The 2008 Presidential Election is just around the corner. Who will you choose, McCain or Obama?
Do you want a president that has supported President Bush 90% of the time, or do you want a president that has his own ideas and does not follow Bush? Obama is a young candidate that wants to really change America and make a turn around. While McCain, who is an older man, wants to continue running America with a "Bush" style to it.
Obama wants to raise taxes to help the low and middle class citizens. He wants to spread the wealth among everyone to hopefully make America nicer and have less poverty. McCain does not agree with this decision and wants to make the tax cuts, which were done by George W. Bush in 2001 and 2003, permanent.
Would you rather have higher taxes, or have tax cuts?
I personally feel that Obama raising taxes to help out the low and middle class citizens is not completely fair. I see it as taking money from those who took school seriously and worked hard to become successful only to pay more and help out those who didn't take school seriously and just goofed off. It's like Robbin Hood, but taxes, "taking money from the rich and giving to the poor." How do you feel? Do you think it is fair to raise taxes for those who work hard and make good money?
I also don't completely think McCains ideas of making tax cuts permanent is a good idea either. Taxes need to be paid, and so do the US debts. The debts that we owe need to paid off some how, and it would be better if it was sooner than later, but with tax cuts it will just take longer.
If taxes are raised, they should be raised for everyone. It should not descriminate against the successful. I don't know who I will vote for just yet, these are just my ideas and how I see things.
So who are you going to vote for? Why do you support the candidate that you are going to vote for? Did this reading help you make a decision or see things differently?
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Do you want a president who will continue to expand America's overseas empire abroad at the high expense of the beleaguered American taxpayer and international opinion? How about one who will continue to swindle the soundness of money out of the hand of your average worker and into the hands of international financiers? Finally how about one who does this all in the name of being "patriotic"?
Then vote for Obama OR McCain! They're the same person, with the same assumptions, different party.
Ignore the two party system's bullshit, and look up what the real "issues" are, not the ones Democrats and Republicans pretend to "differ" on. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.
Vote independent. Tell the government you want REAL change.
Write in Ron Paul, that's what I'm doing.
I could go on and on about this, so I’ll try my best to be concise and brief:
-McCain wants to keep drilling for oil instead of pouring our resources into alternative energies. Oil is dirty and pollutes the environment. And it will still run out soon even if we plunder the earth and drill as much as we can. Researching in solar, wind, water, and geothermal energies will last us forever. Also, researching clean, green energy starts to create the types of jobs that we NEED to push our nation forward
-Palin. Enough said. According to the actuary tables, there is a 1/3 chance that Palin will be president. This scares me so much. Everything from she just got a passport last year and has barely been outside the country (she cited going to Canada and Mexico in a Charlie Gibson interview) and also said that Alaska is close to Russia. Furthermore, she did not even know what the Bush Doctrine was and needed Charles Gibson to explain it to her.
-Raising taxes on the multimillionaire CEOs and massive corporations so the other 99% of the nation doesn’t have to struggle as much
-Have you seen what the republican party has done with our economy? Seriously?
-Healthcare
-Iraq. Do you want to start to get out of there, or stay? Our economy sucks right now. Why are we still increasing our military instead of using those resources for other more important things?
-Obama can actually pronounce the names of foreign nations. Last year I had the opportunity to dine with Kayla Williams (the author of a book we read, “Love my Rifle more than You.” She was in the army deployed in Iraq and wrote about the problems a female faced over there). She told us how the inhabitants of those nations hate Bush because he can’t pronounce Iraq correctly. McCain can’t say it right either. But Obama can. It is pronounced ei-ROCK not AYE-rack.
-There will be Justices stepping down after Bush leaves office. Right now the Supreme Court is conservatively powered. If McCain gets elected, the republicans will dominate the Supreme Court. It is bad for EITHER party to dominate the Supreme Court. It creates too drastic of political swings.
-It can be said that NO presidential candidates can ever fulfill their campaigning promises. However, would you rather have someone that at least has good goals (so some good things might get done) or someone with bad goes (so there is zero chance the good things will get done)
-He has the power to inspire people. One might say that this isn’t important for anything. But it is. Inspiration and HOPE is the key. This is more than just campaign rhetoric. This idea of Hope has gotten criticism because opponents say it is pointless. This is completely untrue. The thing that impacts our markets the most is confidence. They think things are going to go sourly, the sell. And then since things are selling, even more people get out. That is how a market fails. On the other hand, if people think things are safe, they buy. If they buy, then the economy picks up, and everyone is happy. We need that confidence back in our market. We need Hope.
