Election 2012 Final Thoughts

The election of 2012 is now history.  This election, I believe, was the most important election of our lifetime, and I can't help but believe that the outcome of this election is the death knell of our country as we know it.

By the end of Obama's next term, we will have DOUBLED OUR NATIONAL DEBT from 10 TRILLION DOLLARS when he was first elected to an unsustainable 20 TRILLION DOLLARS by 2016.  I don't see how our economy can survive.  We are certain to follow in the footsteps of Greece and the other European nations that were fiscally irresponsible.  We will see hyperinflation, where our dollar will be nearly worthless.  And, I fear, we may see TOTAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE.

We built a great nation and became the envy of the world by harnessing the initiative and effort of the individual.  FREE ENTERPRISE encouraged entrepreneurship because any American could prosper from his own initiative and hard work.  President Obama continues to vilify the successful and create obstructions to entrepreneurship with excessive regulation and government interference.  He continues to enact his SOCIALIST AGENDA where the government controls everything.  He will continue to waste billions of our taxpayer dollars investing in private companies that will go bankrupt.  By vilifying free enterprise Obama is taking away the incentive of the populace to work.  And he is making scores of additional people dependent upon the government for their very survival.  We do not want, nor can we afford a welfare state.  With four more years of Obama, we will join Europe in fiscal collapse.  President Obama wants the government to control our healthcare and, even, tell us what we can and can't eat!  In his war on conventional energy, Obama continues to block the construction of the oil pipeline from Canada that would significantly aid our progress toward energy independence and, at the same time, create thousands of jobs.

Our borders will become unsafe.  They already have.  We don't protect our borders.  The attacks of 9/11 were the loudest possible wake-up call.  The Obama administration refused to call it what it is:  terrorism perpetrated by Extremist Islamic Fundamentalists around the world.  By doing so, and by pandering to all our enemies, we have shown weakness.  This will encourage further violence.  Even worse, we have turned our backs on our allies.  The Obama administration pulled its support from Israel, dissed the British, coddled Hugo Chavez, and the list goes on!  Most recently, we have shown that we will allow terrorists to kill Americans without even employing our military might to save them.  Afterward, we don't express outrage or attempt to bring the perpetrators to justice.  The Obama administration, then, lies to the people to hide its role in its failure to protect our citizens.  Our allies don't believe we will support them, and, so, they will no longer support us.  The tide is already turning in Iraq and Afghanistan.  They are abandoning us in favor of the Muslim extremists because they know we are pulling the rug out from under them, and they will be left to deal with the remaining Muslim extremists we promised to eradicate.  Four more years of this foreign policy will be disastrous!

The final nail in the coffin of our national defense is the Obama administration's emaciation of our military with devastating budget cuts, some of which it has already enacted.  If SEQUESTRATION goes through we will have no military left!  Since World War II we have kept our country safe through the use of DETERRANCE, which is the threat of overwhelming military action against adversaries who would do us harm.  The two required elements of deterrence are MILITARY MIGHT and THE WILL TO USE IT.  Thanks to four years of an Obama administration, we now have neither.  In the next four years of a second Obama administration, I believe increased and massive attacks on Americans around the world AND AT HOME are inevitable.

Lastly, I believe our nation has prospered for over 200 years because we were a nation of principle and moral fiber.  We have always stood for truth and justice.  Though politics has always been dirty, I believed, in the end, our government stood for integrity.  The last four years of the Obama administration have bombarded us with so many lies that we can't believe anything that comes from inside the beltway.  The partisan divide Obama has created has left the Congress impotent.  They haven't passed a budget during the four years Obama has been President!   The strength of our nation springs from its origin.  We are one nation created from many. The Seal of the United States contains the phrase, E PLURIBUS UNUM (Out of Many, One).  In his first four years, President Obama has divided this nation in a way we have not seen since the Civil War!   He has pitted rich against poor, man against woman, spiritual against secular, employer against employee, and he as reignited the division between black and white!  Unless we regain our integrity, principles and moral fiber, our friends and enemies will never know when to believe us and we will decay from within.

This article is an attempt at closure for me.  You see, I love this country.  I dedicated my life to protecting it, and I fear that four more years of Obama will destroy our country.

Regardless, I cannot and will not give up the hope that we, as Americans, can come back despite the results of yesterday's election.  The video, below, is the beginning scene of the new HBO series "The Newsroom".  It explains why AMERICA IS NO LONGER THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.  It is difficult for Americans to accept this truth.  But if we allow ourselves to recognize it, I believe we can fix it and, once again, become the greatest nation the world has ever known.

 [My thanks to Lois Garliech for forwarding this video]