ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa

As this is the holiday season, and I’m getting in the mood I have been struck by an interesting Christmas parallel. Remember the Charles Dickens story, “A Christmas Carol?” Truly a holiday classic in book and film versions. In the story, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three spirits: the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. I began thinking about what would happen if a spirit came and did the same over a night with President Obama?

What would it be like for President Obama to go back in time to 2009-2010 and revisit several major policy initiatives? In retrospect would it make any difference for him to see exactly what the effects would be?

If Obama could go back and reevaluate the stimulus package where nearly $1 trillion was spent, would he do it again? Would he see the failure of that massive spending endeavor? If the President was forced to sit back and see the debt clock and understand the ramifications of the first four years of out of control spending, would it allow him to see the folly? In those first two years when he had the House and Senate to run through anything he wanted, would he ponder why he did not include Republicans?

If President Obama could have the chance to look back at Dodd-Frank, the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, would he have taken a different course? Hidden away in Dodd-Frank is something called the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Its mission is to prevent certain financial institutions from committing or engaging in “unfair,” “deceptive” or “abusive” practices regarding a consumer financial product or service. The problem is the CFPB has been granted exclusive authority in prescribing rules, issuance of guidance, conduct of examinations, requests for reports, and the ability to issue exemptions. What’s scary is the fact that Congress does not possess any appropriating authority over the CFPB because the agency is funded by the Federal Reserve. And the director of the CFPB solely determines the amount of funding the CFPB receives from the Fed.

As I sit here listening to President Obama for the umpteenth time try to sell us on Obamacare, if he could go back would he still inflict this pain on the American people? Would he sign into law a 2700 page bill that no one read, including himself? This is a decree, not a law with all the machinations it has undergone from Obama, creating 159 new bureaucracies, agencies, boards, commissions, and programs. Would President Obama go back and not lie to the American people in order to have this onerous massive wealth redistribution scheme pass?

Is it possible that a new President Obama would go back to the past and not give the speech at the University of Cairo and blindly support the “Arab Spring” and force the removal of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak? Would President Obama see how he has increased the welfare nanny-state and maybe not use taxpayer dollars to advertise for electronic benefits cards i.e. food stamps? Would he not march towards expanding a program that came to be known as the “Obamaphone?”

I just wonder what would happen if Obama transported back to the past. If he got a chance to see the failures of his policies now — and if he could be taken forward to see the destruction, havoc, and desolation he would cause for future generations of Americans, would he change? Perhaps in the future if President Obama saw that he had no legacy of success, only failure, maybe he would change course.

I ask you, is it possible for President Barack Hussein Obama to have an Ebenezer Scrooge moment and a change of heart? Would he shed a tear and realize that his direction for America is totally wrong? Or do we have a Marxist/socialist President whose heart is forever hardened and doesn’t care about a Merry Christmas or a bright future for our children and grandchildren, our little Tiny Tims?

by Allen West

Whatamess Loc: SC

This is a great editorial by Alan West. It would be wonderful if Obama would have a change of heart, but I truley don't think he will. I was hoping he would feel so "loved" by the South Africans he would just stay there, I think they need a new leader.

ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa

Well............ taking "selfies" of yourself at the funeral as he did....sends a true message about what we are dealing with in this Country!

Whatamess Loc: SC

Damn, I'll be glad when I wake up from this dream..it is a dream isn't it? Obama really isn't the President of the United States...is he?

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Seems like ACA was an attempt to ensure that our "tiny tims" could get the treatment they needed. The "scrooges" have done everything in their power to see that he does not and no Christmas goose either.

Quizzal Loc: TN

Completely there with you. If there is anyway to send him - SEND HIM BACK! If there is anyway that he could stay in South Africa - PLEASE LET HIM STAY THERE!
I would also ask to send him into the future, but I don't wish to inflick harm to others which he is doing to us.

alex Loc: michigan now imperial beach californa

most of what he is doing isn't to us it is to our children and grandchildren

ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa

Alex: I disagree....Its just like shooting your dog right in front of you! Starving your children down the road is no different, especially if we can treat the cause instead of the symptom. Millions of people have died in the past because the evil was brought on very subtle!

alex Loc: michigan now imperial beach californa

I guess I'll change my name to confused, no that one is already used and it fits him too well for me to take it

ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa

Alex: Great Humor! Its just an opinion! Have a Wonderful Merry Christmas! We have all been temporary disorientated - me especially - but not to the degree of Mr. Confused and his many comtemporaries?

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Disorient - no longer comfortable in the orient.