iWhat Do You Predict... (Political)

Absolutely, Ally G. Absolutely.

Dawn, I usually disagree with you, but I hope you are right on this one. There needs to be more compromise and willingness to work together. I hope that happens.
I give props to Fox News about this Benghazi issue and hope they keep sniffing around. There are too many inconsistencies.
A.

I'll be living the dream of having a big government and I am thinking of ways to scam more money...woo hoo....gimme sum of them Obama bucks!

We better learn Chinese because we'll owe them so much money and never be able to repay those debts...

Just kidding...sort of.

I voted for Romney even though I wasn't on board with everything he said -totally pro choice but we have to contain spending and I think people need more incentive to get off benefits that the states and government provide. And I don't foresee Obama provding any incentive for that so I do think we are in some trouble.

Please please, educate yourself. Obviously the news on Fox news is not reality. They are a business based on not news so much as entertainment.

When you are worried, go to snopes.com, check out these scary things that are being said. EACH time you realize what you have been told is not true. Keep a record.

Once you reach, lets say 5 times, 10 times, a dozen times.. that these things are not true, maybe it will dawn on you, someone is trying to scare and lead you astray..

Read a reliable Newspaper you trust and stay away from ANYTHING that sounds outrageous. Remember, Our president has a beautiful family. don't you agree? How is that possible? You have a beautiful family? How did you make that possible? By hating America. By hating groups of peopel. By putting your energy into negativity? Of course not.

He was raised by his beloved mother and grandmother. His father loved him, but did not live in this country and so President Obama and his brother were raised like many of us. Loved, guided and encouraged to do our best. To care for others.

There is not a hidden agenda to hurt America. If there was i promise the majority of us would realize it.

Please educate yourself with the truth and common sense you want your own children to have.

It will save you all of this worry.

I am sending you clarity.

I predict that in four more years people will be bitching on the internet about politics.

Life will go on.
There will continue to be periods of recession and depression, prosperity and growth, war and peace.
There will be plagues, famine and natural disasters.
Life will always ebb and flow, just like it has since time began.
The GOOD news?
We are evolving.
We are no longer a nation of slave owners, a nation that believes only wealthy, white, property owning males are entitled to a vote, an education and a position in the community.
I am GLAD that my children are growing up in world that recycles and cares about the environment. A world where a little girl can be given a fair chance to be a firefighter if that's what she wants to be. A world that holds financial institutions accountable to the people who deposit their hard earned money there. A world where the president of the United States says it's okay to be gay.
Yes, my kids will probably work harder than my husband and I had to as young people, but what is WRONG with that? Life SHOULD get harder when things get too easy, otherwise humanity becomes complacent and stops evolving, leading to a bitter, lazy and gluttonous population.
No thanks. We are definitely on the right path in my opinion.
And the right path is often not the easy one.

What are the real rules? No president can just side step - they have to work within the rules.

The question I have is whether or not our elected lawmakers will try to work together to solve our problems, rather than digging in their heels and saying no to everything the president wants to do, even when the things he wants to do are already things that THEY have said that they wanted to do before. This is what has happened. That worries me more than anything.

Really, the president can't just do anything he likes, so try not to worry so much about that. What he uses an executive order for will be WITHIN THE LAW. Our lawmakers need to come together and work on a bipartisan basis. That means give and take, and not just take - on EITHER side.

I can't call that my prediction, but I sure HOPE that this is what we see.

I predict that our President will put us all in the poor house with incredible taxes, unbelievable debt, and social programs we can not afford. Obama care is great unless you get sick or if you are old and sick. I don't need the government messing with my healthcare, thanks.
What we need is lower taxes, fewer social programs, and more jobs. You can create more jobs with lower taxes, but the liberals don't seem to believe that.
I have two children who are going to college on military scholarships and I really worry about sending my son out in two years under our current commander in chief. He did not protect the Ambassador in Libya when he asked for help. He is notorious for playing golf and going on vacation. He doesn't have a clue as to what is going on and it worries me greatly. I can only hope that we, as a country, and our soldiers out there on the front lines can hang on for the 4 years until we can elect someone with a clue and a conscience.
LBC

There are so many good things that are certain to happen and still more that are likely...

One maybe two, new, more liberal supreme court justices.

Roe V Wade safe for another four years.

Hopefully marriage equality, for all Americans at the federal level.

A chance at getting out of Afghanistan.

Less money spent on incarcerating people for smoking pot.

More women and people of color in positions of leadership.

Change in immigration policy.

