“We Might As Well Get On With It” — Ron Smith

Congratulations, conservative friends and all the political pundits who fought a good fight to save this country. Your work was not in vain. It resulted in the realization that we are no longer a nation of two parties. There are now two Americas.

Welcome to the new underclass, my friends: the working taxpayers—the ones who will bear the burden going “Forward”.

America is now the home of the greedy and the land of the brown.

Congratulations to the Obama supporters, who believe they won. Too bad we all lost. Too bad they don’t know it yet. 

They believe that now that the evil Republicans—known as “the party of angry old white men”, thanks to media bias—have been defeated, all will be safe from harm.

It is hard to comprehend how they can bask in the glory of re-electing a man with a record of failure to continue leading us on an unsustainable path.

Today, they are the lucky ones. The rest of us know better.

Obama, the latest Father of Big Government, is officially still their Daddy. Those receiving “entitlements” want to keep on getting what they believe they deserve. They want the “free” Obamacare that comes with more strings than a harp.

They don’t care about holding the line on government spending or a balancing a budget. Or Obama’s failed energy policies; bogus bailouts; faux job report numbers; soiled foreign policy; or his four years of failure.  

Now that Wal-Mart has layaway, their kids will get everything on their Christmas lists and all will merry and bright for a while.

Then in January, when the Bush tax cuts end and the Obamacare taxes kick in, the layoffs will begin and unemployment figures will rise; the cost of living will continue to increase; the national debt will accumulate even faster; and the entitlement programs will be cut.

Ron called this last November. He said, “The problem is that the end of the road is here, it culminates in a cliff, the one toward which we’ve been racing for years, and over which we have probably begun to tumble.”

He knew the demographics had changed and thought that Obama would be re-elected. “We might as well get on it,” he added.  

The Voice of Reason is gone but he would want the truth to still be told.

Let’s start with the Dow Industrial Average post-election closing numbers today: down 312.95.

Hang on. Even though it's going to be a bumpy ride, we might as well get on with it.

June Smith founded this tribute website in honor of her late husband, Ron Smith, WBAL Talk Show Host, Emmy Award winner, and Baltimore Sun Columnist. Smith was a media titan in Maryland and beyond for almost forty years. Mrs. Smith is working diligently to raise one million dollars for the Ron Smith Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund at Johns Hopkins. She blogs for Red Maryland www.RedMaryland.Blogspot.com; her email is june@friendsofronsmith.com.

Comments

[Tony in Dallastown]

At least they haven't passed prohibition again. I am going to need that stuff to make it through each day.

[John]

Thank you June for writing this. I so wish Ron were here now, I miss his words of wisdom more than ever, but I think you have done a splendid job of communicating what would be his thoughts. I join you in buckling a seatbelt and getting ready for a bumpy ride.

Godspeed, to us all.

[Tim in Abingdon]

I'm buckled up and looking for a crash helmet. Dow down again sharply today.

[June Smith]

Tony: Who needs the glass when the bottle is already open.Better drink fast. Prohibition will be on the Government's short list or outlawed under Obamacare soon.

I'm with you. Don't forget the "Talk About It" section of this site. I'm dedicating it to Post-Election Tramatic Stress. Have at it!
Best - June

[June Smith]

John - Thank you for your kind words. Yes, we need Ron now more than ever. I'm not The Voice of Reason but I know the truth must be told and our opinions expressed. Feel free to post your comments and reflections on the "Talk About It" page. We need to keep Ron's legacy alive and the discussion going. Best - June

[June Smith]

Tim -- Thanks for reminding me to get a crash helmet. Yep -- the Dow was down again today. Second day in a row following the re-election of the man with a record of failure... Best - June

[Kathy]

June, thank you for writing this. I had been wondering what Ron's take, post election, would have been, wishing he was here to lay all the cards on the table for us. I'm sure he would have been proud of this which you have so kindly shared. Besides the difficult content, it was an absolute pleasure to read. I seemed like I was reading Ron's own words. Perhaps you might consider writing in a more public forum.
I, for one, felt like I woke up on Mars the morning after the election. There was a time when extreme ideas would be floated, but common sense would prevail in the end. No more.

