Mccain is the one who totally ignoring how the middle class and poor are struggling right now. How American is it to ignore like 97%+ of the Americans? If anybody has been un-American in this whole ordeal its Bush, and Mccain follows his exact principals.
(I dont want to hear any Mccain-army hero stuff, thats not what this is about)
Hoosier,
I know from previous posts you have firsthand personal experience with your father’s job loss, jobs moving overseas, etc. Understand that the Democrats are of course going to pander the poor…that’s their point…bigger government fixes everything. The poor are not being ignored because there is welfare, WIC, and other government programs to help. There are many many people out there getting govt assistance that shouldn’t be or that are receiving it for too long. We shouldn’t have a system that pays you to spit out more kids when you aren’t even working in the first place. It’s a pretty simple principle. If my family couldn’t afford a dog, we wouldn’t get a dog. There’s no incentive for me to go get Fido from the pound if I can’t afford it. The big difference here is that there is financial incentive for someone on welfare to have more kids. There are plenty of people out there who could work, but there is not enough of a financial incentive to do so because they will lose their handouts. So they just choose to stay at home. It’s easier to wake up when you want and watch tv than to work.
I have a HUGE problem with a potential leader of our nation sitting down and negotiating with our known adversaries. Making this one seemingly harmless move (in Democrats’ eyes) will set a precedent that goes against how we operate and engage our enemies as a country. I can tell you there are plenty of things we do on a national level that show we as a country don’t care about other nations’ claims if they try to operate outside the boundaries of international law. You don’t have tea and crumpets with leaders who openly want to wipe other countries off the map for merely existing. It doesn’t matter what we say to these people. If you’re not one of them, you are an infidel and need to die.
As a side note, McCain is a Navy vet (although I’m sure Keith likes your army reference) who has endured many personal struggles and termoil for our country. I greatly respect him for that. I sure hope you know something about his history of service to our country because of what you said.
I am aware of him being a POW and everything. I have great respect for Mccain as a person, but his policies closley resemble Bush. The National Debt is a joke thanks to those exact policies.
To be clear, when I said Mccain was “unAmerican” I didnt mean it the way it came off. Obviously he is a great American. I was just defending Obamas policies as opposed to Mccains. Mccains policies seem to forget about the middle class and poor and only help the rich, which is complete BS if you ask me.
If it werent for my dad having a degree, he would be still out of work after getting laid off, like many of his friends. I find it incredible that people are voting for Mccains policies despite the joke unemployement rate.
Hoosier,
The coming election is not about Bush. The coming election is about our way of life. It’s actually quite simple. The choice is between complete socialism with Barack Hussein and very liberal capitalism with McCain. To be quite honest, I don’t like either one and will probably not vote for either. I’m waiting to get the complete picture on Bob Barr to see if I could vote for him. Obviously, Barr will not win and we’re probably headed for full blown socialism, which will be an absolute disaster for the country and certainly a disaster for entrepreneurs and business people (including real estate investors).
You talked in your post about your friends who are laid off. What you may not realize is that government can NOT effectively provide jobs - it just does not work. In fact, government is a failure at just about everything it does. So, if you don’t like the idea of your friends being laid off now, just wait until the socialists take over and businesses abandon the United States en masse.
We’re in our current situation with the high gas and food prices now because we’ve allowed a few wacko environmentalists to dictate policy. Clinton prevented the drilling in ANWR more than 10 years ago. The wackos have stopped wind farms off Cape Cod because Ted Kennedy didn’t want the wind turbines to spoil the view in the area where he sails his yacht. The wackos also have prevented nuclear power plants from being built.
If you want to fix these problems, what we really need is lower taxes; less regulation; FAR FEWER HANDOUTS; and more capitalism.
Mike
I don’t like the name-calling or slurs on candidates either. I think it diminishes the writer.
Hoosier, you are pretty amazing for a high school student! You can lock horns with anyone and hold your own.
Furnishedowner
I understand exactly what your saying Mike. I prefer Ron Paul over anybody. I love Ron Paul. Im just really sour at the way the Republicans have handed me horrible economy at the worst time of my life, just getting out of HS. The way of Bush is cann ot continue.
Im just a Republican boyyyyy, livin’ in uh’ corupppppt worrrlllld( my desperate attemp to sing a made up song closely resembling Dont Stop Believing.)
[[[[…Your Republicans have increased the national debt from 5 to 9 trillion dollars in debt in 8 years…]]]]
The president does not write the national budget and has no control at all over the budget, other than a very weak blanket veto power to make congress start completely over. The veto can be over-ridden.
Congress controls the budget. Congress controls all the pork barrel projects. Who is it that has control over Congress? Here’s a hint: it’s not the Republicans.
The president’s job, besides being a figure head, is to deal with international politics. Obama has zero experience with international politics. He is running on the exact same platform as Carter did (elect me, I’m outside the political establishment, so I’m different and better than a regular politctian) , and Carter was a total disaster in international politics. It’s not an area for the inexperienced.
I suspect that there will be massive attacks on Israel when Obama is elected. He was very vocal about not being willing to defend Israel, and that’s a big green light to several agressive countries in the middle east.
