Campaign Creations

RazorclawX wrote:

AA7Dragoon wrote:

RazorclawX wrote: How's that Obama doing declaring US policy in Germany?

Great, actually.  He's redefining a bruised alliance between Europe and America while McCain visits a German restaurant wishing he was in Germany making a speech in front of 200,000 cheering people.

How 'bout Obama get his ass back in the States and campaign THERE? He's already acting like he's got the election in the bag.

AA7Dragoon wrote: But like I said, I'm not going to get into this because I will lay the smackdown on this thread.  Half of you are young and won't even be able to vote in this election anyway.  Let yourself mature a couple more years.  There's a lot more going on than who's a Republican or Democrat, Liberal or Conservative, White or Black.

For my own part, I am not so well satisfied of the goodness of this thing. I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. — I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. There is no country in the world where so many provisions are established for them; so many hospitals to receive them when they are sick or lame, founded and maintained by voluntary charities; so many alms-houses for the aged of both sexes, together with a solemn general law made by the rich to subject their estates to a heavy tax for the support of the poor. Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful; and do they use their best endeavours to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burthen? — On the contrary, I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day you passed that act, you took away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependance on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health, for support in age or sickness. In short, you offered a premium for the encouragement of idleness, and you should not now wonder that it has had its effect in the increase of poverty. Repeal that law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. St. Monday, and St. Tuesday, will cease to be holidays. SIX days shalt thou labour, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.

RazorclawX wrote: You talk down to people who don't support your candidate like they were less intelligent, defined, or mature.

Perhaps that person is actually you.

Your college education doesn't make you smarter than other people, it makes you college-educated. You can balk and joke about flipping burgers and look down on them all you want, but at the end of the day, you're still eating the burgers they're flipping.

The Medicare “trust fund” is already badly in the red, and the only solution will be a dramatic increase in payroll taxes for younger workers.  The National Taxpayers Union reports that Medicare will consume nearly 40% of the nation’s GDP after several decades because of the new drug benefit.  That’s not 40% of federal revenues, or 40% of federal spending, but rather 40 % of the nation’s entire private sector output!

The official national debt figure, now approaching $9 trillion, reflects only what the federal government owes in current debts on money already borrowed.  It does not reflect what the federal government has promised to pay millions of Americans in entitlement benefits down the road.  Those future obligations put our real debt figure at roughly fifty trillion dollars- a staggering sum that is about as large as the total household net worth of the entire United States.  Your share of this fifty trillion amounts to about $175,000.

Don’t believe for a second that we can grow our way out of the problem through a prosperous economy that yields higher future tax revenues.  If present trends continue, by 2040 the entire federal budget will be consumed by Social Security and Medicare alone. The only options for balancing the budget would be cutting total federal spending by about 60%, or doubling federal taxes.  To close the long-term entitlement gap, the U.S. economy would have to grow by double digits every year for the next 75 years.

The answer to these critical financial realities is simple, but not easy: We must rethink the very role of government in our society.  Anything less, any tinkering or “reform,” won’t cut it.  A good start would be for Congress to repeal the Medicare prescription drug bill.

Negi wrote: Let's put it this way, according to historical data, the party of a president who has presided over a recession that goes into election season has lost said election the vast majority of the time.  Assuming this trend continues, Barack Obama actually does have this election in the bag.