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.
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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.
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!!!!
“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.
There are plenty of people who know how a shovel works, they are just too damn lazy to lift one.
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.
The SHEEPEL have spoken. Thet want communism. Every thing is free. Trouble is there will be no everything.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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