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Here's what's going to happen starting in January, after the Republican ticket loses. These issues are going to affect you:
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- More taxes across the board. I don't care which party wins, you will have to pay higher taxes to pay for the programs which have been initiated during this current crisis in the lame duck session. For either candidate to say that there will be no increase in taxes is, quite frankly, balderdash. But, one candidate is going to expand government without a doubt: Obama. For those of you who have worked hard to get where you are - and, more importantly, continue to work hard to stay where you are - you are going to pay a higher share of the burden under Obama to reward those who don't.
- More government programs. Because of the first bullet point, we will require a bigger bureaucracy to support the expanding socialist government we live (or will soon live) in. The government is comfortable dropping $20-30 billion on programs across the board, including expanding healthcare coverage, paying into an ailing education system (that needs reformmore than it does more money thrown at it), and subsidizing the banking industry. How they're going to pay for it... EHHH... just pesky details.
- Democractic President, Democratic Congress. Be prepared for the full reign of Nancy Pelosi and the "left-coast" liberals to begin to have their way with the American people. You will see ridiculous mandates being handed down across a wide variety of industries, from requirements in the healthcare field to achieve greater "patient advocacy" standards with less money to a far-too-rapid insititution of high-cost, low-efficiency alternative energy programs (see bullet 2). It will be an onslaught of drastic "change" that doesn't have any foundation in or real grasp of the complexity of the current problems faced, nor understanding or foresight of the new problems this change will create.
- America, the "Sir Robin" of the World. "When danger reared its ugly head, Sir Robin turned his tail and fled. Brave, brave, brave, Sir Robin." The world will learn that the U.S. will back down from conflict and adopt a more xenophobic approach to world affairs. The mistaken belief that this will "rehabilitate" our world image will instead be seen as a sign that we are weak and non-committal. This will begin with a stand-down of action in Iraq and a time table for withdrawal.
- Che Guevara... Saul Mendelson... Barrack Obama? This administration's mission statement will be posited as a rebirth of "Nationalism" and a spirited effort to "change this country back into a Great Nation." What we will have is a leader who is long on social idealism, but weak in actually being able to effect change (as has been proven by his short and ineffectual record in the Senate). He will be someone who disdains the perceived "power elite" of this country, yet will be forced to work with them. Revolutionary? Hardly. What we are going to get is more of the same: ineffectual, bloated government that attempts to dictate policies that they perceive to be the "best" course of action for this country. What it will be instead is a crash course in the reality of learning to deal with diversity of opinion, in lieu of simply putting forth and achieving what is perceived to be one man's vision for a better America.
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