In my personal experience, I notice that there are small percentages of people who fall in the categories of “exemplary people” and “problematic people”. Speaking strictly on a non-scientific basis, there seem to be about 10% of people who are the kind of folks who you want as friends, who you’d trust with your home, your family, your finances or your livelihood. These are people who are decent, moral, hard-working and upstanding citizens, who don’t bad-mouth others behind their backs and who represent the best of what makes ours a great country. On the other hand, you have about 10% of people who are the opposite. They are the lazy, shiftless, liars and criminals who drag us down. They spend more time scheming ways to take for themselves than they do contributing to a civil society. These are the people you would cross the street to avoid and steer clear of their neighborhoods. Working or socializing with them is the last thing you’d want to do because of their untrustworthy or volatile natures.

 In the not-too-distant past, societies had draconian measures in place to keep ‘problematics’ in line. Criminal justice was more exacting and severe. Parents of generations gone by were stricter disciplinarians, fearing that their children would become ‘problematics’ and thus a disgrace to the family name. Serving prison time was not some rite of passage but a mark of shame. The number of children raised during the Great Depression who overcame crushing poverty to better themselves and emerge as the Greatest Generation is a testament to the diligence and perspicacity of their parents who struggled through unprecedented hardship to steer them right. Those who could not be steered paid a steep and certain price.

 The hard-left turn that our country took in the 1960’s created a generation of hand-wringers who began questioning the ‘root causes’ of anti-social behavior and the time-honored methods of countering it. Eschewing corporal punishment of children became de rigueur. New approaches to ‘corrections’ systems made ‘rehabilitation’ the goal rather than punishment. News stories of violent crimes involving perpetrators in their 20’s with dozens of prior convictions on their records are common. Sixty years ago, they’d have been locked up for good or executed for their inability to live within the law. Today, they are portrayed as ‘victims’ of one kind or another, more often than not of some sort of childhood abuse, real or imagined. Obsessive-compulsive do-gooders insist on trying new age remedies for habitual criminal behavior. There don’t appear to be many success stories; certainly not any number that justifies allowing violent criminals back out on the street.

 The poor are nearly always portrayed as noble, hard-working souls who are merely down on their luck or who have had an earth-shattering tragedy strike their lives. Indeed, liberals and the press (sorry for the redundancy) go out of their way to parade poor folks in front of cameras when tragedy does strike them. This helps to hide the fact that the overwhelming majority of poor people seem to have a deeply ingrained propensity for making incredibly bad life decisions over and over again.  

 When you take a look at the percentage of people in poverty or who are high school dropouts or who are chronically unemployed or who are drug addicts or who abuse their children or any number of other examples of miscreant behavior, it is remarkable how their percentage of the population seems to hover around 10%. It will vary higher and lower with the times but for the most part, it does seem that the percentage of trouble-making ne’er-do-wells in society falls somewhere around that 10% mark. You   would think that it would go without saying that this tiny minority would account for an awful lot of the resources that society sets aside to assist the poor but this is nearly never pointed out by their advocates in liberal government and the media.

 Think about it for a second- the entire criminal justice system; courts, lawyers, prisons, police- is only necessary because of a tiny minority of cretinous citizens. The entire government apparatus for assistance to the poor; AFDC, WIC, LIHEAP, Section 8, Food Stamps, Medicaid, etc.- is only there to provide hand-outs to a small sliver of the population, most of whom condemn themselves to their plight through repetitious poor judgment and decision-making. Roughly ninety percent of us toil everyday to carry ten percent who cannot or will not help themselves.

 Now, I am not saying that no one is worthy of help. There are truly disabled people who need our assistance. A society’s greatness can be measured by how it treats it’s least fortunate members. But laziness, stupidity or criminality are not disabilities. At some point, a line needs to be drawn on who gets assistance and why.

 Right now, our Congressional delegations are home listening to the concerns of their constituents over healthcare reform or health insurance reform (they haven’t settled on what they want to call it). Advocates of Obamacare want to destroy our existing system of providing health care in order to provide insurance for 47 million Americans who don’t have it. They will not point out that about 32 million of those people are either illegal aliens or Americans who choose not to purchase health insurance or who have failed to sign up for existing government assistance programs. That particular statistic doesn’t suit their purpose so it isn’t cited. This leaves around 15 million people, or about 5% of the legal population, who are without health insurance who would like to have it. In short, Obama wants to take away the existing health care most of us have (HR 3200 has provisions to make sure your private coverage will be short-lived), increase our taxes (middle tax increases are a foregone conclusion with profligate spending like this), and hand out ‘free’ coverage to his most loyal bloc of voters, the poor.  Of course, that bloc comprises an awful large percentage of the 10% who are dragging the rest of society down. Is it any wonder people are steaming at these town hall meetings?