@Tom - well despite voting in a state that hasn't gone red since 1988 and is incredibly unlikely to this election, your vote matters! (I'm slightly disheartened by the current system...) Both candidates are proposing tax cuts, simply for different economic brackets. On one hand I agree that either they should be raised or lowered for everyone, however, no politician can advertise that they're raising taxes; even keeping them the same will make them less popular. They all promise lower taxes and yet people demand that the government solve all of their problems - something that is increasingly impossibly with a lack of funding due to tax cuts!
Basically, if both are giving tax cuts, it's about who will cut down on government spending the most so that we can slow the deficit and eventually decrease of enormous debt. Obama wants to create new programs within the government to deal with things such as health care and education. Where does he think the money for these programs is going to come from though? We'll just continue to go further into debt.
McCain at least advocates cutting back on government. By privatizing various industries, the government can cut back on its spending and capitalism (you know, what our country is supposedly all about. none of that socialist crap Obama's advocating...) can flourish. Plus, by privatizing things like health care (cause it's not like we're going to get social security anyways) we'll have to expand the private market, which means more jobs.
So despite the blueness of our lovely state, I hope you vote for the candidate (from one of the two main parties, who has a chance at winning the election still.) who will work towards lowering the federal budget deficit and cutting back on big government programs.
@Ryan - While I respect & agree that a third party/independent would most definitely be a better choice, it's simply not going to happen at this point in time. You're right that we shouldn't have to choose the "lesser of two evils" (a phrase I've found myself using to describe my choice), however, in our current political system, that's really what it's about.
Voting in CT sucks enough as it is (why didn't I register Florida?!? I am sooooo stupid sometimes!!) because my vote essentially meant nothing, however, voting outside of the Republicans/Democrats (at least at this point in time), is really not going to make a dent... that's just my opinion anyways.
@Dan - I suppose the best way to go about this is point by point like you did.
-Yes, McCain wants to continue to drill for oil. But he's not drilling instead of developing alternative energy, he wants to drill in addition to researching alt. energy. We've been trying to develop alternative energy sources for some time and it's simply a slow process; we need other energy in the meantime, thus the drilling. Besides, if we're talking jobs, developing either type of energy will create jobs, so I don't really think that's an applicable argument. just saying.
-on Palin, I agree completely. No arguing here. Just prayers that 66.67% is enough.
-See @Tom for my opinion on taxes...
-The Republican party? Who's controlling Congress??? Oh that's right... it's the Democrats! Despite the stupidity of our current president, we cannot blame the ENTIRE failure of the economy on him because he is not a dictator. He doesn't get to make all of the decisions. In fact, if I remember correctly (which I may not, I'm running on not enough sleep lol), CONGRESS has to approve the President's budget PROPOSAL, so if it was really that awful, then the Democrats shouldn't have passed it. I'd say our economic situation is bi-partisan failure, largely based on the banking industry being stupid and greedy, but I'll save that rant for another day.
-I don't necessarily like how McCain's proposing to go about it, but I really don't see what's wrong with privatizing health care. I don't really know what else to say as you didn't give me much to argue against :P lol
-We shouldn't be in Iraq. We shouldn't have gone in the first place. But we're there now, and we have to wrap up what we started (clearly there is no specific "end", but at least establishing a stable government and military before we leave would be nice since we kind of destroyed their old one...). Besides, USUALLY during wars, the economy flourishes. There's demand for military items, more production, and more jobs. Why this war's different ... ? dunno.
-The mispronunciation is annoying. Agreed. They've both messed a couple things up though... it happens. Though "nu-cu-ler" instead of "nu-cle-ar" is going to drive me CRAZY if it doesn't get fixed. Seriously, McCain should know that is the EASIEST way to put yourself in league with Bush. Really.
-I agree that the Supreme Court is in desperate need of a Democratic President. And if I think about the SC and how much they affect social issues in this country (upon which I'm actually fairly left-winged), I am worried what a pro-life, anti-gay marriage, anti-stem cell research duo would do if they had a bunch of new openings in the SC... shit man...
This is where I'm conflicted with the "lesser of two evils" because as much as I think we need McCain to (try) to fix our economy (hey he's got a better chance than the alternative...), Obama would make sure the government's not controlling every aspect of my personal life that they have no business sticking their nose into.
Hang in there Ginsburg & Stevens!
-Clearly our opinions on how good/bad each of their goals are differs.
-Can't argue there. Obama is most definitely is an eloquent speaker who can get people motivated (as seen by this campaign's fund raising). And we do absolutely need to restore confidence in the market so that it can become functional again. However, as much as WE (many YOUNG PEOPLE) have confidence in Obama, most of us have NO MONEY. Many of the old rich people are TERRIFIED of Obama being president and thus would be even more likely to pull all of their money out of the bank and store it in their ceiling and under the mattress. That definitely would not help to fix our economic problems.
We need stability to get through this crisis.
Sorry that was so long! There was just so much to respond to!
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