Barack Obama is winner in the 2008 American elections. The losers for the next four years are clearly set out in a recent Human Events piece by Pat Buchanan entitled “Obama’s First 100 Days (10-28-08):
”What does the triumvirate of Obama-Pelosi-Reid offer?
Rep. Barney Frank is calling for new tax hikes on the most successful and a 25 percent across-the-board slash in national defense. Sen. John Kerry is talking up new and massive federal spending, a la FDR's New Deal. Specifically, we can almost surely expect:
-- Swift amnesty for 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens and a drive to make them citizens and register them, as in the Bill Clinton years. This will mean that Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona will soon move out of reach for GOP presidential candidates, as has California.
-- Border security will go on the backburner, and America will have a virtual open border with a Mexico of 110 million.
-- Taxes will be raised on the top 5 percent of wage-earners, who now carry 60 percent of the U.S. income tax burden, and tens of millions of checks will be sent out to the 40 percent of wage-earners who pay no federal income tax. Like the man said, redistribute the wealth, spread it around.
-- Social Security taxes will be raised on the most successful among us, and capital gains taxes will be raised from 15 percent to 20 percent. The Bush tax cuts will be repealed, and death taxes reimposed.
-- Two or three more liberal activists of the Ruth Bader Ginsberg-John Paul Stevens stripe will be named to the Supreme Court. U.S. district and appellate courts will be stacked with "progressives."
-- Special protections for homosexuals will be written into all civil rights laws, and gays and lesbians in the military will be invited to come out of the closet. "Don't ask, don't tell" will be dead.
-- The homosexual marriages that state judges have forced California, Massachusetts and Connecticut to recognize, an Obama Congress or Obama court will require all 50 states to recognize.
-- A "Freedom of Choice Act" nullifying all state restrictions on abortions will be enacted. America will become the most pro-abortion nation on earth.
-- Affirmative action -- hiring and promotions based on race, sex and sexual orientation until specified quotas are reached -- will be rigorously enforced throughout the U.S. government and private sector.
-- Universal health insurance will be enacted, covering legal and illegal immigrants, providing another powerful magnet for the world to come to America, if necessary by breaching her borders.
-- A federal bailout of states and municipalities to keep state and local governments spending up could come in December or early next year.
-- The first trillion-dollar deficit will be run in the first year of an Obama presidency. It will be the first of many.”
America is being led into a deep, perilous, and Godless darkness.
I have to say, every time I
I have to say, every time I read these columns, I laugh. Not necessarily AT Mr. Farrell, but at the things he states. I don't believe that Obama is the Anti-Christ, and I don't think he's going to turn this country over to Al-Qaeda. I am not a registered voter anymore, and I'm glad I'm not, this time around. I couldn't have voted for either man, as neither stands for the things I believe in. I am NOT pro-choice, but I don't believe Obama will make a sweeping decision to make it totally legal no matter what, all across the board. I also am not disillusioned enough to believe any president will ever make it totally ILLEGAL either. I don't support gay marriage, but we all know that Prop. 8 will be over-turned again, so why waste time arguing about it? Being from Fillmore, I say WHO CARES if Obama taxes people who make over $200k a year, and gives those of who DON'T, a break!?!? The majority of the people in this country are WORKING-CLASS, not white collar executives. We are the ones who are suffering right now, thanks to George Bush and BIG OIL. I just hope that Obama can turn this country around, and had John McCain won, I'd say the same thing. We need a change, no matter who is president.
erika
"erikab"...I do not laugh.
"erikab"...I do not laugh. These editorials are serious issues we have virtual evidence on; they are not just a feeling someone has about an issue or about a person; they are factoids. All that has to be done now, is to set these plans and programs in motion and they then become evidential to the operational management of this country. I agree with your comment that we do need a change. We require one and hope to high Heaven we get the changes we need to have. The President cannot make decisions like a sitting dictator can. With so many surrounding him advising him, and giving him historical facts, he also has to coordinate with the congress and senate in order to slide these plans and programs from one side of his desk to the other, with approvals in the middle. Obama has the almost-impossible task or re-organizing this country's (the USA) problems, and believe me, it may take more than four years to do that. Yeah, we do need a "change", and just because of a campaign slogan, I did not vote for that particular candidate who professed "change" in his rhetoric. "Change" is an understatement in the case of the USA right now.