Ok, Barack Obama, let's see what you will do! The rust belt and other liberals have elected you. You will tax the rich and give the money to the needy, as Marx wanted.

Many are poor because they dropped out of government schools due to pregnancy or laziness. Surely they know how to spend the money better than the rich ...

U.S. workers assumed that their assembly-line jobs would be there forever, with continuous raises and growing benefits. Why not erect tariffs like Hoover and FDR and keep wages high? Let's raise the minimum wage to $100 an hour? Now that is a "living wage!"

Oh, yeah, didn't unemployment average 18 percent during the 1930s?

Obama and his Democratic Congress should be able to tax the rich to create government jobs in the rust belt. They can put tariffs on imports, and trading partners will surely do the same to our exports. Who needs that $650 billion of business from exports anyway? Obama and Congress can find the workers government jobs elsewhere -- CCC, NRA, PWA, TVA, etc. Surely American businesses will pay a higher tax rather than move their companies to Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland or Australia where business taxes are much less!

Obama will appoint Hillary and liberals like her to the Supreme Court and federal courts to insure that "the living Constitution says what I say it says." Confirmation hearings will last minutes rather than months, with the Dems in charge of Congress.

For those of us in the sun belt and Midwest who understand personal responsibility and learn broad skills in case change happens, we should do what our forefathers did when that other president from Illinois was elected: secede from the United Socialist States of America, USSA, and form the Conservative States of America, CSA.

Chuck Tatum

North Augusta, S.C.