As far as the election, I would like to share some further thoughts. Obama was voted for overwhelmingly in the ghettos. The ghettos will be the places hardest and first hit by the coming economic downturn, and no amount of unfunded welfare spending will do much to seriously alleviate the suffering. One could argue that this is unfair. One could argue that these people were tricked and lied to, and that why wouldn’t you vote for the guy who gave you a free telephone?
I would submit the following: they have been promised the equivalent of free telephones in two year cycles for the last 40 years, and have not learned. Since the War on Poverty began, things in aggregate have changed little, and arguably changed for the worse. Culturally, two parent homes are virtually unknown, and this creates all sorts of self perpetuating social pathologies, which include crime, but also lack of self sufficiency and sense of personal responsibility, which in turn create a sense of helplessness, anger, and sadness.
The situation is like Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football. Every two years they are promised the world, and every two years they are given virtually nothing. You can buy a phone working for minimum wage within a couple of weeks. But their greed, their desire to get something for nothing, has trumped over a VERY long period of time common sense and personal integrity. As JJ Cale put it “you’d be surprised at the friends you can buy with small change.”
Put simply, they should know better than to trust people like Barack Obama. Obama is not even black. I have never thought of him as black. He is a white academic intellectual leftist. He just has a better disguise than most. The wearing of masks is, of necessity, a leftist specialty, but he has done it better than most.
We will just have to see what happens. I am done worrying. I am going to dedicate my life to hard work, and hope for the best.