Posted by
Roxanna M. on Friday, May 30, 2008 11:39:37 AM
Regardless of who wins in November, America as we know it will cease to exist at some point thereafter. In it's place will be a country unrecognizable by our Founding Fathers and by us.
For starters, all three candidates have bought into the global warming/climate change hoax that is ravaging the planet. All three do so because it is the popular thing to do, and they want to get elected. While the two on the left might actually believe all the drivel they have read about this, I believe the one on the right espouses "the cause" only because it is popular to do so. Where is the man who claims to be a maverick?
Barack Obama has been given the title of the most liberal member of the Senate. Aside from his tax and spend proposals, he is the man who said: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK". With those words we are being given a chilling look at the monster behind the benign mask we see on the campaign trail.
Is Mr. Obama really of the opinion that he -- should We the People be so stupid as to put him in the White House -- be the one to decide what we can drive, how much we can eat, and how hot or cool we can keep our homes? Mr. Obama is also the man who recently said that high gas prices would change our driving habits. Apparently, he is unaware of the fact that high fuel prices will also change our living habits, our eating habits, our buying habits, and all of our other habits. Where is his concern for the American people?
Totalitarian is defined as: relating to, or advocating a political regime based on subordination of the individual to the state and strict control of all aspects of life, especially by coercive measures. Mr. Obama is a totalitarian, and God help us should he get the chance to inflict himself on this country.
Hillary Clinton is an unabashed, avowed liberal at best and a communist at worst. She might try to hide it, but she can't. Her statement that she was "going to take some things away from us for the common good" is no different than Marx' statement "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need." We have seen the trial balloons she has floated regarding one government spending program after another. We watched when she tried to take over 1/7 of the economy with her so-called health care "reform". We have seen the greedy, grasping meanness of her husband and herself with regard to the amassing of money. (I got mine, but you ain't gonna get yours.)
John McCain has bought into the idea of a League of Democracies, which would act when the "United Nations fails to" or to "pressure tyrants". Great, just what we need, another global organization that serves no purpose whatsoever other than to suck up money like a black hole. America already is the main support of the United Nations, do you really think it would be any different with this new bureaucracy?
A study by the Heritage Foundation predicts that the cost of "fixing" climate change will be:
* cumulative GDP losses of at least $1.7 trillion that could reach $4.8 trillion by 2030 (in inflation-adjusted 2006) dollars
* single-year GDP losses of at least $155 billion that could exceed $500 billion (ditto)
* the average household would pay $467 more each year for natural gas and electricity (ditto)
* annual job losses exceeding 500,000 before 2030 and maybe exceeding a million
* $100 billion for the annual cost of "emission permits"
Next week, the Senate is going to take up SB 2191, the America's Climate Security Act put forth by Joe Lieberman and John Warner. A study by Charles River Associates says that this bill would raise electricity prices by 36% to 65% by 2015 and 80% to 125% by 2050.
The Heritage Foundation says the bill would raise gasoline prices by $1.10 a gallon by 2030.
What's going to happen to the price of gas if the democrats make good on Maxine Waters' pledge to "socialize" the industry? Would democrats actually seize an entire industry? Would that be "American"?
So, we've got rising energy costs. Rising health care costs. Rising food costs. Rising cost of living costs. Costs to "fix" climate change. Costs for the United Nations. Costs for the League of Democracies. Costs for all the new spending programs. Costs for all the new bureaucracies necessary to implement the new spending programs. Where does it end?
We're no longer a free people. We are the slaves of an out-of-control government pretending to be looking out for our bests interests but really doing nothing more than demanding ever more of the fruits of our labor, all the while arrogating more and more power to itself. In the future, our "freedom" will consist of working harder and harder for less and less, living in squalor, while the government applies the lash of taxes and regulation to our already bent and broken back.
Regardless of who is elected in November, the America of the future is not the America of today and certainly not the America that our Founding Fathers fought and died to establish.