With the election behind us, our country turns hopeful eyes to the future. I have a few hopes of my own.
I congratulate our first African-American president-elect. Martin Luther King, Jr. certainly would be proud to see this day. We are stronger for embracing diversity, and I am hopeful that we can continue working through the tensions and wrongs of the past and become a more just and colorblind society. I hope this new administration will help bring us together, and not further divide us. I have always found that freedom is the best way to break down barriers. A free society emphasizes the importance of individuals, and not because they are part of a certain group. That’s the only way equal justice can be achieved.
We will face more tough economic problems during this new administration. In fact, the worst is yet to come. A vast amount of problematic mortgages have not begun to reset their variable interest rates and go into default. We already have unprecedented deficits, spending is out of control, and more big industries are coming to government with their hands out. My hope is that this administration will handle this economic crisis better than the interventionists and big government spenders of the 1930’s, the bureaucrats that prolonged the Depression. I hope that new government programs and spiderwebs of red tape do not pop up to interfere with American productivity, and that we can quickly get our financial footing again. We have to understand that an economic correction needs to take place and the only way out of the coming recession is to go through it. Efforts to avoid it can only prolong it. I hope we can somehow find our way back to sound money and reject corporate cronyism.
We cannot address our budget problems at home without changing our disastrous foreign policy abroad. I am hopeful that the new administration can take on the mantle of peace and diplomacy in foreign policy that many Americans feel they were promised. Many other nations also have this hope, which exudes from their congratulatory sentiments offered after the election. They hope that national sovereignty will be respected. They hope that through diplomacy violence and war can be averted. I hope so too. One thing is unquestionable: our aggressive foreign policy of the past has been costly, in blood and in treasure. Our treasure is running out, and fewer volunteers are stepping up to enable that foreign policy. So for these reasons, if we are to continue to have an all-volunteer military, and see prosperity again in the future, I have every reason to hope our foreign policy will change. In order for it to remain the same, mandatory military service would have to return, as well as accelerated theft through debt and inflation to pay for it. I have a hard time imagining popular support for these policies, simply for the sake of war and conquest, when we clearly want peace.
I have many hopes for the future in this time of transition. But I have seen this country face many forks in the road, and sadly take the wrong one too many times. We have heard a lot of talk, and it remains to be seen what actions and specific policies that talk will translate into. So while I may be hopeful, I remain deeply concerned about our future.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
This man could have saved us had the GOP and the good ‘old boy voters not had a serious case of cranial-rectal inversion.
November 17th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Thank You Alex (not Jones) for that very accurate statement!
November 17th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
don’t blame me, i voted for ron paul
November 17th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
I supported Congressman Ron Paul, but Dennis Kucinich is looks better every day.
Instead of congratulations, I hope that Barak Obama will prove his legal name is not Barry Sortoro, and that he is not an illegal alien. A drug test would be too much to hope for.
My last hope is that we can just live by the US Constitution instead of creating “laws” to fit the government agenda.
November 17th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Jim:
I hope you die soon.
Damien
November 17th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
My understanding is that Obama is mostly Arab and he’s a master in mass hypnosis.
November 17th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Obama is hated by muslims.. he is a trader to the faith and they want him dead. Watch as more chaos and “terrorism” peeks its head!
November 17th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
javy,
Me too! We should have bumper stickers made.
November 17th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
“I have a hard time imagining popular support for these policies, simply for the sake of war and conquest, when we clearly want peace”
We shake our head at all of these misguided policies on a daily basis since the people don’t support them which brings to light the real question :
Who represents the people ? Almost all of our elected officials are chicken s*** sellouts and seem to care less what happens as long as they don’t upset anyone and they get their paycheck. Personally I don’t know how they sleep at night.
As for Jim, hopefully you realize you’re just as much of a scumbag as any of these NWO schills. Do us all a favor and don’t post your hate bulls*** here anymore, no one wants to hear it. There has to be hate websites out there, go converse with them…maybe you won’t look like such an idiot.
November 18th, 2008 at 5:37 am
Yeah yeah yeah. FDR made the depression worse, right Ron? Bullshit.
November 18th, 2008 at 5:47 am
stoned,
i was thinking the same thing
November 18th, 2008 at 6:15 am
John Morton
FDR did not really make the depression worse, he CREATED the depression from what should have been a medium sized recession. Hoover made the medium soized recession from what should have been a minor recession.
November 18th, 2008 at 6:51 am
@ 11 (arlo)
http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com
November 18th, 2008 at 7:28 am
I hate to tell you this but since time (and power) is on the Federal Reserve’s (the bankers) side I see us all getting poorer and them getting richer. Jobs will still be outsourced, taxes will stay high and wars and massive debts will continue. I don’t see anything changing here.
About the Constitution you always harp on, Obama is not President-elect. The electors have not voted yet right?
Second, Obama cannot prove that he is “natural born” which is a Constitutional requirement (see Article II, Section 1). The good news is that there is a court case that does have standing where he might be required to prove this. Should be no problem right?
http://www.ballot-access.org/2.....igibility/
If the court even considers this question, not just shooting the messenger like they usually do, then I think Obama is sunk. He has no vault birth certificate so he is unable to prove he is “natural born” by himself, and his own relatives in Africa have already said he was born in Kenya. Lack of proof is no proof. No one should have to guess. Therefore he is ineligible to the office of President.
The ultimate question for us all is can men live under laws and not dictators. For us this means if no one respects the US Constitution as the supreme law of the land, then its only meaning is the force (soldiers or money or lawyers) behind the person interpreting it.
November 18th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Look at all these OPINIONS!
If you believe you have the end all answers…
You’re wrong. That’s why you’re at home on a computer.
Talk is cheap.