After a century of misery, the left still hasn't learned that there is no substitute for the middle class. It's not just running out of money, it's running out of people.


The welfare state is bankrupt and doesn't know it yet. Reality hasn't caught up with the numbers. Instead, the welfare state is floating on loans based on past productivity, old infrastructure, and a diminishing productive population whose technological industries employ fewer people and don't require their physical presence in the United States.


The welfare state has no future. It is only a question of what terms it will implode on and what will happen to the social welfare political infrastructure when it does. The violence in Venezuela and the slow death of Detroit give us insights into the coming collapse of the welfare state.

http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/11/the-death-of-the-american-welfare-state/#FTDMj3JyOIMbvTbH.99

Yet the left continues to increase the welfare by allowing more and more people into the country that increase the welfare state rather than pay into the system. A sure recipe for disaster as we are seeing in the EU. 

Quote from: Dubinsky on November 03, 2015, 04:38:00 AM
After a century of misery, the left still hasn't learned that there is no substitute for the middle class. It's not just running out of money, it's running out of people.


The welfare state is bankrupt and doesn't know it yet. Reality hasn't caught up with the numbers. Instead, the welfare state is floating on loans based on past productivity, old infrastructure, and a diminishing productive population whose technological industries employ fewer people and don't require their physical presence in the United States.


The welfare state has no future. It is only a question of what terms it will implode on and what will happen to the social welfare political infrastructure when it does. The violence in Venezuela and the slow death of Detroit give us insights into the coming collapse of the welfare state.

http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/11/the-death-of-the-american-welfare-state/#FTDMj3JyOIMbvTbH.99

Far from it.   Venezuela nationalized  (stole) oil companies, retirement accounts, and reneged on debt... over and over.   Venezuela's impact on the world economy is peanuts compared to what would happen if USA underwent the same thievery.   Nope, there is plenty of money in the private sector(s) that needs to be stolen, the path to socialism is still ahead. 

Quote from: Hoofer on November 03, 2015, 05:45:47 AM
Far from it.   Venezuela nationalized  (stole) oil companies, retirement accounts, and reneged on debt... over and over.   Venezuela's impact on the world economy is peanuts compared to what would happen if USA underwent the same thievery.   Nope, there is plenty of money in the private sector(s) that needs to be stolen, the path to socialism is still ahead.

Not that there's much difference between the parties but it's more likely to be "stolen" by the likes of the Obama clone Hillary then by anyone else.  More so by Sanders.

Makes it more imperative to elect Cruz.