More people covered by health insurance.

Leadership that believes the 95% of scientists that our planet is in big climate change trouble and hopefully policies that will reflect that.

A continuation of the slow steady climb out of the greatest recession since the great depression.

Can't be too optimistic on the last one though. It just took a day for the Republican controlled house to say they will NOT CONSIDER A TAX INCREASE ON THE MOST WEALTHY IN OUR COUNTRY EVEN IN CONJUNCTION WITH MASSIVE SPENDING CUTS. They want to insure they continue to pay at rates that are 1/2 what the middle class pays. What IS that???!!!

Jo W- You are attempting to boil down the economic crisis in a way that places the blame on Clinton? You're right he is responsible for some of the deregulation that contributed to this mess, so is Reagan for that matter. The current situation was decades in the making and I have confidence that a more liberal, Democratic approach will benefit us all more in the long run. I don't have to google it, I've been reading about it for years. Many of the economists I read and respect agree.

All the economic indicators predict on the current path things are going to get bad. We have monetary policies that should but causing double digit inflation. The only reason we are not is because so much of the world's money is tied to our dollar. So we are hanging on what other countries do.

So what do we do to these countries that hold our balls in their hands, we ignore free trade agreements, violate the ones we have and impose tariffs on their imports. Brilliant!

Rather than anyone get their hands dirty they created legislation that creates committees, boards, or empowers standing agencies to create rules that are laws, but they create them, not Congress or the President so they didn't have anything to do with the destructive nature of them.

Oh what is the destructive nature, so you create a regulation. The businesses read the legislation, oh we can't do this anymore. Okay so we will invest here. Not when the regulations are coming all willy nilly. Oh you didn't grease all the right hands, guess what, what you just invested billions of dollars in, well you can't use it. Ask Boeing how that is working for them. Sends a clear message to all businesses don't invest in the US, we may smite you for it!

I could go on but this is already getting long.

In the end there appears to be two camps forming. The one is the more fringe saying give Obama enough rope to hang himself. Great! that will prove the point but do you have any idea how many people will be suffering? More than I can reach out to and help that is for damn sure! The other is continue to try to fix what is wrong and if that happens to make Obama look good so what! After all we were never about Obama, we have always been about saving our home! Home folks, not our home, home, ya know, this country we happen to love and don't want to see destroyed!!

*steps off soapbox*

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My god folks, you have google, look up the laws that caused the meltdown!! You will find good old Clinton signed them, not Bush! I have still not found it in my heart to forgive Bush for not fixing them but he inherited them from Clinton!! Start with Sandy's law or Gramm Leach Bliley (banks to big to fail) and the community reinvestment act (sub prime, Fannie and Freddie). Oh for good measure check out commodity futures modernization act (toxic derivatives and securities) I am not saying people are stupid but it seems a fair few are uneducated.
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All this and I didn't even touch Obamacare, which really, you know people that were helped by it, it doesn't go into effect till 2014!!! If your friends have a time machine they really should sell the patent because they wouldn't have to worry about money for the rest of their life!

Oh don't even get me started on the well my kids will be insured till they are 26! Not by a long shot, they get a crappy job that offers crappy expensive insurance they aren't eligible to be on their parents plan. Really? Didn't know? How do you think they got the backing of the insurance industry?

It would take me 2000 pages to explain all that is wrong with Obamacare so I won't even go there!

The stock market will continue to go down, the dollar will continue to fall, our credit rating will be downgraded, gas prices will continue to increase making all goods more expensive, the government will continue to waste the people's money, even the middle class will see an increase in their taxes, more people will be dissatisfied with their health insurance despite paying more, unemployment will rise http://p.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/nov/8/..., the government will be less transparent (Banghazi), and we will see more terrorist attacks against our country.

I am hoping though that the majority will be ready for real change and will realize that "democracy has failed because the people voted themselves a free loaf of bread"

The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!.... ;-)

I think things will continue pretty much as they have been, that the economy is going in the right direction, that there are more jobs opening all the time. There will be some small adjustments made to our tax code, that insurance companies and other companies will figure out the new healthcare law (and there may be some adjustments there, too) and we'll start seeing some improvements in health insurance availability (if you are self-insured and under-insured as I am). I think we're moving in the direction of more equality for LGBT people as far as the right to marry, etc. I LOVE the increased number of women in all levels of office. I see this trend continuing in future elections.

Those with dire warnings are over-estimating the power that a president has. He has to work with congress; congress' actions are can be validated or not by our courts. That's how things work. The president's powers are limited to influence, mainly.

