Obama's Trillion-Dollar Spending Plan

WOW

I don't understand how people think that this is a good idea. The problems with social security are 1) It was a voluntary program to begin with before the democrats made it a mandatory program. 2) It was designed to supplement a retirees pay. Not to BE their pay. 3)Please don't forget that, at that time, the average retiree could expect to live another 5 years maybe 10 at the most after they retired. So of course social security is running out of money. Never mind the fact that the number of people that are getting social security has gone up. They are paying more in benefits to to these people because they are just living longer.

I'm still thinking that Obama sounds like a hypocrite. After all he did vote in favor of Bushes budgets. And I still don't understand how increasing the national budget to over a half a trillion dollars is going to help us out of this situation. His spending cuts and his tax plans only account for a part of the money that is needed to pay for all of his absurd social programs.

For a country that was founded on a form of anarchy, our government is unbelievably large. The founding fathers must be tuning in their graves. They setup this government the way that they did to try and protect us from this kind of over bloated government. And yet here we stand, in the middle of a huge financial fiasco. If memory serves I think that it was we the people that put us in this bad economic situation. That being said, I think that it should be We The People that need to fix it. Why don't we try to prevent the government from growing any more. And taking any more money out of our pockets. And in case anyone is wondering I make about $35,000 a year.

Charles of TX @ Nov 25, 2008 23:04:29 PM

obmama needs not need to tacke the gunes away

look obama u dont need to tacke the gunes away b/c some popole love to have gunes and u become presetint and u want to thcke the gunes away look there r pepole that love gunes u thacke that away then there is know free land u know that pepole r going to hate u for what u r going to do b/c red necks r going to get u im just telling the trueth to u u can read this or not i really dont care if u do or dont like what i say the trueth is real belive it oboma this is what u have to look forword to ok it the truth oboma

franny of FL @ Nov 05, 2008 11:43:01 AM

Obamunnism?

"From each according to his ability, from each according to his need."

Obama's plan is Marxism, plain and simple as can be.

Andrew of NC @ Oct 30, 2008 18:35:22 PM

Obama is not the only candidate in this race

Looking ahead, it is clear that this country is going to need a lot of money in the next decade to be stabilized. Both candidates in this presidential election are proposing huge budgets and neither really has an idea of how they are going to keep their spending in check. At least what Obama is proposing to do will put money back into the pocket of the American middle class, the real consumers of America who keep the economy driving. This is a start. Reversing 8 years of irresponsible unregulated spending is going to take a lot of fixing and neither candidate will be capable of building America back up to its Clinton era self, even given two terms of political office.

JS of VA @ Oct 28, 2008 21:36:53 PM

Dear Obama

Dear Obama: I own a small landscape business. I work about 70 hours a week and I'm not rich. I donate about $20,000 a year in services to environmental non-profit organizations. My clients typically make well over $250,000 a year and enable me to donate to my favorite non-profits. If my clients have to pay more taxes I'm going to lose work; layoff people; and cut-out donations to my non-profits.

It's simple, I don't want government to "redistribute the wealth", I can do a better job of redistribution.

Don't raise taxes !

Guy Stivers of CA @ Oct 28, 2008 12:06:00 PM

i think obama will turn on us

of @ Oct 25, 2008 19:52:29 PM

Barack Obama wants to spend billions more on worthwhile items.

Barack Obama has brought up some very worthwhile items he wants to spend billions of dollars on. Some of the big ticket items include $100 billion per year for national health care, an increase of $18 billion per year for K-12 education, $15 billion per year in alternative energy, $50 billion to rebuild our infrastructure, $3.5 billion per year for a national service organization, $10 billion for mortgage relief, $215 billion for student grants so more kids can go to college, and $4k to employers for every new employee they hire.

Wow! Nobody can deny that all of these things are very worth while.

At the same time Obama is increasing spending, he giving 95% of Americans a tax cut. He is also giving $70 billion to people who do not even pay any taxes.

Another WOW! Who isn’t for lower taxes?

I keep hearing that the $700 billion recently passed by Congress isn’t doing the job and that additional spending may be needed. Today I read that the democratically controlled congress is looking at passing another $300 billion in spending to “stimulate the economy”.

Let’s get real! How are we going to pay for all of this new spending when we are already over $10 trillion dollars in debt?

As much as all of us would like to see spending for all these worthwhile causes, most families can’t keep up with their current tax load and bills.

Minnesotan’s, we can’t afford Barack Obama!

Jeff Titus of MN @ Oct 25, 2008 16:56:20 PM

What America are you living in?

EVERY REPLUBLICAN IN AMERICA IS WORRIED ABOUT THE REDISTRUBUTION OF WEALTH WITH OBAMA'S PLAN. I BELEIVE THEY LIVE IN PLACE WHERE ALL AMERICANS CAN FEED AND SHELTER THEIR FAMILIES. THAT IS NOT THE REALITY OF WHERE I LIVE. PICTURE THIS. A 54 YEAR OLD MAN, ARMY VET THAT HAS SERVED HIS COUNTRY DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY HIS MORTGAGE ,PAY HIS CAR NOTE, FEED HIS FAMILY, KEEP THE LIGHTS ON, PAY HIS TAXES,ALL BECAUSE THE COMPANY HE WORKED FOR MADE HIM PACK-UP THE PRINT PRESS WE WORKED AT FOR 15 YEARS AND SENT IT TO CHINA. IN THE TOWN HE LIVES IN MOST OF THE PEOPLE WORKED AT THAT PLANT AND THEY TOO ARE IN THE SAME BOAT. SINCE YOU HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO DO ALL OF THIS THING FOR YOURSELF AND A SURPLUS OF MONEY TO VACATION,INVEST,AND BUY MORE THEN YOU REALLY NEED. COULD YOU TAKE A MORAL HIGH GROUND AND SAY I'M AN AMERICAN HE IS AN AMERICAN SINCE I HAVE TOO MUCH I'LL GIVE HIM SOME OF THE MONEY I DON'T NEED TO HELP. IS IT THE REDISTRUBUTION OF WEALTH OR IS IT HELPING ANOTHER AMERICAN IN NEED. HMMMMMM MAYBE YOUR GREED WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO SEE THAT THING

ARE REALLY BAD FOR MANY OF US. SO SINCE YOU CANNOT SEE THERE IS A NEED IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW. IM GLAD WE HAVE SOMEONE THINKING OF THOSE OF US IN THE OTHER AMERICA. IF NOT HIM THEN 82 YEAR WOMAN THAT ONLY RECEIVES $640 A MONTH FROM SOCIAL SECURITY AND THE RENT IN HER APARTMENT IS $450. CAN YOU HELP HER? BUT WE CAN TAKE $700 BILLION FROM THESE SAME TAX PAYERS AND BAILOUT COMPANIES THAT ROBBED THIS SAMES PEOPLE.

Wayne P of KS @ Oct 17, 2008 20:20:15 PM