A more important demographic trend is that of adults who subscribe to the Blue Social model:they refuse to have kids. These voters demand large entitlements and the wealth-transfer from future generations to pay for them - but refuse to populate those generations. Europe would not be in the fix in which they find themselves had they not had sub-2.1 total fertility since 1945. (2.1 births per woman is a flat population.) The ONLY blue states at or above 2.1 are NM, NV, HI. All other Blue states are in fertility decline. Only 3 Red states are BELOW 2.1. Here are the stats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVseabUhg8M

He says private employment is bad, too.. remember how he went on at commencements last year about how it was only honorable to work for the government? In whatever dimension he and his fellow-travelers live, they are incapable of grasping that SOMEONE has to pay the bills - and the government CANNOT. Guy's an enemy, pure and simple.

a) This isn't new news. b) Black-on-Black, Black-on White, Black-on Asian crime ALL has become worse under our first Black, 'post-racial' president c) There are no signs of it letting-up d) When Obama loses, the MSM and NBP and NAACP and lib elites will play the vote as racist, rather than policy-based e) Black unemployment has risen under Obama's policies, especially Black youth unemployment, both of which will accelerate in a second term, increasing crime among and between races f) The race wars Obama is fomenting by not addressing Black unemployment, or Black lawlessness (the bounty on Zimmerman, not prosecuting the NBP for election intimidation, Black flash-mob beatings of whites, etc.) ultimately will cost $B and thousands of lives.

So ... Russia, with her own demographic problems, sells Siberia to China, using the $1T to hire 1M Germans, Poles and Czechs.. If they quit the euro, Russia figuring, 'why throw good income tax money (paid by Russia to these european hires) after bad? Russia then goes on an infrastructure/natural resource exploitation binge, creating even more jobs - for Russians and the Central europeans immigrating for those jobs... China? She dumps her one-child policy and hires lots of American companies - being VERY interested in an improvement to the American economy to pay-back Chinese investment - to exploit these new lands... & finds an ingenious solution to her own demographic problem. http://premiere.fastpencil.com/china-rising

Mr Ransom: though I like your ideas to update Congress (term limits, etc.), I'd offer that one change has the possibility (probability?) of making the others moot: At its most fundamental level voting is about money - how much government takes and how they spend it. Ergo only those paying federal income tax should be allowed to vote for federal officeholders: Representatives, Senators & the presidency. States should follow suit, but that's up to them. But as long as those not paying-in to the general fund get to vote on how to spend it, things will not get better... They only will continue to get worse.

Healthcare is a SERVICE. A SERVICE must be PERFORMED by another PERSON If healthcare is a "RIGHT," a SERVICE to which we are ENTITLED, something government MUST deliver, then the same government MUST be able to FORCE some PERSON to DELIVER that SERVICE. This is called "SLAVERY" and is against the 13th Amendment. I know there are many who seem not to be able to grasp this pretty simple fact. For those not bright enough to grasp this elementary concept, please do NOT vote. Thank you.

In October Obama will OK Keystone, having spent "enough time" to consider it "properly." Bet on it.

Because we have a two-party system and no one other than "abject idiots" votes for Democrats, causing Dems to continue policies to keep people stupid. Proof: Dems keep saying we need to spend more on schools. EVERY major metro school district has been run by Dems since 1945. If Dems REALLY wanted better schools, we would HAVE better schools. But if we educated everyone to a decent HS level in decent schools, hardly anyone would vote for Dems... and they KNOW this, hence bad schools. No other logical explanation exists.

OTOH, with housing at (or near) historic lows. this is a PERFECT time to introduce a truly flat tax. Dropping the mortgage deduction normally would cause housing to crash. Well, it's already crashed. And a Flat Tax will get the lobbyists and politicians out of the business of using deductions as favors - and LET THE FREE MARKET WORK. And save us hundreds of billions in compliance and reporting and litigation... Even Warren Buffet could pay the $1B he owes in back taxes. Get the government out of our way and we can all get back to productive work. Best way to do that? Flat tax.

So Romney thinks he can win without going on offense? See why we need Newt?