Welcome to Obamaland: I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn't Work. Stimulus Package

I do not blame our current state of affairs on Obama, but he will make it worse. This economic downturn that we are experiencing is not what threatens the long term economic interests of our country; we will get past this recession eventually. The greatest threat that we face is our deficit spending, it is what will eventually bring us down, and the Democrats just want to do more of it. I blame Republicans too. They are the ones back in 2004 who passed the Prescription Drug Bill. I remember they held the voting open in the House for three hours until they could twist enough fiscally conservative Republicans arms and get the votes needed to pass it, and then it only passed by one vote. The Prescription Drug Bill was just another nail in the fiscal coffin of our country. I do not see the light at the end of the tunnel that will get us out of this mess. Surly more spending will not do it. Even if this stimulus bill gets our economy going again, do you think congress will stop its deficit spending? The answer is no. They are out of control; they are broken and beyond repair. jbranstetter04 Yet for a quite shockingly long time the British electorate — those few who could be bothered to vote, that is — were prepared to believe the impossible. Never mind the Millennium Dome, the railways disaster, the Bernie Ecclestone scandal, foot and mouth, the stealth taxes, the growing hospital waiting-lists, the falling literacy rates: almost every- one was so determined to take this pretty straight-talking kind of guy at his own estimation that they wouldnt let a few inconvenient facts get in the way of their wishful thinking. Hence the bizarre phenomenon — cue much disbelieving rubbing of eyes from future historians — of Blair achieving higher popularity ratings than either Margaret Thatcher or Winston Churchill. Obama, I very much fear, is Blair Mk II. Of course there are differences. Obama, for example, has been very much more open than Blair ever was about his plans for redistributive taxation. But what both men have in common is this chameleon ability to be all things to all men. Just as Blairs accent was forever veering from Scots to public school to estuary according to his audience, so Obama is Hussein to Muslims, a fellow person of colour to Hispanics, an authentic negro hero to blacks, and to Caucasians an honorary (and, indeed, half-) white person in the fine tradition of Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Tiger Woods and Lewis Hamilton. To no one is he an obvious threat. Unlike, say, Gordon Brown. With Gordon Brown its obvious what the threat is — hes a dour, tax-and-spend socialist — and whether you love him or you believe (not unreasonably) that he is the most criminally incompetent prime minister in British history, you cant deny that he is and always has been an enemy plain in view. Which is why, though superficially more grisly than his predecessor, he is in fact a lot less dangerous. Most voters know exactly whats wrong with Brown. Most voters dont (or at least for a long time didnt) have a clue whats wrong with Blair. Its the same with Obama. By the time Americans begin to discover what theyve let themselves in for, the damage will long since have been done. And in any case, its not just about Barack Obama. Like Blair, Im sure hes a fantastic bloke. Looks great in a suit, fabbo teeth, wonderfully charming. But what about that ragbag — an inevitability with all left-liberal administrations, especially when they control both houses of Congress — of scuzzballs, communists, class warriors, eco-loons, thugs, malcontents, and single-issue rabble-rousers that will sweep into power on his back? Theyre the ones America really needs to worry about because theyre the ones wholl be wreaking the most havoc while Obama stands in front masking their excesses with that reassuring Im not a socialist smile. As one who did and does see it coming, I find it hard to summon too much sympathy. Its like Dr Faustus complaining when, having been granted his every earthly fantasy, the devil turns up at the end to steal away his soul. Its like the citizens of Hamlyn complaining when, having welshed on their deal with the Pied Piper, he lures all their kids inside the mountain. You just want to give them all a good shake and say: Did you think it was going to come free, this once-in-a-lifetime wonder deal you made with the mysterious dark stranger you met at the crossroads at midnight? In your dreams, America. In your dreams! -James Delingpole http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/3233531/part_6/i-have-seen-your-future-america-and-it-doesnt-work.thtml

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