Not responsible for the consequences of good advice not taken
President Obama will almost certainly win a second term in November. Why? Because the TEA-Twit Republicans are unable to field a real candidate. Their candidate is one of the clown-car riders who provided comedy relief throughout spring and early summer as they campaigned for primary election victory. His greatest supporters here on Gather are primarily people who swore they’d eat rat poison before they would vote for “Obama Lite,” aka Mittens Romney. Neither he nor they have the courage of their convictions.
Should he win, Democrats will use the threat of filibuster to keep him from repealing Obama Care, but he will be able to close down executive orders. His plan to cut his own taxes by increasing yours and mine will die aborning, and his plans to gut Environmental and Health and Safety work regulations will have to be carefully implemented by Department heads. The greatest risk is the possibility of appointment of another idiot like Alito to the Supreme Court.
If Obama wins, he’s going to wind up in exactly the position he’s been in for the past two-and-a-half years. The projections say that the real problem comes in Senate and House races. From week to week, the Senate is projected to range from a two-vote TEA-Twit Majority to a six-vote Democrat majority. But without 60 Democrat Senators, today’s supermajority, no business will get done in the Senate. As of the day two years ago that Mitch McConnell declared that the only business of the Republican Party was the defeat of President Obama in this upcoming election (a declaration NEVER before heard from the leader of the opposition in the Senate), nothing has been allowed to pass, but has been stalled by the threat of filibuster, a special procedure of the Senate never before used in such a fashion. So long as the Senate allows the lives and livelihood of millions of workers and their families to be destroyed by this perversion of a practice intended only for very special cases, they all deserve censure and blame.
In the House, the TEA-Twit/Republican Party is predicted to lose some seats but retain a majority. That means we can look forward to at least two more years of grandstanding, self-righteousness and sanctimony taking the place of trying to work out a way to help Americans out of the mess they created.
Why will this happen? Will workers suddenly face about and decide to punish themselves for not being rich, and vote the straight TEA-Twit/Republican ticket. Will they suddenly decide that the party of job out-sourcers is their friend. No. At least I don’t think so. Polls indicate that they’ll stay home. In a plebiscite it’s the angry people who vote, and today it’s the TEA-Twits who are angry. We refuse to agree that it’s reasonable for us to pay up to $2,000 in additional taxes so Romney and his friends can have a tax reduction, and that makes them angry.
Do you want Obama to win and to have a Congress that supports him? Get out there and vote, and get your friends to do the same. Because right now the polls are saying that the TEA-Twit/Republicans are gonna do exactly that, and we aren’t.
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And the alternative is really scary, in the dirtiest political way.
And this, this ~ my friend, is why you should never trust The Mittens Twins: Casino Gate is just beginning
For a slower collapse, Democratic dominance of Congress would be the thing. Same result but perhaps 10-15 years rather than 5-6.
(Disclaimer: I have long supported various third parties & other political alternatives.)
The most likely series of events is Obama elected and Congress in gridlock as the Republicans refuse to solve problems. Thus the mid range collapse vision is probably what we'll live.
The concentration of wealth is the key, however, to the collapse.
Not sticking to reality, there is an optimistic scenario: provided that the GOP/TP super luxurious car RR cannot win against the Chevy (despite its color (?) LOL), the GOP/TP sends the RR as a "test" to see if people could afford its drivers 4 years more impeding the Chevy to go on and win the race against the economy.
Maybe the Chevy holders will start asking themselves the question about the "how come" the GOP/TP is sending the RR into a race it cannot win? This seems suicidal but may open the door to a better period for the GOP.
During the next 4 years, economy may start recovering, even in Europe. The GOP/TP will then be able to deal with an improved environment; instead of having a heavy and energy consumer RR racing, it will have the opportunity to aliviate it mostly of the TP which will appear being wrong about budgets, international isolating politics (not being then directly accountable for the Iranian mess to come), expecting gas cost be so high that it will penalize Hillary if she's running, not having to deal with illegal immigration, infrastructures, while pointing on each failure and refusing to acknowledge any success, etc.
It seems to me that the GOP/TP had only "clowns" to oppose to Obama because its most credible members (if any) knew that this coming election will be tough for them to win. And if ever they would win such a race, they could be unable to achieve anything, not only due to Dems but, mainly, to enhanced misunderstanding between the Old Great Party and the New Small Party. Everyone is aware of this, this why, at the presidential level, the GOP cannot win but it could keep enough seat for filibustering. On top of it seriously regulating the banks and the speculation, impeding massive short sales against the currency, impeding banks monopoles, etc., cannot be achieved by the GOP as, these banks, are in fact driving the FED.
This is a very tricky game and for sure this RR car is far too heavy to run on the choatic road to come.
2013 portends to be a watershed year for the U.S. economy. Businesses and others will be radically downsizing in anticipation of much of the ObamaCare costs kicking in during 2014. That does not bode well for the U.S. economy.
Also, 2013 is five years after 2008. The deepest part of the Great Depression was in 1934, five years after 1929. If history repeats, and at this point in time I see no reason why it will not, then next year we are due for another gut-wrenching downturn in the economy, much worse than in 2008.
With those two scenarios staring us in the face, it does not look like the current recovery is going to last much longer. Only time will tell whether this assessment is accurate or not.
And note, those scenarios will not change regardless of who get elected.
We can expect that health care premiums been seen as "taxes", as "compelling savings" when nobody (but the rich) can already save, as provoking a consumption nosediving but this will take a maximum of 6 months up to the market balance adjustment restart again.
As far as the health care, you seem to avoid reality in these many points:
1. Presently the unpaid share of the ER is being paid, full price, by the tax payer or a private insurance. This implies increasing the cost of healt by about a minimum of 25%. (As a private person with no insurance you may get up to 71% discount at the least).
2. If all insurances, due to their agreement, would pay as much as a private person, not only the tax payer would not have to spend money there but the health cost would be much lower: no need to make reserves on billing.
3. As in Europe, health care participate to the security of the whole people and not only of the rich, improving productivity by some 20% and rich people will still be able to to buy themselves private beds in hospitals.
So, on one hand tax expenses are lowered by some 25% and productivity raises by some 20%. However, private institutions, pharmaceuticals, medival tools manufacturers have ALWAYS be against the system as their margins (profits) are limited by, first the health insurance companies and then by an ombudsman federal system.
Your post is a relay of what these companies want you to believe in order to secure, if possible, their profits.
This makes no sense to me at all.
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If Mitt Romney wins, he will try to push the USA in the direction of a Racist Plutocracy.
His Foreign Policy is sheer Lunacy : Warmongering, Jingoism, Belligerence, Bellicosity, Chauvinism, Aggression, Violence.
The USA would be strongly resisted by many nations in the unfortunate case of a Romney Presidency, and the President will be an international laughingstock.
Romney is a Big Coward, that is why he has to lie constantly a project his figure as a Super Macho, when in reality he is a wimp and lover of security but only for himself and not for others.
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Polls say that if we all did this, America would have a Democratic Congress by midnight on election night. But she will and we likely won't, so-o-o-o-o... we'll have worse than today.
Ms Lee, y'r killin' me (and probably the country), but I salute the way you're goin' about it.