This is the question posed in a March 19, 2009 article written by Terence Corcoran for Canada’s Financial Post.

The opening paragraph of his article reads:

“Helicopter Ben Bernanke’s Federal Reserve is dropping trillions of fresh paper dollars on the world economy, the President of the United States is cracking jokes on late night comedy shows, his energy minister is threatening a trade war over carbon emissions, his treasury secretary is dithering over a banking reform program amid rising concerns over his competence and a monumentally dysfunctional U.S. Congress is launching another public jihad against corporations and bankers.

As an aghast world — from China to Chicago and Chihuahua — watches, the circus-like U.S. political system seems to be declining into near chaos. Through it all, stock and financial markets are paralyzed. The more the policy regime does, the worse the outlook gets. The multi-ringed spectacle raises a disturbing question in many minds: Is this the end of America?”

Going on to talk about the resiliency of Americans past, he goes on to write a little further on:

 "Past success, however, is no guarantee of future recovery, especially now when there are daily disasters and new indicators of political breakdown. All developments are not disasters in themselves. The AIG bonus firestorm is a diversion from real issues , but it puts the ghastly political classes who make U.S. law on display for what they are: ageing self-serving demagogues who have spent decades warping the U.S. political system for their own ends. We see the system up close, law-making that is riddled with slapdash, incompetence and gamesmanship.

One test of whether we are witnessing the end of America is how many more times Americans put up with congressional show trials of individual business people and their employees, slandering and vilifying them for their actions and motives. And for how long will they tolerate a President who berates business and corporations as dens of crime and malfeasance? If the majority of Americans come to accept the caricatures of business as true, then America is closer to the end of its life as a global leader, as a champion of markets and individualism."

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/ 2009/03/19/terence-corcoran-is-this-the-end-of-america.aspx

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Up in Connecticut this weekend, we already got one example of how mindless, easily-duped Obama Kool-aid drinking liberal stooges will react:

By turning their anger against other private citizens under the direction and finger-pointing of those "ageing self-serving demagogues who have spent decades warping the U.S. political system for their own ends," while they pridefully insist that we all continue to "tolerate a President who berates business and corporations as dens of crime and malfeasance."
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"If the majority of Americans come to accept the caricatures of business as true, then America is closer to the end of its life as a global leader, as a champion of markets and individualism."
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If you read the often ghoulish commentary and asinine gloating of the Obama sycophant libtards supporting any and all Democrat nonsense on these threads, and in 100% of our public school system classrooms from kindergarten to graduate school...the end of American life may be closer than you think.

Rather than protest the ineptitude and outright criminality of the den of thieves in Washington, D.C., the brainwashed minions of Obamanation allow themselves to be rounded up like sheep by ACORN brownshirts (or some other middle-aged hippie retread professor-types) and herded into charter buses,  to be shuttled to the homes of AIG employees to demonstrate against what they are told is the enemy of the poor: "rich people" (no doubt participating in a sing-along along the way to strains of “Yes we can…can…can—Yes we can…can…can”).

These people are as much culpable for the destruction of our way of life as the denizens of private demonization in high office, while never having the intelligence to realize that the only thing they are demonstrating is their ignorance and inability to see the forest for the trees. Seeing only the mote in the "rich" man's eye, they remain oblivious to the beam being shoved up their own rectums by the Demonrat –led Congress and the Obamanated White House.

The whole world's watching.

It wasn't enough that he made a complete @ss of himself on Thursday night's Jay Leno show. He's back at it tonight doing the only thing he knows how to do: Mug for the cameras.

As he makes yet another spectacle of himself on 60 Minutes tonight in what amounts to yet another campaign appearance, Barack Hussein Obama will once again show just how vacuous and unconcerned he is with doing any actual work; his overriding and primary concern being personal gratuitous celebrity.

What seems to be a sense of pride in Obamanation to some here...serves as a discomfiting and frightening embarrassment to many others.

The Election of Barack Hussein Obama...most possibly will turn out to be the greatest tragedy in the history of America.

It’s pretty much a given fact that the men and women serving on active duty in our country’s Armed Forces aren’t paid a whole lot. A large majority of them are living paycheck to paycheck, barely getting by.  Another large number of them have served more than one or two tours in Iraq or Afghanistan while back here at home, Barack Hussein Obama was claiming they were air- raiding villages and killing civilians; and under the reckless Obama administration, will soon be called to sacrifice even more.

Many of our Veterans are in the same position; some even worse off, as evidenced by the numbers of homeless veterans in our country.

Democrats in Congress and Barack Hussein Obama, up until it was obvious that we would indeed prevail against Al Qaeda Islamic Jihadis in Iraq, shown nothing but disdain for American soldiers and Marines; often making the most scurrilous, demeaning, and treasonous assaults on their character, their leaders, and their mission to protect us from these ruthless and crazed throat-cutting civilian slaughtering maniacs.