I would love to predict that fewer people would continue to be misinformed by watching and listening exclusively to media that is funded by one extreme wing (right) of our political system. I believe in searching for facts. I wish more of us would be concerned with facts, numbers, and logic. I wish I could predict that we could find a way to discuss the important problems of our country with an aim to solve them using the best ideas from both sides, liberal and conservative. I wish I weren't watching families being torn apart by this incessant blaming and exaggerated unfounded lies being propagated.

I would like to predict that we will make noticeable, badly needed, advancement in a move away from racism, sexism, and the fear that drives the need to hold on tight to "what's ours" to keep it from the "others". But sadly, I'm not that hopeful.

I think the country will be better off! I think having 4 more years will give The President the opportunity to finish important things he has started and push the country further along in recovery.

I know several people where Obamacare has made a major difference in their lives. Without it they would have suffered and been held back. With it they have been able to move forward, adding to our society.

But the parties do have to work together. Obama needs cooperation. He can't just side step congress. Things will be better. How much better depends on this.

For the poster that said Obamacare does not go into affect until 2014. Not true. There are things being grandfathered in that will take that long, but Obamacare has helped many people starting in 2010. Go do a little research on Wikipedia or something.

I predict he will dig us in deeper debt and we will turn into what Greece has become.
We will never get the whole truth about the incident in Libya.
More people will get laid off.
Have you seen the list? Just in the last 48 hrs. It's horrible.
Obama will play more golf , spend more money and more people will "resign".
More of our foreign aid will be shipped off to countries that hate us.
If we are lucky a budget will get passed , don't count on it with a democratic majority in the senate. He had both houses for 2 years and didn't pass one.
If he continues to add in debt at the same rate he will have added 14 Trillion by the time he's done. He added 7T his first 4.
If you taxed all the "wealthy " people in this country at 100% you still wouldn't pay off the national debt.
We can not continue the way we have for the past 4 yrs, food stamps , welfare and unemployment is up. And there are too many people pulling from the system. There aren't enough people that actually have jobs to sustain the number of those on welfare.
The job creators in this country are the companies , if you don't give them some incentive to stay here they will leave and take their jobs elsewhere. It's already happened. You HAVE to give them tax breaks, if you don't they can't hire more people because they won't have the money to do it. Obamacare has caused thousands of people to loose their jobs because now companies have to provide health insurance if they have a certain number of full time employees. Well they are firing full timers and hiring part time workers they don't have to provide insurance for. But then those people are being forced to buy health insurance from the government , if not they will be fined. Well they can't afford insurance because they only work part time. So they not only can't afford insurance but then the government is going to fine them for not being able to buy insurance.

Does no one see that this is not a good idea?

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Even if Roe V Wade were repealed all it would do is push the decision to the states , where it should be. Constitutionally the US government can't make the states do anything they don't want to.

$5 loaf of bread and $7/gallon gas.

Good times! :)

I believe believe marriage equality will be accepted and legal in most states. Reproductive choice will be protected by either 1 or 2 new Supreme Court justices. I sincerely hope that our current immigration policy will be reformed so that ALL people who want to come here, work hard and make a better life will have a straight forward path to citizenship. I foresee most people having health insurance that cannot be cancelled because they get sick or denied because of pre-existing conditions. Perhaps we will make some progress towards slowing climate change - but at least we won't be on a path of total denial making us the laughing stock of the educated world. I hope that science will regain its rightful place in our schools and country rather than pseudoscience/creationism/magic. Maybe we will legalize all recreational drugs, tax the h*ll out of them and use the money to regulate drug safety, protect children from them, educate people AND with the billions of extra $$, make a dent in the debt. As well as saving the lives of thousands of Mexicans caught up in the 'drug war'.

More of the same on steroids?

More governmental intrusion on the individual, fewer private sector full time jobs. Devaluation of the U.S. Dollar.

Ok, you asked and I will answer honestly from my heart. I will not apologize for how I feel either...

I think Obama should have never been elected in the first place, he has done NOTHING for our country in the last 4 years. We are headed for a serious depression-esque era again!

