Serf's Up

Surfer Boy

Let's investigate further Mitt Romney's remarks in Boca Raton about how the 47% of Americans who don't pay any taxes would probably not be his voters.  Indeed, this was perhaps "inelegantly expressed" ... but that should not remove Mitt's concern.  I have recently heard that, if one excludes retired seniors, the percentage of voters not paying taxes is closer to 42%.  Let's be generous and also eliminate the legitimately disabled and thus conclude that those crowding into the wagon to be pulled by the rest of us (to use a Dick Armey metaphor) are closer to 40%.  These would then be the automatic "gimme" voter percentages ... or to use a medieval term ... America's serfs ,,, with The Barry as their plutocratic liege.  This still reinforces the fact that we are perilously close to that tipping point wherein the takers control the political agenda ... and those pulling the wagon effectively become disenfranchised voters.

But to better focus Romney's concern, we must understand that there are also a considerable number of pragmatic 1%-ers (limousine liberals) who would rather subjugate our underclass by paying them off (generally with other people's money) rather than have them create mischief and civil unrest ... such as the Occupiers.  (I still remember, years ago, a liberal Wall-Street friend confessing this motivation to me ... to my shock and chagrin.)  And now, unfortunately many government workers appear to be also riding in the wagon.  This bounces the percentage of those on the left back up closer to 50% ... justifying why we have ... and will continue to have ... a divided electorate.  I honestly believe, like many others, that this nation has one last chance to start to remedy this situation before the tsunami of socialism drowns us all. 

I'm "hanging ten" ... how about you?