What Will America be Like with a Democratic President, House and Senate … Increase Taxes, Decrease Military and Socialism

 

Can America afford to have four years of a Democratic controlled House, Senate and Presidency? Tax and spend liberals in control with no checks and balances … the premise is frightening.

If anyone thinks that there will not be increases in taxes on all with a Democratically controlled House, Senate and Presidency then you have not been paying attention to politics for the past 50 years.

There are basically always two major issues during a Presidential campaign, the economy and national security. Of course there are many other issues that attack people’s attention like healthcare, illegal immigration, social security … However, when one goes to the polls this November they need to make their decision bases on the future of the US economy and the fate of our national security and who best can lead America with those two issues.

We have already heard that Democrat Barack Obama wants to institute socialism and a “spread the wealth” policy as a way to how America’s economy is to go forward. Maybe the actual phrase from Obama that people can better understand is “spread your income.” This is no gaffe on Obama’s part, he defends his economic socialism plan of spreading your income to others who have done nothing to deserve benefiting from it. Why would anyone think that the Government can take better care of individuals or businesses in reallocating the monies when they cannot even take care of their own house? Redistribution of wealth is not neighborly, it is socialism. People giving and providing others through charity, that is neighborly. The government forcing people to give to others is hardly what our Founding Fathers ever envisioned.

McCain Ads Hit Obama on “Spread the Wealth” Comments

John McCain TV Ad

 
On issues of national security the choice between Barack Obama and John McCain are like night and day. There may never have been two candidates coming from such opposite view points and such a drastic difference in experience that Obama and McCain. Is it any wonder why America’s enemies like Chavez fear McCain and look forward to an Obama Presidency?
 
There is a reason why the overwhelming majority of the US Armed Forces back John McCain and why many of the United States enemies endorse Barack Obama. Making matters worse, Democrats like U.S. Rep. Barney Frank want to decrease the military budget by 25% while also stating that taxes will be increased. Barney Frank, one of the many Democrats who just sat by and watched Fannie Mae fall apart while he refused to hear the warnings of its collapse.

Starting five years ago, when Frank rejected Bush administration efforts to clamp down on Fannie and Freddie, claiming they were – quote – “not facing a financial crisis,” dismissing fears as exaggerations that would “pressure” the lenders to cut back on housing loans to those in need.
 
Barely 15 months later, with Fannie and Freddie engulfed in scandal over the same “terrible mistakes” Frank so abhors in the private sector, he was conceding they might need to be “better regulated,” but “not at the expense of housing” loans.
Now they want to increase taxes and lower military spending and the elections have not even occurred.
After the November election, Democrats will push for a second economic stimulus package that includes money for the states’ stalled infrastructure projects, along with help paying for healthcare expenses, food stamps and extended unemployment benefits, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank said Thursday.
 
In a meeting with the editorial board of The Standard-Times, Rep. Frank, D-Mass., also called for a 25 percent cut in military spending, saying the Pentagon has to start choosing from its many weapons programs, and that upper-income taxpayers are going to see an increase in what they are asked to pay.
 
The military cuts also mean getting out of Iraq sooner, he said.
 
“The people of Iraq want us out, and we want to stay over their objection,” he said. “It’s extraordinary.” The Maliki government in Iraq “can’t sell (the withdrawal deal with the U.S.) because it sounds like we’re going to stay too long.”
 
 
 


If you liked this post, you may also like these:

  • Change You Can Believe In … A New National Anthem Courtesy of Barack Obama
  • Protecting the Middle Class? US Senate Bill Will Increase Taxes on 77% of US Households
  • UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT … Unemployment Benefits Jump 12,000 to 465,000
  • Aruban Tourism Down Again in May 2006 …
  • Barack Obama Gallup Poll … 50% Job Approval, Will Healthcare, Tax Increases and Deficits Drop Obama into the 40′s?




  • Comments

    42 Responses to “What Will America be Like with a Democratic President, House and Senate … Increase Taxes, Decrease Military and Socialism”

    1. Michelle on October 25th, 2008 9:53 am

      This makes me want to throw up

    2. Kay Zee Ess on October 25th, 2008 11:04 am

      “What Will America be Like with a Democratic President, House and Senate … Increase Taxes, Decrease Military and Socialism” -

      That inference is so ludicrous(i.e., dim-witted) it is actually funny. Keep up the good work guys.

