The Day After

It is not quite 12 hours after what has arguably been the most important election in America, at least during my generation.  The Comrade-in-Chief managed to keep his position for another four years, and already the financial market is reacting.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down over 200 points, which equates to a loss of just under 2%.  All of the other indices show similar drops.   Commodities are down too, although not nearly as bad.

But supposedly Obama is the savior of the free world, and will turn things around, right?  It appears that Wall Street disagrees with him.

I've pretty much said everything that can or could be said during the months that led up to last night's results.  The only thing left to remind all of the liberals who believe that the government is here to "help" them is this very wise saying:

"A government big enough to give you everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything you have."  --Gerald Ford

Would things have been drastically different under President Romney?  Probably not.  The new boss would have been a lot like the old boss.  But it would have been a step in the right direction.

So now, we go "forward."  My only hope is that "forward" doesn't take us over the edge, past the point of no return, to a place that looks nothing like the America that our founding fathers spilled their blood to create and defend.