You think he's a decent guy? The man gave money to (I forget his name, maybe i'll edit it later) an anti-israel extremist and has the nerve to come up with the slogan 'pro-obama, pro-israel'. He and his family were members of a black liberation theology church, a sect of christianity which teaches that white people are evil and are responsible for every evil thing in this world, much like how the jews were scapegoated. He voted against a bill that would give medical treatment to botched-abortion babies. Doesn't seem like a very nice man to me..Usige Beatha post=18.71728.737537 said:
But beyond personal reasons, I don't like his stance on the war - (you don't tell your enemy when you're going to leave, and you certainly don't pull troops out until things are stable), i don't like his stance on taxes (he plans to double the capital gains tax, thus hurting businesses and costing people jobs) and has many plans for extravagant social programs we can't afford, like free health care for every child in America. Sounds nice, but we can't fucking afford it. Look at Obama's plans - he's trying to spend money we don't have, and make up for it by raising taxes, hurting businesses and economic progress and raising unemployment. How the hell is this a good plan?
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"According to the National Taxpayers Union, Obama has proposed at least $287 billion a year in new government spending. He also co-sponsored a Senate bill to spend at least $845 billion a year to fight global poverty."
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/obama/2008/02/27/75994.html
So basically his idea is to raise taxes during an economic down turn to generate revenue for his insane social programs. Money the American people don't have right now. You raise taxes when times are good, THEN you can institute some new spending, but you don't raise taxes when things are shitty. You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip, or however that saying goes.
And spending almost a TRILLION DOLLARS in foreign fucking aid? That money could wipe out our national debt in a matter of a decade or so, and he wants to give it away?
This is why I'm voting republican. We don't have a responsibility to give anything to these countries - it's a nice thing to do, WHEN WE HAVE THE MONEY, but we don't, so we can't right now. The democrats need to get that through their heads.
