Posted by
grad_1986 on Thursday, May 28, 2009 5:33:32 PM
In physics the elasticity of a material is its ability to retain its previous shape after being deformed. Virtually all materials has some form of elasticity. Glass can flex to some small degree and come back to its original shape. Pushed too far and it breaks. Rubber has great elasticity. It can be stretched many times its own natural length and bounce right back. Some materials however when stretched never go back to their original shape. Take thread used in cloth for example. Stretch a shirt too far and it remains stretched forever (I did this once to a sweater my wife wore which had gone through the dryer by mistake. I tried to remedy it by stretching it, but instead I got a sweater that only orangutan could wear).
Today our country's elasticity is being tested by the Obama administration. I believe that they are racing as fast to the left as possible using every excuse under the sun to do their dirty work. By pulling our country hard to the left they hope that it will forever be forced to stay that way. The so-called "moderate" Obama was a lie sold to the voters by a media that was in love with the "man" and did little to investigate his past or his views. Now we have an administration that can't be questioned on any decision. Whether its an 800 billion dollar stimulus plan that puts us reclessly in debt, changing the rules of bankrupcy to put Unions in the front of the line for payoffs, or his nomination of a justice who is anything BUT just in her decisions. He also now wants by the end of this year to have nationalized healthcare and most likely also a federal sales tax as well. To question him is to be a racist (look at how the tea-party-goers were treated).
I think that Obama is hoping our country isn't resiliant enough to "snap back". He is hoping we are all just lazy moronic buffoons who will just roll over and accept the direction he has pointed this country in. Maybe he has spent too much time in Europe and thinks that we will respond the same way as the French have. My hope is we are MUCH more elastic than what he thinks and that in 4 years we will snap him and his administration out of Washington for a very long time.