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That's My Opinion...
Obama's great quest
By Bob Robinson
Well,
it was bound to happen. It took nearly 19 months of online publication
seven days a week, but my poor old computer finally rebelled. She will
be getting an internal face lift today. It will take a couple days to
get back to normal, but we'll be back on track shortly.
That, however, is not the reason for this opinion piece. Romney's pick of Paul Ryan as his V.P. running mate is.
Talk
about an energized base... Ryan is the Conservative's conservative. He
authored the balanced budget that the House passed and Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid refused to allow on the floor for a vote. Not that
that's news. Obama is likely to be come the only president in U.S.
history not to have a budget during his administration. I don't mean
"balanced budget." We're talking a budget period.
Ask any CPA... that's a formula for bankruptcy.
Ryan
wants a balanced budget that will (finally) start decreasing the size
of an obese federal bureaucracy. His plan is supposed to "save" Social
Security and Medicare and keep taxes at a level that doesn't destroy
jobs; rather promotes an environment where businesses can start
creating jobs again.
Ryan has also energized the left. It
was only a matter of hours before the Obama team put out a laundry list
of everything we are supposed to hate about Ryan: he will gut Medicare
as we know it; he will give tax breaks to the wealthy and raise taxes
on the middle class to pay for it (that sure sounds familiar); he will
take away the rights that women have fought decades to attain; and
more... much much more.
Do an Internet search and you will
find a very prolific left outnumbering the right by about 3 to 1 with
its reasons to hate what Romney/Ryan will do if they are elected.
This
is a no-holds-barred election that will determine the fate of America.
Possibly for all time. And Obama 'et al' has no compunctions about
tossing out every lie it can possibly think of. Don't believe me? Have
you seen the TV spot where Romney killed the wife of a worker who lost
his job (and his insurance) when Romney was running Bain? It was an
out-and-out lie. Even some Democrats have distanced themselves from
it... Obama hasn't.
Every candidate for president in U.S.
history (after George Washington, I would imagine) ran for the Office
because he wanted to serve/lead/whatever. Otherwise, why would they put
themselves under so much scrutiny and partisanship commentary? Some
have been willing to cross the line in their desire to achieve the
position of "leader of the free world." In recent elections, it seems
to be worse; but if you check out your history, it's probably no worse
now than it was in Lincoln's day.
Oops. Sorry. I forgot. Many of our schools no longer teach history... so how would anyone know that?
I
think Obama goes beyond a single-minded desire for another four years.
With him, I believe it is more like a "quest" or "passion" to remake
America and he needs the full eight years to do it. Take for example
his statement: "You didn't create those jobs... someone else did!" He
says it was taken out of context. I believe he meant every word of it.
Government control and/or arbitrary (possibly unconstitutional)
Presidential decisions lie at the root of everything he has done to
date: Obamacare, auto industry bailout, clemency for illegal aliens,
removing the work requirement from welfare and his systematic
destruction of the coal and other industries through EPA mandates...
Creating jobs in a robust economy is the benchmark of the American success story. He wants to change that.
There's
a book on the market: "Fool Me Twice" by Aaron Klein and Brenda
Elliott. In it the authors describe Obama's plans for his next four
years: a National Infrastructure Development Bank to control the
financial system; a massive government-run jobs program to coincide
with "paycheck fairness;" full amnesty for all illegal aliens;
defunding the military; new multi-billion dollar "green stimulus"
funding; and implementing Obamacare in measures nearly impossible to
reverse.
"And that is just the start," they said.
I
don't know where or how they got their information or how accurate it
may be. But I know what he's done in his first four years; and it may
not have been reported in the main stream media, but I also remember
the sound bite to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev: "This is my last
election," Obama told Medvedev. "After my election I have more
flexibility."
Sounds like Obama's America is going to be straight out of the Karl Marx playbook.
The issues are pretty straight forward. We're talking two diametrically opposed "visions" of America.
One
will be an attempt to bring America back to it's original greatness.
Painful, as it has already been to some extent in Ohio, but getting
government back to the vision of the founding fathers as they
established the Constitution of the United States of America. The other
a "Brave New World" of Utopian government care and control that has
been tried repeatedly throughout history with failure the consistent
end result.
Over and over, the progressives have always said they just didn't do it right... "We will."
Obama's great quest is on track. Four more years and he just might pull it off.
That's My Opinion. What's Yours?
For the link to "Fool Me Twice" click here
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