Hope and Change

Well, all you "Hope and Change" voters, I trust you're overjoyed with the new direction in which this country is going.  Gas prices have risen at a faster clip than they did under the Carter Administration, once again due to political blundering and financial deceptiveness.  If you still have medical insurance, thank God, because private insurance coverage is disappearing faster than a magician's hanky.  If you have a job, you may have noticed that your taxes have increased, but not nearly enough to appease the gaping maw of this Administration's, and this Congress' addictions to profligate entitlements paid for by deficit spending:  using the BankAmericard to pay off the American Express cannot continue when both are "maxed out."  And America IS "Maxed Out!"  And now, the best solution offered by this Administration is:  borrow even MORE to pay for the Quixotic ravings of this Administration.  YOU are now indebted by some $32,000, and D.C. wants to TRIPLE that over the next few years.  Still smiling? 

Haven't you noticed that virtually all of Mr. Obama's financial promises can't be kept, let alone evaluated, until AFTER he leaves office?  Can you truly afford to buy even  more snake-oil from this charlatan?
And there is only one possible outcome of such insidious devaluation of your money:  Standard and Poor's downgrade of America's creditworthiness is a tiny signal flare amidst an ocean of icebergs, icebergs all caused by the fiscal philandering of a handful of miscreants in Washington D.C., most of whom "shelter" their wealth in trusts and offshore bank accounts.  You and I, however, are not afforded such safe havens, and it is you and I who will suffer the greatest when food prices mirror gas prices, and they will, just like in Carter's inflationary purgatory of the late 70's.  I watched gas prices triple and rationing begin.  The Carter Administration created the Department of Energy at that time in order to "decrease our dependence on foreign oil."  Now, 18 BILLION dollars later, we still import 90% of the petroleum used in this country, and we are paying dearly for this administration's fiscal treachery. Gas prices were followed in turn by bread, milk, eggs, and meat, then fresh vegetables and fruit.  Next came dry goods: clothing, soaps, toothpaste.  Restaurants closed or doubled prices.  Wages were the LAST thing to increase, and Americans were playing "catchup" for YEARS.  I watched home prices plummet as interest rates skyrocketed from 6% for a FNMA loan to more than 18% for the same loan in less than six months.  Are you ready for THAT "change?"  It is on the horizon, that I guarantee.  Tax cheats Geithner, Dodd, Rangel, and now Holder cannot, and, most perfidious, WILL not do anything to thwart the inevitable.
This is the "change" of which candidate Obama spoke:  the deliberate, willful, treasonous destruction of America.  I "hope" you're pleased. And I hope you get a preferred spot in the bread line.