By Alan Caruba
If my emails and the headlines I am
reading indicate anything, there is widespread fear among Americans that
something terrible has occurred with the reelection of President Obama. Not all
Americans, though. Those who voted for Obama appear to remain oblivious despite
the threat of a “fiscal cliff” or the new taxes in Obamacare that will kick in
on January 2nd.
We have a Secretary of the Treasury,
Timothy, Geithner, calling for an end to debt ceilings, apparently believing
that America can continue to borrow money to pay for the interest on its
escalating debt, now pegged at $16 trillion and growing daily. The U.S. borrows
$4 billion a day. Anyone with a credit card knows that their payments increase
as they struggle to deal with their personal debt. Eventually they either
declare bankruptcy or turn to companies that negotiate a payment to release
them.
If America was to default on its
debt, the dollar, already in free fall, would be worth nothing. We would be
bartering shiny beads and anything else to buy food and other necessaries. We
would become Zimbabwe where you need a million of their dollars to buy a loaf of
bread.
Writing
recently on her Fox Business blog, Gerri Willis spelled out the huge rise in
taxes Americans are facing. “All
told, next year, total taxes will go to almost 50% for the middle class; the
very group that the president says he wants to protect. That means 50 cents out
of every dollar earned has to go to the government. Half of everything will go
to an entity that didn't earn that money, and shouldn't be entitled to all that
dough.”
What kind of madness is it that the
Teamsters union would impose such senseless rules that it would weaken Hostess
to the point of bankruptcy, preferring to let the company die rather than to
protect the jobs of 18,500 bakers? Other unions are engaged in attacks on a
weakened economy. What kind of nation is it that its government employees are
lobbying Congress to not only increase their pay, but to exempt them from the
impact of the spending cuts scheduled to kick in?
There is a full-scale attack on the
privacy Americans have taken for granted, protected by the fourth Amendment that
says “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and
effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
violated…”
On November 14th, the Heritage Foundation asked “Do
you trust the government with your computer?” The government has had “13
breaches and failures of its own cybersecurity just in the last six
months.” Even so, “the President and his
allies in the Senate are pushing forward to regulate America’s cyber-doings,
without any clues about how much this will cost or how it will
work.”
“It has become the norm with this
President—if Congress fails to accomplish his objectives, he goes around it with
executive orders and federal regulations. He’s doing it again. Congress did not
pass the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 before the election, so the President has
issued a draft of an executive order to put much of that legislation in place
without lawmakers voting.”
This is the very essence of tyranny
and the President has had four years to perfect it. Are conservative think tanks
the only ones paying any attention? It would appear so.
A new proposed law in the Senate
would strip Americans of any privacy as they communicate with one another by
email. A vote for the law would allow warrantless access to American’s email
and is scheduled for a vote shortly. It would allow 22 federal agencies as well
as state and local law enforcement to access one’s emails with nothing more than
a subpoena. This is totally unconstitutional.
Already $16 trillion in debt, the
government is looking for ways to take over the $3 trillion that is held in
private retirement plans such as 401(k) plans and IRA’s. A recent hearing by the
Treasury and Labor Departments addressed the nationalization of the nation’s
pension system. The director of the National Senior’s Council, Robert Crone,
warns “It is clear that this is the first step towards a government takeover. It
feels just like the beginning of the debate over health care and we all know how
that ended up.”
As we move closer to an Electoral
College vote confirming Obama’s reelection, whistleblowers are coming forth in
Ohio, Florida and elsewhere to reveal that significant voter fraud was a
contributing factor, but it receives little or no media coverage. One must ask
how 99% of votes in Philadelphia districts went to Obama and ask why nothing is
being done to investigate this and other offenses such as the 141.1% of the vote
recorded in Florida’s St. Lucie County. That is statistically impossible, but it
robbed Rep. Allen West (R) of his seat in Congress.
This isn’t government. It is
gangsterism. It is “the Chicago way.”
The monster Homeland Security Agency
just graduated its first class of FEMA Corps, kids aged 18-24, recruited from
the President’s Americorps volunteers, that will become a full time, paid
standing army. Fears of FEMA camps abound and in the aftermath of Hurricane
Sandy, people seeking shelter and food were herded into one that resembled a
concentration camp of the Nazi regime and told not to use various means of
communication to contact the media or outside community. They went from
hurricane victims to prisoners of the government.
In so many ways, the freedoms
protected by the U.S. Constitution are in danger of disappearing along with the
separation of powers it requires.
Little wonder that citizen’s
petitions from a growing number of states are called for secession. Or that
governors are refusing to set up the Obamacare exchanges required by a law that
has taken control of twenty percent of the nation’s economy; their budgets held
hostage to Medicaid.
On an individual level, people who
have jobs are fearful of losing them. College graduates are fearful of the huge
debt they carry for the loans they received. People wonder if they can afford to
get married. Married couples fear the cost of having another child. Homeowners
fear not being able to pay their mortgages. Seniors fear that their savings
won’t last as they live longer.
There is ample reason to fear not
only the collapse of the nation’s economy, but the loss of liberty in
America.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
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