50% Chance at Best

I have had the good fortune to live most of my life paying little or no attention to politics.  Opinions, sure, strong at times, (no to wars; yes to freedom and meritocracy) but never a call to action.  That is, until 3 years ago when I noticed one freedom after another being put into the hands of unelected bureaucrats with no accountability.  

Obama gets an A for addressing health care, financial stability and economic stimulus, but sadly, an F for execution.   8000 pages of complex, incomprehensible, unfocused and ineffectual legislation has eaten up time and resources without delivering the desired results.

If I felt government had the integrity and expertise to wisely control every facet of the economy and individual life, I would stay silent.  However, hardly a day passes without frightful examples of incompetence, malfeasance, waste, corruption and 

a growing list of unintended consequences.

Obama's biggest success has been in transferring 100% of the blame to Wall St. and implying that his form of governance is the solution.  After a $4.5 trillion increase in national debt, massive loans and grants to the "greens", hundreds of new agencies, 90,000 pages of regulations, and all economic plans involving more debt, the evidence suggests otherwise. There is no part of the financial crisis that didn't originate in D.C. under both parties.

Even more troubling is the near autocratic control of health care, mortgages, student loans, consumer credit, banking, "green" energy, oil/gas development, every DROP of water, air, education, internet, rural America, broadband expansion, electricity, immigration, commerce and food.  Yes, Congress and the courts are still there but any resistance is met with an end run through an agency. The EPA, FCC, FTC, HHS, Homeland Security have been especially helpful for his agenda.

The propaganda machine is working full force again to present OWS as an"organic, peaceful" protest of income inequality while never mentioning the subversive groups orchestrating the activities.  Perhaps, America thinks communism, socialism,

Marxism, anarchy, anti-Semitism, anti-capitalism, revolution, or redistribution of wealth at the hands of bureaucrats is the system they truly want.  However, until I see an successful example of any of those forms of governance, I will stand with freedom, the rule of law, and economic mobility.

Obama has also found success in keeping the country distracted with budgets and deficits which makes it even more important to "watch the other hand".  The agencies and regulators never sleep.  One FCC proposal that appeared to increase freedom by removing the restrictions on dual ownerships of news, broadcast,etc. actually would open media to being controlled by narrow special interests.   His little noticed executive order to control rural America (food, fuel and fiber) is especially dangerous with his belief in Agenda 21.

The extremes of both parties are leading us over the cliff and offer little comfort. I have done my research and am left with playing the odds.  With Romney there is a 50% chance of economic survival and with Obama there is a 100% guarantee of failure.