Will The Silent Majority Take The Helm?
With Mitt Romney’s decisive win in Florida, it’s looking more and more like a two-man race. Not in the Republican Primary, the 2012 presidential election. The problem is that neither man has produced a comprehensive plan to prevent the hull of our economy from being ripped apart by the rocky deficit lurking straight ahead in clear view protruding from a sea of red ink. Even if they did, does anyone really believe a Senate similar to the one presided over by Harry Reid would vote on it?
With an ever increasing national debt of more than $15 trillion dollars, nearly $5 trillion accumulated under the current Obama Administration in just over three years, even Americans who used to roll their eyes at the mention of politics are starting to pay attention. That’s because it has become abundantly clear to all them that their entitlement programs will be cut within a few years.
Like Greece, we’re just selling out our national equity, buying up McMansion-like entitlement programs with predator loans from China and other lenders who are ironically relying on America as a major marketplace to sell their wares. Look around your home, if it isn’t foreclosed. How much stuff in it was manufactured in the U.S. by an American company?
If we continue on our present deficit course – like the Costa Concordia – the hull of our American economy will eventually hit the jagged rocks and sink the country into an abyss of economic recession and possibly a deep depression – all this while an volcanic island of debt towers over the helm in Washington and our captain assures us there is no cause for alarm.
Americans keep paying higher taxes and watching their Social Security and Medicare benefits disappear while their factories (jobs) are being relocated overseas and in Mexico. Meanwhile, Mr. Obama tried to block Boeing Airlines from building a plant in South Carolina and refused to allow an oil pipeline to be constructed from Canada through the U.S. that would have provided tens of thousands of American jobs and made us more energy independent.
Meanwhile, Democrats, in charge since 2007, didn’t even bother passing a 2011 national budget and President Obama hasn’t produced a comprehensive economic plan since he was elected – not even with a veto-proof majority. There is no guarantee Republican candidates will do a lot better – but a President and Congress that can’t pass a budget with a veto-proof majority doesn’t want you to see their agenda.
However, the silent majority may get very rowdy when it realizes Obama’s recently announced trillion-plus annual deficit is actually about $4 trillion when new “programs” of politicians are added in.
Americans still have the choice of taking charge of their government or sitting back and allowing stately politicians who look terrific in fine suits tell them through accomplices in the mainstream media about an economic recovery we’ve been in for several years.
Meanwhile, China and other countries that are bankrolling our wasteful, duplicitous spending programs will continue to displace American unions, government workers and private industry through outsourcing and the purchase of American equity while charging us high interest to boot.
Adding to the growing disdain for out-of-control government deficit (spending) is the realization that the amount of new taxes, Medicare cutbacks and increased spending that will be required to fund the upcoming costs of Obamacare can’t even be established, let alone accounted for.
What is clear is that there aren’t any comprehensive cost-cutting proposals coming from any Presidential candidates that would slash or even slow deficit spending. It’s all smoke and mirrors – robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Unless the silent majority rises up in loud, lasting protest with a clear agenda and supports a new generation of candidates as they implement that agenda, we are the economic equivalent of the Costa Concordia. But…Barack Obama disembarked to the island some time ago.
Larry Clifton
Guest Columnist
The train carrying the America of old has already left the station. It is on a one way trip to memory. While we were saving the beetle, the red woods, the horny toad–and yes , a few other horny creatures aad naseum, while we were chiseling out the ten commandments, and making sure everyone got breakfast, the pinko commies changed their name to progressive and in the name of the poor they changed the law of the land. We are no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave. Our path is cradle to grave entitlement. And so goes the greatest experiment in freedom ever known to mankind. the world hated our freedom and power and so did we! Earl Nightinggale said you are where you are because that’s where you want to be. In the end we didn’t want freedom and rights.We wanted a Nanny. So, now are we happy? Well, the old America isn’t coming back. So, enjoy what’s left of rights we had til the Lord returns to sort this thing out! The action is just about to begin. And then the judgment. If you aren’t ready now ; you won’t be then. that’s all!
