A Darker Future For Us

Too bad Barbara Bush had not had the legal option to abort in 1946.

Two things. We need to get tough on health-care costs. We're #1 with a bullet on costs but #37 overall and have some very poor results considering the huge amount of money we're spending. The system is broken, and we can't just keep paying. Personally I think we need to boot the insurance companies and negotiate prices down with the pharmaceuticals; if they whine about R&D we can just increase the NIH budget by the amount the private companies were spending (as they get the public research for free...socialize the costs, privatize the profits).

The other thing is don't count inflation out. We can't just keep borrowing like crazy and flooding the world with dollars without that coming back to bite us. There's already evidence that some foreign creditors are saying 'no more' after getting burned on securitized mortgages. Many have said that if it was any other country but the U.S., we'd be talking about an IMF bailout now.

Well, one thing we know. Obama won't be a good thing if your working in the coal industry, an industry that uses coal or electricity generated from coal, or in a coal producing State. In a taped interveiw in January, Obama states:

"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can," Obama said. "It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."

The matter of Obama's birthplace should be a public record. I can go to the State Capitol of AZ and find the brith certificate of anyone born within its borders. So has anyone looked this up in HI?

McCain supporters will have to worry about what to eat if McCain wins since he will continue to bankrupt the USA to where Iraq and terrorists will take 2nd p[lace to their empty stomachs when they have no jobs and any related health insurance and McCain cuts off unemployment benefits to balance the budget and ensure no aliens get benefits. Of course they could just buy insurance being touted by McCain- but wait w'o a job -no money to buy it !!!True evangelicals need to pray for Obama's win.

Lets not forget the Court, with cases like Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005),

What does redistributive mean. Well, remember that it was the liberal Left-Wing Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court that brought us this little jewel, holding that the government could take your real property, like your home, not for public use like a road or school, but to give to another private individual, such as a political contributor or other party hack or interest group.

Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States involving the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another to further economic development. The case arose from the condemnation by New London, Connecticut, of privately owned real property so that it could be used as part of a comprehensive redevelopment plan. The Court held in a 5-4 decision that the general benefits a community enjoyed from economic growth qualified such redevelopment plans as a permissible "public use" under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority opinion; he was joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer

The decision was widely criticized by American politicians and the general public. Many members of the general public viewed the outcome as a gross violation of property rights and as a misinterpretation of the Fifth Amendment, the consequence of which would be to benefit large corporations at the expense of individual homeowners and local communities. Some in the legal profession construe the public's outrage as being directed not at the interpretation of legal principles involved in the case, but at the broad moral principles of the general outcome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London

It's true we are progress junkies, but I see no reason for that not to continue.
Given the quality of life we now enjoy compared to just 70 years ago, and I'm old enough to remember Amos and Andy and the Shadow.
As someone noted it seems to always be greed that gets in the way and the last eight years are clear evidence of that.
Greed replaces vision or greed becomes the vision rather than the advancement of quality of life for everyone.
People like Henry Ford and Thomas Edison had a vision that transformed society, lately we have CEO's and a few Presidents whos vision for themselves or for the few transformed society but for the worst, Nixon Reagan and Bush come to mind.

The fact we have moved backwards is not something we have to accept nor should we. There are people out there who have vision.
Barak Obama is one and his impact on America will be profound and appreciated for generations, but so are people like Those behind Tesla Motors, who are taking the dreams of Henry ford to the next better level.

One has to give Bill Gates credit for being a visionary, he took a high tech application and applied it to everyday needs that I as a small business owner or any business owner has to truly appreciate making us much more efficient.

I have no doubt there are thousands of People out there whose vision is greater than money itself, It is these people who will take us to a new and better America and that is progress, and will occur inspite of the Republican claim there is no turning back.

Sarah palin when asked about becoming vp responded

"As for that VP talk all the time, I tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me, 'what is it exactly that the VP does every day......"

Around a week ago she was asked again and this time said

They in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom.

WRONG THE VP IS THERE TO STEP IN IF SOMTHING HAPPENS TO THE PRESIDENT ONLY THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH POLICY AND THEY DONT RUN THE SENATE!!

If she doenst understand the job why would we give her the job

Mccain has around a 40 percent chance because of his age in not being able to
As many as half the people between 72 and 76 are disabled or die
Hopefully mccain would be the exception but picking palin was about as smart as picking any other mrs Alaska contestant.
Thanks for making sure the rest of us are ok if something happens to you John
America cant take the chance of being run by someone that cant understand basic issues
NOT RIGHT NOW
Its not just that we disagree with her answers in alot of cases she doesnt understand basic questions
like what is the bush doctrine, or what do you read. She falls apart if you ask a follow question she hasnt memorized
These are not gotcha questions!!!
One of advisors recently said not only was she unqualified but said mccain picked her after 1 interview of about a hour
and that even at mcdonalds you get 3 interviews.
Members of her own campaign called her a diva and a whack job.
They would know better then anyone else right now.

So mccain gambled and he lost big. He ended up with a girl without a clue
But whats interesting is the top of the ticket could never disagree with what i am saying
because mccain could never read this blog he cant use a computer at all.
So hopefully fixing the economy would not require research or email
I mean his wife has 100 million dollars get him classes or something.

Am i crazy or do we want a computer literate president and a vp who can answer a least basic questions.
If you read the rest of the articles on this site you would think the world is about to end
So if thats the case these are the last 2 people you want running anything.
lets send them packing.

ELECT OBAMA BIDEN NOW

Sarah palin when asked about becoming vp responded

"As for that VP talk all the time, I tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me, 'what is it exactly that the VP does every day......"

