Public Opinion: Spreading the Wealth and Barack Obama

I don't necessarily buy the "socialism" label, but raising taxes and restricting trade in a severe recession are the worst things you can do, and they will kill the job creation that is needed to get us out of the recession. You have to create wealth before you have anything to redistribute, as Sam Dealy quotes Teddy Roosevelt as saying. Barney Frank revealed the liberal Democratic agenda if they are unrestrained by McCain's veto pen when he said, "There are plenty of very rich people we can tax at some point down the road and recover some of this money." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Mazjm_A5k)

What bothers me even more is Obama saying that the Earl Warren Supreme Court failed to "break free of the essential bounds placed on it by the founding fathers in the Constitution." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VctiYQplw8) To me, it sounds like he is saying that it is OK for the Supreme Court to trample the Constitution to achieve liberal ends!! Regardless of what you believe about social issues, do we really want someone with this philosophy appointing Supreme Court justices?

Wake up, people! Obama is just a more extreme version of Jimmy Carter, and the change he would bring is a change to the same policies and the same results that Carter had. The parallels are uncanny. A charismatic figure comes from nowhere to win the Democratic nomination. He promises to soak the rich, put a windfall profits tax on the oil companies, cut taxes on the middle class (he never got around to that one), slash defense spending (hear Obama promising that here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&NR=1) to pay for a dramatic increase in spending on new government programs. All of these are the same with Obama. The result was the misery index, stagflation, a military in shambles (remember the failed hostage rescue attempt?), and our stature in the world lowered, not raised. What kind of signal will it send to Russia, Iran, North Korea, and Al Quaeda if we cancel missile defense, stop development of new combat weapon systems, and slash "tens of billions of dollars" from defense spending? Is that what we should be doing in this dangerous world?

McCain represents the opposite on every one of these issues. He will strengthen the military. He will reduce our high corporate tax rate so companies and small businesses will have a 10% increase in after-tax earnings to use for growing and creating more jobs. He will open more markets for American products, which creates jobs. He will help middle class families by doubling the dependent exemption, exempting unemployment benefits from income tax, and giving people $5000 to buy health insurance. He will veto bloated, wasteful spending bills. Since Carter, these policies have been proven to generate growth, prosperity, and jobs. Vote McCain!

Dan of AZ 4:05AM October 29, 2008