Couple of Things on Monday Morning

Hanson tears into Obama again pretty good listing the straws that broke america's back. I agree with most of the deficiencies that he cites. But as a commenter remarks, Obama is but a detail in this disaster in governance. The Congress is the entity that passed all of those extra-Constitutional bills that are realigning wealth and power in america. Obama couldn't enact this destruction of america without a complicit Congress. Then we have federal, state and local bureacracies that will enforce all of this without question. These bureacracies are mostly democrat and feed at the trough of tax and spend by nanny government. All of this is possible because of an ignorant, lazy, spoiled electorate that wants governemnt to "fix" everything so they can eat Ho-Hos and watch reality TV.

The rot is deep in america.

For 190 years america has been the number 1 manufacturer of the world, creating wealth while building the stuff that consumers want. China is on track to take the lead in 2011. The wealth generated by manufacturing created a robust society with a middle class lifestyle and enabled freedoms unimaginable to most people. What is a post-manufactuing america going to look like? Can america create wealth shuffling papers and selling Chinese manufactured goods?

For three generations me and my ancestors have manufactured goods that provided a decnet living for our families. There won't be another generation in my line that manufactures stuff. It is the end of the line. And I suspect it is the end of the line for america. We're on track now to become the pitiful UK.

Russian T-50 vs. American Stupidity

The Russians have a new 5th generation fighter called the T-50 built by Sukhoi. Some say this aircraft is superior to both the US F-22 and F-35. The T-50 is probably both less complicated and tougher than the US aircraft just by the nature of Russian designs. And it is going into production soon.

The US cancelled the F-22 Raptor after 187 were built because the Russians didn't have a 5th generation fighter in the pipeline? How did US intelligence miss that? Obama's Pentagon is also clueless about defense. Ask them why queer soldiers are important or why Islamists are not the enemy and they can cite chapter and verse. National defense? Winning a war? Not so much.

And the F-35 Joint Strike fighter is so complicated, so expensive, so over-budget and so far behind schedule that no one can say when, or even if, it ever will go into service. The US planned to have 3000 of these warbirds in service before 2014, when the aged, worn-out F-16 and F-18 reach end of service life. Now everything is uncertain. Maybe we should ask the Chinese to build them for us.

Can americans do anything right any more? I'm really starting to wonder. For all of our college educated citizens we can't defeat a bunch of primitive goatherds in Afghanistan, run a profitable company that makes money in the US, sustain a space program or even educate the few native children that are born in this country. In this post-american world, americans can't seem to get anything right.

It's embarrassing. We outsourced so much of our work that fully 20% of our workforce is permanently unemployed while importing 13 million mestizos to work at slave wages. We even outsourced the presidency to a Kenyan/Indonesian islamocommunist. Our policies resemble the late Roman empire just before the fall.

The government wants everybody to get post-secondary education to fill $10/hour jobs at Walmart that can never begin to pay the student loans. Why do I need a BA degreed clerk to tell me which aisle the toilet paper is located? And just how useful is this education indoctrination?

Just recently we had an MBA blow up a $563M oil exploration rig, kill 11 of his crew, pollute the Gulf of Mexico for a generation, destroy the livelihood of millions of people and end any prospect of energy independence in the US. Other educated imbeciles ran the US auto and banking industries into the ground. Why do we need more of these educated dimwits with no fucking common sense?

This country is like an endless episode of the Three Stooges, without Moe to keep Larry and Curly from killing themselves. In another decade don't be surprised to see those T-50s flying over your house, piloted by revolutionary Venezualian, Bolivian and Iranian pilots who come to liberate the mestizo slaves.

Presidential Candidates Paint Disturbing Picture of America in 2008

A great nation should have leaders that understand what made the nation successful and vision for a future that builds upon past successes. If Obama and Huckabee are the best America can find to lead this country into an uncertain future then the nation is in full decline.

American corporations are led by incompetents who believe that the solution to every problem is to outsource the work to some third world shithole and then pocket the savings in bonuses. American bank leaders finance mortgages for pauper mansions to pocket commissions and fees, systematically destroying perhaps a trillion dollars in wealth. Nanny government leaders add evermore rules, regulations and bureaucrats yet can't enforce the basic laws that define a nation such as who is a citizen. Media leaders foist opinion as news and pornography as art with little concern about the destruction of US culture. Education leaders are more interested in buildings and student indoctrination than learning anything useful in school.

I suspect that the leadership elites in America have given up on any concept of American exceptionalism and greatness instead opting to join other transnational elites to make their fortunes where they can. Ordinary Americans are left to struggle in an ever-declining wasteland.

Meanwhile Americans busy themselves buying that big house and SUV that they neither need nor can afford to show strangers their importance. We all have our 60 inch plasma televisions to watch garbage and pornography. Our cultural heroes are perpetual teen, doped up ball players and lumpen sluts. Every American has a cell phone to chat with nobody about nothing almost continually. We idle in drive though lanes buying supersized fast food meals to eat in our supersized SUV then sprawl in front of our supersized HDTV to watch supersized egos of media darlings.

Why should we expect our political system to produce more than an episode of Survivor where emotions choose pretty sociopaths as the lone Survivor?

Our pathetic presidential candidates are a reflection of America in full decline.