Doom.
Friends.
Some, perhaps most of you voted for Obama.
Most of you may think things are going well and will soon get better.
I know a few who think we will soon embark on a new plane, a new dimension, a world of our dreams where the light-workers will show the way to the Aquarian Age.
Ignorance is bliss. I’ve always tried to stay that way, but lately it’s been hard to keep it up. If this year was hard on many Americans, next year the earth will quake and bring us to our knees. In two years, and if nothing changes the direction of the wrecking-ball it will hit the rich, the poor and everyone in between. Let me briefly explain why:
The government has made a tremendous amount of new laws, seized almost total power to control banks, industry, healthcare, businesses and private citizens. We have a national debt that will soon equal our total income as a nation. Some people may look around and say, “Well, I know people are loosing their jobs, too bad – but things are getting better – look at the stock market, they’re doing OK…”
As I understand it:
The reason it looks like we are doing OK is that corporate earnings are taken as early as possible. Businesses know they will get mobbed by taxes and higher energy costs next year, so they are doing everything they can to sell and cash in this year. The taxes and laws that are scheduled to go into effect after the next elections will “A” make it very expensive to produce anything and “B” hobble any incentive for investment. Why would anyone make the effort and take the risk when no reward is possible? “Good”, some may think, “it’s time those evil capitalists learn a lesson”.
Unfortunately those evil capitalists are not stupid, and they are already hiding their money, outsourcing jobs and taking no chances with new investments in the USA. I don’t know about you, but I have never received a good paying job from a poor person, so prepare the plank all you will for the rich and watch what happens.
Most of you voted for “free” healthcare, i.e. healthcare paid by someone else.
Most of you voted for “change”, but did not think it meant a socialist dictatorship.
Most of you wanted honesty and transparency. Perhaps you are now convinced that everybody lies, and there is nothing that can be done about it.
I have to say: If you think Capitalism trades on human suffering, try a Marxist central government with NO personal rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Personally I agree with the person who said they would prefer to go with the first 500 names in the Boston phone book, rather than the current people in office.
It is not a fight between left and right, it is a scramble for freedom before it is lost.
