Posted on 06/11/2008 10:19:40 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
As for budget reform, Obama is no stranger to pork barrel spending, having clocked in with $740 million in earmarks in just three years. He made sure that his wife’s employer ($1M) and the organization run by hate monger Father Michael Pfleger ($225,000) were on the list. And the monstrous $300 billion farm bill (filled with subsidies for millionaire and corporate farms) and the 2005 highway bill with the infamous Bridge to Nowhere? He voted for them both.
Then there is trade. Despite his sophisticated, worldly outlook and childhood abroad, which he claims has prepared him for the presidency, Obama’s trade policy does not seem very friendly to our trading partners oversees. Rather, it seems eerily reminiscent of the 1920’s, another time when the economy hovered on the brink of recession before being pushed over the edge by the Smoot-Hawley tariff in 1930.
Obama, of course, competed with Hillary Clinton throughout the primaries for the title of “Most Protectionist Economic Pandering.” It seems that he won hands down, despite the efforts of his economic advisor Austan Goolsbee to assure the Canadians that he really was lying to the voters.
Obama may have tipped his hand with a Monday announcement of his economic tour. His campaign explained that he would “provide opportunity to working families who are struggling and restore fairness and balance to our economy.” The “fairness and the balance” is code for “tax increase,” you see. And the spending? Again, his campaign offered to “provide relief to struggling homeowners, affordable health care and college for all.” There was no price tag mentioned.
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Take away his prompter boards for TV. He is a bumbling idiot.
While we may not be completely happy with McCain on the Republican ticket, to his credit he has had absolutely NO earmark spending. Zip. Earmark spending is costing the US taxpayer as much as $60 BILLION per year......earmarks should be OUTLAWED!!!!!!!!!!
I agree, outlaw the earmarks. It is too apparent that most of the Congress is too busy stuffing their pockets with loot and buying votes to get anything meaningful done.
That soundbite from last week was priceless. The only thing he didn’t say was; “What’s the frequency Kenneth.”
Now it will be close and with the MSM love fest with Obama, will make it even harder for the “old man” to win...
Obama’s economic policy:
1) Socialize the healthcare industry.
2) Socialize the hazard insurance industry.
3) Tax the oil companies out of business.
4) Raise income taxes on every American who pays income taxes.
5) Ban non-union jobs.
6) Ban drilling for oil.
7) Require people who use gasoline to use less of it.
8) Ban pollution.
9) Cap and trade.
10) More welfare.
This is good comedy, Cosby II. Watch his mannerisms, pure Cosby. O’ needs to get the fast vibrating head down, with the little smirk.
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Which is one more reason why Michelle Obama and Father Pfleger are fair game in this campaign: we, the people, are subsidizing them.
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And only one Candidate can fill that Office and maintain the respeoct of our Military; and ther is only one, that we can trustto work for our National Security.
That person, we know has experience; and he does not have a Muslim name.
AS well, it is up to Repubs to insure that Obama never EVER, gets to choose a Surpreme Court Justice... or any Federal Judges, for that matter. Or 'whomever' it is that pulls Obama's strings.
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