Posted by
Playful Walrus on Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:42:01 PM
If we get an Obama Presidency and a Democrat supermajority in the legislature, we can expect to see...
Men’s Rights/Father’s Rights – Please! Joe Biden has demonstrated hostility to his own sex and Obama’s going to go along with Biden and the feministas because his own father wasn’t around. This will not bode well for marriage and fatherhood as men will increasingly see those as too risky, thanks to existing inequalities continuing and new ones being put into place.
Health Care – More socialization in health care will make things less efficient and there will be fewer choices and slower advancement of technology. Increased government involvement will give the government the "right" to intrude more into our personal decisions so that we won’t make unhealthy ones, because they will cost "the government" more. Don’t expect this to discourage harmful sexual behavior – it will mainly apply to mandating more treatments for children against the wishes of parents, more targeting of tobacco and gun makers and food and restaurant businesses.
In the Courts – Appointment of many activist, far-Left judges who place foreign ideas over our Constitution, as the Democrats stop the foot-dragging on confirmations they’ve been doing ever since Bush was elected. These judges will discover new "rights" that infringe upon existing rights, likely including a "right" to state-issued marriage licenses for monosexual couples.
Illegal Alien Amnesty Without the Necessary Border Control – This will create even more government-dependent citizens, more Democrat voters, a strain on our system, and will encourage more illegal aliens to come here and stay here, feeding a vicious cycle.
New Taxes and Tax Increases – Taking wealth away from those who produced it, and using that to expand government and provide services to people who haven’t created that wealth.
Economy – The taxes will be bad for the economy as the wealth-producers change their behavior, invest elsewhere, cut back, or cash out and coast the rest of their lives. Any economic problems will be blamed on "the greedy rich", further fostering class envy, and the "failed policies of Bush" still reverberating. This will, or course, necessitate more regulation and more taxes. Changes in trade polices will only make things worse as Americans will have fewer imports to choose or will have to pay more for them, and we will have more trouble exporting. In the name of preventing "climate change", crippling restrictions will be imposed on businesses. This may be offset with government corporate welfare, making the businesses dependent on Democrats.
Big Labor Gets Bigger – Since unions funnel money to the Democrats, the Democrats will do everything they can to boost union membership, making it easier for unions to organize workplaces and harder for any of the employees to opt out, even if they detest the union and what it does with dues money.
Iraq – Obama will either pull us out of Iraq too fast or will move too slowly for the fringe Left. Anything bad that happens there will be blamed on Bush, anything good will be attributed to Obama.
Afghanistan – No amount of effort is going to find/kill bin Laden without killing a high number of American soldiers, or "innocent civilians". It is just the nature of the terrain and the realities of the local politics.
Terrorism – Terrorists we have detained will be set free or will entered into our stateside judicial system, and if convicted, placed in our prison systems for while, where they will recruit more terrorists and then they will be released into our society. Deferring too much to the U.N. will make us a sitting duck.
Education – Quality will decline, but the amount of time schools have children and the amount of control over the lives of those children will increase. More money will be funneled to universities, colleges, and trade schools in a wasteful way that drives up tuition costs and encourages more students to become dependent on loans and government assistance, and possibly spend a longer time in school as dependent students, creating more Democrat voters.
Housing – More government housing will be provided to people who were irresponsible about housing before. Bad loans will again be encouraged, with taxpayers backing them up. Developers will essentially be forced to build "mixed”"housing so that a certain number of units will be subsidized by the other renters/buyers so that people who don’t earn as much as they do can live like they do, right next door.
Stifling Free Speech – They’ll try to return the "Fairness Doctrine" to kill conservative talk radio. Hollywood film and television studios will be exempt as they only criticize Obama for not being far enough Left, otherwise supporting him.
Larger and New Government Programs – Which will mean higher taxes for a long time to come, more government-dependent-Democrat-voting people, and more interference in our personal and professional lives.
Attack on Second Amendment – More restrictions on gun purchases, ownership, and self-defense. Any organized group on the Right that criticizes Obama will be treated like a terrorist threat, only worse that actual terrorists will be treated. They will be barred from gun ownership.
The bottom line is that will have less freedom and liberty as we will have fewer choices and will retain less of our own earnings. More of us will depend on the federal government to do more for us.