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ELKO - Who knew there were this many Democrats in rural Nevada? A line of people snake through a park here in preparation of a visit by Sen. Barack Obama.
About 1,000 people are expected to attend, and it seems the Democrats will hit that mark. Obama is expected to arrive at 11 a.m.
A rally of about 50 supporters of Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin, who make up the Republican ticket, is being held nearby.
A lingering question in many minds is why Obama did so well here in January's Democratic caucus. Could it have been more than an anti-Hillary Clinton vote?
Besides the obvious concern about the qualifications of Obama, this election is about which way the country will go. Socialism(Democrats) or Capitalism(Republicans). Obama plans to give your hard earned tax dollars to 100 million American who do not have to pay taxes or do not have to file taxes. This is not a tax cut but a welfare cheque. He does not want to give small or large businesses a tax break but wants to raise business and corporate taxes. This will never produce a single job. He plans to put the Unions in charge of education and increase the size of government and its control over peoples lives and earnings. He wants to renegotiate the free trade agreements, because the unions with their ever increasing demands have made it harder for American corporations and small businesses to compete with global trading partners. He wants to talk, with out any conditions to radical Muslim terrorists and dictators from Cuba, South America and Europe. He wants to jump into a new and prolonged war of 10, 15 or 25 years in Afghanistan, without any time frame or exit strategy.
Barack Hussein Obama is a lawyer with no historical perspective, but with great rhetoric and hype of hope and change. He is social worker (community organizer) and a junior legislator of less than 2 years, who votes present 40% of the time and votes 100% along party lines. He or Biden do not have the biography or experience or a record of change. No change, with zero accomplishments. Both might make better stay at home dads.
Obama's wife until recently was not proud of America and he is connected with the corrupt Chicago Daley gang; for 20 years had an infamous racist narcissistic spiritual adviser; has close ties with two convicted felons Tony Rezko (www.suntimes.com/.../353829,CST-NWS-rez2...) and Williams Ayers an unrepentant radical terrorist who bombed government buildings. He has never been vetted by the news media. Not the time for 4 years of on the job training program for Obama. Keep smiling"..
Peter Clarke,
In all your rhetoric you mention I have little regard for you comments for four reasons. 1. There was no need to mention Obama's middle name, which shows your mind set. 2. A law firm that Obama worked for doing business with any individuals does not mean Obama has close ties. 3. McCain also wants to send 2 more Brigades to Afganistan. 4. In your diatribe you mention that Obama wants to talk to the countries, yet you think he should dictate the grounds and conditions first. That is crazy.
I would like everyone to Google 'John McCain anger'. I believe McCain will have an attitude of kill them all and let god sort it out. If McCain gets in I'm building a bomb shelter.
FACT: If you earn less than $250,000 a year, Obama will ***LOWER*** your federal income tax - not increase it.
FACT: Your Obama tax cut will be larger than your McCain tax cut.
FACT: McCain gives a multi-millionaire a tax cut that is ***8 times bigger*** than a low income earners tax cut.
See for yourself. Here is proof!!!!!!
Here is a link to a calculator you can use to see how much of a tax break you will get with Obama's plan. (I haven't been able to find one yet for the McCain plan. Why is that????.)
http://alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut/
Here is a link to a very clear tax cut comparison chart. This chart is referenced in many newspapers and magazine articles.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...
Here is the link to get the full 56-page comparison of the two tax plans published by the independent Tax Policy Center.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publicati...
The US has over 56 Trillion dollars in long term obligations; i.e. social security, medicare, medicaid, regular debt, long-term debt. You get the picture.
Neither candidate has a lot of room to do anything when we are about to enter the fiscal abyss to nowhere! Someone is going to pay this money back or we will default and suffer the consequences.
Both McCain and Obama will not be able to do many of their "promises" because we simply do not have enough money!
Hey peterclarke, are we not in the midst of bailing out financial institutions? Is that not basically nationalizing this industry?
Great plan: nationalize them when they are down, but keep them private when they are making money hand over fist.
If we have to bail them out, we should be able to share in the profits.
Oh, sorry, that would be socialism. No, keep your side deregulating and eventually screwing the American working man.
If you're in trouble, the first thing to do is stop digging the hole you're deepening. Secondly, figure which way is up, and vote accordingly.
The Republican philosophy has exposed itself dramatically this week. Keep your hands off while big business pillages the economy. But if the whole thing blows up, then use the U.S. Treasury to bail them out. Utter hypocrisy ... yet oddly consistent.
They didn't bail them all out. They didn't give any money to Lehman. They bailed AIG because they didn't want to get a domino effect started. Big business support our economy and provide jobs.
Michael,
Your statement, "Big business support our economy and provide jobs." is without merit.
If they don't have consumers (us) or workers (us) they won't survive and neither will we.
In Japan they have a cap on how much a manager can make or a company president. I believe it is 3 times what the lowest salaried employee makes. Now that is an idea.
Jgeremia,
How does big buisness not support our economy and provide jobs?
Would you like to have your salary capped?
I did not find support for your assertion that Japan caps company president salary to 3X. In fact the following web site has data that disputes that:
http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/search/...
Michael,
Read my statement. I didn't say big Bz. does not support our economy and provide jobs. I said,"Your statement, "Big business support our economy and provide jobs." is without merit." Simply stated, one can't exist without the other. Often it is said, business gives jobs but business makes money off workers and consumers. They provide jobs but we provide workers and consumers. Just as important as the function of creating jobs, is the workers and consumers that are willing to support these businesses. So your statement is without merit. Think about it.
James Johnson was CEO of Fannie Mae from 1991-98. He is a major fundraiser for Obama and was head of Obama's committee to select a VP. Franklin Raines was CEO of Fannie Mae from 1999-2004. He is a major fundraiser for Obama and is Obama's housing and mortgage advisor.
Both of them took salary and bonuses of millions of dollars. In one year alone Johnson got $21 million and Raines over six years got $90 million.
These men were at heart of the sub-prime mortgage mess. They instructed Fannie Mae to purchase billions of dollars of uncollectible and defaulted on mortgages. Now the taxpayers will have to pay $200 billion to bale out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Also, these men cooked the books to enrich themselves. They inflated Fannie Mae's earning by $6-$9 billion in order to collect salary and bonuses of $50-$90 million.
Austan Goolsbee is senior economic advisor to Obama. On March 29, 2007 he wrote an article in the New York Times "Irresponsible Mortgages Have Opened Doors To Many Of The Excluded" Goolsbee said, "Cracking down on sup-prime mortgages could hurt exactly the wrong people".those who previously would have been denied loans. "It has allowed them access to mortgages whereas lenders would have once just turned them away."
Giving loans to people unable to repay is going to cost taxpayers close to $1 trillon dollars.
These are the men Obama has chosen as advisors.
See the third post in this thread. Google 'John McCain anger'. Its pretty obvious Obama is the only choice.