One of the main things I don't like is that he says over and over again that he wants to tax those of society that make over 100,000 a year! Since that is "not fair" to those that don't make that. No offense, but that personally strikes a serious problem with me. My family's business has been quite successful over the last 40 years. My Grandfather, my dad and my 3 uncles have gotten where they have financially due to going to work everyday and working their tails off, and now Obama wants them to "share the wealth!" I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT! My family volunteers alot, deliver & buy gifts for several children's homes, and participate in alot of charity work too! I am sorry, but people like my next door neighbor who sit at home on their butt, without an education, smoking weed (probably selling it out of his house too) who thinks the world owes him and his 2 kids, NEEDS TO GET OFF HIS BUTT and get a job!!!! Don't like how much money you make, go back to school and work on fine tuning your skills to make yourself more marketable. I think people in our society have gotten a little bit of the whole "entitlement" mentality going on.

Sorry if you are offended by what I have said, but it's just my honest opinion.

Well, most of the general trends in this country will probably continue. None of which have anything to do with Obama.

The economy will probably pick up -- we're still in a boom and bust cycle -- but middle-class manufacturing jobs will continue to be outsourced to other countries and machines. We keep having these recoveries, but they leave more and more people out. Obama may be able to take away the tax break for companies that send jobs overseas (which Republicans have assiduously defended), but that's not likely to stem the tide.

I'm sure there'll be more instances of extreme weather, like Hurricane Sandy. And unbearably hot summers. Climate change is real, it's happening, and it's getting worse and worse. Obama may be able to get the nation to participate in international cap-and-trade legislation (I sure hope so, but I'm not holding my breath), but that won't change things right away, and it may not be enough to do a thing. In the case of individual disasters, FEMA will at least be functional.

If Obama is able to rescind the Bush-era tax cuts on the super-wealthy, then the national debt will level off. If not, it won't.

I would love to see increased regulation on investment banks (like we had before the repeal of Glass-Stiegel [sp?]) and some bankruptcy/foreclosure reform. Not sure if we'll get it.

The US may participate in some multilateral military interventions (like in Libya and Bosnia) that are highly effective but don't get the nation's testosterone going. We're less likely to have a unilateral "war of choice" (like Iraq) that gets people crazy with excitement but turns out to be a disaster.

Ruth Bader Ginsberg will probably retire from the Supreme Court and be replaced with someone with similar political leanings. The Republican appointees are pretty healthy, so I don't foresee a net change. Obama will make some lower-court appointments that may bring about a subtle judicial shift, but nothing dramatic. In other words, Roe v. Wade will not be repealed.

The extraordinary Civil Rights movement of LGBTQ Americans will continue. People will begin to be embarrassed about their past views and pretend they always supported gay marriage.

Congress will remain bitterly divided and nonfunctional. Americans will hate Congress and reelect their own congesspeople.

Each year will bring a new high-tech toy that everyone needs right away.

Every few months there will be a shocking scandal of some sort. People will talk about it with great excitement and then they won't.

In 4 years, there will be another presidential election. Half the country will be outraged and bewildered by the other half, and vice versa.

Puppies and kittens will still be cute.

In other words, ditto Suz and Dawn. I could pretty much answer any question on this site by saying ditto Suz and Dawn, among others.

America has OVERCORRECTED from a history of slavery and discrimination. Such overcorrectness and Political Correctness is going to be a cost to all of us--and to our future generations.

All indicators point to a recovering economy. This is a good thing. Housing seems to be improving, American's are saving more, and if Obama issues some executive orders and gets those assholes in Congress to actually do some work, maybe something will actually happen. Our biggest problem right now is that policy creation is being held hostage. Congress is seriously screwed up, and we need to do something about that. What president we have doesn't matter much.

i'm worried about the economy. neither candidate had a real solution, which involves both increased revenue (raise taxes) and cutting spending (friggin' ouch.)
and that's huge.
i do see some good stuff, though. all the silly hysteria about gay marriage eroding 'traditional marriage' will go the way of misogyny. we'll invest more in green technology, which will spark a new wave of american entrepreneurship and help slow our poisoning of our own planet. we'll inchworm closer to having healthcare be something that doesn't cripple the middle class. (there are no perfect solutions, people. get over it. someone will always have to wait, and some procedures will remain too expensive for most to get routinely.)
so, i'm hopeful about some things, pessimistic about others.
khairete
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Wow, Ally, overreact much? Mamazita didn't deserve all that. (FYI, not that it matters, but Mamazita's white.)

I have no idea where the country is going to be in 4 years, because this country's problems are bigger than any one president and are linked to the global economy.

One good thing I have been hearing is that the GOP is going to have to restructure itself so that it is not so aligned with the far right, and then maybe the parties can begin to work together for the betterment of the country, instead of being in a continual stalemate.

Now if Jon Huntsman hadn't been so summarily dismissed...

