No one really knows what will happen if the debt ceiling is or isn't raised in the United States. Economists, politicians, prognosticators and pundits of all ideological persuasions have written about a wide range of possibilities regarding both scenarios but nobody knows for sure either way.

One thing is absolutely certain however.

Leopards don't change their spots and if President Obama is re-elected in 2012 the U.S. economy will be destroyed and Americans' lives along with it, because he will not alter his disastrous fiscal philosophy and policies one bit. Regardless of what does or does not happen about the debt ceiling, Obama will destroy the economy if he is re-elected because he will continue on the same ruinous path he is on now.

A Republican President may or may not bring the United States back from the brink it is currently on, but it is a dead certainty that the economy will collapse together with the country if Obama is returned to office. Think things are bad now? As the saying goes 'you ain't seen nothin' yet, if he's re-elected. Take a good, hard, honest, non-partisan look at his personality and performance and you'll soon agree, if you don't already.

Remember, this is just the economy we're talking about. His performance in every other important area (foreign and domestic policy to name but two) has been equally bad and has compromised and jeopardized the future and very existence of America itself, the American ideal and the free world.　

And this guy deserves to be President? Everything he has done or is likely to do tells us he most certainly does not.