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Date:  Thursday, September 22, 2011

Location:  Orlando, Florida

Moderators:  Bret Baer, Megyn Kelly, and Chris Wallace.

Debaters:  Gov. Gary Johnson, Gov. Rick Perry, Gov. Mitt Romney, Gov. Jon Hunstman, Sen. Rick Santorum, Rep. Ron Paul, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, Speaker Newt Gingrich, Mr. Herman Cain

 

There were few surprises in the latest edition of the GOP presidential debate.  One was the sudden appearance of Gary Johnson, who apprently was a former governor of New Mexico.  Gov. Johnson looked awkward early on, and with a nervous twitch in his thumb and childish face, seemed as a high school boy competing against collegiate debaters.

 

However, after answering a few questions, Gov. Johnson settled into his groove and towards the end of the debate, delivered the most memorable line: “My next door neighbor’s two dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than this president has.”  To thunderous applause and hysterical laughter from the fellow debaters, it was undoubtedly the line of the night.  The same joke had originated with radio talk show hosts earlier in the week.

 

Governor Johnson was asked, “What makes you a better libertarian than Paul?” He replied that he vetoed more bills as governor than all of the other governors combined.  He supports the Fair Tax and believes it would jump start the economy better than any other action.

 

The debate provided little more that was new, other than fresh attacks by Romney on Perry and vice versa.  Romney continued to attack Perry on words written in his book about Social Security being an unconstitutional program that should be given to the states.  Perry tried to clarify that some states had opted for their own plans already.

 

Perry also was constantly on the defense about his state’s policy of allowing illegal alien students that had been living in Texas to have in-state tuition at state universities, savings worth about $100,000 per student.  Perry defended that, if not given that boost, they would not contribute to the economy, but instead become drags on it as state wards, and that only 4 out of some 180 state legislators voted against it.

 

Much of the debate was a bickering match between Perry and Romney, with others chiming in to attack the two leaders when applicable. Perry seemed to hold his own but clearly was off his game.  He was slow to respond, slow to attack, and looked like he could use a good night’s sleep.  It was his worst of the three debates he’s participated in, but he came out unscathed and still ahead in the national polls.

 

While the top dogs continued to dispute, some of the fringe contenders continued to shine, even if most people consider them unelectable.  The Florida straw poll, which followed two days later, put Herman Cain in the lead.  (Results: Cain 37%, Perry 15%, Romney 14%, Rick Santorum 11%, Paul 10%, Newt Gingrich 8%, Jon Huntsman 2%, Bachmann less than 2%.) Note that early straw polls have little impact on final results.

 

Herman Cain, the former Godfather Pizza CEO, won the night with his likability and common sense, intelligent approaches to the nation’s problems.  He told the brief story of how he overcame two types of cancer.  He stated that under Obamacare, he would not have survived, because he wouldn’t have been able to choose a doctor, and by the time the government assigned him one, it would have been too late.

 

Mr. Cain’s 999 Plan (9% income, corporate, and sales tax) remains the most popular option outside of the Fair Tax among the party’s tax base voters.  He also achieved much approval with his plan to eliminate the EPA and form a new version of it, which would be run by people who were abused by the former EPA.

 

Newt Gingrich continued to deliver glib witticisms that achieved regular applause and laughter from the audience.  The former House Speaker quoted Ronald Reagan, “When your neighbor loses his job, it’s a recession; when you lose yours, it’s a depression; when Jimmy Carter loses his, it’s a recovery.”  He didn’t even need to mention Obama to get thunderous crowd approval on the second-best line of the night.

 

Most candidates agreed that the Dept of Education needs to be drastically changed and reduced, and that federal funding for schools is not having the desired effect.  Most would like to see education run by the states, municipalities, and the private sector. Mrs. Bachmann and the libertarians would like to see the Dept dissolved, as did Reagan, it should be mentioned.

 

All of the candidates made clear that their first step toward health care reform would be to repeal Obamacare, and that there was a need for tort reform.  There were not many original ideas offered, other than Gov. Huntsman’s idea to let individual states experiment with it and eventually we’d have a breakthrough.

 

Speaking of Gov. Hunstman, he had another good debate, for the third consecutive time, and seems like the brightest of the bunch, other than Gingrich.  Despite his positive message, polished appearance, original ideas, and oratory command, he continues to poll at low percentages.  However, Huntsman continues to hang in the race, and even expressed optimism, recalling that in the previous primary, the early frontrunners were nowhere to be found at the end of the race.

 

The one category where there seemed to be the largest variety of opinions was tax reform, which was not delved into sufficiently by the moderators.  While some would abolish the entire IRS and replace it with a Fair Tax or alternative (Bachmann, Paul, Johnson, and Cain), others seemed like they were still wed to the current caste system of taxes.  Cain even pointed out that Romney was still married to the “old” (current) tax code.