[Tim of Laurel]

Excellent read June. For those that might be interested, there was an excellent discussion this morning 11/9 on the Chris Plante show as he had small business owners calling in to discuss what changes they are in the process of making to their businesses now that Obama was re-elected. Unemployment will be skyrocketing by the first of the year when the new Obamacare expenses kick in for employers. I believe you can go to the WMAL web site to listen to a repeat of the show (as soon as they post it in their on demand section). As I remember, when Ron was asked by listeners of what might the future hold for the country given the upcoming fiscal cliff, he surmised that the country might break apart, most likely starting in the Southwest. Most considered this unthinkable at that time, but with the two Americas now in existance, with a wide gap between the two, it seems more and more possible. It could start out of Texas or Arizona, after all it seems the current regime has already declared war on Arizona based on the illegal alient situation, etc. With the massive and ever growing national debt, and the ever growing power of the national government over the states, some states may soon feel it would be best to go out on their own.

[June Smith]

Kathy - Thank you for your gracious comments. It was a difficult piece to write. I had to blow off steam the better part of the day before putting it together. As for a more public forum, I blog for Red Maryland (www.redmaryland.blogspot.com). As for another venue, the bastion of liberalism, the Baltimore Sun, is sinking below the horizon and I'd prefer my words not grace their cheap newsprint or cluttered website. They sell photos of O'Malley there... If you have a suggestion for another venue, please let me know.

I, too, feel as thought I'm on another planet and that my spaceship has been left behind. So I'm left to view the transformation of America, or what's left of it, from afar.

Best - June

[June Smith]

Tim - Thank you for your message. I'll check out the Chris Plante show. I recall that discussion and talking about it with Ron. He felt strongly about it and given the mess we're in, I don't doubt it will happen.

We have become a nation divisible, with Godless schools where children are taught math problems using "Paul and his two mothers going on a trip to New York" to calculate time and distance and "Hector and Juan are making an Aids quilt" as an example of understanding measurement and yardage.

The referendum questions on the Maryland ballot--although passed by a slim margin--clearly represent where we're headed. That slim margin is mistakenly being viewed as a mandate (or persondate, for the sake of political correctness).

Such is the course of a nation being led by a re-elected president with a failed record and a state being led by a man seeking a national spotlight and a bigger stage.

As Ron said, "If you want to know who's in charge, ask yourself who can't be criticized."

All we can do is talk about it.

Thanks for keeping in touch.

Best - June

[Tim of Laurel]

Here is a link to the Chris Plante program I mentioned. It was the 11/9 program. It reminded me of the excellent discussions Ron used to have on his programs, man do I miss them.

[June Smith]

All: I've posted excerpts from your comments on the Home page. We need to keep the discussion going. Thank you for getting it going! Best - June

[Truth]

Now is a time when we really need that strong voice of reason, sanity and clarity that Ron gave so many people. The truth and what was right is what mattered not what was the party line, politically correct or acceptable to the power elites. It would be so wonderful to hear someone who served his country humbly and honorably on the radio right now telling how immoral, illegal and disastrous going to an unecessary war with Iran would be. Often when I saw Ron Paul on the stage in the primary it reminded me of Ron Smith---a lone voice who served on a stage full of draft dodger chicken hawk neoConArtist clammering for unConstitutional Wars for others young sons and daughters to needlessly die where they'd never send their own sons or daughters. Like the other Rons: Paul and Reagan, our own Baltimore Ron Smith knew and appreciated the military and the need for military strength preparedness but loved his country, his people and humanity far too much to ever use the military and expend human life unless absolutely necessary for the defense and survival of his beloved country. I remember Ron telling us how America used to celebrate the peace and end of WWI with Armatist Day, whereas now Americans are now so misguided by the controlled media and the warmongers' endless war propaganda that we now seem to celebrate war and any chance to use our weapons on those people we are told hate us and we need to kill. Well we must remember Ron's wisdom and voice of reason and not be afraid to express it everyday in public because the truth each time told has more strength than a pro war lie told by the media a hundred times.
Thankyou for your life and legacy Ron Smith

[June Smith]

Thank you, "Truth", for remembering Ron, telling the truth, and talking about it. I have taken the liberty of including your comments in a "Talking About It" post on the home page today.

Thank you also for keeping the discussion going.

Best,

June