A Kerry Presidency
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Topic: Politics
If Kerry is elected, I will not say anything negative about him for 100 days after he takes office--something traditionally guaranteed to all American presidents.

So I'll have to get it in now, before he might be elected :^)

First, Kerry will raise taxes and will trigger a recession; unemployment will rise, businesses will go under, the deficit will actually increase. This, of course, will be conveniently blamed on the economic policies of George Bush.

Next, Kerry will try to get international help for Iraq. It won't happen. Recruitments will fall further and Kerry will be faced with a decision--draft or cut further back in Europe and Asia. This will increase the urge to get our troups out of Iraq eventually (months or years, I don't know) resulting in a radical Muslim fundamentalist government (like Iran) coming to power.

Getting Osama bin Laden will be the new priority--until we spend months looking for him and still don't find him. Then we'll be diverted by some new Middle East tensions.

Budget cutbacks based on Kerry's health plan and other projects will cause security to lapse, resulting in another terrorist strike.

The new outsourcing (Kerry having stopped the tax breaks as he said) will be foreign companies buying rights to American products and producing them overseas.

Kerry will lose the election of 2008 and Hillary Clinton will not have a chance to run until 2012, unless Kerry is so weak by that time that she easily beats him.

Will these things really happen? How should I know? I'm not Pat Robertson, after all. But that's the way I see it going--perhaps another reason I voted for Bush.