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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

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To: reaganaut1
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.

6. $8.00 a gallon Gasoline

7. Soaring inflation.

8. Massive tax increases through cap and trade.

9. Thought control through the "fairness doctrine" and "hate crimes" legislation against anything that criticizes the government.

10. Gun control.

11. Indoctrination of youth from Bill Ayers' "Early childhood education" outcome based programs.

12. Submission to Sharia law and appeasement to the Muslims.

13. Collapse of the Dollar.

21 posted on 04/25/2009 9:47:41 PM PDT by Wil H (The most destructive act of Muslim terrorism against the US was paying for 0bama's Harvard education)
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To: reaganaut1

Do not forget his Planned Grandparenthood clinics to stem the cost of health care for the elderly. After all, his administration keeps stating the statistics that 85% of health care costs are spent in the last year of ones life. So, mandatory death age, ala Logan’s Run... You people are screwed!!!!


22 posted on 04/25/2009 10:09:08 PM PDT by Semperfiwife (Pelosi, Dodd, Reid, Frank....Scary Movie 1Trillion)
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To: reaganaut1
The essay states:

“The earnings premium paid to highly educated workers will decline as the number of men and women competing for those jobs increases, and the relative wages of the fewer blue-collar — by then, green-collar — workers will increase.”

“.....fewer blue collar workers.....?”

Wrong.

Wages paid to lower skill workers will continue to stagnate or decline.

The reason?

Immigration, both legal and illegal, will surge as the path to USA citizenship is made simpler and enforcement against illegal workers completely disappears.

23 posted on 04/25/2009 11:13:20 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: OCC

There are plenty of people who know how a shovel works, they are just too damn lazy to lift one.


24 posted on 04/26/2009 1:19:39 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: reaganaut1

The eco-nazis now have the president they’ve dreamed about having. They hate humans, and their ultimate goal is to place the remaining members of the human race in tiny boxes in large cities with no automobiles and no access outside the city limits except under strict supervision. All guns will be confiscated and all golf courses turned into farms for growing soy beans. Why soy beans? To make the tofu which everybody will be forced to eat of course after vegetarianism is made compulsory.


25 posted on 04/26/2009 2:17:04 AM PDT by driftless2 (four)
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To: reaganaut1

The SHEEPEL have spoken. Thet want communism. Every thing is free. Trouble is there will be no everything.


26 posted on 04/26/2009 4:24:22 AM PDT by G-Man 1
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4. A glut of college graduates.

A pet peeve of mine. What's worse than the crop of useless sociology majors is the PC-brainwashing and the inculcation of intellectual sloth and habitual vice.

I'm indifferent or opposed to college for my kids, because I'm all in favor of education.

27 posted on 04/26/2009 7:16:41 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: reaganaut1
Well, the free traders should like the low pay part. As long as it's not their jobs, of course.
28 posted on 04/26/2009 7:17:32 AM PDT by mysterio
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To: rawcatslyentist
This could be called the Rhodesian strategy.

I'm old enough to remember the old Rhodesia, the one run by evil white people. They sure were evil. And white.

You don't hear much about Rhodesia/Zimbabwe these days, do you? Things must be going great, since all the evil white people are gone.

29 posted on 04/26/2009 7:19:30 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: JimC214
I'd like to see Mz. Napalitano and Mssr. Barney Frank cruising together in one of those “smart” cars.

If their a*ses aren't dragging already they will when they plunk their large ones down in the seats.

It's going to look like Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble cruising along the Beltway.

Cartoon PLEASE!

30 posted on 04/26/2009 8:17:26 AM PDT by not2worry (WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND)
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>"Things must be going great, since all the evil white people are gone."

Number one song is "Bring Me My Machinegun".

Of course they are still reliant on the evil white people for sneakers, glasses, and ammo for their machineguns.

31 posted on 04/26/2009 8:31:24 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (<P><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajsov1M4h50">Yes we can, Thank You Satan 1:50</a>)
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