 

Romney spoke of tax breaks for the middle-class, assigning class values to such, which according to his tax plan are taxpayers making up to $200k.  Romney did deliver the night’s third most memorable line, “To create jobs, it helps to have had a job.”  He would implement “reasonable” tax levels and cuts.

 

Huntsman has his 8/14/24 plan which again is divided up into class brackets as in the current tax code.  Perry and Santorum would like to lower taxes, but said nothing of overhauling the IRS.

 

There is growing unease among the TEA Party, libertarian, and conservative bases, that there has not been any serious dialogue in these debates by the top “electable” contenders about extreme tax reform.  This is a legitimate concern that goes to the heart of the current revolution that began in the last mid-term election.

 

The mainstream of the TEA Party movement doesn’t want Socialism vs Socialism Lite; they want radical tax reform such as that offered by Cain or the libertarians Johnson and Paul, because they know that it’s the key to jump starting the economy.  Most of the politicians in office know that drastic tax reform is the best answer to the recession, but few talk about it, at least openly.

 

Thus the major disappointment with this debate, as all of them, was the failure to delve deeply into this or other key issues.  In some other countries, these types of debates dedicate an hour to a single subject, so that the public can actually learn something about the issue, rather than just hear one-liners and talking points for two minutes on each issue.  But we saved those thoughts for an article on a new single topic format for presidential policy debate.
 

The last part of the debate was the “fun” question:  “Which one person on this stage would you choose as your running mate?”  It was time for the contenders to start playing dodge ball.

Gov. Johnson not surprisingly picked fellow libertarian Ron Paul.

Sen. Santorum tried to dodge the question but ended up picking Newt.

Rep. Gingrich said he “wouldn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings” by choosing now (with a sly smile).

Rep. Paul said he would answer that when he becomes a top two contender (so don’t hold your breath).

Gov. Perry would take Cain and Gingrich and merge them together somehow.

Gov. Romney dodged the question but said any of them would make a better president than Obama.

Rep. Bachmann also dodged but said it would be a strong constitutional conservative.

Mr. Cain would pick Mitt if he would dump current system and go with Cain’s 999 plan, otherwise Gingrich.

Gov. Hunstman would pick Cain because he likes the 999 plan and choice of ties.

 

The official debate results are in:

Winner: Herman Cain

Loser: the American public

More on how the American public can win from debates in the future

Perhaps you’ve noticed that job training centers keep sprouting up, despite unemployment supposedly remaining the same. The reason is that many of the unemployed don’t know how to do basic entry level jobs, despite most of them having high school diplomas or equivalent.

The problem is that the current purpose of primary education is for indoctrination of the young masses into leftist principles, plus one or two free meals a day on the taxpayer bill. Why aren’t the 12+ years of education preparing students for the basics of the most common jobs around the country?

The answer is that the leftist indoctrination is not complete yet, and the university system is needed so that principles of communism and socialism can firmly take hold in the malleable mind of the young student. This is more important to the establishment than learning how to work.

Thus they force students into college, a colossal waste of money where students’ parents fork over tens of thousands of dollars, sometimes hundreds, so their kids can party for 4+ years and hopefully get a degree. Many companies require sometimes mysteriously, a degree of any kind, even if most high school grads that actually learned something could do the job.

Seriously, many accountants make big bucks, and the profession requires all these degrees and tests. Why? It’s arithmetic: something that is supposed to be learned in grade school. I don’t see accountants doing trigonometry, integrals, advanced calculus. They’re adding, multiplying and dividing. Those who know how to write cookbooks end up adding to their salaries generously.

Some occupations do require extensive training that is needed in college. Engineering, architecture, attorney, certain medical and a few other disciplines require advanced and specific learning that most high schools are completely ill suited for.

But what if high schools were better equipped? What if students could choose their discipline while in high school and get at least a basic two year associates degree for that field? That’s something we should look into. They can do this now in certain schools, but it’s a complicated process and requires part time attendance at a separate vocational school. It would require competent teachers for sure, but that’s a known problem.

For engineering or computer degrees, start the student in high school or earlier with advanced math and science, or programming, and they’ll be ready for entry level or apprentice work straight out of high school. If grade school kids can hack major business computer systems after self-training, then they can handle the computer stuff.

Other countries do this routinely. They have kids coming out of high school ready for what we call “professional” jobs. This is a key word that has a bit of snobbery associated with it, indicating that the position requires a college degree of some sort. In other less advanced countries, high school has prepared them for these “professional” occupations.

Law schools for sure are guilty of the big rip-off. There is no good reason to force students to waste thousands of dollars and four years obtaining a political science or whatever “pre-law” degree, that is otherwise almost completely useless, other than being able to possibly obtain a “professional” job or teaching gig.

