Five 2012 Predictions I Hope I'm Wrong About

THE HOUR IS LATE AND I AM ABOUT TO LEAVE THE COMPUTER FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE YEAR, but I want to write down some predictions without much ado. Each one of them I hope and pray I'm wrong about:

1. PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL NARROWLY BE RE-ELECTED TO A SECOND TERM. The margin will not be as narrow if Hillary can be convinced to be the vice-presidential running mate and help win back some  disgruntled, unhopeful Democrats. This prediction could be negated if food and gas prices soar next summer and into the fall.

2. NO MATTER WHO WINS THE HOUSE AND SENATE, President Obama will push his liberal, sometimes radical agenda through by presidential executive fiat and through administrative regulatory processes essentially circumventing the Constitutionally intended checks and balances within the three branches of government.

3. THE U.S. ECONOMY WILL CONTINUE to be extremely fragile and volatile in 2012 and taxpayers will bear an unknown gargantuan burden as Fed chairman Ben Bernanke continues secretly loaning European banks untold amounts of our money which will only forestall their inevitable default and collapse. The chickens will  begin to come home to roost only after the 2012 presidential elections as the national and global economies will get progressively more dire. While 2012 will see volatility and fear in global markets, it will be nothing compared to what is going to unfold in 2013 and 2014.

4. IRAN WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE ITS UNHOLY ALLIANCES with Northern Sudan, Venezuela, Cuba and the drug cartels in Mexico  which will incredasingly threaten world peace and  stability as well as the internal fabric of domestic society here in America.

5. MORE AND MORE TAXPAYING CITIZENS with means will  look for second homes outside the continental United States in countries like Brazil, Argentina, Panama and Canada as they fear the dominos starting to fall sooner rather than later---by 2013 and beyond---here in America.