      But please be careful, you are making Michelle feel out of sorts!

    3. shrubsux on October 25th, 2008 11:25 am

      What will it be like with 4 more years of Bush???? Isn’t 8 years of this sh@t enough?? I’m not an Obama man but right now he’s the lesser of 2 evils. McSame can’t remember what happened 30 minutes ago.

    4. Michelle on October 25th, 2008 12:28 pm

      Didn’t realize Bush could run for a third term. Bush is not running for President people. John McCain is NOT George Bush.

      Actually I believe the better man for the job is John McCain. Not some wet behind the ears “I am the chosen one” wanna be.

    5. Fox Fire on October 25th, 2008 12:39 pm

      Michelle:

      It’s called depression, hopelessness and fear…

      McCain wants you to take that to the ballot box with you!

      .

      Real, Nice Guy…

      .

      Obama/Biden 2008

      :)

    6. Fox Fire on October 25th, 2008 12:57 pm

      .

      Bush/McCain

      More of the Same!

      .

    7. caesu on October 25th, 2008 1:22 pm

      Obama actually wants to increase military spending.

      and about that ‘spreading the wealth’.
      McCain and Bush want to spread the wealth to the elite.
      and the tax increase for the ones earning over 250k is just putting it back at the level of the Clinton years.
      Bush foolishly lowered taxes while being at war.
      and the GOP is the party of big spending.
      just look at the budget deficit graph over the last 20 years.

      apparently some have such thick skulls that they cannot take in this information.
      and socialism is something totally different.

      biggest problem is education i think.
      the amount of ignorant or just plain stupid things i hear presented as ‘facts’ is mind boggling.

    8. shrubsux on October 25th, 2008 1:29 pm

      McCain isn’t the Shrub??? LOL Voting over 90% of the time with him and hugging him at every opportunity, as well as using some of the very lobbyists on his staff that helped get us into this mess. Thanks but no thanks. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice and shame on me. Not going to happen again “MY FRIEND”. Time for a change.

    9. Michelle on October 25th, 2008 1:37 pm

      I’m voting for the best man for the job John McCain :-)

      John McCain is NOT George Bush.

    10. Maggie on October 25th, 2008 2:42 pm

      The dems. took over Congress 2 years ago..and ran it into the ground… With a 13% approval rating. I have also seen 2 times in which John McCain warned and co-sponsored a bill to warn of what would happen if Fannie and Freddie weren’t fixed. Have seen nothing from Biden..or Obama on that matter.. or any bills introduced.. Chris Dodd ran the Banking Committee..top recipient of money from these places.. and he didn’t sign the letter wanting reform.. Barney Frank head of the Finance Committee was telling people.. nothing wrong..they are doing fine.. even after they had been found to be cooking the books.

      BTW caesu..we aren’t living in Clinton years.. He is the one who passed deregulation though with 38 democrats voting for it.. and Clinton passed the Glass Steagull act.. and it was Clinton who said Democrats fought him and the Republicans every step of the way for fixing regulations on these companies. So why would I blame John McCain.for the financial mess, now that is mind boggling and ignorant to me. It isn’t like Reagan isn’t part of the reason things were so good during the Clinton years. This financial mess didn’t happen over night..It’s been building for years.

      As for the fear and hopelessness.. Like I’ve said over and over… I’ve seen the ads scaring seniors with lies about John McCain..they have been proven lies.. Scaring Hispanics..sorry that door swings both ways..

    11. shrubsux on October 25th, 2008 2:45 pm

      Michelle,
      McSame isn’t the shrub? Palin is already fighting with her advisors. Guess who they are? Here’s a quote from the article on yahoo.

      “Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them” end quote. Now tell us that the repubs aren’t the same as the shrub. LOL

    12. shrubsux on October 25th, 2008 2:52 pm

      Maggie,

      How can congress run things in the ground for the past 2 years when they only had 50 votes???? They can’t get any legislation done without at least 60 when the shrub had veto power over any bill he didn’t like. You people need to get out more. The pubs in congress that have sided with the shrub are hanging on for their lives in the elections. That should tell you something.

