Apparently the race for the Republican Presidential nomination has shifted away from fixing our economic malaise and reining-in our national deficits toward the remedying of traditional right-wing cultural issues ... abortion, gay marriage and sterilization services. The evidence for this is Rick Santorum's three primary/caucus victories in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri on Tuesday. Some of the precipitating events for these upsets occurring, I think, may be the better-than-expected unemployment statistics that were recently released by the Obama administration ... coupled with the recent HHS's Sebelius's abortion/sterilization health-care-coverage edict that has roiled the Catholic Church ... and the recent overturning of the gay-marriage ban in California by the 9th Circuit of Appeals.
My take on this political sea change is that it is a huge mistake on the part of American conservatives. To paraphrase James Carville ... "it was, is and will be the economy stupid." I honestly believe that we have not yet even begun to reverse our forced march toward national penury.
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"In all labor there is profit, but mere talk trends only to penury." [Proverbs 14.23].
This is my take from the Great Book: Those who do not have enough are not equal to those who provide, but their only hope is the hard work and generosity of the providers.
What happened to positive George? That was short-lived.
To Anonymous,
I agree with the Proverbs proverb ... but I hope it (or you) are not referring to the prattle on this blog.
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