Mitt Romney said it best in the last debate when he informed the
President that, “attacking me isn’t an agenda,” which prompted the
Obama campaign to immediately release what they call a plan for the
second term. This 20-page repackaging of speeches notwithstanding,
President Obama remains perhaps the only president in history to
run for reelection who not only can’t talk about his record but
also can’t discuss his real agenda for a second term.
Now it’s not that he can’t because he doesn’t have any ideas
about what he wants to do. He does have big plans, but his vision
of the future is profoundly different from that of most Americans.
The America that Obama sees when he sits on the Truman Balcony at
night and dreams about the next four years is radically altered
reality for everyone. It should scare every American — unless you
happen to be getting Obama’s free cell phone service.
Obama would like everyone to believe that his second-term
policies will address what he sees as the great inequalities and
unfairness inherent in the American system. He wants to level the
playing field. What he can’t tell you — and what most Americans
are realizing — is that leveling out America will reduce freedom,
opportunity, income, innovation, and upward mobility in favor of a
government-driven economy. With a government-driven society will
come statism, and collectivism follows right on the heels of
statism, which will destroy America.
Here’s the stark proof, keeping in mind that this is a mere
snapshot of the “remaking” Obama has in store that will affect
millions of American families and businesses. The President’s
proposed budget projects will have federal spending soaring to
$5.820 trillion per year, making Obama the biggest government
spender in the history of the world. With all the talk from the
President about spending cuts to satisfy independent voters, the
sum of all of Obama’s spending over the next ten years could total
more than $40 trillion that we simply don’t have.
We can’t afford Washington’s spending now. Do we really think
only the wealthy will foot the bill for such dramatic increases in
government expenditures? The President’s proposals will drive $100
billion in tax hikes next year and more than $2 trillion in tax
increases over the next 10 years hitting every American.
With more than 40 million Americans on food stamps, welfare is
the fastest-growing portion of the budget under Obama. Food stamp
usage is up a staggering 46% and the cost of the program has
increased by 72%. Over the next four years, the President is
preparing to increase spending on these programs to enable the
government to increase benefits and provide for an increasing share
of the population.
The slow creep of dependency will see a smaller middle class and
a larger dependent class of not just the poor but individuals and
families who once could afford to live without the government’s
help, but due to inflation, lower wages, fewer jobs, and higher
taxes must turn to the government for some form of assistance.
When it comes to crippling regulations to burden private
enterprise, the Obama Administration is leading the charge to
squash industry in favor of increasing government’s power and
reach.
New greenhouse gas regulations will cost $300 to $400 billion
per year and increase gas prices. The President’s insane “cow tax”
will hit more than 37,000 farms and ranches and 90% of American
livestock production. Obama’s attempt to stop hydraulic fracking
for natural gas has more than a dozen federal agencies developing
new, expensive regulations to prevent energy companies from
drilling. His war on the coal industry will continue, costing as
much as $110 billion over the next two decades and killing more
than 300,000 jobs in Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and
Missouri. So much for energy independence, and so much for job
creation.
Despite the President’s assurance that costs won’t go up and
jobs won’t be lost over Obamacare, the 16,000 IRS workers who will
administer the tax provisions of the program will be very busy
hitting millions where it hurts. According to the Heritage
Foundation, the Congressional Budget Office analysis found that
nearly 80 percent of those who’ll face tax penalties would be
making between $55,850 and $115,250. They will all see their taxes
go up starting next year.
Obama will add a $123 billion surtax on investment income, and
new taxes on dividends despite the fact that more than half of all
Americans invest in the market in one fashion or another. The $86
billion increase in the Medicare Payroll Tax is also coming down
the pike, along with a $60 billion tax increase for health
insurance companies.
In another uniquely-Obama effort to allegedly reduce healthcare
costs, the President is also going to increase taxes by $32 billion
on people who already have comprehensive healthcare coverage —
because they have coverage. Of course, people who have coverage now
that’s not up to the government’s standards will find their plans
eliminated and forced to purchase more expensive coverage. He’s
even going to tax medical device manufacturers to the tune of $20
billion because apparently that will help make Americans
healthier.
In Obama’s America, religious schools, hospitals and charities
will be labeled as non-religious employers specifically because
they serve the common good of society. Churches and other
faith-based institutions will be forced to provide services and
even hire employees based on government mandates rather than their
own, deeply-held values and beliefs. If they don’t, Obama’s
government will gladly step in with an expensive government
backfill for the services.
Here’s the good news — we can prevent Obama’s America from
becoming a reality. We can stop statism and collectivism from
taking us from “one out of many” to one of the many nations whose
governments’ thirst for power and control led to the decline of
great societies and nations. The choice is ours November 6, and the
results of the election, whichever way they go, will resonate for
generations to come.