The law degree takes 2-3 years full time and can easily take the place of the last few years in college instead of the other general courses currently used for indoctrination. They just need to focus. Their major is law. If they can’t hack it, they can change their degree to political science. That way, the student and / or parents don’t have to go $100k or more in the hole for this degree.

A doctorate in medicine is perhaps the toughest, but why can’t you start in high school? Get a two year associates degree in advanced biology. Four tough biomedical years in college for a “masters” and then two years of advanced medical studies for the doctorate could fit the bill. Voila, you’re a doctor by 25, and without spending half a million dollars.

The point is that the educational system in this country is not currently preparing people for even the most common and sometimes easiest jobs in business. It is instead used as a 12-16 year indoctrination problem into the leftist principles, which hardly qualifies a graduate to do anything except teach or run for office, which is why some people are lifetime students, teachers, and politicians.

The primary education system should focus on perfecting the basic math, science, and English needed to do the most common jobs around the country, and some advanced training offered in high school toward specific occupations. Think about all the common jobs: retail, cashier, clerk, food service, etc. They’re not rocket science. They just require basic math and English and a positive attitude.

Yes, history and “social studies” should be taught as well, but the current version of these teaches little more than that Reagan was an evil dictator and Obama is the messiah. They have been so compromised by the left, that the misinformation is counterproductive. It would be better off not teaching these at all, then having them taught by leftists. More on the compromise of the public school system here.

Seriously, look where the educational system has us now: Obama is in the White House, posing as president, teaming up with Pelosi and Reid to destroy the country as fast as he can. This is a direct product of our educational system as it stands today. It was designed to put leftists in charge of country, and it has succeeded. And the country is consequently going downhill fast.

Most common occupations in this country require a basic knowledge of math and English, not social studies and Spanish. Drop the social studies and multicultural manure, and focus on the courses that will help our students obtain decent and productive jobs in the real world. It’s either that or having the billets filled by foreigners while our graduates fill the unemployment rolls, and elect more leftists into congress to ensure those rolls are filled.

In many ways, Obama represents the sum product of the generation primarily responsible for electing him. He is ignorant yet arrogant, narcissistic, selfish, idiotic, delusional, and has an unreasonable sense of entitlement. In other words, he is highly representative of the youngest voting generation.

From a CNN exit poll: “Voters in the 18 to 24 age group broke 68 percent for Obama to 30 percent for John McCain, according to the exit polling. Those in the 25 to 29 age bracket went 69 percent to 29 percent in Obama’s favor…” That would be Generation ME.

Generation ME consists of those older boys and girls of ages between 18 and 40, the group forming the majority of Obama voters. It would be faulty refer to them as young men and women, since those nouns imply some kind of maturity or adulthood. Rather, the majority of them are overgrown children that behave and think like adolescents.

They are surprisingly arrogant considering their ignorance, and they are also selfish, idiotic, delusional, and brainwashed. They have an unbelievable sense of entitlement. Everything should be given to them just as they want it, regardless of where it comes from or how much other people toiled for it.

(To be fair, not all of them are overgrown children. I certainly know many that are fine young men and women, responsible adults, and good Americans. But these are in the minority, and many are embarrassed of their own generation.)

There are certainly other names we could issue to this generation, but “ME” seems to be the simplest word that sums up so many of their characteristics. Look at all the products that are oriented towards this generation: Imac, Ipod, Ipad, Iphone, Youtube, Myspace. The list goes on. Everything is about ME.

Who is responsible for Generation ME? How did we get here? It’s a long story but you have to look at the big picture. Here’s the short version:

It all started with the Lost Generation that elected President Franklin Roosevelt. FDR was the father of modern socialism in the US. He brought about Social Security and other entitlement programs, and raised top rate taxes to levels unheard of.

Perhaps his greatest legacy was ridding the US of hundreds of thousands of patriots from the Greatest Generation by sending them off to die overseas, in order to save nations of apathetic socialist idiots that didn’t want to even make an effort to save themselves from socialist dictator Hitler (look it up, NAZI = National Socialist Party; Hitler was a man of the left.)

With a large volume of patriots dead and gone, FDR was free to usher in a new era of socialism. In fact, he used their loss as the very excuse for Social Security. There simply weren’t enough young adults around to care for the old anymore, so it was determined the government would care for them.

It did make some sense as a short term solution, considering the government was responsible for sending children of the elderly off to die. However, the program would never go away, and permanent socialistic government care for the elderly replaced the traditional family care that existed in all previous generations. The dead of the Greatest Generation were rolling over in their graves already.

With higher taxes, most of the working class couldn’t afford to take care of extra family members anyway, so the next generation made no efforts to diminish Social Security or taxes. Instead, Baby Boomers stood idly by watching the Socialist Security program expand and taxes go up.

