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Oh, The Changes We'll See: The Age of Obama, low pay, and tiny cars
Weekly Standard ^ | April 24, 2009 | Irwin M. Stelzer

Posted on 04/25/2009 7:55:20 PM PDT by reaganaut1

Barack Obama is unhappy with much that preceded his occupation of the White House, and not only his predecessors conduct of foreign policy, for which he is a serial apologizer. Pre-Obama domestic policy also displeases him: any prosperity the nation enjoyed, he says, was built on a foundation of sand. That won't happen again: the trillions of debt he is loading on the nation's books will enable us to erect our post-recession house on solid rock, he says. Our world will never be the same again.

Of course, it never has been: the march of technology has enabled us to travel faster, age more slowly, entertain ourselves differently, and build air-conditioned homes in the miserably hot South and Southwest, and in our steamy nation's capitol. But the President has something more in mind and, with control of both Houses of Congress, the power to change the way we live. Let's make a few guesses as to where those changes will take us.

At the top of the President's change list is the way we consume energy. The President believes that our use of carbon-based fuels is causing the globe to heat up, with all the dire consequences conjured up by Al Gore as he sits in the library of his home, probably the largest single consumer of energy of any private residence in America. By one means or another, the President will make the use of oil, natural gas, and most especially coal so expensive that consumers will be forced to use less energy, and rely more heavily for the electrical energy we do use on more costly wind and solar power, paid for with tax-funded subsidies or higher utility bills.

(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; agenda; bho44; irwinstelzer; obama; obamanomics; stelzer
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The rest of the article explains that Obama's "changes" mean

1. The end of "spacious, safe cars", "with the exception of the limousines favored by congressional leaders and White House appointees."

2. Fewer people living in suburbs, as commuting becomes more expensive and less comfortable, and fewer people owning their own homes.

3. Canadian style health care, with rationing and waiting lists.

4. A glut of college graduates.

5. Less innovation, as higher taxes on the "rich" discourage taking risks.

1 posted on 04/25/2009 7:55:20 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

The nomination of John S McCain is what made this possible. The GOP was doomed that point on.


2 posted on 04/25/2009 8:01:52 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: reaganaut1

And eventually the USSA will drop to the
approximate economic productivity of Finland


3 posted on 04/25/2009 8:04:19 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: reaganaut1

In addition to low pay, he left out high taxes.


4 posted on 04/25/2009 8:05:21 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by governments. You've been warned.)
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To: reaganaut1
That is a depressing article. Not my idea of the American Dream.
5 posted on 04/25/2009 8:05:29 PM PDT by Tarheel (From the Old North State)
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To: popdonnelly

Don’t forget gas lines and turning down the thermostat to 68.


6 posted on 04/25/2009 8:07:51 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: reaganaut1

6. Shovel ready projects without enough shovels or people who know how to operate them.


7 posted on 04/25/2009 8:11:53 PM PDT by OCC
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To: Tarheel
That is a depressing article. Not my idea of the American Dream.

I know, not mine either. Let's stop this guy and his party.

8 posted on 04/25/2009 8:12:33 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

If Obama gets his way it is the end of the American dream. You will always stay into the class in which you were born. Of course since the democrats are in charge now they become the politariat and all is well they are good you know *scarasm*


9 posted on 04/25/2009 8:13:17 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: reaganaut1
(Rush sarcasm mode)

You people just don't get it. This is the ultimate in security planning. This could be called the Rhodesian strategy.

By the time his programs are full steam (2 yrs), this nation will be in such chaos, and ruin, that no self respecting enemy nation would even bother to think twice about attacking us, as no one could tell if they had, or not. It would be pointless!

Yes we can, Thank You Satan 1:50

10 posted on 04/25/2009 8:14:14 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Yes we can, Thank You Satan)
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One of the gripe against the Bush economy was the “decline in real wages” accounting for the “wrong direction” poll numbers.
Let’s check those real wages numbers after a dose of Obamanimics.


11 posted on 04/25/2009 8:15:14 PM PDT by brianr10
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One of the gripe against the Bush economy was the “decline in real wages” accounting for the “wrong direction” poll numbers. Let’s check those real wages numbers after a dose of Obamanimics.

Since the so called BUSH economy was built on the back of the biggest real estate fraud bubble the world has ever seen. What was the real Bush economy!!!

In a few years we may look at the biggest bailout, stimulus, fraud bubble the world has ever seen and that will be the obamma economy.

12 posted on 04/25/2009 8:23:54 PM PDT by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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To: org.whodat

Not to mention the Clinton economy, built on the back of the biggest dot com fraud bubble the world has ever seen.


13 posted on 04/25/2009 8:36:42 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler ("Mr. President, I support you but not your mission. I'm showing my patriotism through dissent.")
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To: reaganaut1
The Big O should be required to use a Zil as the new Presidents car. That will fix him.
14 posted on 04/25/2009 8:50:17 PM PDT by JimC214
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To: libh8er

New Hampshire did this to America by selecting him in the first place. We where doomed from the start.


15 posted on 04/25/2009 8:55:46 PM PDT by cameraeye (We are the saviors of the Republic!)
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To: JimC214
The Big O should be required to use a Zil as the new Presidents car.

I have a suggestion for a new obamachopper. Autorotate on this Barry.

16 posted on 04/25/2009 9:06:54 PM PDT by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash ?)
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To: Jeff Chandler

True!!!!


17 posted on 04/25/2009 9:08:51 PM PDT by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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To: reaganaut1

“low pay and tiny cars” ... just like Cuba and Venezuela, which are led by two of Obama’s best socialist buddies.


18 posted on 04/25/2009 9:10:04 PM PDT by boroman
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To: reaganaut1

He had me worried near the end of page two; I thought for a minute he was going to go ‘Hinckley’ on us...


19 posted on 04/25/2009 9:18:09 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: HangnJudge

And eventually the USSA will drop to the
approximate economic productivity of Finland

if we are lucky
could be zimbabwe.
An excellent article, many people are warning us, only a few are listening.


20 posted on 04/25/2009 9:19:30 PM PDT by genghis
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