King
of America!
A
Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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As
distasteful as it may be, I think we need to look at what we can expect if, heaven help us, Obama is reelected.
First
we must understand that Obama has had his fill of the Congress of the United
States. After all, the Congress is only
the voice of the people of this country.
So, what do THEY know, right? Nah. Congress is just another speed bump
-- like the Constitution.
So,
in my opinion, America should brace itself for a king-like President who will,
in actuality, rule America by decree.
Obama will simply forget Congress, except as a whipping boy, and he will
issue Presidential Executive Order after Presidential Executive Order and will,
for all intents and purposes, become the "Dictator of America."
Obama
can order things done by Executive Order but the Congress holds the strings to
the purse and if they don't like it, they can simply cut off funding, or see
that no money is earmarked to finance all those "things" Obama will
order done and created.
If
the election ends with Romney winning the popular vote and Obama winning the
electoral vote, things will be even worse. The divide between the President and the
people of America will grow wider and deeper and ... bitter. The divide between Americans will become
exponentially wider and more difficult to bridge. The little civility we have left will be
tossed out the window. Americans can expect civil unrest to be the order of the
day. The country could (possibly) become ungovernable in fairly short
order. (One has to wonder if that
explains the government's purchase of all that ammunition and spreading it
around among various government agencies in diverse parts of the country. Are they expecting this??)
If
you don't like gridlock, you'd better strap in because -- you ain't seen
nothing yet.
Problem
is ... it's legal. And, for me, that's a
HUGE problem. The margin for misuse
and/or abuse of Presidential Executive Orders is just to great to trust modern
day American presidents with that power.
The days of personal honor, when a man could be trusted with that much
power, have long since passed. We desperately need to limit the President's
power to use executive orders to circumvent the people's Congress. Otherwise, what do we need a Congress
for? As we may be about to learn -- all
America REALLY needs is a king or dictator.
Now,
for a moment consider this: If Obama
wins reelection, he will have a Congress far more conservative than it is
today, In fact, there is even a slim
chance that republicans may control the US Senate as well as the US House of
Representatives. If that turns out to be
the case -- their mission will be: "Stop
Obama." And they will make
every effort to do just that.
Things
may become very tedious at times what with a Commander-in-Chief of the world's
most powerful military being thwarted by the mere voice of the people exercised
through THEIR Congress. One can only
hope we don't turn on the TV for news over breakfast and find tanks surrounding
the US Capital Building. Just because
it hasn't happened before does not mean it CANNOT happen.
In
my opinion, if America has ever had a President with the capacity to take over
the entire government, by force, Obama is that President.
We
need to understand that if Obama is reelected, the employment situation will
not soon improve, if at all. In
fact, I think it will worsen. Businesses
and corporations will not just sit on their money, they will get as much of it
out of the country as possible and, too, they will move their businesses,
manufacturing plants, and service industries, offshore. They will relocate them in countries far more
friendly to business. Let's face it. They
would be foolish not to get their money and their business outside the reach of
a unpredictable dictatorial regime such as that expected under Obama 2.0.
So
-- there go the jobs.
How,
then, will Obama deal with the unemployment issue. He will, I expect, recreate FDR's old WPA ...
The "Works Progress Administration."
He will claim it is necessary to put people back to work and to repair
and rebuild the nation's infrastructure. Understand -- Obama can recreate the
WPA by Executive Order. He doesn't
need Congress to do it. And I believe it is a part of his second term agenda.
With
the stroke of a pen, he will have created millions more federal employees
sucking taxpayer money out to the US treasury like a giant vacuum cleaner.
Between
1935 and 1943, the original WPA created eight (8) million federal jobs. In 1935 the budget for the WPA (in 1935
dollars) was 1.4 billion dollars a year.
I have no clue what that would be in today's dollars -- but suffice it
to say -- it would be a hell of a lot more today!
And
this is just the beginning.
With
no future election to impede Obama's agenda, he can wield the power of
government pretty much at will with virtually no one to stop him. With no one in Obama's way, America will
resemble "Venezuela, North."
Obama can then move, as Hugo Chavez of Venezuela did, to make himself
President for life.
If
you think all this is some sort of fairy tale, you might want to check
yourself, hold that thought, and get back to me in a couple of years.
Knowing
what we already know about Mr. Obama's penchant for the use of Presidential Executive
Orders, is there ANY reason to believe he will not use them, wholesale, to move
his socialist agenda for America into
high gear? I can't think of one,
either.
J.
D. Longstreet
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