Around a week ago she was asked again and this time said

They in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom.

WRONG THE VP IS THERE TO STEP IN IF SOMTHING HAPPENS TO THE PRESIDENT ONLY THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH POLICY AND THEY DONT RUN THE SENATE!!

If she doenst understand the job why would we give her the job

Mccain has around a 40 percent chance because of his age in not being able to
As many as half the people between 72 and 76 are disabled or die
Hopefully mccain would be the exception but picking palin was about as smart as picking any other mrs Alaska contestant.
Thanks for making sure the rest of us are ok if something happens to you John
America cant take the chance of being run by someone that cant understand basic issues
NOT RIGHT NOW
Its not just that we disagree with her answers in alot of cases she doesnt understand basic questions
like what is the bush doctrine, or what do you read. She falls apart if you ask a follow question she hasnt memorized
These are not gotcha questions!!!
One of advisors recently said not only was she unqualified but said mccain picked her after 1 interview of about a hour
and that even at mcdonalds you get 3 interviews.
Members of her own campaign called her a diva and a whack job.
They would know better then anyone else right now.

So mccain gambled and he lost big. He ended up with a girl without a clue
But whats interesting is the top of the ticket could never disagree with what i am saying
because mccain could never read this blog he cant use a computer at all.
So hopefully fixing the economy would not require research or email
I mean his wife has 100 million dollars get him classes or something.

Am i crazy or do we want a computer literate president and a vp who can answer a least basic questions.
If you read the rest of the articles on this site you would think the world is about to end
So if thats the case these are the last 2 people you want running anything.
lets send them packing.

ELECT OBAMA BIDEN NOW

Propaganda anyone?

Some of us built businesses, paid employees, and paid taxes at the highest rate under the Reagan tax structure for well over a decade, and didn't mind or consider those who paid less ignorant, naïve or paying too little.

Naive is to be afraid of the expiration of the Bush tax give away to the rich, and think that is "raising taxes" that will in any way keep business people from creating and building businesses.

It's just what, before John McCain fell behind in the election, McC called "irresponsible" because it "benefits only the rich???.

McC now has sold out to the Bush machine that enabled the megarich to loot trillions from our country, while they pay taxes well below what they did under Reagan.

But worse, McC wants to give additional billions of tax give aways to the oil companies, the one's that just reported the biggest quarterly pofits in the history of the world, breaking the then newest record they set the quarter before.

The McC/Bush propaganda machine has duped anyone who thinks the McC tax position does anything but further enrich the megarich, and think that is to your benefit.

The real threat to us is the Bush/McC propaganda machine that misinforms and scares people into voting to perpetuate the looting of our country by the megarich.

A 40 year republican

Mr. Samuleson misses the point. The issue is greed and corruption, not affluence. Everyone wants to be affluent. However, when the markets and financial institution reeks with corruption and greed, our concern becomes personal financial survival. I, like millions of Americans have seen our 401k as retirement profits evaporate in the last few months. We are no longer concerned with affluence but with our financial survival. Mr. Obama seems to respond to that concern by removing the greed and corrution from the financial markets. As a life-long republican, he has my vote.

Obama has left no room for doubt that his political philosophy is informed by both socialism and racism. He will most certainly quickly (the deficit is not an issue and he will have both houses) push through massive government spending and social programs to benefit his constituents and create yet more dependent voters or his next run in 2012. Any real study of Obams career and writings to date would support this. As socialism takes hoild, it will still be several years before Americans look at their after tax income with surprise and trepidation. At this point, the desire to start a small business will be put off or postponed for many young people. It will be simpler and safer to just get a job. And a government jos with strong employment protections and few demands on creativity will be most sought after. Entrepreneurship and risk taking will will quickly become something "somebody else" does. ( Does anyone ever speak of a German entrepreneur? Or a Canadian risk taker?) . That world famous and much depended on American inovation will sink into the miasma of government "inovation" and government "risk investment".
As a country, Americans are currently inclined to define themselves as others see them as in Obama's unseemly obsequious speech to throngs of Germans thrilled with the idea of America's comeuppance in Iraq and joining of the liberal EU thinking. Americans seem to be unable or ,unwilling to understand that a deeply socialist EU is mostly envious and definitely resentful of American ingenuity and American independance. Both of which are turning out to be myths. What is the problem with socialism? It simply creates a dependant and docile population. Those around the world cheering for Obama are not cheering for his win as much asthey are chhering a Republican defeat. A week and aquiescent America seems much more to their liking.

I wonder how improving high school graduation rates would grow GDP.

Will the hyperbole cease after the election? I hope so.

My problem with this article is the fact that it is MORE important to the media and the public as to how information was obtained about an illegal alien of criminal residence for four years who is, incidentally, closely related to a candidate for the President of this country can POSSIBLY be MORE important than the fact that this illegal alien has been in phone contact with this same candidate in the last year and that he has LIED THAT HE KNEW such a situation existed.
Um.... let me see now, certainly there is no bias here. Surely not.
Which is more important: a true LIE or an EXPOSURE of a true lie?
It is also unfortunate that Obama is unable to obtain his birth certificate which proves the legal citizenship of his birth in order to not only RUN for the Presidency, but to also have been granted it by the media ahead of time. What legal transaction can an average American citizen participate in without showing a birth certificate, which is easily obtainable?
Of course, there is no bias here. Surely not.
After he is elected and it is finally known what happened to his birth certificate and the election of his ticket is illegal, exalting Nancy Pelosi as President by default, maybe then everyone will be more thorough.
George Bush stole the election from Gore. Obama will steal it from all Americans.