See article
HERE.
My thoughts below:
I actually think having the government switch between Republican and Democratic leadership is a good thing – gets rid of party leaches and hopefully keeps the pendulum somewhere near the middle of the arc. However in this election, I think the backlash from the Bush administration's terrible leadership, coupled with the economic crisis, has opened the door to some scary possibilities for America. Fear seems to be propelling people into a willingness to give up personal choice (in many arenas) in lieu of what I consider false security - government provided of course. Just because Bush was a knucklehead doesn't mean conservative philosophies of small government and low taxes are bad. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water people. I hate end of the world scenarios but doesn't anyone else worry about what is about to be an extremely severe shift to the left? Let’s not forget that this election is not Obama vs Bush. It is Obama vs. McCain.
We all know that what government starts, never ends. Any big government Obama-led program that turns out to be a mistake (that will surely be pushed through if there is a supermajority in the House and Senate) will be paid for over and over again by our children and children’s children. Bad program, never fear, we’ll continue to pay for it anyway and our grandchildren and great grandchildren can argue about how to fix it (social security anyone?).
Also, I must put in my two cents about Obama's wealth redistribution plan labeled under the heading of "tax cuts." Actually, it is not a tax cut. It is a rebate. And for a large percentage of people it is a rebate of money they never paid into the system. So they are being rebated YOUR money and MY money without every having paid a dime to taxes. My husband Steve pointed out that just because you don’t make much, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pay into the system. It’s the principle of it. If you don’t pay for something, you don’t value it or respect it. It doesn’t mean we should gouge them, but they should pay something to the government rather than receiving a $500 handout. Some may be struggling financially, but our Armed Forces are still protecting their freedoms. More entitlement and government dependence are not the traits that made our nation great.
Our wealth would be redistributed according to Obama and Biden’s ideas of “fairness” and “patriotism.” So please Barack, don’t lie and couch welfare under the term “tax cuts,” misrepresenting one of the tenants of conservative thought as a checkbox on the liberal agenda.
14 days to go.
