The messiah?

Not everyone will agree, but many observers see time as running out for John McCain unless something crops up.

There has been remarkably little response to the allegations — some or all of which may be true — of voter fraud favoring Barrack Obama in the primaries and likely happening right now in the early voting in many states.

It would seem that the candidate to an even greater extent than most running for public office — even the highest — wants and will accept a win by any means at all. Voter fraud?

What may — or will — happen if Obama is elected?

While taxes and spending will, as the candidate promises, almost certainly go up, the wealth — if there is any left — will be spread around except in the area of national security. There has been a promise that defense spending will be cut by 25 per cent leaving, as someone commented, our troops in Iraq with their rifles but ammunition. I suppose this means that some or all of the troops will be coming home and leaving the Iraqis and others to fend for themselves.

I admit that I was somewhat ambiguous about going back into Iraq when Bush ordered it, but if we pull our support too soon, we will have wasted the lives lost there and probably guarantee our returning troops the same kinds of greetings returning Vietnam veterans received.

What else?

Oh, yeah, almost forgot about the economy and some other issues:

Do you suppose, with the spending programs suggested that the taxation will stop at the absolute top rank of those with money?

The poverty line in this country is somewhere around $14,000 or so for a single person (in the continental U.S.A.), but rising to $22,000 or more (top around $26,000) for a family of four. For larger families the line is higher topping out at more that $35,000 for a family of eight.

In Hawaii and Alaska costs of everything including poverty are higher, in Hawaii especially, much higher.

Some of these people, I assume, will be in line for the wealth the man from somewhere will be spreading around, but, unless there is some sort of adjustment, some of those who aren't on the absolute bottom level — if you're hungry it is sometimes hard to realize that there is a lower level — will paying for aid to that lower level, probably with their own dinner money.

Will wages go up?

Almost certainly not. Business owners have families, too, and are likely to be more concerned about their own, regardless of how badly they may feel about putting their own workers back on the street.

Will wages go down?

Maybe not, but whether they stay level or go down (up?) there will be fewer people drawing wages which will curtail production and, in a time of falling income, increase costs drastically.

What about other things?

Well, there are all kinds of promises which some see as threats. How about nationalized health care. Works other places, doesn't it? I guess it depends on what you consider "works" means. Currently, even if you don't have insurance you can be treated in an emergency room, assuming you have an emergency. If you have insurance or cash you can get in to see a doctor on very short notice and if surgery is indicated get that taken care of in most cases pretty quickly. Go to nationalized health country and it may take you weeks to see a doctor and a year or more for surgery. And you don't have to pay anything — except rapidly climbing taxes.

Oh, but for those in need, abortions will be available on demand and perhaps even encouraged. A woman, the left says, has the right to choose. She certainly does, but that choice can best be made before abortion has to be an option.

Obama has promised the best of all worlds. Everyone gets fed, everyone gets health care — who cares about the quality? — and everyone is broke, because while there may be some food around, you won't be able drive you car much, the possibility of rapid transit is quite low.

Except for rapid transit to Hell, which is the direction indicated.

Sic transit gloria mundi.