I do like Ron Paul. I do not agree with his foreign policy. I feel if we run with a third party candidate, we will certainly lose – also by getting rid of the electorate, because the entitlement society, unions, government workers, etc, will rally behind Obama and elect him again, then we will be headed toward COMMUNISM AND A DICTATORSHIP, no doubt in my mind. We need to rally behind the nominee and then get the local representatives to put pressure on him to swing this country around. Get ready – this is going to be one tough election.
I think you are wrong at assuming that Ron Paul could not take the election as a third party. Consider that people in all parties are unhappy with the enormous government. Ron Paul was second in one primary – the Democratic one! They wrote in his name. I say – let’s make history! Especially with Obama now off the ballot in GA & possibly other states as well. I will not vote for any of the the other GOP or Obama – it is no longer Republican vs Democrat – it is freedom vs tyranny and except for Ron Paul, all of the GOP are the same as Obama.
Ron Paul would be the instrument of destruction running as a 3rd party. I hope he realizes that ensuring the re-election of Obama would be a calamity of unbelievable proportions. Ron is definitely right in many ways but ideological purity should not be the subject of such an important election. You may say that we are once again faced with a choice between the lesser of two evils (Obama v. Romney) and I would agree, but the gulf between the “evils” of the two men is astonomical. It really is anybody but Obama in 2012. If you don’t agree, think about the society you will be living in by 2016 or 2020 if Obama is re-elected. Think about our newly minted 3rd world country with dollars being used for toilet paper. Anybody but Obama.
Nickee you are right on the money; you state the obvious very well. I have wondered the “Why’s” as well and still wait for someone to vet the president before he is allowed to run for a second term. Every point you make is a legitimate one.
Is there ANYWHERE in cyberworld that Ron Paul does NOT exist?
I say, Ron Paul for Vice President!!!!
I can tell that by all the comments here… if it represents any kind of majority, that if R.Paul runs as a third…we are all in trouble! Paul is good with money sure and that would help with the economy sure…but what good is a good economy when he see’s no harm in Iran getting a nuclear bomb and N.Korea gettting a missile that would reach the west coast..What good would a awesome economy be if there were no safety here and the country is left destroyed or inhabitable?
Wait until cities and states can not pay there pensions promised and due. Wait until the US government defaults on it’s loans, can not pay social security, medicare, medicade, welfare, food stamps etc.
It’s going to get real ugly.
I am not sure if or not Ron Paul can correct our problems or not. I do think that he is the only one running who is honest. I also believe he will try to correct our problems. The others tell us what the media tells them to, or what they think we want to hear, and it makes no difference because they have no intention of doing anything different anyway.
Bill Taylor, I find it odd that a person who is looking for honesty, thinks he has found it in Ron Paul. He loves earmarks, and is NOT ashamed of his record on taking earmarks. He also has a strong history of voting WITH the liberals on bills that may not be perfect, but could have been overall better for the country, simply because they were not strictly Constitutional. I fully believe that we need to return to the Constitution, but if we slam on the brakes and return to the Constitution immediately, the country would collapse immediately. It took 100 years to get here, and it will require a gradual return to the Constitution.
I agree with someone else that said he will NOT vote for Romney or Gingrich, so how is voting for Ron Paul throwing a vote away? You MUST vote for someone that can and will lead us out of this mess.
The people are ready to revolt, but we are lacking a leader!
The Tea Party has suffered from not having a focused leader. When they threw in with the Republicans, it made me think they were throwing in the towel, and just giving up! Someone needs to step up and lead the masses to get things done!
My mother and father came over from Germany just before all hell broke loose. It took the dictators in Germany five years to hypnotize the population and take all their rights away and make them solely reliant on the government. The people of America are heading in the same direction…………anyone who offers free health care, a job, welfare checks, unemployment compensation and all the other goodies, will garner the votes to stay in power. When the dollar beccomes worthless because of debt and the global community demanding parety, we will see suffering that is unimagineable today. This is a SOCIALIST government. This President and his followers must go.
Very well said, from the eyes of experience.
Obama got in because people voted color instead of using their heads. Seems to me everyone is afraid to say that. It’s true, he sent buses to pick up people in the gettos.
