Posted by
federal rb on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 3:38:35 PM
This election cycle is perfectly suited for McCain. He is not the perfect (or close to) candidate for the Repubs, but idealism will get you being governed by a socialist while pragmatism will keep the Dems from taking the country in the wrong direction.
I have not heard the Repubs ever talk to us in terms of money spent in the elections. John Kerry in 2004 spent $309 million trying to get the job that Dems want the most. Al Gore spent $120 million in 2000. That is $429 million given to paid political consultants, radio/TV stations and basically people that already make a good living already. Of course the lowly volunteers got some donuts and coffee. That money was spent on 2 FAILED campaigns. Why doesn't anyone mention that the $429 mil could have just about eliminated poverty in say Los Angeles. A bright blue city in a bright blue state. If the Dems believe in redistribution of wealth, then why don't they just raise the money from their wealthy supporters and give it straight to their constituencies. They could have given 8,580 families a total of $50,000 and called it charity. And the answer to that is that then they wouldn't have had the chance at the power of the presidency. (And the ability to keep their constituents down).
Every plan they have is designed to keep the people addicted to the federal government in terms of money and programs. Keep the kids in failing public schools, keep everyone in a going broke Social Security system, and now mandate eveyone to join a national healthcare plan. Our healthcare system,which expensive, is the class of the world. And why, beacuse it is run privately. Someone should parallel the healthcare system and our public schools and show the difference between them. And if people cannot afford healthcare then they should be given the phone numbers of Bill Clinton and Warren Buffet. They both belive that their taxes are too low. Although I'm sure they are taking every deduction afforded to them. Bill Clinton actually said that he resented the fact that noone asked him to sacrifice in terms of paying more taxes. Well, I'm asking him to send more money to the black hole of the federal government. Or at least he and Hillary can personally start subsidizing the millions of people that they talk about that do not have health insurance.
The Dems must be called on the fact that they need their people to need them. They cannot have the people actually be self-reliant. They have to blame every problem they have, real or imaginary, on the government. We have to get back to our countries motto of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness. I have read the constitution and it doesn't mention anywhere that I should make the same amount of money as the CEO of a billion dollar company. Or that my kid will have the same opportunites as Barack Obama's children. Someone needs to start talking about these issues.