Why The Democratic Party Is Doomed
July 30, 2011
What a great headline, and borrowed from Richard Miniter at Forbes Magazine. He looks into a crystal ball, and despite
Democratic Party's Future Is Bleak
predicting that Obama will win re-election in 2012, Miniter says the Democratic Party is burning out:
“This week’s fight over raising the federal debt limit exposes a key weakness in the warfare-welfare state that has bestowed power onto the Democratic Party: Without an ever-growing share of the economy, it dies. Every vital element of the Democrats’ coalition — unions, government workers, government contractors, “entitlement” consumers — requires constant increases in payments, grants and consulting contracts. Without those payments, they don’t sign checks to re-elect Democrats.”
blogs.forbes.com/richardminiter/2011/07/18/why-the-democratic-party-is-doomed/
2010 will go down in history as the year when the Democratic Party sold the U.S. Government to General Motors, Teamsters and Nevada hotel workers and “stimulus projects” most likely to yield votes.
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