As for the rest of my comment I have to agree with Sam. If you don’t get rid of Obama and Romney we are in a world of S%@t.
I agree that the 99% need to rise up to fix our country after the 1% (technically, the .01%) has magled it. Our politicians cannot fix it and have no incentive to do so.
But I take exception with the accuracy of “reporting” in this article. For instance, saying that “Obama tried to block Boeing Airlines from building a plant in South Carolina” is incorrect.
Also, do you really want the XL Pipeline deal? The potential for disaster far out-weighs the meager benefits, in my estimation. Only big oil companies disagree. Research this deal and you will likely come to the same conclusion.
It is up to the 99% to take our country back and fix it. But that can only happen when we all become informed and can discuss the country’s problems accurately and honestly. Bad, inaccurate and misinforming articles like this one do not help the situation!
Well, this site too, has obviously been infiltrated by the Left.
OMG ! You just cannot tell who is a Lefty anymore. This site ought to have a policies test before you can post. Libertarians only ! No diverse ideas !
Yes! We want the pipe line. AND the jobs! You exaggerated the so called dangers. There are thousands of miles of pipe lines now, very few bad things as a result.
SamFox
Russ . . . you mean that its “Safer” to bring supertankers into the Gulf? That is just NUTS!!!! There are 10′s of thousands of pipelines all over the US . . . oil from North Dakota is being transported by rail . . . now talk about not safe . . . but the railway belongs to Buffett.
The Feds (labor relations) went after Boeing . . . Obammy is the Feds . . .
I can’t support Obama or Romney….my vote goes to Ron Paul. However, remember that the winner of the
Electoral College vote, which takes into account the popular vote was Obama! He won the heavily populated “inner city” areas characterized as “heavily industrialized” areas, heavily “socialized “assistance” areas, heavily “manufacturing areas” populated by the “working poor”, “jobless”, “welfare recipients”, “uneducated”, and “people of color.” He lost in the the less populated areas…middle and upper income areas. He did not win the most actual votes cast….he won the most electoral college votes which gave him the Presidency. He will likely carry those same areas again. WHY! Those with good jobs and/or money tend to be Republican more often than Democrat. The middle class is almost gone thanks to home and job losses, salary reductions and increased taxes. It is a much less financially diversified county NOW than it was 4 years ago. The only way to eventually turn this train wreck around is to DEMAND Congressional TERM LIMITS, with the American Voters controlling the pay scale, medical and retirement options of Congress.
The article states that “Americans keep paying higher taxes ….” Is that true? Can someone please site a reliable source?
For those saying Ron Paul can’t make it, and if run as a third party candidate will insure that Obama is back in. I say I won’t vote for either Romney nor Gingrich so if they are the ones that end up on the ticket you’ll lose my vote anyway.
The best thing is to stop the primaries, let all the candidates run for their respective office and let the chips fall where they may. Stop making us choose between the lesser of two evils, let’s finally have a real choice. Get rid of the electoral college and stop being a two party nation, let the true majority choice of the people get the job.
If you don’t vote then you know who will get in without even trying. Look what he has done in the three years of office……can you imagine what he will do if elected for 4 more years>
Thats exactly what they want…to abolish all documents and processes that this country was founded on… I dont think that the electoral college is a good thing because a candidate could win the state by votes but lose by the electoral college. the electoral college doesnt even have to abide by the votes…they can chose who they want despite the results!
No vote at all is a vote for nobama. Plain and simple.
Amen, brother! Ron Paul is the only candidate that will really shake things up and make the big changes that the country needs. I worry about him perhaps ending the EPA or other essential government agencies but he is the only candidate that will change the course of the country rather than let it continue to decline.
Russ . . . the EPA is OUT OF CONTROL . . . they are responsible for single-handedly sending more jobs OFFSHORE than any other entity in the US . . . Unions are probably a distant second . . . and taxes and regulations third.
Didn’t Paul pick up 8% in Florida . . . DOA I would suggest!!!
