Thank Goodness We Dodged These Bullets

Americans should be congratulated for the wisdom they showed by electing that nation's current president. Just think about what the nation might have suffered had the voters been unwilling to ignore the record devoid of any accomplishments whatsoever by the former community organizer as well as his lack of any qualifications for the presidency.

Were it not for the rookie's inherent (though never previously exhibited) executive skills and wisdom:

 *  The legislative process would lack the transparency that he promised and brought, and  this might even have made it necessary to enact legislation to enable citizens to discover out what it contained. Without bills being posted on the internet to enable citizens to study, consider, and provide input regarding proposed laws before they were voted on, legislation might be cobbled together in the dark of night behind closed doors and then passed in an unseemly rush.

*  Unemployment might have risen to above eight percent of the nation's workforce and perhaps even be staying above that level for an extended period of time. 


*  We might still have troops fighting and dying in endless wars in an ever increasing number of Middle East quagmires, and we even might still have troops in Iraq.

*  Billions of dollars that supposedly were going into shovel ready projects to stimulate the economy might instead have gone into the coffers of political bosses and unions run by labor bosses supporting a corrupt administration.

*  Truncheon wielding racist thugs might have gotten off the hook for engaging in voter intimidation.

*  We might have had American law enforcement officers being shot by Mexican drug runners with guns put into their hands by a corrupt Department of Just Us.

*  We might have had a government wildly spending without ever having a budget in place.

*  Instead of having the government use its resources to alleviate the effects of a collapsing economy on its citizens, we might have had  the government wastefully funneling billions of taxpayer dollars from those citizens through the public treasury to the very gigantic financial institutions that caused the collapse. We might even have witnessed the government allowing those same institutions to use those funds to pay huge bonuses to the executives who were in charge when their excesses created the bubble that caused the economic collapse, and then that government might have begun a program of seizing and closing smaller financial institutions to increase the market share of their big favorites by removing their community based competitors.


*  We might have had a government unable to find and hold anyone responsible for the economic catastrophe.


*  We might have had a government run by lobbyists and tax evaders and cheats.

*  We might have had a government acting like a third world dictatorship, riding rough shod over well established rules of creditor priorities to pay off thuggish labor union supporters, destroying the rule of law (as well as the basis for anyone continuing to have any faith in it) in the course of restructuring the automobile industry through supine bankruptcy courts. In the same process the government might even have rewarded auto dealers who had supported it politically by shutting down competing dealers that had not done so.


*  We might have gotten an administration that would sue states in an effort to have the court prohibit the states from protecting themselves and their citizens from violators of federal immigration laws that the federal government would not or could not enforce.


*  We even might have had an undisciplined government going on an out of control spending and borrowing spree to the point that its once sterling credit rating would have been lost.


*  We might not have a leader able to rise above all the travails of the nation and its people to set an example for us all by taking full advantage of, and obviously relishing each and every trapping and perk of his office, enjoying constant luxurious travels, golf outings, and vacations, and seeing to it that his wife does the same. As previously noted, we would have missed watching our updated version of the Beverly Hillbillies. And in our modern out-of-Chicago version we are getting to see a jackpot winning family with a mean streak, and lacking the good taste, decorum, innate decency, honesty, strength of character, kindness and good will, and self discipline and restraint that the original Clampett clan always displayed.