We can talk until we are blue in the face from cyanosis, but the facts are that the conservatives and their platforms are not going to work either. The concept of cutting spending is good, but, the infrastructure of this country has not been brought up to standard since the election of Richard Nixon. Repeatedly the idea has been cut the taxes and though this is good, the problems arise from spending the rest on pet projects and not funding the things that taxpayers need in order to improve the country and modernize it.
Currently the United States Highway System is in severe disrepair. Those in more rural areas have not seen road repair in some cases in decades. Frost upheaval and heavy trucks have created potholes in which a VW bug could hide.
Public transportation which would reduce consumption of domestic and foreign oil have been out of reach for most governmental agencies. The United States has very poor investment per person in this area and the reason is that if public transportation goes in, the profits of major oil companies could be negatively impacted. Big oil is going to spend money to defeat any candidate that would build public transportation because it cuts into their profits, this is simple "follow the money" thinking.
Maglev and other forms of very high speed rail transportation making job commutes available to suburban residents would help a great deal, but, you'll not see that one under the current tide.
We will see a mass exodus of School Teachers simply because most have not had pay raises in over ten years. Again, every politician embraces the concept of not touching schools, but their promises end there. They promise again and again, but the conservatives repeatedly have cut school budgets. In some states, lotteries have of course helped, but, as lottery income has increased what is not being said is that State funding has decreased so what they give in the lottery, they take away from other funding. For this reason lottery dollars mean nothing!
Personal Freedom will be a target in the name of "national security". I would not be surprised to see "checkpoints" at State borders and I would not be surprised to see the requirement of presenting "papers" so that people and their movements can be tracked by "big brother". There are people talking about this now, but, where one group sees this as a major problem, another side sees it as an "opportunity".
With all of this, the bottom line will be either a massive tax increase to the poor and middle class while the most wealthy either pay nothing more or actually get reductions or breaks even more than they have now.
The mass export of American Jobs will continue. In the next few years, I expect to see some more of America's largest corporations transfer to foreign ownership.
Most do not understand what has happened here.
Zenith Electronics, made televisions and other electronics is now foreign owned. RCA is now foreign owned. Rodgers Church Organ Company foreign owned, Universal Studios and Productions, foreign owned, the list of American Corporations now falling like bowling pins grows by the day.
Over the next few months, we are going to watch the possibility of the biggest prize ever and in all honesty China needed heavy conservative presence in order to pull this one off.
You and I as taxpayers bailed out General Motors for better or for worse. GM has started showing black ink. We, the U.S. taxpayer, saved GM and now there is a stock deal in progress that could sell over 60% of all GM stock to the Chinese in essence giving China control of one of the largest corporations in the United States and allowing them additional control of our economy.
Many GM employees have been aware of this for some time. In addition, if this takes place, the retirement benefits of current and former GM employees are in question.
What I see by 2010 is an accelerated decline in the economy, and many who voted for the conservatives are going to be hopping mad. The Republicans will of course blame the stagnation on the Democrats because they absolutely have to. When it goes down the toilet as it will they will have to blame the other guy. I do not like Obama, because I consider him to be a total "wuss". Far too conciliatory to ever accomplish anything.
I watched some of the worst campaign advertising I have ever seen in this election. I watched a race for a State Governor come down to accusations against a Lieutenant Governor's use of State owned Aircraft. Today, the new Republican Governor Elect was shown arriving in the State Capitol in guess what, a private Jet! This same candidate had railed on and on about the opponent using this form of transportation and the first day after election that Governor elect is seen doing exactly what was wrong for the other guy!
Sadly, many Americans have in this election been the worst victims of "Stockholm Syndrome" I have ever seen. They vote and re-elect the very ideals and thought processes that placed their finances and security in great peril.
If these guys were so great, why didn't they do something good 8-10 years ago instead of waiting for now. We have all been witnesses to one of the best sales jobs of "Florida swampland" and over the next two years we will with little doubt pay a heavy price for it.
California has had it really bad. I cannot imagine having to live there now. Terrible to consider having to vote in an election with the mantra being: "The crook and moron I know is better than the crook and moron I don't know."
Nope, if you think discontent was creating problems in 2010 just wait for 2012!
