Change We Can't Afford

With his supposedly “soothing tones” (which send this mom into a full-blown panic attack every time I hear him speak) Obama has successfully convinced us that this election is about change. OK, fine. It’s too late to argue the premise at this point. So if this election is about change, let’s look closely at the kind of change we can look forward to if Obama is elected.

To start with, in an ironic display of undemocratic principle, Democrats will force workers to join unions. Of course this isn’t how they spin it, but by doing away with secret ballot, you can bet that workers who don’t join the union will find themselves out of work. With the union rolls swelled, Democrats will be able to extort more votes than ever from people who will no longer be able to afford to vote their true conscience.

Next up, jobs. Obama promises to create them, and in the same breath promises to “tax the wealthy.” Don’t worry, he soothes, it’s only the top 5 percent. No biggie. One problem there. That top five percent create half the jobs in this country. That top five percent have created the vast majority of new jobs over the past difficult economic year. If you work for a small employer, you can thank Obama when your employer decides to "cut back," drops health coverage or tells you he/she can’t afford to give you a raise no matter how much your expenses are rising.

Obama also wants to renegotiate NAFTA. This sounds a little esoteric to those of us who go through a jumbo size bag of chicken nuggets every week, but it amounts to implementing a protectionist trade policy. If I’ve lost you, consider this. The last person who thought it was a good idea to enforce higher taxes and protectionist trade policies in a recession was Herbert Hoover, and that action preceded the Great Depression.

There’s more: killing talk radio so they don’t have to be bothered by legitimate criticism, creating more and more liberal and socialist policies that will gut everything that’s great about America, pimping the First Amendment to serve their sinister means. With Obama in office the sky's the limit. Heck, he may even choose to get rid of our flag, which he finds to be a symbol of divisiveness.

It’s change alright. But it’s not the change this country needs or can afford.