In Obamamerica, There Won't Be A Middle Class

As a middle-class American, I consider my support for John McCain to be survival-oriented on several levels.  First and foremost is national security; closest to home is the question of whether the "middle class" in America can survive in Obamamerica.  There is no question that it - - we, I should say, since that is where I am - - will survive under a President John McCain; I have substantial doubts that we will see the same result under Obama and the Democratic left.

What is the "middle class?"  The left wing of the Democratic Party seems to believe that salaried folks who pay taxes on $100K to $250k a year are the "middle class."  Sometimes the lower limit is $50k.  While many of these folks may be aligned with the "middle class," in the greater sense of the term, the American middle class is the merchants and professionals, shopkeepers, property owners, and entrepreneurs generally classed as "small business."  This "small business" is a big deal in the U.S.A. - - it is in fact the backbone of our economy, producing most of the jobs, generating innovations and inventions, finding ways to increase productivity, and now and then spawning a "big business," like Microsoft or Starbucks. 

Why will the middle class suffer under Obama's policies?  First of all, the thousand-dollar tax break bribe is keyed to salaried folks, not to small businesses.   Anyone who is a small business owner sees the real cost of taxation - - it is substantial, even if you exclude the time and expense of keeping up with the paperwork.  Those matching "contributions" for employee withholding for social security and Medicare don't come from a money tree; they come out of the profits of the business.  "Profit," of course, is a dirty word for the left, so we'll get no sympathy there.

Even worse than the taxes is the Draconian energy policy we are promised in Obamamerica.  When our customers or clients have less money, it is impossible to increase prices to make up for the hundreds of cost increases due to higher energy prices.  Our employees are squeezed the same way - - their cost of commuting to work is up, as is everything they buy for their families.  Walmart can afford, in the short run, to hold down prices on all the brummagem stuff it imports from China; Main Street shopkeepers can't.  

Every time a small business goes down, families go down with it.  Main Street shopkeepers pay better than places like Walmart - - even with both spouses working at Walmart/Starbucks/McDonalds and the like, the family's standard of living will nosedive.  

Obama and his Democratic Party cohorts have clearly decided that we all have to be forced away from fossil fuels and into alternatives and increased conservation.  But we have been working on conservation for thirty-plus years and there is only so much more conserving we can do in the near future.  In my houshold, we have energy-star appliances from top to bottom - refigerator, air conditioner, dishwasher, clothes washer, clothes drier, water heater, light bulbs.  What do we buy next - - an energy-efficient family dog?  Our place of business is likewise as energy-efficient as it can be - - insulated, heated and cooled with a modern EE HVAC, and so on.  Solar panels?  Not practical here and too expensive.

So we have to find some way to live with the price of everything going up due to higher oil prices.  But do we have to live at the mercy of speculators and foreign tyrants who control our oil supply?  The real key to surviving this problem is STABILITY in energy prices.  Under John McCain, we would see measures such as increased domestic production that at least stabilize the situation, probably bring the price down a bit, and permit us time to adjust and survive economically.  What Barack Obama promises is intolerable uncertainty, forced-march use of expensive corn-based ethanol (a major Obama lobbying commitment, by the way), unstable energy prices, and questionable supply - - look at the nut-case leaders of Venezuela and Iran if you want a peek at our future.

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