One in the same. In like a lion, out like a lamb.
Posted By: Did manage to find his way out of RNC. nm on 2008-09-02
In Reply to: Surely this can't be the same Bush...the one who never... - sam
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The sleeping lion I was referring to was not...
JOhn McCain, it was conservatives, and in particular, feminists who are conservative, not liberal. They are concerned with all those issues. John McCain addresses all of those issues you listed.
One in particular, small business. Obama is going to raise their taxes. It is part of his tax plan..the $250,000 or over bracket. That is right in the small business bracket. All that will do is cause more businesses to close or go offshore, resulting in more jobs lost, more people into the lower income brackets. Enter the $6 billion he is going to tax those small businesses in order to give MORE tax breaks to the lowest bracket. They already pay little or no taxes.
The "rich" already pay more than 90% of the federal tax bill. Why isn't that enough for Obama? Corporations are also the largest employers in this country. Why continue to tax them so hard, so hard they are forced to go offshore or lay off people to afford them? That makes no sense, unless your goal is to force more people into the lower brackets so you can contiune to demonize corporations as your re-election mantra in the next election?
Democrats had the 8 years before Bush...just as many people were in the lower brackets as today. No matter what the DNC says, their goal is to keep people in the lower brackets, not elevate them. Because if they are elevated they are happy, and if they are happy, you cannot prey on discontent in order to get elected. If people just look at history, that is pretty darned obvious. I am not blaming Obama in particular...he has just picked up the mantle of the DNC. He is Washington politics as usual.
Protect social security? Privatize it, let individuals control their own, get it OUT of the hands of COngress so they cannot continue to "borrow" from it. That should be the first priority. And for Congress to pay back all they have "borrowed" before they create more social programs. THAT would be putting the people before the party.
Clean elections? There is fast and loose on both sides, and everyone knows that. No party owns that particular issue.
Federal contract earmarks? Research Joe Biden's professional lobbyist son and how many earmarks he has steered to good old dad's supporters. That is also on both sides of the aisle. If Obama wants to clean up lobbying and earmarks, he needs to start with his VP.
War? John McCain hates war. But he does not want his country to lose one. Unlike the other side.
Patriot act? How many "innoncent" people have fallen victim to the patriot act? None, that I know of. I have nothing to hide. If the FBI wants to monitor my emails, they better get coffee because they will be bored to death. How does it escape anyone's notice that we have not been attacked again? I saw on the news this morning that AL Qaeda is going to focus attention on denmark now, because of those cartoons. Started by bombing one of their embassies...sound familiar? If George Bush did nothing else right, he did put them on the run, and good for HIM. John McCain will do the same. Barack Obama...not so much.
Separation of church and state...what the constitution states is that there will be no establishment of a state religion. There never has been in this country and never will be. The constitution also says the free expression thereof...but liberals skip right over that inconvenient detail every single time.
Global diplomacy? Look at history. Europe loves America when Europe needs America, and when they don't come the sneers. May I direct you to World War I, World War II...? Helllpppp America they are running us over. Cheering in the streets. Throwing flowers at the soldiers' feet. War over. Yankee go home. sorry if I don't give a hoot what Europe thinks of us. Europe does not step up when we need help...yet if they yelled again tomorrow, right back we would go..because that is who we are.
Obama...how do you balance a budget and reduce debt when your tax plan alone is going to raise the deficit by over a trillion dollars? Not to mention health care, expanded social programs, and everything else he promises.
The best way to address poverty is not to keep giving tax cuts to those who do not pay much tax to begin with. You make every welfare check attached to a jobs program. You make them work to earn it. Learn a skill.
Obama talks a lot about the middle class. He practices the Alinsky tactic well and it has worked for the DNC for many years. Class warfare. Stir people up, because in the words of Alinsky himself, it doesn't matter if it is true or not. It just matters if you are able to make people believe it.
And with that, I bid you a good afternoon.
So sam, what are the sleeping lion's plans for change?
Address poverty? Restore the every diminishing quality of life for the middle class? Mortgage industry? Predatory lending/credit card practices? Balanced budget? Reduced debt? Tax reform? Create jobs? Outsourcing? Minimum wage? Protect Social Security? Workers' unions? Small busineses? Corporate corruption? Free trade? Clean up the environment? Alternative energies? Fuel efficiency? Clean elections? Special interests? Federal contract earmarks? Patriot Act? Ending the War? Restoring alliances? Global diplomacy? Separation of church and state? Just curious.
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