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Maybe they're right that the Democrats have amassed a majority in the electoral college through immigration and vote buying but now they have to not only govern but to succeed to keep that margin of victory!

And although I don't want to underestimate the ability of Bill Clinton to con his fellow progressives and immigrant voters it would be very difficult for even him to spin another series of lies in the next election that it takes longer than 8 years to recover an economy as he did when he said it takes longer than 4 years to accomplish recovery (Reagan and Bush recovered their economies in less than 3 years). But as I said, I don't want to underestimate anyone whose greatest talent is to mislead people.

Here's what the liberals are facing:

The Eurozone has sunk into a second recession since 2009 with a 1% contraction in the previous quarter. The US is averaging the creation of only around 173,000 jobs a month since July, not anywhere near the 400,000 jobs a month necessary to generate a self-sustaining recovery and keep up with the new immigrant voters. The U3 unemployment rate is ticking upward, there is no recovery underway and the President or senate Democrats have yet to understand the weakness of the government spending driven economic recovery model.

The country is currently spending roughly 2.2 trillion of its 3.7 trillion budget on entitlement programs. The cost of entitlements and government debt are nearly equal to the entirety of federal revenues. The US is borrowing 40% of its federal budget, 60% by the Federal Reserve Bank because interest rates are too low. Interest rates high enough to attract investors would be an instant drag on economic growth.

The Tax Policy Center says 76.6 million filers pay both federal income and payroll taxes. 40 million pay only the payroll tax. That number is declining as the 77 million baby boomers begin to retire at a rate of 10,000 per day.

Every major entitlement program has grown significantly under President Obama but he has not said a word about a plan to address the unsustainable financial future facing the country that the journalists at the Arkansas Times believe is an altered reality!

On the day that investors will not lend the US government even one more dime is the day the second great depression begins and the day the people the Democrats claim to have so much concern for will have nothing but worthless dollars and worthless entitlement programs. That day is coming sometime in the next decade. Millions of immigrants will have to return home for lack of jobs here. Let's see if their electoral college majority holds up then!
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