It Makes Me Sad

The Results of the Election are disheartening to say the least. Americans chose the status quo, and that means no improvement. We will keep slow growth. We will keep high unemployment. We will keep overbearing regulations. We will watch the destruction of good healthcare as Obamacare is fully implemented. We will watch our country drift through the world without a firm hand on the tiller. And we will be led by a pathological liar who is delusional in his belief that what he says matters more than what he does. Should, God forbid, anything happen to the man, we will have as his replacement a man more suited to be a resident of a rest home than president.

But the choice has been made, and it makes me sad. Oh, the decision won't change my life or the life of my family. I am one of the fortunate few who can weather the upcoming and continuing storm without too much difficulty. I feel sad, however, for those who are not in that position. The families who live from paycheck to paycheck who see rising energy prices and falling incomes will suffer. The students who borrow tens of thousands of dollars to attend college only to find out that there are no jobs for them will suffer. The unemployed who want nothing more than the dignity and purpose of a steady job will suffer. Those who toil in industries like coal or natural gas that do not fit in the worldview of the Washington crowd will suffer. The small business owners who struggle every day to keep their efforts afloat despite ever increasing burdens placed upon them by Washington will suffer. These are the folks who make me sad. America's children and their future children who are not even aware of the burden being place on them by our profligate president will suffer for decades or longer as they struggle just to pay the interest on the debt that has been run up. For them, there is little hope for improvement unless there is a complete turnaround by president Obama and his party. And we all know that there will be no such turnaround.

The choice also makes me fearful. What will become of the middle east once the Iranians get their nuclear bombs? What will become of South America as the Chavez forces continue their subversion of their neighbors? What will become of europe as the central bankers continue to fund their welfare states even though they have -- to use Margaret Thatcher's phrase -- run out of other people's money? What will happen to our ally Israel; will Obama finally get to throw them under the bus as he clear desires? Will America watch as China retakes Taiwan? Will Pakistan fall to the Islamicists and plunge the subcontinent into chaos? Each of these questions and more requires a steady hand and a clear world view of the proper use of American power. We cannot let things drift abroad for four more years, but that is what we just chose.

Even so, the people have spoken. Obama has won. Romney has lost. Even those stalwarts of stubborness, the senate Democrats have triumphed. At the same time the House Republicans also won. Now we just have to watch the country fall off the fiscal cliff.

It is going to be a bumpy ride. That is for sure.