Promises and Secrets
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Obama
VIEWPOINT
Well, the public has spoken. Barak Hussein Obama has been reelected for a second term in the oval office. Drat.
FACT
Obama promised to change this country. Now he has been reelected.
VIEWPOINT
What did you think?
BLUE VIEWPOINT
Obama promised change, and now we see that change.
Without re-hashing the multitude of statements made during the campaign, look at the state of the country.
What does this mean?
Obama's TaxaCare wll remain in force, hitting the middle class with a huge burden, gutting Medicare, and providing "free" care to illegal immigrants. Not to mention the increasing debt burden left to future generations that have not yet been born.
Women will still be able get abortion on demand. This means that people can enjoy their sexual activity without responsibility or commitment, so the rest of us can shoulder the burden of "medical care" for the results of their promiscuity.
The borders of this country will remain porous, placing a burden on our schools and hospitals at tremendous cost the middle class. This burden will reduce the tax resources for the services we actually need from the government so we can pay for "free" services for people who enter the country illegally.
Stifling regulations will continue to hold back business growth, keeping the unemployment rate high - higher than is actually being reported. Development of oil and other natural resources in this country will remain blocked by the presidential moratorium in order for the development of the pie-in-the-sky green energy sources to continue at a pace that does not come near to meeting our needs. This increases, rather than decreasing, our dependence on foreign oil because we still need the oil and gas to keep the economy going. This is not because green development is a bad idea, but because green energy has not been developed far enough to replace what works for us now.
Racism will continue to be acceptable on the left side of the aisle, in the form of quotas and affirmative action, but the same practices, when tempered by the practice of hiring the best qualified candidate for the job regardless of race, will not be acceptable if supported by those on the right.
This country will continue to accept the idleness of those generations raised on welfare, those who are fully capable of work, without even attempting to limit the duration of their dependence on those of us who work to pay for their standard of living.
Well, he did what he promised.
OK. We got the changes we were promised, but they were not what we thought they were when we heard them promised. Those of you in the young generation - 18 to 25 - and those women who voted for their "reproductive rights" (a misnomer, by the way), have you considered where we might be in 4 years with more of the same? I'm not asking if you have repeated the mantra of every liberal rally or if you got emotionally charged when the crowd starts chanting "down with Republicans". Have you stopped to consider the natural course of events of these policies, and countless others, that are "promises" to "change America"?
If you look even a year out, and consider the inevitable results of our actions, it is impossible to miss the impending trouble on the way. You cannot continue going to the mall with your credit card every night, buying what you want instead of what you need and expect to pay the bill if you do not have the income to support that activity.
"Change" can be bad
If you are promised "change", what are you getting? All you know so far is that you will get something different than you now have. If you have an allowance of $5, and someone offers you change, are you excited? If you then get $4 instead, the promise has been kept! If you then find that you had to pay the government $5 in order to get the $4, you have still received what was promised, but now instead of having the $5, you are $1 in the hole. However, you cannot complain because you got your promised "change".
Far fetched? This is what is happening with Obama care today. It looks so good to young people today because they are getting something that is being paid for by the "rich". Yet, how many of them have investigated the state of social medicine, and the taxes required to maintain it, currently available in Canada just across the border? How many have considered that if the government confiscated 100% of the income of the "rich", it still would not cover our deficit.
How many have considered that when the rich have been plundered once for everything they have, there will be no more rich. Then who pays for the money we need to run the country? The middle class will become the rich, so we take their money. Then who pays for defense, highways, energy development, health care? Who hires people if there are no jobs because the "rich" are gone (broke or out of the country with their money)? How can we complain about people sending their money offshore when we want to take it away from them and give it to someone who did not earn it or even took the time to become a citizen? Promises? More like threats.
Real life
This reminds me of the story about the grade school class that had an election to select a class president.
A boy and a girl ran against each other. The boy said that he promised to ask the teacher to never assign homework the Friday before the weekends in exchange for a little more each weeknight. He also promised to ask for 5 more minutes on their recess time at lunch if they started classes five minutes earlier in the day. The girl stood before the class and promised them ice cream. The girl won the election.
What's my point? The boy promised to work out a change that would work for everyone, would not violate existing rules but may require concessions in other areas, like a little more homework on weeknights to prevent loss of learning. The students were aware of any costs to achieve what the boy was promising to seek. This was too mundane for the students and would not make enough of a "change" in their lives, and they could see that they would pay for it in the end.
The little girl made no such explanation of the costs of her offer. The students had no idea who was paying for the ice cream, and they did not care. They were promised delivery of something they thought they wanted and voted for someone who they thought would "give" it to them, though they were never promised a "gift". The girl did not say that she had only two options to pay for the "gift": collect their lunch money to pay for the ice cream, or send the bill to their parents. What they could not see is that they were going to end up paying for the ice cream themselves, even if it cost them their plans for the bicycle they were saving to buy.
The students got the candidate they voted for, but they did not get what they thought they were promised. There was a cost they did not see because they only wanted some kind of change and did not consider the cost. This is exactly what happened in America in 2008. Obama promised change, and delivered. He did not even describe what the change was going to be or how he would deliver, he just promised ice cream. And the majority of voters went for it. Now we pay the bill.
Here comes the cost
The clever part of all this is that the young people who elected him in 2012 still do not see the cost. Obama has delivered some ice cream, but the bill is not due until he is out of office and the collection of the lunch money is on us in the form of increased taxes. Today's believers are preparing to eat the ice cream and rejoice at the party, all while our children are in liberal schools learning how to vote for the next promise of ice cream. Who's going to pay for it?
When we were "deciding" whether we wanted Obama's health care plan with the Mandate, many called it a tax. Obama himself when asked said, "I Absolutely Reject [the] Notion That It's a Tax". And what did we discover when Judge Roberts took his cowardly stand in the court? This is a tax so Congress has the legal authority to pass it. If it had been known as a tax to begin with, would Congress have allowed it to go through? Not if they wanted to stay in office.
2016 Update
Donald Trump beat Hillary in the 2016 elections. He has been in office for 6 months as of this writing. He has made promises that the country can live with, but he is getting resistance not only from the left, but from his own party as well. This doesn't make sense to me, but we will see if the people keep him from keeping his promises so they can go back to promises that are not kept by their own candidate.
Confused? I am.
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