In the meantime, the public schools were being stocked with leftists of all sorts: liberals, communists, socialists, and atheists. These were the people that harbored deep resentment for a capitalist society, either because they couldn’t function in it, didn’t like its morals, or otherwise didn’t want any part of it.

Keep in mind that many of these were counterculture leftists that spent most of the 60s and 70s doing drugs and thus had no practical skills in a capitalist society. Many of them went into journalism as well, building a highly effective leftist propaganda machine on that end. They did, after all, know how to talk.

Either way, much of this collection of misfit leftists landed in public schools and universities. Those who couldn’t do, taught. And what they taught, besides reading, writing and arithmetic, was their leftist principles, including revisionist history.

Those who reported spent most of their time bashing Nixon, Reagan and Bush. Their hero was President Carter, the worst ever US president until Obama*. (* Personally I do not consider Obama to be a valid president, having been fraudulently elected and unable to prove his citizenship, but I’m trying to keep on point here.)

While most responsible Baby Boomer parents were working all day and making money to save for college tuition, their children were in school getting brainwashed by these irresponsible but principled leftists. Thanks to their parents’ hard work, they could receive further brainwashing in college. Thus was born Generation X.

X is a surprisingly accurate title, since it is a heavily divided generation. Think of the X in terms of its two halves.

The first slash in the X represents many of them that grew up to become responsible adults, and shrugged off their communist teachings once they realized how the real world operates. That is, one must contribute to society by participating in some form of business, whether as an employee, manager, owner, or night shift worker, in order to achieve some kind of wages.

The backslash in the X represents those that never shook their leftist brainwashing, and adhere to it to this day. They refuse to think for themselves, and instead believe only what their school teachers and communist media tell them. They were taught that Ronald Reagan was an evil tyrant that tried to destroy the US by bringing down the Soviet Union and lowering taxes, and they believed it.

While the right split of Gen X worked their butts off to make a paycheck, many had little time to pay attention to the brainwashing their kids were receiving, much less get involved politically. They left it to the public schools and the TV to raise their kids while they toiled all day to give their kids everything they wanted, including things they never dreamed of having when they were young.

All this conspired to give Generation ME a deep sense of entitlement. At school they learned that everyone should have according to his need, taking from those according to their means. Then they came home and their parents gave them everything they needed and more, for nothing. It was the ultimate reassurance that what they were being taught by the schools and the TV was correct.

In the meantime, the left split of Gen X was busy teaching, reporting, doing drugs, collecting welfare, and irresponsibly raising families of complete leftist losers, whose primary desire is to bring down the capitalist system and implement their Marxist utopia.

Thus Generation ME is comprised of children of the left split X communists and many socialists from the right split X parents that let the schools and media raise their children. Collectively, this is the most left leaning generation in the history of the US, even though many came from conservative families.

If you tell them how communism killed millions of people under Stalin, Lenin, and the various Asian leaders, they will tell you unequivocally that it wasn’t really communism, and was corrupted by the bad men in charge. With the right people in charge (Obama) it will work. Redistribute wealth and everyone will be happy. Let government run everything and everything will run great.

This is what they believe. This is the scariest generation that you can imagine living on US soil. They faithfully believe in socialism and communism as they were taught, and they fully intend to implement it during their time.

They are not adults, and they are not Americans. They are spoiled brats that believe that America is an evil country that has been run by rich greedy capitalists at the expense of the poor. They do not appreciate the concept that business owners are the people creating jobs in the US. They would rather have the government provide jobs.

Gen ME was raised to believe there is no God; that Government is the only higher power. Government should provide everything to everyone from cradle to grave: jobs, income, welfare, medical care, transportation, utilities, and whatever else you can think of. They don’t care where it comes from.

All wealth should first be given to the Almighty Government, which can then decide how and when to redistribute or squander it. Government should run people’s lives.

This is what they really believe. To paint a scarier picture, consider that many of them have still not achieved voting age. This problem will not go away anytime soon.

If you think going to the voting booth to push R buttons in November will solve the problem, consider that 2 more years of Generation Me will be in there pressing D buttons in hopes they won’t need a job.

They still believe that Obama will provide everything they need, because he’s the right guy in charge. Stalin was the wrong guy. Hitler was the wrong guy. Obama is the right guy. Communism will work under him, because he’s a good guy.

They are delusional enough to think Obama cares about them as well. But caring isn’t part of the communist plan. The plan is for the ruling class to take wealth from the backs of the working class, and distribute it as they see fit, after keeping most of it. It’s that simple.

Generation ME: selfish, ignorant, arrogant, irrational, delusional, and narcissistic.

Obama is their ideal messiah.