I think no on the first one (gun hoarding) and it is too early to tell on the second one (firing people). The second one depends on the impacts to small business of obamacare and additional taxation by the looper. If I owned my own business I would be cutting back on employees. If I was a wealthy business owner I'd close shop and move to a better state or retire.

Time will tell about the Tea Party but I don't think they mattered too much in the end here in Colorado. There are too many people in this state who think they are entitled to things they didn't earn and these kinds of people tend to congregate and overwhelm the system. We witnessed this behavior on a national level and now it is here in our face at the state level.

I think we'll see in increase in crime, especially by illegal aliens. Illegals now have a HUGE incentive to come here to Colorado and the democrats of Colorado deserve to suffer for their inaction.