Obama’s words don’t match his policies

In this morning’s Wall Street Journal John McCain and Barack Obama have dueling opinion pieces; “What we’re fighting for” opposes “The change we need”. Obama begins by clouding history;

Businesses and families can’t get credit. Home values are falling, and pensions are disappearing. Wages are lower than they’ve been in a decade, at a time when the costs of health care and college have never been higher.

At a moment like this, we can’t afford four more years of spending increases, poorly designed tax cuts, or the complete lack of regulatory oversight that even former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan now believes was a mistake. America needs a new direction. That’s why I’m running for president of the United States.

We can’t afford four years of spending increases, yet that’s exactly what Obama wants to do. I watched one of his ads yesterday (while my Giants scrimmaged against some second class team from Texas) in which Obama  claimed he was goin to pay for his programs by pulling the troops from Iraq. Too bad it’s not that easy. He also claimed he was going to end programs that weren’t working – I guess that’s code for cutting the living shit out of defense, because you know damn well no Democrat will ever admit that government social programs aren’t working.

“Poorly designed tax cuts” is a joke phrase. In 2000, I paid $17,000 in taxes, last year I paid $12,000 on more than twice the income. I’m probably right in the meaty part of the middle class and the Bush tax cuts worked for me. So, you figure what Obama is talking about when he says “poorly designed tax cuts”. My taxes increased every year under Clinton despite his “targeted tax cuts” which all seemed targeted away from me and my family of six.

A tax cut to Obama is when tax cuts only effect those not paying any taxes. Clinton even managed to raise taxes on Social Security recipients (when he raised the taxable amount of their benefit from 50% to 85%) and dead people (when he made the tax hike retroactive).

McCain responds;

We need to grow our small businesses, not tax them. I will fight the Democrats’ plans to redistribute the fruit of America’s labor and turn our economy into a full-fledged disaster. I will cut taxes on families, seniors, savers and businesses. We need to double the child deduction, cut the capital gains tax, and keep jobs in America with a lower business tax.

I will make government finally live on a budget and enforce that discipline by the power of veto. I won’t spend nearly a trillion dollars more of your money. I will impose a short-term spending freeze and rid the government of waste, duplication and fraud.

That’s exactly right – while Obama promises “rebates” to people who don’t pay taxes, McCain wants to keep them employed by giving tax breaks to small businesses. When Obama taxes small businesses, business raises it’s prices and lay off workers. When McCain gives businesses tax breaks, prices remain steady, employment remains steady.

The government has had a spending freeze tha last two years because Congress has been unable to pass a single spending bill during this session and we need more freezes. Want to talk about duplication in government? Nearly every agency of the Commerce Department has a duplicate agency somewhere else.  Read the Code of Federal Regulations in regards to the Education Department – all of those regulations in Title 34 are related to handing out money to states. What if states raised their own money instead of depending on the Federal Government to hand money out to the states’ tin cup beggars? Then Federal taxes can be cut (because they won’t need to distribute money and maintain useless agency to distribute the money).

Think Barack Obama will cut the Ed Department with his teacher union constituency?

Name one thing, besides Defense, that you can picture Obama cutting. Can’t, huh?

Obama describes his vision of the war against terror;

I’ll finally finish the fight against bin Laden and the al Qaeda terrorists who attacked us on 9/11, build new partnerships to defeat the threats of the 21st century, and restore our moral standing so that America remains the last, best hope of Earth.

That’s it? Kill bin Laden and it’s all over with? The war between middle eastern terrorists and the US go back to Beirut in 1983, a decade before there was an al Qaeda. It was that Jimmy Carter mentality to which Obama subscribes that put us in this position in the first place. When foreign countries express an unusual affinity for one candidate, as they’ve shown for Obama, that’s bad for the US.

At this point, voters have to know that a vote for Obama is a selfish attempt to make themselves feel good about their vote, a sad attempt at assuaging their guilt for making the tough choices we’ve faced over the last decade. A selfish, intellectually vacant choice to “be part of history”. It’s not a vote for America.

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