These 6 charts tell the story of what happens when the welfare state takes control of an economy.  There is no way to escape the consequences of this disastrous scenario other than dismantling the entire welfare state infastructure and starting over.  Half measures inevitably lead to full measures based on the slippery slope of expectations and the corrupt political system that permits the purchase of votes by venal politicians.  What we see here has been going on since the Hoover/FDR administrations policies that were fed steroids by LBJ and Clinton administrations.  There is no painless escape from the consequences of decades of collectivists brainwashing by the socialist intellectual class who took firm control of our society in the 1930's.  Ronald Reagan bought an 8 year reprieve from all this wrongheadedness, but it has been downhill since he left office. We have now reached the very real tipping point.  

A cartoon is worth...

Sometimes cartoons say it all.

Why Republicans should win big in November

This chart shows the ratio between the total civilian employment and the total population in the US.  This obviously is a precipitous decline in 4 years, but the worse news for Obama is the stagnation and lack of any signs of recovery.