It Comes and Goes

So, we now we have the election in the rear view mirror, and lots of talk forthcoming, maybe as much as before people closed the curtain and pulled the levers.
This was a strange election; an failed incumbent by any measure, and a challenger who couldn't excite a crowd of nursing home bound gentlemen with a harlot of hookers.  His public persona seemed about as uplifting as a bucket of warm spit.
Yet, while neither candidate was worth a tinker's damn, the incumbent pulled it off 52% to 48%, and the United States is now saddled with a failed administration that has shown that it is much better at running for office than governing or coming up with anything that would keep the United States on a course resembling sanity.
My own fear is that the president and his cabal will continue to bring down the country with more policies that will align America with the average third world shithole.
During his administration, America has lost it's high credit rating, employment has plunged to levels seen in the Great Depression, private industry has been taken over by government, monetary policy has decimated savings and retirement accounts, almost 50 million people are on food stamps and those who don't/won't work are rewarded by being given the fruits of another's labor.  On the bright side, though, millions of people have been given cell phones without having to pay for them.
The election was described as a 'tipping point' for America, and in fact, it was just such an election.  The fact is that the portion of Americans not paying income taxes is nearly the same as those who are responsible enough to work; it has come to the point where 50% of the populations is supporting themselves AND the remaining persons who don't hit a lick.
This is the tipping point: where half the citizenry is are forced to support the other half through political payoffs.
 How long can this continue?  Will the day come that the 'earners' realize that they don't have to get out of bed and go to work because a beneficent government will provide for them?  Will America turn into a nation of John Gaults?  It has been said that socialism is fine until you run out of other people's money, and I fear that we are getting to that point.
Not only is it unfair and wrong to force proud and productive people to provide for the slothful, it is oftentimes overlooked that all have the same voting power.  The receivers can vote to have the givers provide more and more without having to do anything more meaningful than vote.
The greater problem here, and I think that the politicians have overlooked it is this:  The people who have put them into office in hopes of getting more of the production of others, don't have any more money to pay into the system but that which is given to them by the politicians. 
In short, the ones wanting the freebies don't have any skin in the game, so to speak.
This is apparently a great way to get into office, but when the money runs out, for any reason, the minions on the dole are going to be very unhappy with their friends in high places.