      McSame = Shrub

    13. Maggie on October 25th, 2008 2:55 pm

      I still love this video that Katablog put up weeks ago of Harlem Voters.. They sent someone out to Harlem on Howard Stern’s Show.. and these people said they weren’t voting for Obama because he was African American… but they like his policies and not McCain’s.. They presented Obama with John McCain’s policies.. and Sarah Palin as Obama’s VP and they were all for it.. Watch the 3 minute video.. too funny

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyvqhdllXgU

    14. Maggie on October 25th, 2008 3:09 pm

      It takes 60 votes for a bill to pass in the Senate.. Dems were in control..show me the bills about this financial mess they introduced 2 years ago…to fix it please? and show me any bill that Bush did overide on it.. I am willing to read it. Just like when the bill was introduced to fix it..and dems voted it down.

    15. shrubsux on October 25th, 2008 3:12 pm

      Answer my question Maggie. How can congress get any legislation done with the shrub holding veto power and only 50 votes????

    16. Maggie on October 25th, 2008 3:42 pm

      Answer mine…show me the democrats who tried to fix these companies..since they had 50 votes.. they could easily get 60 to pass legislation to fix these companies, since the Republicans were the one’s who introduced the bill and were for it.

      Show me the bill’s they had to fix this that were voted down by Republicans or George Bush.

      Bill Clinton worked with a Republican Congress..

    17. shrubsux on October 25th, 2008 3:42 pm

      Everyone should be asking themselves, why would we be voting for this situation if things had been so great???? The pubs caused this.

    18. Maggie on October 25th, 2008 3:56 pm
    19. Maggie on October 25th, 2008 4:07 pm

      still waiting on bills and bush blocking them..I’m willing to read.

    20. shrubsux on October 25th, 2008 4:09 pm

      Maggie,

      The republicans and shrub had unlimited power for 6 years. Why wasn’t it addressed then?????

    21. nurturer on October 25th, 2008 4:32 pm

      #17 – shrubsux – And are you suffering so?

    22. shrubsux on October 25th, 2008 4:42 pm

      I’m an educator. My kids and myself are suffering over the shrubs choices. He is an outright idiot when it comes to education.

    23. Maggie on October 25th, 2008 5:34 pm

      Maggie,

      The republicans and shrub had unlimited power for 6 years. Why wasn’t it addressed then?????

      If you would watch the videos it was..and no dems voted for it. Watch the videos above

    24. Maggie on October 25th, 2008 5:35 pm

      2003 article publish in the NY times.

      New Agency Proposed to Oversea Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae

      By STEPHEN LABATON
      Published: September 11, 2003
      The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in
      the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.Under the plan,
      disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the
      Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored
      companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry. The new agency would
      have the authority, which now rests with Congress, to set one of the two capital-reserve requirements
      for the companies. It would exercise authority over any new lines of business. And it would determine
      whether the two are adequately managing the risks of their ballooning portfolios. The plan is an
      acknowledgment by the administration that oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – which together
      have issued more than $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt – is broken. A report by outside investigators
      in July concluded that Freddie Mac manipulated its accounting to mislead investors, and
      critics have said Fannie Mae does not adequately hedge against rising interest rates.

    25. Maggie on October 25th, 2008 5:47 pm

      Dodd is the number one recipient in Congress of campaign funds from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac [12] Critics also charge that Dodd ignored repeated warnings that the two firms were in need of major reform. Barack Obama was second and John Kerry was third.

      The top recipient of insurance industry contributions was Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT).[33] The leading contributor from the insurance industry — as measured by total political contributions — was AFLAC, Inc., which contributed $907,150 in 2007.[34].

      As Dodd in his role as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee proposed a housing bailout to the Senate floor in June 2008 that would assist troubled subprime mortgage lenders such as Countrywide Financial in the wake of the United States housing bubble’s collapse,[22] Condé Nast Portfolio reported that in 2003 Dodd had refinanced the mortgages on his homes in Washington, D.C. and Connecticut through Countrywide Financial and had received favorable terms due to being placed in a “Friends of Angelo” program.

