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Thursday, November 15, 2012

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.

3 comments:

Tom said...

Your next to last one they already have for federal contractors. Are you saying outside the scope of federal contracts?

Dave said...

Yes.

Bill said...

I don't think there's a single prediction here that is out of the question. My reading of the man is that you have nicely outlined his agenda.