Well, after a long 15 months in Iraq, I have decided to get back to blogging, and of course, twittering (or would it be tweeting?). There’s a lot of things to talk about and too little time to do so. While we’ve been over there rebuilding the country, it seems like ours has been falling apart back at home through excessive spending, poor policy decisions and reprehensible legislation. The stock market has fell about 50% since October of 2007, levels not seen since 1997. Unemployment rose to 8.1% which wasn’t seen since 1983. And the fear mongering has just begun.

The bulk of this post comes as not-so-new news to the general population, but I’d like to digress for a moment and catch up.

At any rate, I was watching South Park (S13E02) the other night on Comedy Central and something struck me funny. They were talking about how the town was in turmoil; the jobs were drying up and criminals roamed freely. In one of the alleys during the prologue, a picture of Barack Obama’s famous “CHANGE” poster was pinned up… wrote across it was “WHEN?” Good question.

There has been a lot of second-guessing within the administration to enact certain policies and regulations. When the trillion dollar stimulus package was being created, there was an American-only clause added which would limit the purchase and contracting of resources for the stimulus-related projects from American companies only. The EU caught wind of this amendment and threatened trade embargoes if this were to pass. Of course, Democrats decided to back off and the amendment was terminated. Protectionism has never worked in a world-trade environment; look what happened with Smoot-Hawley.

Anyway, that brings me to my next thought. Firstly, I didn’t and don’t like Obama’s promises during the campaign; he is one of the most, if not the most liberal President yet. His promises are that of Marx and Lenin. He intends to transform America through a soft tyranny. There have already been numerous protests and more are sure to come.

PolitiFact has been keeping track of the promises made and broken by the new President, data which is rather astounding considering how liberal his agenda was in the first place. Namely, one promise which was broken was that each bill that goes before his desk would have five days to be viewed by the public before signing. This kind of broken promise is what caused the latest AIG fallout regarding executive bonuses. Only time will tell us what else happens regarding the “Obameter,” history shows us that disappointments come with the job, though.

Regarding the bailouts and stimulus packages (aka infrastructure and spending packages), don’t get me started. Seriously, when has Keynesian economics every worked, anywhere?

That being said, I’m off… until next time.

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