      Countrywide has also contributed a total of $21,000 to Dodd’s campaigns since 1997. Dodd has received approximately $70,000 in campaign contributions from Bank of America, which is buying Countrywide, in the last year-and-a-half before the Countrywide Financial loan scandal broke.[35] Only Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have received more money from Bank of America than Dodd.

    26. michelle on October 25th, 2008 6:54 pm

      Michelle,
      McSame isn’t the shrub? Palin is already fighting with her advisors. Guess who they are? Here’s a quote from the article on yahoo.

      “Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them” end quote. Now tell us that the repubs aren’t the same as the shrub. LOL

      Again, I say it “McCain is NOT Bush. They are not the same. What do you not understand about this statement?????

    27. ANewGirl on October 25th, 2008 7:29 pm

      #17–Excuse my bluntness, please—-but as Educator(s)- I am not certain that you TRULT do invite or encourage …. KNOWLEDGE as POWER.

      You—-like millions of other Americans are MAD AS HELL! And we ALL don’t want to take it anymore. But, you are so blinded with disgust- you are blaming everything on Republicans and the last 8 years of GWB. That’s very closed minded to me for an Educator. You should be looking behind things, you know—studying the past and present HISTORY to really see how we arrived at the point we are at here in our Country.

      How ignorant can one be??? Read the facts—THEN !!! ——> STICK TO THE FACTS… the first and MOST OBVIOUS one which should be glaring BOTH of you EDUCATORS squarely in the face:

      **BARACK OBAMA DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH EXPERIENCE TO BE OUR PRESIDENT IN THESE CHALLENGING TIMES.**

      Period! End of conversation. Now, Pay attention class or you will have to stay after for extra study lessons.

      Do not let your absolute refusal to do your homework obscure reality. I’m afraid we Monkeys are going to have to give you a D- for this semester….you are practically failing!

      Barack Obama is NOT the right CHOICE for America. You have been fooled by something that looks and sounds good—-but he’s an empty suit with empty promises.

      ***McCain/Palin ’08***

    28. nurturer on October 25th, 2008 7:38 pm

      Try this. A government that refuses to answer questions. And this is before they’re even elected. The bottom paragraph is most telling:

      http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/25/obama-campaign-cuts-interviews-florida-tv-station/

      Barack Obama’s campaign killed all interviews with a Florida TV station after Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, faced tough and critical questions from a reporter at the Orlando station.

      During a satellite video Thursday, WFTV’s Barbara West quoted Karl Marx and asked Biden how Obama’s comment to “Joe the Plumber” about spreading the wealth wasn’t being Marxist.

      “Are you joking?,” Biden asked.

      West replied, “No.”

      Later in the interview West questioned Biden about his comments that if Obama wins the election next month, he would be tested early on as president and wanted to know if Biden was implying America was no longer the world’s leading power.

      “I don’t know who’s writing your questions,” Biden asked her.

      The Obama camp then killed a WFTV interview with Biden’s wife Jill, according to an Orlando Sentinel blog.

      “This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election,” wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign, according to the Sentinel.

    29. katablog.com on October 25th, 2008 10:23 pm

      I think the saddest thing is that people have no compunction about calling the President of the USA names, but then tell us to get over it because Obama will be our President. You sure wouldn’t stand for us calling the one names! That would be racist.

      There’s another thing you better get over, the signs are that McCain \ Palin will squeak out a win. Because you’ve all been blinded by skewed polls and the MSM trying to convince Republicans to give up – you’re going to be some very unhappy campers with all sorts of conspiracy theories, all because the MSM tried to win an election with false polls and news.

      Anyone care that Obama campaign has turned off the AVS checking on their web site? Do you care who is contributing all that money to Obama? Do you care that Obama is wildly spending millions in an attempt to win buy the election?

    30. A New Girl on October 25th, 2008 11:47 pm

      #29-Katablog—-yes, yes yes and yes!!!!!!

      Do Americans really care though? Isn’t it easier for us to all complain about how miserable we are with our present state—-and won’t many take the easy way out and just say—-”time for a change?”

      Hope there is strength in numbers who DO VOTE for JOHN McCAIN behind the theory expressed above.

