Some things worth knowing:

Kevin Williamson, at NRO, soberly assesses Romneys situation if he becomes captain of the sinking ship:

…Winning will be no bed of roses, either: The economic growth rate in January 2013 probably will be approaching zero, our international standing has been diminished by Obama’s clumsiness and timidity, and our fiscal position is untenable. Romney is working very hard to secure for himself a big box of insoluble problems.

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Welfare spending tops a trillion a year.  Senator Jeff Sessions reports on a recent study of spending:

“The results are staggering. The Congressional Research Service identified 83 overlapping federal welfare programs that together represented the single largest budget item in 2011—more than the nation spends on Social Security, Medicare, or national defense. The total amount spent on these 80-plus federal welfare programs amounts to roughly $1.03 trillion. Importantly, these figures solely refer to means-tested welfare benefits. They exclude entitlement programs to which people contribute (e.g., Social Security and Medicare).”

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If poverty was simply a question of wealth redistribution, the sheer amount of dollars spent since the not-so-Great Society programs of the 1960s should have resolved the problem. In 2011, Peter Ferrara calculated that “total welfare spending [in 2008] . . . amounted to $16,800 per person in poverty, 4 times as much as the Census Bureau estimated was necessary to bring all of the poor up to the poverty level, eliminating all poverty in America. That would be $50,400 per poor family of three.

And welfare spending has risen 32% in the last 4 years, so the figures are now much worse.  This cancer will kill us if it is not controlled.  Believe it or not, there are people who view this as a very good thing.  Just Google Cloward and Piven and read the first few entries.  Obama taught the Cloward and Piven strategy in Chicago.

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“For Every 1 Person Added To Labor Force Since January 2009,” the chart reads, “10 People Added To Those Not In Labor Force.”

That is, in nearly the four years, since President Obama took office in January 2009, only 827,000 people have been added to the labor force, while during that same time period, 8,208,000 have been added to those not in the labor force.

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Mark Steyn has a good column about Who’s Politicizing Benghazi?

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A man named Mohammad was arrested for plotting to set off a bomb near the world trade center.  He said he wanted to help destroy America so that Muslims “could be one step closer to run the whole world.”  That is the goal of Jihad, folks.  It is a supremacist ideology like Nazism.

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