Could not agree more Allan. I am not a fan of either candidate. My fear is that one of them favors massive federal programs as a means to resolve or provide hope for those in society who are in a lower income class.
Forget about the insolvency of our country for a moment and take that as a given.
My problem is that those who do not have the energy to improve thier lives will never do so given incentives not to. Redistribution of wealth IMO does not lead to self improvement or change of ones financial stature. Forcing small businesses to provide universal health care and such doesn’t cut it. My wife has a small business with a few employees and guess what, if we have to provide health care for them then we will fire all of them. If you cannot aspire to something more in life then answering a phone or greeting a client at a receptionists desk, then you should not expect a full salaried job with benefits. Putting a yoke on the middle class or considering folks that make over 75k or 100k rich is simply crazy.
sdduuude had a great post in one of the other threads. A regulated capitalistic society will breed fraud and misuse which in the end will hurt very badly. Regulation should be upon the businesses that operate within the groundwork of a free market to prevent fraud and such, not in the form of redistributing wealth and penalizing those who work harder to make more money. It doesn’t work, it has never worked, and I really am pretty sure it will not work.
I hate McCain and am more fearful of Obama then anything else. To say he is “different” to me only means he is not a Bush or a Clinton. However he is a product of a politcal machine and nothing more then that. He appeals to a broad spectrum of our society and it will be good for the country to have a black leader.
Man oh man do I wish that leader was Colin Powell though.
In the end as Alan said, no candidate, probably not even someone like Ron Paul could fix the mess that we are in. However to perpetuate the problem, to add further burden to the taxpayers, to believe that taking from the rich will suddenly change the rampant overconsumption of people who should not have money to spend in the first place will only make things much worse. Those who consistently crow about rich people getting thier due with increased taxation have no clue just how out of balance our federal budget is based on the composure of who pays what in this country.
I believe Obama will win, our nation will swing hard left, things will get worse and then we will swing hard right again 4 years down the road.