The effect of that will be a massive war in the middle east instead of what is going on now, wiping up rebels and terrorists in Iraq. Announcing that the USA is planning to throw Israel to the wolves is not the best way to get out of war in the middle east
I don’t think Obama is a bad man. I just wish he’d waited an election or two while he learned more about politics. Some of the rulers of foreign countries that he will have to deal with are not such nice people and “reason” is not even in their vocabulary.
It takes 2 parties to make peace, and if the only thing that the other side wants is for everyone to die, there isn’t a lot of room for negotiation.
I suspect that there will be massive attacks on Israel when Obama is elected. He was very vocal about not being willing to defend Israel, and that's a big green light to several agressive countries in the middle east.
I think just the fact that Barack Hussein is running will force Israel to attack Iran BEFORE the election. Israel can not afford to wait for Barack Hussein to take office and and become the chief appeaser. They also can not afford to wait for Iran to have enough Uranium for a bomb. So, I’m convinced that Israel WILL attack Iran before the election unless the US does so before that. Unfortunately, I’m not sure that President Bush has the strength to do that, so Israel will probably have to do our dirty work for us once again.
BTW, there’s a pretty good synopsis of what’s going to happen in REVELATIONS!
Mike
2012 coming soon.
(If you don’t know about 2012, just google it.)
:rolleyes
You know its true, your just in denial! :bobble
2012, Oh no, but what about 2013, and 2014?
Dont forget 2015.
No, but seriously, 2012… :cool
Obama says “IF” he wins he will raise captial gains tax from an already
high 15% to 28%, that is :bs
Do you really think that’s all he’ll raise the taxes on?
This guy is THE biggest liberal all of Congress…and that’s saying a lot! (Ted Kennedy is suicidal about this fact! It almost makes him want to drive his car off a bridge.)…
Where will the money come from to pay the Medical rates for all the illegals and the others that can’t/won’t work? You got it - out of YOUR pocket.
Keith
Here’s what I don’t understand- why are Bill Gates and Warren Buffett democrats? I just don’t get it. They both contributed to Hillary’s campaign.
They are Democrats because they understand change and reaching out to the lower and middle class. Yes McCain is a war hero but how many years ago was that. No one is being insensitive with him being a POW. :shocked. however I cannot relate to McCain because for starters I was not born during the horrifying times of his capture but what makes him any different from the other POW’s that survived! :bs is it because he’s a poltician of the state of Arizona. Does that make him and expert of foreign policy. I think it’s time for a change and the only way to make change is to have something new someone that can relate to the people here in AMERICA that are frustrated with the war and everything else. we have been playing big brother to everyone else spending money on war for other countries when it’s our country that is falling apart. :argue
We have so much money to help rebuild Iraq and Westernize ever country that we step foot in and we are struggling economically and pretty much a country divided. :help I’m not saying that Obama is going to be any better but what I am saying that it’s time to start something new. We have lost a lot of jobs to foreign countries during the Bush Administration. :banghead Can anyone even tell me where Dick Chaney is and what he’s doing today? :anon. Sadly the same country that we helped protect Saudi Arabi is charging us out the a z z for oil when they really should be giving it to us for free. in my opinion I do not understand why they continue to get rich off of us when they were are the country that needs protection.
Not to sound off subject be we have plenty of oil over here and we can just say the hell with everybody else. :beer. As far as taxes being increased what is George Bush Sr. known for. I remember his presidential speech “if you can not stand the heat then get the hell out of the kitchen.” :deal maybe he was preparing us for his son. Because I got out of the kitchen along time ago and started eating out more.(lol).
Now if McCain is goin to follow Bush is tactics I suggest that he pack it up and lets give Obama a chance for us to prove a change. If the change that he proclaims to give doesnt happen we have Four years to wait and elect a new president. I believe the lack of Obama on foreign Policy will allow him to bring on people that are smarter than he is to help him. Why would they hire someone not intelligent in that department? :biggrin
You sir, have said EXACTLY how I feel. I agree 100%.
Change is certainly what you’ll get with Osama, however, I’m don’t think socialism is going to be good for anyone. Seems like everywhere else it has been tried, it has failed. Personally, I’d rather keep our freedom and send all the socialists to Cuba!
Mike
prpertymanager Mike,
Does it make you feel good calling Obama, Osama? :banghead How many people have Obama killed rather than him win the Democratic Nominee? See people like you that have a negative opinion about a person perspective before even knowing what they can or cannot do is why we have so many problems today. If you are a Republican than so be it support McCain and kiss the ground that he walks on but at the same time don’t degrade a person for being a terrorist.
Who said anything about losing freedom that a shame for you to even type such a blog. Just because Obama is such a Liberal to you now doesn’t mean that he will not move to the middle how do you think Bill Clinton won the elections. You have to see things from both sides to be able win over the people. I will say that i’m not Republican or Democrat I look at the person who’s running and who I can relate to. In other words study the candidiate and if I feel that candidate can help us then that’s who I vote for. Not to start anything I look at Political Parties as a form or racism in which I see no matter who’s on the ticket some people are going to vote for the party. :banghead they are not looking at the views or the person. Now if the parties were taken off and the person that was running for office was just a name then I could understand your views but if your only justification with him being a socialist and a commnunist then you got it all wrong! but once again this is an opinion of mine from reading your blog!