One big reason Obama Scares me

There are many reasons to vote against Barrack Obama for President. You can go down the whole judgement path with his associations with questionable characters, but if you want to stick to the issues here is a big one.

While in Toledo recently, a plumber raised the issue with Obama that under Obama's economic plan, the plumber's taxes would go up. Listen to the clip below which features Obama's answer. Listen carefully. Listen twice if you need to, I'll wait.



Okay, are the hairs on the back of your neck standing up? This has to be one of the scariest answers to a tax question I have ever heard from a Presidential candidate. For those who don't understand the answer, let me spell it out as clearly as I can. This is pure Socialism. Obama is talking about redistribution of wealth here. He believes that he knows better than you do how to use your money.

If you have a friend or relative that thinks Obama has a good economic plan try explaining it to them this way.

Let's imagine that Obama has proposed a new tax plan that he is running through congress. Let's also say he is calling it The citizen helps plan for America. In this plan, the government will decide who owes money and who needs help. Instead of you paying your taxes to the government (remember, even if you got a refund, you still probably paid some amount), your neighbor sends you a bill that says you have to pay them directly. It could be $2000.00 a year, or $500.00 a quarter, but either way, you are legally bound to pay your neighbor the money because the government decided that you make too much and your neighbor doesn't make enough. If you don't cut your neighbor a check and they complain, you will be held accountable by the government. Maybe you won't be able to register your car, or you get a fine, or something similar.

Do you think this idea would fly with the American people? No way, you're crazy, people would never agree to this idea would they?

The only difference between my example above and Obama's plan is the middle man. Yes, under his plan, you pay the government, they hold the money for awhile, and then they decide who to cut the checks to.

So, you think I'm exaggerating? You think his plan doesn't do this? Obama keeps saying that 95% of Americans won't pay any additional taxes. He also claims that most of the middle class will get a tax cut. Wait, lets look at his tax plan a little closer here.

First: The first thing Obama plans to do is repeal the Bush tax cuts. That will immediately raise everyone's taxes. Even though the Liberals like to claim that the Bush tax cuts were only cuts to the rich, the fact is the middle class got a very nice tax cut as well. My own tax burden went down over $2000.00 with the cuts and I am anything but rich.

Next: Obama doesn't have any actual tax cuts in his plan. He calls them refundable tax credits. Now, this is important because it means that anyone can claim these credits, even if they don't owe any taxes at all. Stick with me on this one because this is where the wealth transfer happens. If someone doesn't pay any taxes because their income level is too low, but they are still able to claim these credits, it means they are getting money from the government. Money that you and everyone else that does pay taxes is going to those who don't! Isn't this exactly the same thing as the example I used above?

Also: Let's not forget, Obama has also promised to raise capital gains taxes which will affect anyone who has a 401k, 403b, or any other savings plan that has money in the stock market. He has promised to raise corporate income taxes on any business that makes over $250,000.00 a year. He claims this won't affect small businesses, but one study showed that over 97% of all small businesses in America make over this amount a year.

He also wants to tax what he calls windfall profits on businesses. Okay, first of all, what constitutes a windfall profit, and who gets to decide? Secondly, if a company is worried about getting hit with this tax, will they strive to reach those profits, or will they slow production when they get close to this magic mythical number? Finally, Liberals don't seem to understand that companies don't pay taxes. Huh? That doesn't make sense? Think about it this way; if a company's price on anything goes up, do they just pay the increase or do they raise the price they charge to customers? Does the price of milk, eggs, clothing, or anything else go up? Why? Because the producer of those products had an increase somewhere while making the product. This includes taxes the business has to pay!

Okay, with all of Obama's tax increases coupled with repealing the Bush tax cuts, and no actual tax cuts. Obama will push this economy into a recession that may take years to reverse.

That scares me! It should scare you too!

War protesters show true colors

"I support the troops, but I don't support this war."

I don't want to hear that crap anymore after what happened this weekend at a recruiting center in Milwaukee.

A group, estimated in number to be between 30 to 40 young men and women, using the pretense of the fourth anniversary of our involvement in the Iraq war to take to the streets in protest decided the best way to send their message of disapproval was to desecrate and vandalize a local army recruiting center. The group, dressed in all black and carrying signs decrying our involvement, stopped in front of the army center and began breaking windows, spray painting the front of the building, lit fires on the side walk, and for the final insult threw bags filled with human excrement into the building.

The left can't claim this was just a group of protesters whose emotions got the better of them, or that it was an unorganized "mob" that just happened to join together. Largely due to tips from witnesses, 21 of these "protesters" were able to be apprehended by local police. They ranged in age from l4 to 24, were male and female, and they came from all over South East Wisconsin.

Thinking about this logically tells us this had to be planned well ahead of time. They were all dressed in black, they had to meet in a location close enough to walk to the recruiting center, but probably the grossest fact that tells me this was planned ahead is that someone (probably more than one someone) had to defecate and then collect/assemble it into those bags thrown into the building.

I know the response from the left is that this is just an isolated group who was acting on their own and don't represent blah, blah, blah. But why is it that only the left has their activism turn violent? The tolerant, compassionate, reasonable, supportive of the little guy left is always the side that turns to violence.

Don't believe me? Tell me this, wasn't it great to see all of the supporters of the war as they gathered peacefully in Washington, DC as a counter to the anti-war protesters? The supporters actually outnumbered the protesters and...what? You didn't see the pictures of the supporters? You also say you didn't even know the supporters were there at all?

That pretty much makes my point about the media bias. They made it sound like this huge group had gathered, but failed to mention at all (or mentioned as an afterthought) the larger group of supporters.

The spokesman for the Army recruiting center made a statement about this group of absolute thugs. His words sum up the arrogance and stupidity of this so called protest group. He said that, "we are here to protect this group's right to protest..."

Let that sink in for a while.

Discussions with liberals

I spend a lot of time reading as much as I can from both sides of the political aisle so that I can keep myself properly informed. It is a great way to make sure that I am able to form my own opinions. At times though it is very frustrating when I run across an article in a newspaper that is so factually inept that my first instinct is to go into the comment section of the website to try and make my case. This was the case when I read the article entitled "Smearing like it's 2003" by E. J. Dionne Jr. It appeared in Mondays Washington Post, and when I went into the comments section I quickly decided to give up any attempt at correction or even sanity. The absolute drivel and outright filth in the comments section was an eye opener.

So this brings up a question that I have not found an answer to; How do you hold a rational political discussion with a liberal? My original thought for this post was to take apart the article line by line and refute it with facts. But, after reading the comments another thought came to me. I really don't know what the answer is because every time I have tried the discussion quickly disintegrates into an emotional rant or worse, name calling. At this point I have two choices; either try to continue the discussion without sinking to their level or; laugh and walk away from the whole thing.

If you try and continue it is very hard to stick to facts (they have stopped listening by now anyway), and once the inevitable name calling starts it is over anyway. It is funny to note that name calling is always the end result from the left.

I decided to try the "laugh and walk away" tactic. I must say that the results are much more satisfying. You still end up with a few names thrown at your back, but it is fun to hear the frustration.

The only civil conversation I had was with a professor through email. I didn't get any names thrown at me, but I also never got any answers from him. He started with a question which I answered with great detail and loaded with facts. I ended with a question for him to answer, but got nothing in response except for three more questions. I let this continue one more time and yet again got nothing but questions. In the end he did compliment me on my knowledge and said I could have a PHD in political science. This was all fine and good, but he still refused to ever support his positions. I never got any answers from him. I expected more from a professor, but that was my mistake.

I guess my advice is this; if you find yourself trying to talk politics with a liberal don't lose your temper with them, and never sink to their level. Sometimes the best thing to do is just laugh and walk away.