Predicted moves in second term

I have decided to temporarily dedicate the Common Sense Alert blog to one exclusive purpose. Below is a list of predicted moves by the president during his second term. I am posting them here so we can watch to see how many of them actually come to pass. If you notice one of them happening, please post your observation under comments. This will be the sole purpose of this blog for a while.

1. Initiate an expansive de facto amnesty program for illegal aliens via executive order and interagency directives linked with a reduction in the capabilities of the U.S. Border Patrol, which, with the removal of caps on H-1B visas and green cards, will bring in untold numbers of new immigrants.
2. Initiate government-funded, neighborhood-based programs to better integrate the newly amnestied immigrants into society, including education centers and health-care centers. This will be the "federal solution" to ensure that all amnestied immigrants are treated "equitably" across the United States.
3. Re-create a 21st century version of FDR's Works Progress Administration program within the Department of Labor that would oversee a massive new bureaucracy and millions of new federal jobs.
4. Initiate a National Infrastructure Bank which would "evaluate and finance infrastructure projects of substantial regional and national importance" and would finance "transportation infrastructure, housing, energy, telecommunications, drinking water, wastewater, and other infrastructures."
5. Wrest control of the military budget away from Congress by placing an "independent panel" in charge of military spending while slashing the defense budget in shocking ways.
6. Use the U.S. armed forces to combat "global warming," fight global poverty, remedy "injustice," bolster the United Nations, and to handle "peacekeeping" missions.
7. Institute a new "green" stimulus program and a federal "green" bank or "Energy Independence Trust," which would borrow from the federal treasury to provide low-cost financing to private-sector investments in "clean energy."
8. Nudge the nation closer and closer to a single-payer health-care system controlled by the federal government. (Obama stated back in 2007 that this was his ultimate objective, though he admitted it might take 10 or 15 years to get there.)
9. Begin a federal process for determining the "value" of individual jobs in the private sector instead of allowing employers to pay what they want.
10. Enact a "living wage" requirement that would force all employers to increase the salaries of their workers to meet "basic needs" such as housing, food, utilities, transportation, health care and recreation.

Be at peace...

Flawed Comparison

This chart has been produced by Liberals to try to prove that Democrats are better for the economy than Republicans. The problem with it is that its whole premise is flawed. The comparison should not be between Democrats and Republicans; it should be between Leftists and Conservatives. When we look at it that way, we realize that the Leftists have occupied the Oval Office for 42 of the past 50 years. The only time we had an actual Conservative in office was from 1981 to 1989. During that time, the Dow more then doubled and over 16 million jobs were created. But the larger point is this: America is on a tragectory that will inevitably lead to chaos, the collapse of our free society, and the arrival of Big Brother. This is because people have developed the mind-set that "government is the answer." Sure, government has a role to play, but government is not, and can never be, the engine of economic growth. The best government can do is get out of the way and allow the private sector to do what only it can do with a minimal level of regulation. This is what Ronald Reagan did. But now, as an increasing number of citizens are looking to government to be their provider and care-taker, the role of the private sector is being subsumed under the power of the state. This will inevitable lead to the decline we are seeing today.   

The choice

Opposition to raising debt limit

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to raise America's debt limit."

Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

Correctly Attributed

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/debtlimit.asp