As July 4 nears, the perfect storm approaches

July 2, 4:53 PMColumbia Conservative ExaminerAnthony G. Martin

Previous Next

12 comments Print Email RSS Subscribe

Subscribe

Get alerts when there is a new article from the Columbia Conservative Examiner. Read Examiner.com's terms of use.

Email Address   Include other special offers from Examiner.com Terms of Use

Bearers of bad news are often erroneously identified with the bad news itself, although most of the time they are merely attempting to protect others from the dangers that approach.  This is simply the burden one has to bear for sounding the alarm.

And, unfortunately, as July 4 nears, I am constrained to say that all is not well in America.  In fact, the 'perfect storm' is approaching that will dwarf all of our national crises in the past.

I am all for celebrating our independence, liberty, and national identity.  But this year a very dark cloud hangs over these celebrations.  The very liberty we celebrate is under attack as never before not only from outside forces but from our own government and its co-conspirators in the mega-corporations, the Unions, and subversive groups such as ACORN.

The Party of Reagan dropped the ball under George W. Bush and began to act like Democrats.  Government spending skyrocketed.  The size of government increased.  The Reagan ideals of smaller government and spending cuts were set aside.  While Bush and the GOP can be congratulated for tax cuts and the stunning victory in Iraq, almost everything else had the smell of all we conservatives detest in progressives.

Voters, thus, turned against the GOP.  Democrats sensed the discontent and moved to take advantage of it.

But what they gave us was nothing even closely akin to what the majority of voters truly wanted in their heart of hearts.

The rhetoric used by Obama and the Democrats sounded entirely reasonable.  They ran as centrists who supported tax cuts for 95% of Americans.  Yet they have governed as extremist radicals who have been thoroughly indoctrinated by the likes of 60s subversives such as Saul Alinksy, William Ayers, and others.  These subversives openly advocated the complete destruction of American society and capitalism in order to build a new order based upon Marxism.

Examples of the fact that Obama was a 'wolf in sheep's clothes' abound. 

Obama promised no tax increases for anyone making under $250,000 per year or $200,000 per year (he kept waffling on the figure).  He has already broken that promise even without the ominous cap and trade bill that looms over the nation.  Policies have already been implemented that raise consumption taxes for millions.  And if cap and trade is approved by the Senate, every citizen in America will get a massive tax increase simply because they use electricity.

In addition, the voters did not expect Obama to be such a cheerleader for extremist Islam.  His reluctance to say anything to encourage Iranian dissidents has sat on the stomachs of millions of Americans, even many Obama supporters, like plaster-of-Paris.  And then his refusal to embrace Hondurans who enforced the terms of their Constitution by ousting a Marxist suggests that our President himself has the same point of view toward our own Constitution.

And that is only the tip of the iceberg.

Obama meddles in Honduras and Israel but says it is wrong for us to meddle in the actions of terrorist Islamic governments such as Iran.  He wanted to build a coalition of support among our allies for our war on terror in Afghanistan but has consistently offended our allies in France, Germany, and Great Britain.

Is it any wonder that despite his 'silvery-tongued rhetoric and engaging smile' he has gotten absolutely no support from our allies for his Afghan initiative? 

But the most immediate crisis of all lies in Obama's economic policies.  By collaborating with mega-corporations such as Citigroup, GM, Chrysler, and dozens of others, he has implemented the very fiscal policies that characterized Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the 1930s.  His insistence that Unions receive huge financial rewards for their contribution to the demise of many industries is, to put it bluntly, nauseating.  And he continues his assault on American free markets by creating a conglomerate made up of SEIU, ACORN, and now, unfortunately, Walmart, which has jumped on the bandwagon in support of Obama's nightmarish government-run healthcare system.

Since taking office, Obama has doubled the budget deficit and tripled the national debt.  Within 9 years this financial trainwreck will become such a heavy burden for America that we will never survive it.  China already owns most of our debt, along with other foreign nations.  What if they suddenly insist on cashing in?  Where will the money come from?  Obama has already admitted we are out of money.

In short, the U.S.A. is flat broke.

Yet Obama wishes to add cap and trade and a healthcare plan, the cost of which would make the heads spin of even the most rabid 'progressive' economists.

If the U.S.government approves these terribly horrifying burdens on top of an already failing economy, the result will be a total and complete financial collapse. 

It is becoming all-too-clear that this is precisely what Obama and his team want.  As I keep repeating, if you have any doubt about the end-game of the Obama Administration, just consult Obama's mentor--Saul Alinsky.

For more commentary on a variety of issues, visit my blog at The Liberty Sphere.