What do you expect when we have voted in a Marxist as president? 

Too many did not listen to those of us who did vet Obama prior to the 2008 election. But of course, the mainstream media did not - likely because he was to be the first black president. Tragic mistake. This man was mentored when young by a card-carrying communist and learned his lessons well. Not for no reason has he locked up his complete paper trail in every locale he had frequented. 

America is in worse shape than Greece. Our Senate hasn't produced a budget in years. Our government is spending 44 cents of every dollar borrowed from China. America cannot spend its way back to prosperity and is beyond broke. Our unfunded entitlements are probably incalculable, certainly in excess of another $50 trillion.

The occupiers (OWS) have lots to complain about, but their focus is misdirected; it should be on the White House and a Congress that predictably collapsed the housing market with sub-prime mortgages, tanked our economy, and destroyed our jobs. 

Of course our Chicago street gang style organizer is deliberately converting America, not into a European style socialist country, but a Marxist state like Venezuela. (Dictator Chavez knew what we were getting when he and Obama exchanged their books, kind of like old friends.)

Of course, David Axelrod, Obama's campaign guy, along with compliant media, will destroy every Republican or conservative who possesses presidential acumen and is capable of defeating him. (The OWS is just a sideshow initiated by Obama through SEIU diverting attention from him and Congress. However the anarchists among them will become of further use at election time by creating more chaos. The entire OWS scenario is applied Alinsky chaos created by the easily duped participants orchestrated by their puppet masters. Find out more by reading Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" handbook.)

Because of having a $15 trillion national debt, we really need to absorb the next bunch of trillions of further debt (probably $3 trillion to $5 trillion) in massive tax reductions, both personal, and corporate, freeing resources required to produce the millions of needed jobs. Simultaneously, our bloated government must be reduced by about a trillion dollars per year. The super-committee was only talking about 15 percent of that and so became irrelevant in the big picture.

Whole departments need to go: Education and Energy at least. The Education Department is responsible for our children being taught socialist propaganda that we politely call political correctness. The Energy Department doesn't produce energy. Removing yet more resources from private hands by taxation is counter-productive. Private capital formation must be restored, not depleted. 

There are legions of people whom Obama is using to stay in power. However, his supporters are making a tremendous mistake; Obama is only out for himself and retaining his power. He will turn America into Venezuela and he into a Chavez. He will forget your favorite cause if and when he was to reach his ultimate goal, where we all will become equally poor, except his apparatchiks. Even then there would be inequality just as it was in the USSR. Meanwhile he is destroying businesses, destroying jobs, shutting the Gulf oil business for example, forcing up the price of energy, cost of food, and the cost of living. 

He is dividing America using class warfare, and he fuels racial hatred as a tactic. He is on the way to his personal goal - our peril. Bless what you now have. We may not keep it, our country. (Please, let us stop with calling people racist who don't support what Obama is doing. Don't support Obama's policy of destruction or believe his lies. He could be anybody; race is not the issue.) 

Only the defeat of Obama will reduce tensions to levels where the private investment required for massive job creation is likely to occur, no matter what Congress does.

Mike Horn is a Whitefish area resident.