Barack Obama won re-election, and America lost its future. Many would call that statement a sign of sour grapes the words of a poor loser. Yet, it is neither. It is the simple conclusion for anyone who has a calculator and has done the math. The national debt for the United States is 16 trillion dollars. That’s 101% of the Gross National Product. It would be like someone making $50,000 a year owing $5,000,000 dollars. Now that Obama has been reelected, the country is projected to reach 20 trillion in debt by the time he is out of office. The only thing that could change that path is if the President were willing to cut the spending spree, something he has shown he does not want to do.

Our debt is unsustainable at its current level. Now that we are guaranteed to have Obamacare written in stone and the two to three trillion dollars it will cost, by 2016 the country will be on a path that cannot be altered: insolvency. It is simple math. It has nothing to do with being a Republican or Democrat. Issues of racism or classicism makes no difference. It is zero’s and one’s. The income either adds up or it does not.

Greece is learning this lesson now. They spent too much on social programs, guaranteed state and country wide union wages, infrastructure built to provide “jobs” and higher taxes. The net result is a country that went running, hat in hand to the European countries for money to keep their country alive. The loans came with strings attached, as most loans do, and the string was a total restructuring of Greece’s spending. The result has been civil unrest, labor strikes, and riots. If you ask the rioters why they are doing these things, they will tell you because of the cuts to wages, and social programs. The very things that made them have to go begging for loans to stay afloat. It is like a person who buys the exotic sports car, and then gets mad at the person who comes to repossess the car, because they cannot make the car payment.

America is on that path, and has been for quite some time. Like the minor tremors that portent a large earthquake, little signs have been appearing: polls that show most people wanting those that make more than they to pay more in taxes, backlashes against any plan to slow down the spending and cost of medicare, men and women alike defending the idea that others have an obligation to pay for the birth control of women, support for fiscally dubious high speed rail projects across the country. Little by little, inch by inch, the mindset of the government spending the viewpoint of entitled thinking has been creeping into the psyche of the American populace.

Tonight’s election was the seismic event that was building. It signals that America has turned toward a social democracy like Europe. This has occurred not because of Barack Obama, but because people chose him. America’s populace chose tonight. They did not choose Romney because he was a bad candidate or ran a bad campaign. They chose Barack Obama, because they want the freebies, and they want someone else to pay for it. There are more people that embrace class warfare, than shun it. The days when President Kennedy said, “ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country,” is dead and gone.

We want the healthcare, we want the free birth control; we want the government to take care of us. The only problem is we cannot afford to do it. We cannot do it at 16 trillion in debt, and moving to 20 trillion in debt will not make things better. More debt never does.

American lost tonight, make no mistake about it. America died tonight. What the country that now occupies its space on this planet ends as is pretty clear. We become Greece on steroids, and the collapse will be televised.

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Kiara Ashanti
Kiara Ashanti is a freelance writer, and reporter in Central Florida. He has written for Black Enterprise Magazine, Active Trader Magazine, Atlantapost.com, and even had appeared on the Oprah show. He covers the areas of business, finance, politics, and travel. He is currently at work on the web documentary How Do I Survive.

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4 Comments for The Republican Opinion, America Loses Election

Helen Ross

Just had a nosey at that article too… got to be said, if that’s republican maths, they’re buggered! 101% of 50k is $50,500 not $5000000. Basic, simple maths! It’s really not rocket science.

I don’t think I could ever vote Repulican… they just make me giggle!

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Ginger Spelts

Excellent article. Unfortunately its the truth.

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Deficit hawks have been warning about inflation and higher borrowing costs for DECADES, but they never arrive. In fact, interest on U.S. loans is lower than ever.

The fuss over women’s contraception is ridiculous. all women are asking is that birth control be covered by employers’ health insurance because it’s a health issue that should be covered by health insurance.

It’s funny that those on the right didn’t worry about the debt or the deficit when they launched two wars with borrowed money or passed the Bush tax cuts with the old dogma “tax cuts pay for themselves”.

The CBO has predicted that Obama’s Affordable Care Act will bring down health care costs over time. We’ll see if in 4 years

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Kiara Ashanti

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You are not thinking deep enough. Cancer should be covered. That is a health issue. Birth control is a choice. No one needs to have sex. But if they do have it, why cant a woman pay for her birth control pills? Explain why they cannot even just pay a small co payment? Is it more important than say cancer, where people do have a co -payment for drugs that keep them alive?

CBO was given a bill that did not have ALL the costs included in it, things like paying the doctors, duh? When you add that in, then it is too expensive as even the CBO has said.

Lastly, tax cuts are not a cost. do the math, you do not send out a check to anyone when you cut tax rates. AND if you go to the irs you will see that the gov collected more tax revenue under Bush tax cuts than before they were enacted. And the same things happened under CLinton, Reagan, and Kennedy. all had lower tax rates.

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