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Obama's Change
October 3, 2009

From the frying pan into the fire. Don't tell me I didn't warn you. First there was the wild spending of the Bush administration, which threatened to run us into bankruptcy with all the alacrity of a winning long distance runner doing a marathon. Given enough time he would have done it too. And the Republican Congress were riding along with him in a chauffer driven chase car giving him water and adrenaline as needed.

  But now we have Obama, who, combined with Pelosi and Reid, have formed the trifecta of death of our country, the perfect storm of disaster, the hurricane Katrina of the economy the U.S. 

  I've complained about the value of our dollar sliding like a drunk on an ice patch going downhill before, but with those three in charge of the laws that are passed in the U.S. it's a done deal. The dollar is dead. China and the UN have been talking about replacing the dollar as the world's currency, the dollar is being held up only by the stupidity of the citizens of the world who still think there is a room somewhere which is covered with treasure chests of gold backing our dollar,, when all we actually have is a few zillion printing presses which keep printing our money faster and faster, just to pay the debt,, we're in trouble folks

  And then there are the other things that Obama and the dynamic duo of Reid and Pelosi are doing to us. Cap and Trade, which is predicted to double the cost of your utilities without you increasing your usage, will kill jobs and factories and stores, increase the cost of producing everything which will raise the cost at consumer level, and put us on the road to bankruptcy and third world status in a Ferrari at high speed.     

  What Cap and Trade does is basically, cost you money if you produce anything, lots of money, for any carbon you produce while making it. And that's everything that we produce,,there is nothing that doesn't make carbon when being produced.

  Which of course will be passed onto the consumer. And those who can't sell their products due to the extravagant costs will be forced out of business.

And  companies who can produce and sell their products with raised prices but can make all the more profit if they relocate their plants to another country without Cap and Tax will of course do that, and there are less and less jobs in this country.

  And then there is Health Care, known affectionately by some as Obamacare. Town Halls Meetings across the country have erupted into noisy affairs when the proposed bills were explained to them. Approximately 2 million people marched on Washington D.C. in protest, but the Obama supporting media refused to cover it, and Obama, fearing the worst, fled D.C. before they arrived and gave a speech to a carefully screened bunch of supporters about 1300 miles away.

Ah, that wily president of ours.

  I won't bore you with all the arguments against, there are a plethora of those.

  But one thing which has been glossed over even by the conservative talk shows and talking heads are the seldom mentioned "preventative care" measures that Obama keeps talking about when he discusses his plan.

 He wants to cut costs of future health care by cutting fraud and waste, something which our government has such a good track record of, and by "preventative measures" .

  And of course the much ballyhooed death panels which I won't get into here.

  But those "preventative measures" I'm telling you here and now, will be Draconian in implementation. They are already talking about taxing sodas which contain things which are bad for you,,like sugar. What else will they do?

  Well, in my opinion, which is highly regarded by yours truly, there will be taxes on everything bad for you, first things eaten then otherwise.

  Take candy, or sweets of any kind, they cause obesity, ergo, will probably be taxed. Needless to say the cost of alcoholic drinks and cigarettes will go up. But how about everything else which contains sugar? Your favorite foods, cereals, everything that contains sugar will go up.

  And then of course there's the fat content in foods. So everything from , well, everything EXCEPT fruits and vegetables will go up. Take the fat content of your favorite food, multiply it by whatever some bean counters in D.C. thinks will bring down the budget enough so they can give away more money to whatever and whoever they want (especially themselves) and you get the picture.

  And so, in a little over 3 years time, when you've just blown your yearly bonus on a steak dinner (oh, that's right, bonuses will be outlawed entirely by then, for EVERYONE, except welfare and gov't giveaways ), let's just say you've just drained your paltry savings account on the steak, ask yourself this question, was this the "change" most of you voted for?

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