      ***McCain/Palin ’08***

    31. Richard on October 26th, 2008 9:04 am

      Some posters seem determined to say that the current economic/social mess is the result of one party or the other.

      Instead, let’s consider the hypothesis that government simply has become too big and too intrusive … that the notion has taken hold that every problem involves a government solution.

      And that that notion is wrong.

      I fear that the combination of a Democratic administration and Congress will lead to yet more of the same … only government has the answers, only government has the wisdom to solve the problems, and if government corruption and incompetence have created turmoil … why, then, give the government more power to run things.

      For starters … is there any necessity for the government to play ANY role in the housing market?

      Why should taxpayers in California see their money used to finance housing construction in Connecticut? And vice versa? Whose interests are being served under this system, other than those of industry … and, of course, those in power who stand to gain from campaign contributions (let alone the beneficial mortgage rates given to Sen. Chris Dodd, who continues to simply refuse to release information)?

      But if the polls are right, we are in for more of the same.

      Oh, yes, one other ‘benefit’ of an Obama victory … we can expect to see Hollywood stars get more publicity. The rest of the economy might go down the drain, but TV stars will thrive.

      And, what’s scary … the young Americans of today will probably think this is great.

    32. Diane on October 26th, 2008 9:19 am

      yes we did have a Democratic Congress for the past 2 out of 8 total Republican rule.
      But you have to remember that they did not have the 60 vote to prevent the Republicans from 90 times shutting down the vote.
      A RECORD FOR CONGRESS.

      Your Republicans had 6 years of TOTAL control and we are still in the mess we are in.

    33. dePlume on October 26th, 2008 10:02 am

      “The people of Iraq want us out, and we want to stay over their objection,” he said. “It’s extraordinary.” The Maliki government in Iraq “can’t sell (the withdrawal deal with the U.S.) because it sounds like we’re going to stay too long.”

      The only time the Democrats couldn’t propel their extreme dislike of Bush was during the aftermath of 9/11. Years of undermining Bush resumed and the noise volume increased, after Democrats felt it was safe to continue–late 2002. Democrats wanted to win the 2004 elections.

      With rumors of Barack Obama’s cutting a deal with Iraqis to hold back agreement of anything until after the election . . . the beat goes on. Democrats didn’t hesitate to spew their opposing views in language closely related to anti-American hate-speak. Their talk seemed more directed toward surrender, raising the white flag, LOSE. How closely related to the activities during Viet Nam, you’d almost believe some of the same people were involved!

      While wanting the Country to LOSE the War; Democrats want to WIN the election. Politics FIRST; Country LAST. Democrats are no longer for US, they are for THEMSELVES, and their CONTROL.

      There is a lessening of respect for Democrats which has been brewing over the last ten years. Disrupting the country is less important than Obama’s winning. Voter fraud; average citizen investigation; biased media; promoting strife and racial divide; intimidation . . . nothing is off limits for Democrats.

      Biden says Obama will be tested; Frank says chop 25% off defense spending. Most of US are not idiots, we can see what is coming and it’s not good. In fact, it is so bad as to be almost unbelievable. The only way we can avoid complete disaster is to VOTE AGAINST OBAMA. Vote against the TRIPLE THREAT–Obama, Pelosi, Reid.

    34. dePlume on October 26th, 2008 10:29 am

      POINT:

      Notice that Fannie/Freddie will NOT have hearings until after the election?

      Can you smell the engineering?

    35. dePlume on October 26th, 2008 11:25 am

      JIMMY CARTER, TESTED . . . FAILED:

      crisis between Iran and the United States where 52 U.S. diplomats were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981, after a group of Iranian students took over the American embassy in support of the Iranian revolution.[2]

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis

      ROSS PEROT, (Later an ALSO RAN), TESTED. . .PASSED
      Just prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the government of Iran imprisoned two of his employees in a contract dispute. Perot organized and sponsored a successful rescue. The rescue team was led by retired U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Arthur D. (‘Bull’) Simons. When the team couldn’t find a way to extract their two prisoners, they decided to wait for a mob of pro-Ayatollah revolutionaries to storm the jail and free all 10,000 inmates, many of whom were political prisoners. The two prisoners then connected with the rescue team, and the team spirited them out of Iran via a risky border crossing into Turkey.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot

