See, this is where I am torn. I'm an Independent, and agree strongly that the healthcare situation (or rather people being able to afford decent healthcare) is a major Democratic selling point.
Yup. My worry about this is that I'm skeptical that we're going to be able to pay for some kind of national health care as well as social security, medicare, medicaid and all the other government entitlement programs.
But I totally get why this appeals to people. Health care is so completely fucked up right now and something really has to be done (hell if I know what that is... but I'm willing to listen to both sides).
Then again, while I'm very interested in Obama's message, his foreign policy inexperiance worries me. For example, his latest gaffe about the Georgia situation - He said we should bring it up to the UN and pass a resolution - basically have the UN make Russia stop. Dude, while personally I'm not sure wtf to do, even I know that Russia sits on the security council and would Veto anything.
Yeah, this was a really bad moment for the Obama campaign. There was a big *facepalm* for me that day.
I also recognise that - despite what he says - some of the domestic plans will invove tax increases. If not for me personally, then indirectly. The 'fat-cat businessmen' whom he does hit for taxes will pass along any costs they have to the consumer. They always do. Or they decide taxes are too high and just move the businesses overseas, resulting in job loss. The trick is to balance the needs of business with having them pay their fair share. I'm not so sure he can.
Exactly. Over the last five years my husband has been laid off three times, and I've watched business after business after business move out of Michigan. In fact, at his current job, they're moving an entire shift over to Malaysia and we're wondering how long it will take for the whole division to move overseas.
But why are jobs moving out of Michigan to other states and countries - because our corporate business tax is one of the highest in the nation. And when you add that to the federal corporate tax - it's just cheaper for them to move out.
What's the answer? I dunno. I just know that adding to their tax burden is going to make a bad situation much much worse.
There has to be a way to find balance there, but I'm not sure that Obama is willing to find it.
On the other hand, I'm really not all that thrilled on McCain.
Me either. He has just as many wtf moments as Obama has and just as many policy problems too.
I can't tell you how extremely pissed the hell off I was over the down-syndrome baby crap. I had an on-line political blog friend pass along some Palin shit when her name was announced, which included some baby comments.
Pretty despicable stuff. What makes this even crazier is that the Democrats are the ones that are supposed to be championing people like these - and this sends the message of, "We only care about people like this, if they're on our side." Bad, bad, bad.
While I recognise all that crap isn't Obama's view, if he can't seem to reign in the crazies on his side he's going to blow this.
Yup. I think his friends are much more harmful to him than his enemies. It will be interesting to see if he can get them under control.
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Yes. THIS, THIS AND MORE THIS...
Date: 2008-09-07 03:20 pm (UTC)Yup. My worry about this is that I'm skeptical that we're going to be able to pay for some kind of national health care as well as social security, medicare, medicaid and all the other government entitlement programs.
But I totally get why this appeals to people. Health care is so completely fucked up right now and something really has to be done (hell if I know what that is... but I'm willing to listen to both sides).
Then again, while I'm very interested in Obama's message, his foreign policy inexperiance worries me. For example, his latest gaffe about the Georgia situation - He said we should bring it up to the UN and pass a resolution - basically have the UN make Russia stop. Dude, while personally I'm not sure wtf to do, even I know that Russia sits on the security council and would Veto anything.
Yeah, this was a really bad moment for the Obama campaign. There was a big *facepalm* for me that day.
I also recognise that - despite what he says - some of the domestic plans will invove tax increases. If not for me personally, then indirectly. The 'fat-cat businessmen' whom he does hit for taxes will pass along any costs they have to the consumer. They always do. Or they decide taxes are too high and just move the businesses overseas, resulting in job loss.
The trick is to balance the needs of business with having them pay their fair share. I'm not so sure he can.
Exactly. Over the last five years my husband has been laid off three times, and I've watched business after business after business move out of Michigan. In fact, at his current job, they're moving an entire shift over to Malaysia and we're wondering how long it will take for the whole division to move overseas.
But why are jobs moving out of Michigan to other states and countries - because our corporate business tax is one of the highest in the nation. And when you add that to the federal corporate tax - it's just cheaper for them to move out.
What's the answer? I dunno. I just know that adding to their tax burden is going to make a bad situation much much worse.
There has to be a way to find balance there, but I'm not sure that Obama is willing to find it.
On the other hand, I'm really not all that thrilled on McCain.
Me either. He has just as many wtf moments as Obama has and just as many policy problems too.
I can't tell you how extremely pissed the hell off I was over the down-syndrome baby crap. I had an on-line political blog friend pass along some Palin shit when her name was announced, which included some baby comments.
Pretty despicable stuff. What makes this even crazier is that the Democrats are the ones that are supposed to be championing people like these - and this sends the message of, "We only care about people like this, if they're on our side." Bad, bad, bad.
While I recognise all that crap isn't Obama's view, if he can't seem to reign in the crazies on his side he's going to blow this.
Yup. I think his friends are much more harmful to him than his enemies. It will be interesting to see if he can get them under control.