Election Day

 

What does a Ram in a field of clover has to do with the US election? Absolutely nothing. I just needed a photo for today's post. South of Nighthawk USA in August of this year.

 

Today is election day in the USA. Most of you do not care and do not follow US politics. I do and I find it fascinating even though I do not know the system nearly as well as I do the Canadian system.

 

The big question of course is, does it really matter who wins. I wish it did, because I certainly have my favourite party and my favourite candidate. However, I get the feeling that the day after the election, the bureaucrats will head back to their offices, the special interest groups will meet with their lobbyists, the generals will plot more wars, Ben Bernanke will print more money, the social system will expand, the economy will continue to shrink in real terms, and we will be headed for four more years of the same. Decline.

 

How can Obama fix what he could not in the last four years. "We have more work to do", he says. He has not done any yet, but he has caused irreparable damage. And now Romney is chanting the same phrase Obama used in the last election, "It's time for real change." If only. One wants to plunge the US deeper into socialism, the other deeper into military might. Both have lost the sense of what the spirit of the American constitution created in forming the greatest country in the world. Daily, freedoms are being taken away. Subservience to and dependence on big government is the slippery slope that they are on, and it is almost too late to halt the decline.

 

The one bright spot on the Horizon for the USA is their potentially imminent dominance in the production of domestic oil supplies. It has already begun and will be a key to turning the country around. Which ever candidate wins today may find himself to be the most popular president of all time because of all the new found wealth, and all the largess they will be able to pour out on the nation. But, of course, that will just make the people even more dependent on the government. After all, they are both 'tax and spend' candidates, both socialists, but in varying degrees.