Politics

I really don't like this time of year ever four years. It is irritating to watch two grown men sling mud at each other. I know more about Barack Obama from watching McCain campaign ads than I do from Barack Obama himself, and the reverse is also true. Either one or both of them are lying. What I want to hear from both men are truths about how they are going to fix the problems that exist in our country. I don't want to hear about programs and how need this thing or that thing. I want to do the how? How are they going to fix the credit crisis? We all know how we got into this mess, but how and why will your plan fix this crisis. How do you plan to fix social security? How do you plan to win the war on terroris.? The unfortunate thing is that the candidates just say what they know people want to hear and will appeal to the voter. The bad thing is that most voters don't educate themselves on what each candidate wants to do and they base their vote on who sounds good, or who the media is pushing, or Hollywood tells me to vote for this person. I guess we are were we are because of ignorance.

I have been thinking a lot over the last couple of days about some of things that Barack Obama wants to do specifically regarding taxes and the more I read about his plans the more I believe he is unquestionably wrong. Some of what I am hearing comes from listening to the radio, specificall Sean Hannity. What I like about Sean Hannity is that when he states something on his show 99% of the time he can back it up with facts. This week he has really focused on Obama's distribution of wealth policies by taxing the rich. As I listened to what was being said in Wednesday's debate and on the radio I began asking my self the following questions: What should be the role of government? and are Obama's ideas moving us more towards socialism?

I have come to the solid conclusion that Obama is a socialist at heart. One of the principle tenets of socialism is the idea that society should be classless. One way to create a classless society is to involuntarily take money from those that have it and redistribute it to those who don't or those who don't have as much. Over a hundred years ago the LDS Church attempted this very same thing, but the primary difference between what the Church attempted to do and what a socialist government attempts to do is choice. The members of the Church who practiced socialism could chose to do so. However, a socialist government forces people to live it, it strips away your freedom to choose.

If you want a modern day example of socialism at its worst take a look at social security. As a US worker you have no option but to pay into social security. You can't get around it, the government forces you to pay 7.65% of what you earn to social security (5.3%) and medicare (2.35%). You have absolutely no choice. Then the government takes what you have contributed to its cofers and redistributes to those citizens who have reached a specified age and redistributes the money to them. However, if I make too much money from my other retirement income or other income sources I get nothing because it would be inequitable to that person who has no other source of income. If you have accumulated wealth over the course of 40 years of hard labor and contributed thousands of dollars to the plan for all those years, you probably will not see a dime. How idiotic is that? Stupid, stupid, stupid!!!! I won't get any further into my view on this stupidity, rather I will save it for another rant.

I've got to go, Adison has a game at 9:00 and I have to get him to the game by 8:00. I will finish my rant on Obama's taxes at another time. All you need to know is that socialism is evil and Obama and every other liberal democrat like him are socialists.