    36. Lulu Zoe West on October 26th, 2008 12:35 pm

      Know what… even with a few more years of Bush, it would be better than Obama! Yes.
      Will stop libs from getting more insane than they already are.
      However, McCain has his own ideas and tradition and values are part of it so guess Bush would apparent. Hey, that’s just so great. Pin a rose on McCain and Bush. None, nanno for libs who are a heartbeat away from being commie zombies.
      Spread the wealth does not equate to having jobs!
      Capitalism rules! Do have to pass some legislation and make Staple CEOs not walk away with the true owners of Staple.
      With a Dem Prez, we will all be reduced to believing that the streets and street life are just so wonderful. Hold onto your hats, your purse, your life, and your life savings.
      No plumber is gonna expand and your leaky toliet will cost twice as much to fix.
      And, the health care fanfare is just that. Ain’t gonna get better care but stand in line and the premiums will go wayyyyyyyy up. And those on medicaid will get squeezed with all the new additions and may even have to pay into it while thinking they are getting whatever they won’t get for freeeeeeeeeee. Notice how doctors don’t take medicaid patients now??? Hang on. Your teeth will fall out and you’ll all be on purple pills and told you’re at risk and useless. And, you know what. You will be when you sign onto useless obama tactics to enslave you.
      BTW, he is also white. Not that this means a dumb thing. But to just call him black is dumb and toolery for votes. His community efforts just take the downtrodden to programs already there. Dumb and dumber and dumbing and dumbo community action with prime example being Acorn.
      More money for programs that will not give one red cent to the poor at all.
      Take off the rose colored glasses and see truth.
      This Independent is voting for the old man and all American Palin.

    37. Maggie on October 26th, 2008 3:30 pm

      yes we did have a Democratic Congress for the past 2 out of 8 total Republican rule.
      But you have to remember that they did not have the 60 vote to prevent the Republicans from 90 times shutting down the vote.
      A RECORD FOR CONGRESS.

      Bill Clinton worked with a Republican Congress just fine.. Please provide me with details of Republicans shutting down Congress 90 times..and the bills.. Like I said if you can find me a dem who tried to fix the financial.or bills about it or anything that Republicans or Bush shut down..I want to see them. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae..and was voted down..provide it to me. I am willing to give them credit..I just haven’t seen that. I like to see the actual writing.

      August this year..

      John Campbell (R), is a US Congressman from California’s 48th District. He has a blog on his official web site. He’s also posted on Townhall’s excellent blog page. Today Campbell writes of Speaker Pelosi’s continued efforts at blocking meaning action on drilling.

      Congress has passed no meaningful energy legislation to move us towards lower gas prices and more American energy and now has recessed for a 5 week break. Republicans, including yours truly, wanted to speak more about that on the floor of the House this afternoon. The Pelosi majority took the unusual step of calling for immediate adjournment to prevent these speeches from going forward and turned off the cameras and microphones on the House floor.

      It’s one thing to not allow a vote on more energy production. It’s another to not even allow people to speak about it. I and several dozen others are speaking on the House floor right now to a gallery full of cheering people to demand that Speaker Pelosi allow a vote on more American energy production. No TVs. No microphones.

      You can turn off the lights, but you cannot silence the will of the American people.

      Richard.

      Some posters seem determined to say that the current economic/social mess is the result of one party or the other.

      Instead, let’s consider the hypothesis that government simply has become too big and too intrusive … that the notion has taken hold that every problem involves a government solution.

      My point was why would I blame John McCain for the economic crisis..? He did make attempts to do something and I am happy to give publicity to others who did.. To me that would be like saying if Ron Goldman had lived I would lock him up for what happened to Nicole..even though he was actually trying to help her out and praise OJ Simpson.

      I do agree about less govt.. Govt has so many deep pockets and red tape..any money or business going through the govt..is just more nightmares and less for the people generally.

      When a candidate comes out and says he’s going to be a do all.fix all..for everybody, I am always weary..It’s impossible. MaMa told me when something looks to good to be true , it usually is.

