Loss of Freedom, Government Growth, Tea Party Movement, Economy, Unemployment, Terrorism, Iran Nuclear weapons

Ten Predictions for 2010

By Jayme Evans
Monday, January 4, 2010

As we Americans put another year behind us, one that, like me, I’m sure most of us would rather forget, looking forward to 2010, the one thing that remains abundantly clear to me is that our leadership was completely non-responsive to our concerns in 2009. The future of America depends on the specific actions taken by the people who are in a position to shape it. Unfortunately for Americans, those people are totally corrupt or incompetent. With that in mind, here are ten predictions for 2010.

1. The US economy, unemployment in particular, will continue to stagnate throughout 2010.

The Obama administration has dumbed-down traditional measures of economic progress, to the point where they’re almost meaningless. Obama’s economic policies; his obsession with union and green jobs, his reckless and ceaseless spending, his attempts to wrest control of the nation’s manufacturing base, health care system, banking system and means of energy production and consumption have been a disaster for this country.

Only in the Obama Nation can there be people still lining up for first-time unemployment insurance claims by the thousands, yet the nation’s job situation improving. Forget balanced budgets and positive job creation; less red ink and slower bleeding of jobs have now become the measures of economic success. There will likely be job gains in 2010, but they will be limited and targeted to Obama priorities; government, public works and labor unions. They will be jobs that specifically support stimulus spending or Obama’s health care and energy production/consumption/distribution transformations.

2. The Democrats’ un-Constitutional health care legislation will pass in one form or another.

Republicans simply don’t have the numbers to stop it. Many Democrats are retiring, many more will find themselves out of a job and others have salivated over the prospect of this legislation for decades, meaning there is very little motivation for most Democrats to oppose it.

Regardless of how those reforms are structured, they will result in less care, higher taxes, less access to cutting-edge medicine such as new cancer treatments, prosthetics or robotics and eventual government control of the entire health care system. Unless the legislation gets tied up in a morass of legal and constitutional challenges, like it should.

3. Democrats will continue to blame President Bush for their problems in 2010.

The Obama Administration has made the castigation of his predecessor one of the defining themes of his term and there’s no reason to believe he or Democrats will stop now. Republicans don’t have sufficient numbers to be called guilty of obstructionism, attacks on Tea Party candidates or conservatives will backfire and they need some sort of Bogeyman going into an election season. Look for Obama and those who march in lockstep with him to pull this one at every opportunity.

4. Democrats will lose upwards of two dozen seats in the 2010 mid-term elections.

They greatly overplayed their hand. They moved too far to the left, way too fast, placing the country in unsustainable deficits for generations to come. When average citizens from every conceivable walk of life expressed skepticism and unease, they were relentlessly attacked. Humana, the US Chamber of Commerce, the Tea Party Movement, conservative talk radio, Sheriff Arpaio, Birthers, Climate Change deniers; if they’ve opposed the Obama agenda, they’ve been attacked. With luck, Republicans could regain a bi-cameral majority, but the Tea Party candidates may split the Republican vote, so I don’t see that happening in 2010.

5. The Tea Party Movement will grow into a force to be reckoned with in 2010.

For the reasons stated above, the Tea Party Movement will only gain in strength, possibly becoming America’s third political party. The sharp, leftward tilt by the Obama administration, the shredding of our Constitution by both parties and Republican efforts to be more inclusive and Democrat-like, have energized the electorate like never before. If anything, those espousing Tea Party values will be dictating the direction the country moves in 2010.

6. Climate science supporting anthropogenic global warming loses further support.

In early 2007, when the IPCC released their long-awaited 2007 Fourth Assessment Report, even a cursory study of their documentation revealed blatant political bias and a hidden agenda.

I said back then that the global warming phenomenon was nothing but a scheme to redistribute the wealth of developed
nations to poorer nations on a massive scale. All of the evidence thus far continues to point in that direction, including now-infamous e-mails from Britain that show clandestine efforts by the United Nations’ chief data collection unit to fudge the science and suppress scientific findings that were contrary to their predetermined conclusions.

7. The US government will grow bigger, more intrusive to argue for more control over the lives of Americans.

The US government has shown no signs of slowing down. They’ve shown absolutely no restraint with our money, and by all accounts, they intend to keep spending it. And, as the deficits grow larger, and the economy gets worse, they will continue to argue for yet more spending and more government control. The limiting factor is time. How much can Obama grow government and re-order American society before elections in November?

8. Al Qaeda will continue to try to strike US targets, particularly US airliners and may very well succeed.

It took Barack Obama well over a week to acknowledge an Al Qaeda connection to the Christmas day terrorist attack on US air flight 253. He had to be coaxed into doing so. While finally acknowledging we are at war, he refuses to utter the word terrorism or acknowledge our Islamo-fascist enemy. Barack Obama’s view of the world simply does not allow him to see the threat from Islamic terrorists for what it truly is. Sadly, only more American blood and calls for his impeachment will shake him out of his complacency.

9. Barring military action or another Islamic Revolution, Iran will possess a nuclear weapon in 2010.

By all measures, Barack Obama has calculated that a nuclear-armed Iran is an acceptable risk. For the first time in the history of the world, a Messianic leader with delusions of hastening the Apocalypse, and therefore the return of Jesus and the Mahdi, will actually possess the means to do so. The unknown variable is the Iranian people and how much oppression and state-sanctioned killing of protesters they’re willing to tolerate. Should they rise up, the Iranian regime’s ability to develop nuclear weapons may be slowed, but not halted.

10. Barack Obama’s overheated rhetoric and delusions of grandeur will finally collide headlong with reality.

Barack Obama began the year with lofty rhetoric about unity, healing, ethics, transparency, participatory democracy and many other themes Americans were ready to unquestioningly devour, but we ended 2009 far more divided than we have been in an entire generation. He himself set the bar for his performance far higher than I ever believed he could achieve and he repeatedly failed to clear it.

If he sets about governing from the center, instead of the current socialist dictatorship he has in place, he may be able to reverse some of the ill will that he himself has fostered with his Chicago thugocracy, but that, along with the future of this country, which is now in steep decline, depends entirely on him.

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