I am extremely tired of the politicians telling the people one thing and doing the opposite. We the people need to fire all of them and perhaps start over with the constitution as our only rule. If the 3 branches of the government would function the way it is suppose to everything would be fine. Our president makes law, when the Congress is the only one suppose to do that and then the Judicial who is suppose to enforce those laws is making their own laws. The federal government is trying to take away states’ rights. Is it any wonder everything is in a mess. I agree totally with Nickee that God is the only one who can staighten this mess out, using a Godly man or woman to do it. From what I see that ain’t the 2 front runners.
Has everyone forgotten that Rick Santorem is still in this race?
I have been for Santorum all along… ithought he got out! Would be nice if he could pick up steam…we still have 46 states to vote in this primary.
You idealists who are saying “Ron Paul in 2012″ must realize that if he were the Republican nominee we would lose the independent and centrist Democrat vote giving Obama the victory. Running Paul as a 3rd party candidate would most assuredly guarantee us four more treacherous years. (I personally believe that if Obama wins another term that things will be much worse than during his first term). At least with a Romney or a Gingrich in office we of the “no longer silent” majority would be more likely to be able to bend their ear so that they would see things our way.
Absolutely.
From the very beginning, only two individuals in the GOP field had what I feel it would take to straighten thing out and they were Cain and Romney. Both had hands on real world big picture problem solving skills and that’s exactly what we need in Washington now!
If we suffer the misfortune to be “led” by a community organizer, we may well be doomed. Carter almost wrecked the country but only served four years paving the way for Reagan to restore the America we once knew.
Today’s issues are much more serious. Economic, strategic and domestic issues remain to be resolved and every delay in resolution threatens our way of life.
With Cain gone, I can only see Romney as having what it takes to get us on track again…
the problem is the idiots who voted Obama in, in the 1st place
Hearing all this Ron Paul baloney is tragic. I CANNOT see Ron Paul; being president. And if he would Ron on a third party ticket it would be the most tragic thing to happen to America ! But, I must say I li9ke the man and his policies. I just do not think st this time in America’s history that we could handle his rhetoric as a nation. BUT, being a Romney man myself I feel he is a staunch conservative just by looking at his history. We must look at our situation in America at two angles at present. First spending must be cut. But importantly is the constitution MUST be saved. Romney can and will do both! But as said before, keep Ron Paul in the factor as to making changing in America ! But without the rhetoric !!!
Romney a staunch conservative ? You say you can tell he is by looking at his record. What record is that ? As governor of Massachusetts, his record is anything but conservative. Goldwater was a conservative. Reagan was a conservative. But Romney ? If you want to support a true conservative and don’t want to support Gingrish, I suggest you get behind Santorem. Ron Paul is a Libertarian, not a conservative. And although I like many of his ideas, realistically, he cannot win the presedency as a Republican or as a third party candidate. It’s just not his time. We all have to compramise some of our desires if we want to defeate Obama. That has to be the goal. Being an idealog will only guarenty another four years of Obama and that would mean the end of the United States, as we’ve known it.
That being said, I will vote for whomever the people decide the Republican candidate is because, in my opinion, anyone will do a better job restoring our government to be constitutional run, than Obama has done.
Like 0 took over from where Bush left off, Newt, Mitt or Rick will do the same. If one of these 3 big govt RINO-CINOs beats 0, not much will change.
Judging by many posts here, not much research is being done. Not trying to be critical or any such, just making an observation.
Ron has a lot more support than media lets on. Plus you can’t trust the 3 stooges words. Look at their records. I left links above.
SamFox
Go Ron Paul? Sure. Let’s add Iraq to the nuclear powers in the world. And let Korea develop a delivery system that would hit the west coast.
He’s got some good ideas for domestic issues. His foreign policy is disastrous.
I’m disappointed that the owners of this website and the vast majority of the American people do not understand that the solution to our problems is NOT with a personality like Ron Paul. What is needed is a fundamental fix to our system that will ensure with a high degree of certainty that we have politicians in Congress that will do the right thing for our country, now and in the future.
Matt, nobody here at GGW is advocating for any candidate. Also, please keep your comments pithy.