    38. Maggie on October 26th, 2008 4:41 pm

      I heard on tv yesterday that Chuck Schumer and George soros’s group..moveon is in North Carolina spending big bucks to get Elizabeth Dole…unseated.. Elizabeth Dole was one of the Rep. Senators who helped write the bill to fix Fannie and Freddie.. Chuck Schumer in April 2005 said these these 2 companies were doing great. You can read what he said in the video..

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QBRIsCkGQ0

      So why would anyone believe Chuck Schumer?

    39. dePlume on October 26th, 2008 5:16 pm

      Sunday, October 26, 2008
      Obama’s Closing Argument

      Posted by: Amanda Carpenter at 5:33 PM
      Barack Obama is preparing to make his final pitch to voters tomorrow in a speech his aides are calling the “closing argument.”

      The campaign says:
      In his speech, Senator Obama will tell voters that after twenty-one months and three debates, Senator McCain still has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing he’d do differently from George Bush when it comes to the economy. Obama will ask Americans to help him change this country, and say that in just one week, they can choose an economy that rewards work and creates new jobs and fuels prosperity from the bottom-up, they can choose to invest in health care for our families and education for our kids and renewable energy for our future, and they can choose hope over fear, unity over division and the promise of change over the power of the status quo.

      - – - – - – - –
      Senator McCain still has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing he’d do differently from George Bush when it comes to the economy.

      Veto earmarks, push for line-item veto, cut spending for all but defense/veterans/urgent needs. Remove requirement for Seniors’ mandatory distribution of 401K during time stock have dipped. Not raise taxes on anyone. Information straight from McCain/Palin.

      Obama will ask Americans to help him change this country, and say that in just one week, they can choose an economy that rewards work

      He doesn’t even choke on the words, they just slide out. The most successful are the top 5%, and their reward is paying for most of the tax liability? (snickering laughter here) The top 5% are squirm out of it by one means or another, and then . . . where does Obama go. Obama will play “trickle down taxation” and drop the liability onto the next group, and the next group . . . until he gets down into those who do not pay any taxes.

      and creates new jobs and fuels prosperity from the bottom-up,

      Bottom up (40%) pays no taxes. Just how many of those on the bottom are going to get enough money to create jobs? Maybe one guy, in Florida, who is creative.

      they can choose to invest in health care for our families

      What happened to UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE?

      and education for our kids

      Uh oh! This must be Ayers’ influential slice of the pie.

      and renewable energy for our future,

      Against drilling before for drilling; I think they have been telling us what they think we want to hear. Wonder what they’re REALLY going to do!

      and they can choose hope over fear,

      Which is why Joe Biden says Obama will be tested in first 6 mo. I HOPE that Obama isn’t tested; but I FEAR he will be.

      unity over division

      OR ELSE. We’ll pull the race card; the intimidation card, and the fear card.

      and the promise of change over the power of the status quo.

      AND, the power of the people; and the power of the Press–the Press will be frozen out. Asking the tough questions is off limits.

      (The lemmings will nod.)

    40. Change You Can Believe In … A New National Anthem Courtesy of Barack Obama | Scared Monkeys on October 26th, 2008 6:27 pm

      [...] Decrease Military Spending [...]

    41. Freebrid on October 27th, 2008 2:31 pm

      I guess what Obama is saying 2 people is it’s O.K. 2 sit at home on your ASS cause he’s going 2 make sure the working class people (us Joe the Plumbers) R gonna take care of U.. My husband and I work hard for the 2 homes and 68 acres we own and I will be Damn if that man is going 2 give my money 2 some one who sits at home and don’t work for a dime!!!! My husband works for the United States Army and we R proud 2 say we R AMERICANS and R not ashamed 2 stand and turn 2 our flag, but I can’t stand behind a man who want salute our flag, and whose name is not AMERICAN!!!!!!!!!!

    42. michelle on October 27th, 2008 5:52 pm

      #41

      You tell em girl….

      I feel your pain….

    Leave a Reply




    Support Scared Monkeys! make a donation.

     
     
    • NEWS (breaking news alerts or news tips)
    • Red (comments)
    • Dugga (technical issues)
    • Dana (radio show comments)
    • Klaasend (blog and forum issues)
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Close
    E-mail It