Don_Dom said:
Just be sure to read the Huffington Post and pull a lever for anything with a (D) next to it and free sh1t will come your way!
Perfect.
Last stat I saw was 1:14 of the population is a govt employee of some sort, state/fed. Adjusted, this would be ~ 1:8 of the actual workforce excluding kids and senior citizens. Now we add in those whose livelihood depends on govt growth and spending, and we can add in many ostensibly private sector folks: grant seeking private uni employees and related support, gov contractors of all types particularly defense, most lawyers, all the way down to cousin larry's tow business that makes more money when demos enlarge the deadbeat dad business in the name of "our children." Adding in all these folks doubles the gov dependency in the workforce IMO and IME to 1:4. I'm not even going to try to figure in all the derelicts who vote demo so their check keep comin in the mail on Friday, would that take it down to 1:3 or even lower? Let's just stick to 1:4.
It's not any "ideological divide" among people who truly believe they are doing the right thing and simply disagree, but rather a very few righteous ideologues, a bunch of politicians as usual, and HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF loser scumbags who rationalize their wasted skin and complicity in thievery by professing "causes" instead of being a productive human being working in the private sector. On the one hand, you have a GOP with at least a few who are operating on principle as to what they believe is right and just governance in accord with our history, whether they are ever successful or not (Reagan), and a bunch of regular sh-t grade politicians. OTOH you have the party of the 1:4, a giant, unproductive 10 pound sucking tick on a very sick, anemic dog. Notice that "tick logic" is never about dollars and cents or any kind of rational fiscal reasoning, but purely emotional, "our children are starving, our country was built by immigrants, everyone should have healthcare." Add to those the "one issue voters" who claim (lynig through their teeth), "it's about abortion, it's about marijuana legalization, it's about spying." BS. It's about "I'm in the 1:4, I know my life will never be anything because I'm a lazy, unmotivated, spoiled, privileged POS, but damned if I don't know how to vote to extort and steal more money for myself with the assistance of the big gun of govt!" That's what it's really all about. All the other facade is "let me rationalize/look at myself in the mirror in the morning without knowing what a thieving creep/waste of human skin I am."
The framers left out one very important check and balance, a separate fiscal congress. In matters of tax rates, transfer payments, and govt operational budgets not related to strict enumerated powers (strict meaning unmodified by the necessary and proper clause or any possibility of SCOTUS graft), something the framers would not have conceived, the 1:4 SIMPLY SHOULDN'T VOTE. They can vote for everything else, just not to extract money violently for their own benefit. As long as people can vote themselves money, they will continue to do it. Without that, the democratic party wouldn't even exist, and what we would have would be the GOP as the "liberal" party and a balancing conservative party.
Republicans are generally stupid with plenty of liars and thieves thrown in, democrats are all the most hypocritical, sociopathic liars and thieves. Hard to choose, but I'd have to go with "stupid." I guess I'd rather be run over by Mr. Magoo than eaten by Jeffrey Dahmer.