Can you predict the next 4 years of a Democratic Administration?

[kentuck]

I think we can agree that they will be criticized every step of the way by the Republicans in the House and Senate. Also, the recession that we slipping into at this time will be much more severe by the time the next President is sworn in. People will be losing jobs. Gas will be about $4 per gallon, as will milk. Bread will be about $3 per loaf.

Not only that, the present housing and mortgage crisis will have worsened. The dollar will be worth about 50 cents or less compared to the Euro. We will still be in Iraq and the surge will have accomplished only one thing - it will have armed both sides in a civil war. When the money stops flowing, when the bribes cease, the killings begin all over again.

Although the first few months of an Administration are the most vulnerable ones for terrorist attacks - remember the first WTC attack in March 1993 and the second WTC attack in September of 2001, both just months after the new presidents were sworn in- the country will be most concerned about economic issues in the next four years. Their standards of living will drop dramatically.

Also, during times of crisis, we tend to turn on internal enemies if we do not have external ones. Look for us to be involved in another conflict other than the present ones. The election of 2010 will be about the need for change. However, it will be the Repubicans that will be calling for change. They will be preaching the need for more taxcuts to get our economy re-started.

The next President will see challenges unlike any we have seen since FDR. If he/she cannot get the Congress behind him/her and call for radical changes and massive government programs to assist the people in need, there will be widespread apathy and disappointment with our government and with the Party in power. Also, there are always unknown and unpredictable events that will happen.

Perhaps I am being too negative? Can someone else predict what they see in the next 4 years?

[thunder rising]

1. Wasn't the first 5 times this was posted enough?

[kentuck]

2. Can you give me a link to the other 4 ?

Then I apologize.

[michreject]

5. I didn't see them either

Where are they, I wonder?

[kentuck]

6. I'm sure he will post a couple...

that are at least remotely similar. He's a respected poster. He would not rudely interject such a comment without knowing what he was talking about.

[CK_John]

3. We will need an FDR like program to build a new transcontinental rail line. A 300mpr meg lift type

train down the middle of the interstate replace every bridge not up to specs or in use over 30yr.

Also installing a fiber optic backbone for the net, along with a unique new item, a "fresh water pipeline" to transport water from coast to coast. This pipeline would be fed by desalting plants built on the coastline.

This will put us back to work doing things instead of shuffling paper.

[kentuck]

4. I think these are the types of things that the next President will need to address

The fresh water pipeline? That is a very interesting idea.