The United States of Obama

The greatest hoax perpetrated on American society has now achieved a second term. Barack Obama and his radical socialist ideals will now have 4 more years to entrench itself and the America as we knew it will cease to exist.

If that portion of the electorate that voted for him thinks it has achieved victory, it is vastly mistaken. The economic growth of the country will remain stagnate along with Europe, the poor will become poorer and more dependent with little hope of advancing to the middle class, the middle class will continue to shrink, and the government will get bigger and more intrusive stifling investment and opportunity. Public sector unions will become even more powerful and demand even more pay and benefits. Even FDR opposed public sector unions.

Energy costs will continue to rise and the country's infrastructure will fall into increased disrepair. What the government doesn't control, it will tax until it runs out of other people's money as Margaret Thatcher so wisely said, and if it runs out, as it already has, it will borrow or print even more.

The deficit will continue to grow exponentially. The 16 plus trillion right now will grow to about 24 trillion by end of 2016. The executive branch will continue to push entitlements and Congress will not have the votes or the willpower to cut entitlements and the budget significantly. Taxes will increase and revenue from taxes will continue to stagnate or drop in a lackluster economy. Any budget resolution will raise taxes while promising budget cuts that will never happen.

It will continue it's nationalization of the health care system resulting in less quality health care and drive competent doctors and hospitals into private care where they will only serve those with money and/or high cost private health insurance. Medicare and Medicaid will not have the money to care for those in the program and the life span for those people will begin to shrink.

Our enemies will take advantage of America's decline and advance their economic and military control over the rest of the world. Iran will get nuclear weapons and Israel's existence will be in doubt. Other nations will develop nuclear weapons to counter the Iranian threat and the world will become like the wild west. America will cease to be the beacon of freedom or the "shining city on the hill".

I don't know how long this deteriorating process will take, but I have lost faith in the electorate with it's zombie like voting. Our democracy cannot work without an informed and educated public. I would like to feel more optimistic of course. Maybe Americans will find a way to work out of this mess. For instance, maybe the States could take matters into their own hands and start to control their own destiny and find ways to separate themselves from the federal system. If we don't find a way to see ourselves clear, the America we once knew is lost.