The New Normal

Massive unemployment, a loss in personal income of 3.2%, and ever more onerous regulation and taxation grinding small business- is this what America will come to accept as the "new normal"? These conditions have become endemic in the cradle to grave welfare states of much of Europe and that seems to be what Barack Hussein Obama is intent on delivering here. Can you imagine the hue and cry in the dinosaur press if Bush were still President and ten percent unemployment prevailed? Can you hear the calumny if a Republican President was overseeing shrinking incomes for almost all of the American citizenry? We would never hear the end of GOP-bashing until some clear-headed Democrat like Obama was elected to the Oval Office to save the day- except, of course, it is precisely Obama's policies that have engendered our economic catastrophe.