Here’s a small sampling of some of the things they said over worldwide airwaves while our soldiers and Marines were fighting for their lives:

John Kerry has accused US troops of terrorizing Iraqi women and children: “"[T]here is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children ..." (CBS' "Face The Nation," 12/4/05)

Speaking about the alleged killing of Iraqi civilians by US Marines, Rep. Jack Murtha said the Marines had, killed “. . . innocent civilians in cold blood" and further accused the Marines’ superior officers of a cover-up.

Kerry, as we all recall, was so derisive of the troops he once told a college audience, “You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t you get stuck in Iraq.”

That was after Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Il) compared US troops to Nazis: "If I ... did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners [at Guantanamo] in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their Gulags, or some mad regime, Pol Pot, or others that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners." (Sen. Richard Durbin, Congressional Record, 6/14/05 p. S6594)

But it was before Barack Obama (D-Il) said, “We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.” (“Obama: U.S. Troops In Afghanistan Must Do More Than Kill Civilians,” FoxNews.com, 08/14/07)

Reid, Kerry and Harkin sided with MoveOn.org by voting against the Senate resolution offered by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) that criticized the MoveOn ad and took the side of the troops by supporting the character of their commander, Gen. Petraeus. (Yes, gentlemen: that’s “Petraeus” with a “P”, not a “B”)

Apparently, they’re not through in waging their treasonous war against America’s finest men and women.

While Barack Hussein Obama, Peter Orzsag, and, yes, Dick “Pol Pot” Durbin are planning to take your taxpayer money to fund free Health Care to 16 year old sluts seeking abortions without mom and dad’s knowledge and the crack head down the street, one group of Americans will be paying for their Health Care benefits out-of-pocket for the first time in ever:

U.S. active duty military personnel, veterans, and even those who are suffering from service-related injuries. 

A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office details just one proposal that would increase out-of-pocket expenses for medical care for Military Families and Veterans; while others would lose their VA benefits altogether.

President Barack Hussein Obama has proposed a plan to cut military health care benefits! This will affect 99.9% Veterans and Active Duty members who are currently using health care benefits.

The Congressional Budget Office has made public a proposal stating that Veterans (you
know the men and women who have fought in wars and spent 20 plus years in the service) are now going to be paying up to 50% of their medical bill. That’s a big jump from paying nothing for the past 30 some odd years. The biggest kicker is Active Duty Military (yep, I said Active Duty) will now! Be paying 10% of their total bill. They will now be billed for their kids visiting the doctor. Again, a big jump from being free!

Another benefit subject to change is VA medical benefits. Everyone who is receiving a benefit from the VA for a service related injury will have to be re-assessed and the proposal states this will affect "90% of vets receiving VA benefits and will save the government $53 Billion dollars over 10 years".

Other proposals would raise Tricare fees, co-payments and deductibles. Veterans whose medical condition isn’t service related could end up no longer being eligible for VA medical care at all.

Isn't this the candidate that just a few months ago was preaching to get health care coverage to ALL?  Isn't it ironic, moronic and outrageous to steal $53 Billion from vets and active duty military families so the Crack Head down the street will receive free medical coverage?

While nothing has been approved at this juncture, the Congressional Budget Office director at the time [Peter Orzsag] was then President-elect Obama's choice to be his director of the Office of Management and Budget.

...and who led the work on this proposal?

Peter R. Orszag.

So it very possibly will have a very real, very devastating effect on our Troops, our Veterans, and their families.

“We are going to go through our federal budget, as I promised during the campaign, page by page, line by line, eliminating those programs we don’t need and insisting that those that we do need operate in a sensible, cost-effective way,” Obama said in November as he announced Orszag’s nomination to join his cabinet .

“We’re also going to focus on one of the biggest, long-run challenges that our budget faces, namely the rising cost of health care in both the public and private sectors,” Obama continued. “This is not just a challenge but also an opportunity to improve the health care that Americans rely on, and to bring down the costs that taxpayers, businesses and families have to pay. That is what [OMB] will do in my administration.”

Obama added, “Peter doesn’t need a map to tell him where the bodies are buried in the federal budget. He knows what works and what doesn’t, what’s worth our precious tax dollars and what is not.”¹

More "change you can believe in”.

Sources: Primary information source: http://soldiersmind.com/2009/01/07/proposed-tricare-cuts-could-cause-problems-for-military-families-and-retirees

http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?t=1285681

http://soldiersmind.com/2009/01/07/p...-and-retirees/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules...print&sid=4305 http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=4305

http://soldiersmind.com/2009/01/07/proposed-tricare-cuts-could-cause-problems-for-military-families-and-retirees/