Blaise,
I did not mean that Ron Paul himself is not the answer, but ANY personality or person is not the answer. The answer is the three part amendment to the Constitution that you CUT out of my reply. Also, “pithy” comments are not adequate to address these grave issues that are literally ruining our country. You are doing a good thing here with GGW but you are not hitting on an effective long term solution that does not rely on personalities. The system itself needs to be tweaked with the amendment (or one like it) that I stated in my first reply. You all at GGW should realize that this is what is needed to effect long term solid change and get our nation back on course. Otherwise all of your efforts are just like blowing smoke and will do nothing to solve our problems.
Matt, it’s not Ron’s personality. It’s his platform. No one running has a better, longer or more consistent record of promoting the return of the Constitution s the law of the land. Ron has been on that track for some 30years.
There simply is no one else running that has a verifiable pro-Constitutional record that comes close to Ron Paul’s.
Go to YouTube. Look up
Southern Avenger on Ron Paul
And
Judge Napolitano on Ron Paul
Then search on the net for
CIA bin Laden expert, M Scheuer on Ron Paul
Then
last one-
Combat Veterans For Ron Paul
Thanks. A bit long, but this is a critical election.
SamFox
I completely agree, but it’s the fanatics that tend to frequent these boards
“It aint over until the fat woman sings. Hang in there…we’re not finished yet!!
Go Ron Paul!
Romney or Obama wont matter. Both will serve the same masters. That is, International Bankers. So, YOU WILL NOT BE THROWING YOUR VOTE AWAY BY VOTEING FOR “RON PAUL”. You will be able to live with yourself … whatever the outcome. Voteing for the “lesser of two evils”, again, Is wrong and still EVIL. Status Qoe. A different puppet with a different spin on the truth. So dont let anyone tell you that voteing for “PAUL” is throwing your vote away.
illy: Thats a Big…AMEN!!!
People if you love this country, Ron Paul!!! 2012….. we need to get back to the grassroots of America.. Constitutionally.
I agree go Ron Paul we need to get our country back on track.
Yes, we need to get back to the grassroots of America, and the Constitution, but if something isn’t done soon we will sink as a nation, which may never recover. Congress has continually supported Obama’s agenda over the last three years. If Congress would have said no to Obama a long time ago, his agenda could not have been passed.
Grassroots America is growing in numbers to stand against big government, but Obama and Congress have ignored the will of the people all along. Obama has acted as though he is the supreme dictator seeking to by-pass congress all together.
President Obama has continued to rip our Constitution as though it were an old newspaper thrown into the trash, but where has the backbone of congress been during the destruction of our Constitution? Since when can a President or Congress go against the Constitution, which is the law of the land, and continually get away with it? Going against the Constitution is being an enemy of the Constitution. This is Treason! Why has this been allowed? Where is the accountability for such?
The media has continually white washed, so to speak, what Obama has been doing to our country for the last three years. Why? Proof of Obama being born in Hawaii ignored! Why?Judges refusing to hear lawsuits filed with the courts over Obama’s birth certificate and its validity. Why? Bailouts of car manufacturers, banks, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Why? Sending millions of our dollars to Greece to help Greece, when ‘out of control’, spending by the President and Congress has just about driven this country into bankruptcy. Why? Oil exploration by America has been denied, but $2 billion has been sent to Brazil to help pay for their oil exploration project. Why? America’s manufacturing/industrial base has been continually sent to other countries abroad. Why? America’s guts are being ripped out of it, and our government in every branch has seemed to wink their eyes at what is happening. Why?
The United States government has changed so drastically since I was a child, I no longer recognize it to be of America. This great nation that was built on godly principles has fallen into disgrace, and continues its spiral down into judgement. The America I knew no longer exists.
Grassroots take the helm? Please, tell me who is listening to Grassroots people? Is there anybody out there that is truly interested in my concerns or anybodies concerns? I have sent many petitions and letters over the last three years and hardly any response of any kind has come back to me. I pray for this nation and its leaders all of the time. I firmly think God is the only one who is listening, and He will have the final say! God Help Us All !!
GOD IS LISTENING AND HE WOULD LOVE TO HELP, BUT WE PUSHED HIM AWAY.
WE SAID WE DON’T NEED YOU WE CAN DO THIS OURSELVES. HOWEVER, HE HAS A PLAN, ALWAYS HAS!