Enforced Austerity Measures

Alarmingly, Obama praised Red China during this summer's Olympic games. He said we should emulate aspects of their country. Which parts, the author wonders? The suppression of the press, censorship down to even the level of what people browse on their computers, the seizure of Tibet and its violent occupation, the denial of basic religious freedoms, the forced abortions and sterilizations, the execution of more prisoners than the rest of the world put together, often arbitrary and after torture forced confessions, and for the purpose of harvesting their organs for sale to foreigners. Or does Obama merely want to copy their smog reduction methods of permitting motorists to drive their vehicles every other day based on odd or even license plate numbers. I would say Obama would seize on this under the rationale of fighting global warming. Obama has many other opportunities to deprive our most basic freedoms. He is an ardent proponent of abortion on demand going so far as to vote to prevent care of newborns who have survived abortion attempts. After September 11, 2001, Democrats and media members (often one in the same) asked what sacrifices we could make to advance the war effort. President Bush was mocked for saying we should spend. Obamites seek to punish us for what they see as our lives of excess. They will employ any canard to increase their own power and use it to lessen our freedom. Ever more invasive emission regulation will cripple our industry. We will lose the right to do as we chose with trees on our own property; indeed, we may lose the authority to own land at all. America is not a developing nation asking the World Bank or IMF for a handout, but under Obama, we will find, to paraphrase Fritz Hollings, "there was too much consuming going on."