Happy New Year, America! What the Obama Victory Really
Means
January 1, 2013
Barack Obama is arguably the most corrupt American president
since Warren G. Harding. From Project Fast & Furious to Benghazi,
the president is alleged to have known nothing as events were playing
out, and even less after they finally came to light. The real problem
is that America may well be too far gone down the road toward becoming
a fading western capitalistic democracy - as so many European nations
already are - to care.
In light of the so-called "fiscal cliff" negotiations,
the question of Obama's true intentions toward the United States come
into stark relief.
First: Eight-, nine-, even ten-percent-and-rising unemployment
is exactly what Obama wants.
The extension of unemployment benefits the president is
negotiating as part of his fiscal cliff spending increase package has
nothing to do with helping those without jobs.
Like his administration's policy of encouraging more and
more people to take foodstamps, the extension of unemployment benefits
is part of his true aim: To bring America under the thumb of a soviet-style
dictatorship where government controls American citizens to the point
of reducing as many of us as possible to living subsistence-level lives
in the name of "fairness."
And the fact that America is moving toward becoming a
nation of $8-an-hour part-time workers because of the enormous labyrinth
of new anti-business regulations Obamacare is bringing into being? It's
exactly what Barack Obama wants.
The middle class has always been the enemy of the political
left, and it's no different with Obama. The underclass and the überclass
is what it's all about, and those in the middle are heading toward the
bottom.
It's exactly this political division that was his goal
all along. And the fact that voters who are dependent on the government
and who buy into the Democrats' perverse idea of, for instance, what women
ought to be and what they should want out of life are now part of the
Obama majority . . . I'm betting the president is OK with that, too.
Because truly healthy, moral, independent women, married
or single, are something no leftist dictatorship can countenance. Real
women could bring this government down next month if they stood together
for the principles that have made America a great place for women to live
and work.
Economic growth at the level needed to pull us out of
the current economic malaise and stave off the coming depression is the
last thing Obama wants to see. More American high-paying jobs is the furthest
thing from the president's vision of America's future.
His record-pace regulations agenda is a perfect example:
On the day after Labor Day, 2012, the Obama administration posted 165
new business-crushing regulations and notifications on the website Reguations.gov.
In the 90 days before that, it had posted 6,125 new regulations and notices.
Among the new regulations is one that ups the required
flying time to become a commercial airline pilot from 250 hours to 1,500
hours. It's Obama's way of attempting to destroy the airlines industry
as he is the energy industry.
By the middle of the new year, we're likely to see the
beginning of a shortage of airline pilots serious enough to reduce commercial
flights to the point where you might have trouble booking a ticket and
airline revenues will begin to spiral downward, even as the price of flights
goes through the roof.
This, however, will not result in a reduction of the number
of TSA screeners, who, as unionized government employees, are guaranteed
lifetime jobs and medical and retirement benefits at a colossally unsustainable
level.
With John Boehner continuing to veer back and forth from
disturbing sycophancy (Mr. President, "we're ready to be led")
to his "incomprehensible" faux conservatism ("Everything
is on the table," but tax hikes are "off the table" and
"Without significant spending cuts and reforms . . . there will be
no debt limit increase"), and with the president promising to veto
any legislation that doesn't include tax hikes that have no effect on
our nation's insolvency, we're beginning to understand that we're not
simply at the edge of the fiscal cliff, we're well over it and on our
way down, gaining speed according to the law of failing economies, a law
no Democrat will ever understand.
The chances that Obama will do anything different - from
his obtuse and illegal non-submission of budgets, to his ignoring what
little sound economic advice has come his way and his insistence on improving
unionized government workers' compensation and benefits even as those
of private sector employees fall precipitously - are nil.
He's intellectually incapable of even the most rudimentary
understanding of economics, and even if he were his ideological blinders
would make it impossible for him to recognize how they might be put to
constructive use.
The corruption, the divisiveness, the economic stranglehold
this administration is imposing on America will continue unabated, given
Republicans' inability to make a coherent and meaningful case against
it, and the virtual impossibility of getting such a case implemented even
if they could articulate it.
The next four years promise to be a time of hunkering
down as jobs continue to retreat overseas where tax policy is more favorable
to business growth. They promise to see Americans' standard of living
continue its decline as more and more of the president's policies are
implemented.
With no legitimate congressional check on the president's
power, we can only hope that someone like Marco Rubio emerges to lead
the Republican party forward on a conservative path while presenting the
message in a way that makes it clear that we're no longer striped-pants
Republicans but a party that can lead all of the people of this country
- even those who don't understand that they need to be led - out of the
abyss into which Barack Obama has caused us to plunge.
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