Its been coming for a long time. The populace and the representatives they elected to power loathe the platform this country was founded on. In government we have leftist and globalists, each greedily seeking to satisfy their own interests without regard for the nation and the Constitution that they swore oath to protect and defend. People seldom have more than a 15 second attention span and politicians feed them their 10 second sound bytes for speeches. The country is going to hell in a hand basket and too many are eagerly helping carry the load. It makes me sick.

I dont care what you say, obama IS solely responsible for no Keystone Pipeline, something that would help us tremendously. Bush would have signed that bill along with other energy related endeavors. I ' m paying $4.40/ gal for non -ethanol gas...on a fixed income. Just spent hundreds on car repairs related to use of ethanol gas. If you think Obama is just a figurehead, you deserve just what your gettng.

It is easy to blame President Obama. He had nothing to do with it. Unlike the Presidents Bush who brought power with them, Barack Obama is only a figurehead for others. And the Presidents Bush were as much responsible for this as anyone and everyone else. The mortgage bailouts, the GM and Chrysler buy-outs, the wars, all of that goes back before 2008. It only continues today; and the acceleration is inevitable.

However, the outcomes are not universally consistent. Come to Austin! If you read the actual laws, Texas is as bad as "Taxachusetts" with interventions and controls and massive failed subsidies to pet businesses. But Austin has something, a sense of entrepreneurship within the culture of the town. Every town has beggars standing at the freeway medians. Here, when it is 100 degrees, they sell bottles of water. At that low level of subsistence, others walk the apartment complexes picking up aluminum cans which they sell for scrap. No sitting in the welfare office for them. It ain't much, but it is all about freedom and opportunity. Then, there are Dell, AMD, Google, eBay, HP, ... all the companies that pulled out of Ann Arbor (and maybe out of your town, too), are doing business here. And we have start-ups all across the board, not just in "computers." We have music here, big time: South by Southwest, and Austin City Limits Live. And now biotech: over 200 firms, mostly small, are listed by the Chamber of Commerce. You can find THREE different life sciences social groups here via Meetup.

I could go on all day....