I would have liked to say ‘Happy’ New Year but somehow I don’t see anything ‘Happy’ about 2010 unless you’re among the likes Barack Obama,Jay Rockefeller, Robert Byrd, Mao Tse Tung, Karl Marx or Josef Stalin. The biggest question I have is whether the crumbling economy will crater enough to wake up an apathetic electorate discordantly both numb and furious to and at the elite political establishment in DC and state capitols around the nation.
As Socialist Democrats continue their financially ruinous ‘Tax & Spend’ orgy in Washington I fully expect the Nation’s economy to deteriorate at a more rapid pace in 2010. As the artificial stimulus to the economy from the Trillions in wasted tax dollars wears off I’m expecting to see unemployment rise to at least12% this year an as much as 15% by 2012 depending on how much the exploding National Debt weighs down the economy and Dollar. Among the multitude of flaws in Keynesian economics is that its economic stimulus effect is only temporary while the debt load from the artificial stimulus is a long term drag on future economic activity.
I’m also expecting a surge in inflation this year, reaching double digits around 2012. The exploding National Debt and weak Dollar will, I suspect, be the main engines driving this hyperinflation. In the second part of this ‘Double Dip’ recession neither the Government nor Fed will be able to backstop the decline. The Government is broke and in unsustainable debt while the Fed already has interest rates next to zero. In short the Government will have no weapons left to help mitigate the decline.
Folks used to a flood of Government entitlements and welfare will get a very rude surprise as financial reality sets in. As Debt consumes more of the budgets of State and Federal Government there will be less money for anything else until the entire budget is consumed by debt payments thereby rendering the Goverment bankrupt once and for all. You can’t expect China to keep buying our worthless paper so Obama can ‘Spread the wealth around’, do you?
National Security will become a joke as Obama’s failed polices embolden our enemies. Playing Russian Roulette with a Derringer will be safer then getting on an Airliner or any mass transit. As Obama and Socialist Democrats scapegoat the Nation’s Intel and military services for their failed policies these agencies will be less able to protect America or our interests abroad. Keep an eye on such things as military and Intel recruiting targets versus actual number of recruits and overall retention numbers. If these numbers start declining in a bad economy I’d start being very concerned about the security of the Nation. A demoralized Military and Intel would be like hanging a bullseye for Al Quiada on every US citizen.
No matter what Congress does in 2010 you can be guaranteed two things; the first is money as Congress invents new and more ways to take even more of your hard earned money for themselves and their special interests like Unions, the second being an even greater loss of Freedom and Civil Liberties. Ask yourself when, or how many times, since the Constitution and Bill of Rights were originally written, has Congress really protected or expanded those rights? In most cases when Congress acts they end up stripping away more of our diminishing Freedom and wealth.
Question: How is a Politician different from a hooker?
Answer: Both will screw ya and take all your money but at least the hooker will give ya a quick smooch going out the door…..
HERE is an interesting Vid I found on YouTube.
All I can add to that is that I, like the majority of Americans, am mad as hell at the politicians and look forward to election day. It’s sad that the Constitution which was originally written and intended to limit the power and scope of Government now serves to increasingly enslave the population in to a new type of servitude to the Government. Somehow I don’t think either Thomas Jefferson or Ben Franklin intended having the Federal Government mandate the products and services the peasantry purchases in the marketplace.
TIME TO VOTE ALL THE INCUMBENT SLIMEBALLS OUT in 2010 and 2012!!!
If we don’t then America deserves the economic ruination that will most assuredly befall the nation..
I leave you today with an Editor’s Pick of the best Political Cartoons I can find on the web:







