Posted by
Brandon O'Neal Wright on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:41:07 PM
Barack Obama. Good speaker, good motivator, good father and husband. But new ideas about how to run the government? I do not think so.
On the front lines in the battle with terrorists? Barack wants to negotiate instead of standing up for our country. We did that under President Clinton. We were never proactive against our enemies and tried to talk them down time and time again. We gave Saddam Hussein timeline after generic timeline to comply with the UN inspectors. Saddam failed to comply, so we came up with another timeline, or else. Or else what? More negotiation? Man, I bet he was terrified!! We stood by and watched Osama Bin Laden produce tape after tape of hate speech and did nothing to quell his anti American hatred. Some say it worked, I say look again. The first bombing of the World Trade Towers happened under President Clinton. The bombing of the USS Cole happened under President Clinton. The bombings of the US embassies in Africa happened under President Clinton. Hundreds of American lives were lost to terrorism under President Clinton, and the average American would be hard pressed to name an anti terrorist campaign that took place during the Clinton years. Negotiating with terrorist does not work and it is certainly not a new idea. Change? Try again.
Barack wants to change the way that major corporations "run the government." Really? Is that why he takes millions of dollars in contributions from labor unions? This may come as a news flash to many, but labor unions are no longer in it for the good of American workers. They, in a sense, are a business of their own. Making money off the American workers. If Barack thinks that the American workers need someone to speak for them, I think he has the wrong impression of America. That is the problem with the government today. They think the American citizens don't know what they want. As American citizens, we tend to tell everyone what we think, no matter if they want to listen or not. Change? Try again.
Barack wants to raise the tax rate on the top 5 percent of wage earners and on major corporations. Keep in mind that we already have one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. This is also where I get a bit confused. Lets do some straight talk math here. Put unions in charge of the workers. This would probablty increase wages to some workers. Good for the worker. Increase the tax rate of the top 5 percent of wage earners, you know, to pay for the free health care of Americans. Good for ninety five percent of the population. Raise the corporate tax rate, making it even more enticing for business to move overseas where the tax rate is much lower and much more condusive to turning a profit. All of a sudden that raise and health care you were going to get are gone because your place of employment has decided to leave the United States in the name of turning a higher profit somewhere else. It's as if Barack doesn't really understand how the world works. Kind of scary if you ask me.
Negotiate with terrorist. Change from the way we currently do it? Yes. Good change? No
Increase union activity among American workers. Change? Yes. Good change? No
Increase the tax rate of 95 percent of wage earners and on corporations. Change? Yes. Good change? No. Fair change? Absolutely not.
I am not going to sit here and argue about the effectiveness of George W. Bush as a president, but I will make one small observation. President Bush has kept us safe against terrorists attacks for eight years now. Granted, the economy may not be the best we have ever had, but the safety of my family and friends takes precedent over the fact that I may not have made millions in the stock market yet. And that, my friends, is something that I do not want to change!!!