     We are allowing the 10% to destroy what’s left of our country that is good. It’s time to grow a national backbone and tell them to sink or swim. They are an anchor around our necks and if we don’t cast them and their enablers off next year, we will see this country fall faster and harder than any great civilization in history.

 Is it any wonder that President Barack Obama has such a large and loyal following? After all, who else has ever had the capability of providing the wonderful array of government services that Obama plans to offer? Who else could ever unilaterally transform the entire world from a hostile and belligerent place to a harmonious and cooperative conglomeration of benevolent and compassionate nations? Who in the past has managed to inspire millions of young people to envision a world devoid of the senseless problems created and nurtured by their parents and grandparents? No one has ever been able to effect these changes throughout history but Obama’s enthusiastic supporters are fully confident that he can do it with the help and support of a Democrat supermajority in Congress. The expectations of Obama are high- probably the highest bar ever set for an American President.

 Barack Obama has captivated large numbers of Americans with his promises of a new America. Universal health care will give all Americans  (and a lot of non-Americans, too) access to high-quality, free health care that will actually save the country money as it reels in runaway health care costs under the private sector. Everyone will be healthy and equal and unburdened by concerns over medical care.   

 Obama’s energy policy will virtually eliminate our dependence on energy imports as we shift our economy to wind and solar power. Carbon emissions will disappear and the sea levels will recede and polar bears will live free of the threat of drowning. By dismantling the fossil fuel industries, he will have eliminated the oppression and pollution brought on by these purveyors of evil who have victimized the world for so long. Wind and solar will employ millions and millions of citizens and they’ll never run out and they’ll never pollute our planet and we’ll all get our power from these sources at practically no cost to anyone.

  Anyone who cares to better themselves will have full access to a free college education and all that will be required of them will be a couple of years of government service doing something we’re not quite sure of yet but you can bet it’ll be just great for the country and the world.  These new college grads will inevitably secure good, high-paying jobs and poverty will virtually melt away.  Anyone experiencing any kind of financial difficulty will have free access to government assistance to see them through without all of the onerous restrictions and limitations of the past. We’ll have the most highly educated and productive citizenry in the world because they won’t have to worry about hardship and there won’t be medical bills or pollution to worry about either.  

Twelve to fifteen million undocumented workers will enjoy a path to citizenship that will be quick and fair and they will become loyal American citizens in no time, surely supporting the flawless policies that allowed them to come out of the shadows and join their fellow Americans as ‘citizens of the world’. All people of all races will live in peace and harmony, showing mutual respect as we build a color-blind society that barely even recognizes that there are any cultural differences amongst us because all of our cultures are equally important and valuable.

 With so many people so highly educated and learning to respect each other’s cultures, there will obviously be a massive drop in the crime rate. With crime no longer a problem, there will be no need for guns or prisons and we can convert those industries into something worthwhile like more windmills or solar panels or cultural appreciation centers. Former criminals can be employed at the free universities making large salaries lecturing on how Obama has solved all of the country’s problems at virtually no cost by simply making these few little adjustments that virtually anyone with a brain supports unquestionably.

 Foreign enemies will cease to exist as America shows its new-found respect for all nations and cultures. By admitting that we are not and never have been any better than anyone else and that most everything done in the name of the US before Obama was wrong-headed war-mongering, our enemies will surely see that we are not to be feared or loathed. They will lay down their arms in order to accept the aid that we send them to solve all of their problems in the same manner we solved all of ours. With our enemies pacified and brought into the Obama fold, we will no longer have any use for armed forces. Of course the hundreds of billions that will be saved by dismantling defense can be used to enrich the poor or can be donated to the UN to begin the implementation of one world government that will be just and fair. America can take her place alongside Albania and Antigua as equals.

 All citizens of the world will intuitively know to stay within bounds of WWOD (what would Obama do?) For this reason, all pollution and hostility and angry words and dirty looks will stop. No one will go to bed hungry or wonder where they’ll get money for things they want and need. There will be no lack of information about what government services are available because the government will always be there to see the citizenry through every phase of their lives. No one will stumble and fall because everyone else will be there to catch them on the way down and set them back on their feet. Since every child will have been raised by a village, everyone will know and love and respect everyone else.

 Everyone will have their own room where there will be kittens and rainbows and unicorns and all the free ice cream and cotton candy you ever want.

 Oh, and the Democratic Party will be the only one allowed to exist and people who disagree with The One’s teachings will sort of just disappear.