Laurie A. Rocks....

A standing ovation and a million flowers to Laurie A. She nailed it.

You will never get facts from the left. It's all a bunch of hog wash and no facts.

Roe vs Wade would NEVER have been overturned, even under a Romney/Ryan Presidency.

No facts just silly talk is all I read on here. But that's what I expected.

I think we will all continue the think and believe what we thought and believed before the election most likely. I think that we will all love our families and do our best to make it. I think that the economy was bad before during and now in this second term of President Obama. I think abortion on demand will continue and most likely gay marriage rights will expand. I am not sure that would have been much different under either candidate. I think the US is a country divided and that has been evident in the last several elections. I think we all need to adopt a 'you win some, you lose some' attitude bc last I checked it was an election. I make no bones about it, I voted for Romney. But I didn't think he was the savior of America, I just can't get behind Obama morally at all. But hello, it's not like I didn't know Obama was going to win, when you put up a Republican candidate that has changed his opinion on virtually everything, I mean really did he ever have a chance? I knew the second he made the 47% comment we were screwed, but well that's life, maybe there will be a candidate next time I can truly get behind. I don't believe Obama hates America, I think a lot of my dear friends are totally overreacting. It was an election, the Dems won, so be it. My two cents ;)

Texas will secede from the Union, we'll say 'Adios' and we'll replace it with Puerto Rico so the flag retains/maintains 50 stars.
Our parents had bigger problems growing up during the Great Depression and WWII.
They survived and flourished.
The problems the country faces are not easy, but it could always be worse.
Election's over! - Time for beer and football!
Yes, it's partly a glib answer - but all worry does is give you an ulcer, wastes energy and accomplishes nothing.

Ghost Buster Quotes:
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

Looks like we're going to be pushed off that fiscal cliff, possibly into a recession. That won't do our 401k's any good. And it will have a negative impact on foreign markets. https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insights/article/fiscal-...

I've heard that anywhere between 40-83% of doctors plan to quit because of Obamacare. Don't know how true that is, but again, it doesn't bode well. I know that if I were a doctor and had no conscience rights, I'd be looking for a new career, too. It's great if you have insurance, but that doesn't mean a doctor has to accept you as a patient, especially if your insurance doesn't pay the provider very much.

And I predict that the persecution of the catholic church will continue. The HHS mandate thing was just a test of the waters. But one in six patients in the US is cared for in a catholic hospital. And catholic health care and social service agencies serve millions of people in this country alone. What will happen when all those catholic hospitals and other service providers shut down rather that violate their principles? Will our current health care and social service infrastructure be able to bear the added burden? http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2012/03/01/Obama-Ri...

If both sides cooperate, hopefully the fiscal cliff can be managed. Hopefully health care will be a little better by then once everyone is covered and the insurance companies can price from a larger pool of customers. The military will be handled just the same as it has been until now..hopefully the 1% will half to cough up some extra $s as WELL as entitlements being cut...if everything sucks beyond belief in 4 years a Republican will win next time. I think the Republicans will now seek out STRONG options for their next nominee more to the MIDDLE and less to the fringe so they have a shot next time. So. Don't be so worried.

Oh, and I think Fox News will finally not be held as gospel to so many now that their election information was so completely inaccurate up to the very last seconds.

I'll keep this short bc I see most of what I would say has been said. I never thought Obama should have been voted and I think if he and McCain had been the same race, whether white, black, brown, green or pink it would have turned out different. When I first knew he was running I was actually excited about having our first black president but then he opened his mouth and would never answer a question straight and to the point it was always a dance routine. My family is part of the Middle Class that Romney talked about and we do support the rich and the poor. We tend to work for the rich and our money we work hard for goes to the government to take care of the poor and those who don't care to work. My husband is very close to being able to open a company and could easily bring in over $100,000 a yr and under Obama he would be penalized for that and be made to give it to someone who refuses to work. I'm all for helping those who are trying to help themselves but there are so many who feel the gov should be paying all of their bills. My family is already trying to cut back on groceries and anything else we can so that we might survive another Obama term otherwise I think a lot of ppl will be filing for bankruptcy bc the are paying more in taxes than they are bringing home to take care of their own families. Even with everything we have cut we still barely make ends meat and yet we are being told Obama is going to raise our taxes. Pretty soon and not by choice everyone he's taxed to give to the poor will be the new generation of poor.

Robin M said it all only she was being nice with the word she used.

All Obama people. Hmmm, I think they do protest too much.