugs Moran wants to keep the increase in the murder rate to a respectable 16%.   And people in Chicago are all pulling for Bugs, you see, because Bugs is the responsible one here.  And everyone outside of Chicago can see that both positions are outrageous, as the increase in the murder rate is unacceptable regardless of the numbers.  Duh.

You idiots!!  Every damn one of you in Chicago are dumber than a bag of hammers.  These two liberal Democrats, Rahm Emanuel and Karen Lewis, are driving your town into further ruin and bankruptcy.

Everybody in the country can see this except you morons.  Chicago finances are going up in flames, and Rahm and Karen Lewis are arguing about how much gas to throw on it. 

Chicagoans, you all deserve these two thugs.