A Frightening Future

I am writing as if Obama has already won the 2008 presidential election. If my expectations are incorrect, then I will rejoice. If they are correct, then I'll continue in my politically unhopeful attitude.

Looking at the next four years and what might happen could give many conservatives a heart attack. We will have elected a president more liberal than possibly any previous office-holder. He has radical ties, radical ideas, big-government plans, and a far-left voting record. He comes to unite America...under a hyper-liberal banner. He's not moving toward the middle to unify, he's sucking us toward the left.

By tomorrow we will have elected a democrat-majority Senate, possibly even a filibuster-proof Senate. We will also have a vast majority of democrats in the House of Representatives. These are the "leaders" who have done only one thing the past four years. Which is to say they have done everything in their power to not let George W. Bush get anything done with his power.

These leaders began their adult lives during the 1960s. These are the people who belong to possibly the most hippie generation of all. Think about that. Obama + powerful hippies = 4/8 years of enormous government growth.

Obama has the same political leanings as FDR and his New Deal. He has the same social ideologies as LBJ and The Great Society. He has the same economic leanings as Jimmy Carter. Three presidents, three eras of government growth (not all of the things coming out of these presidents was bad, but as a whole...). Now, one president, one massive era of government growth.

Hey Everybody! Jimmy Carter already tried to tax the rich. Remember the years after putting that policy in place? Yeah, our economy tanked. Guess what? Our economy is already hurting and Carterism will hurt it even more. We are told that FDR's New Deal programs were not supposed to last forever. Hey Everybody! Guess what? Government programs never go away.

Americans listen up, we are going to take HUGE steps backwards from our position of freedom. A man named John Coleman once said, "The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away." Remember that! WE are the government. WE give away four months worth of our taxes every year so that brilliant politicians can decide what to do with it. We should keep more of our money and make decisions which WE feel are best for us. If WE make the decisions instead of THEM, WE will be better for it. If we let THEM, make the decisions, THEY will be better for it. That's a fairly simple concept in my opinion. Taxing more of our citizens' money is equivalent to giving up more freedom.

What this all comes down to is the fact that government programs, as a whole, do not benefit society. If taxing more and spending more was the key to social justice and eliminating poverty, then we would have a complete just society lacking poverty. Yet, we still deal with injustice and poverty so we must change our strategy.

I really can not think about this any longer, it is simply too depressing knowing that the people voting for Obama will be the same people that are hurt most by Obama.