CPAC 2012

I'm here in the blogger room with the usual: conservative blogging luminaries, crappy wi-fi and the occasional celebrity-like visit from the featured speakers.

Did an old-fashioned interview with Bruce McQuain of Q and O.  The topic? The GOP front-runners, such as they are.

If this post and my posting seem perfunctory and uninspired, it's because they are.  As I told Bruce, I think we've reach a point of no return with this country's economy.  It matters little now who the GOP nominee is or even if that person wins.  We are on a collision course with some hard life-choices.

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In a blogger meeting as Andrew Breitbart, Lee Stranahan and others talk about the exposure of the Occupy Movement. Follow Citizens United on Twitter and Facebook.

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(February 16, 2012): Well, my blogging laziness prevailed.  But I made it back home safely, so there's that.

Comments

[brotherbrown]

 I think we've reach a point of no return with this country's economy.  It matters little now who the GOP nominee is or even if that person wins.  We are on a collision course with some hard life-choices.

The problem is structural and the choices are so drastic that no politician is even willing to approach the reality.

I took my first job out of college 30 years ago at Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis. 45,000 employees with skill levels varying from the doorman to the chairman. Work 40 years, retire and live happily ever after. Then one day, A-B sold to Belgian company Inbev, and the party was over. That played out in city after city, company after company. Jobs for unskilled workers left and are not coming back.

Take something as basic as underwear: Hanes is based in North Carolina, Fruit-of-the-loom is based in Wisconsin, but their garments are manufactured in India. Congress and the President cannot make corporations repatriate those jobs. I suppose they could eliminate the minimum wage, a drastic step for sure, but that means a major decline in the standard of living.

It also means the US military has to finally abandon the cold war and let Europe and Japan defend themselves.

[baldilocks]

Hard choices indeed! Good to see you, bb!