4 posts tagged “politics”

Outside of his politics, Tim Russert really was a great guy. From a Toastmaster's perspective where evaluations are on the presentation rather then the viewpoint Russert was a master that we all can learn from. Regrettably I didn't get a Dad like Tim Russert. I would like to see someone like Dr. Thomas Sowell replace him on Meet the Press, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

I’m sure someone will be publishing a book soon about Obama’s far left leanings. The anti-American oratory coming from some of Obama’s minister friends is just the tip of the iceberg.

Anyone who thinks that our economy is in bad shape now and is pessimistic about future job creation and human needs should think twice before joining the Democratic Party. We are no longer in a period like 1948- 1970 when America had an advantage over the developing world. We now must compete with the BRIC countries and the social activists on the left are leading us down the wrong road, one that leads to national bankruptcy and a loss of both economic freedom and ultimately civil liberties. Obama could be the Fidel Castro of America.

If you don’t vote for McCain you will be handing all your money and liberty over to the Democratic Party. I’m beginning to think that Bonito Mussolini is the real “God Father” of the Democrats!

Key Economic Proposals:

H. R. Clinton:

• $60 Billion funding for new National Infrastructure Bank to finance large scale projects.
• $10 Billion funding for emergency Infrastructure Repair Fund.
• $150 Billion funding for green energy technologies over 10 years.
• Tax Credits to spur retirement savings, $20 – 25 Billion per year.
• $110 Billion to expand health insurance coverage per year.

Funding sources: Reverse income tax cuts on high income earners, maintain the death tax and increase taxes on oil companies.

Obama:

• $60 Billion funding – over 10 years through new National Infrastructure Bank to finance large-scale projects.
• $150 Billion funding for green energy technologies over 10 years.
• Making Work Pay Tax Credit of $500 per person.
• $65 Billion to expand health insurance coverage per year.

Funding sources: Reverse income tax cuts on high income earners, maintain the death tax, increase taxes on oil companies, increase the tax rate on long term capital gains and dividends, tax carbon pollution and he “promises” to end the war in Iraq. 

McCain:

• Cut corporate tax rate to 25% from 35%.
• Let business deduct 100% of the cost of equipment in the first year.
• Double the tax deduction per child to $7,000.

Funding sources: End earmarks, budget savings. 

My source for the above was Investor’s Business Daily, Monday April 21, 2008, page 1.

"From the descriptive point of view, the difference between the physician and the veterinarian is that the former treats human diseases or sick people, whereas the latter treats animal diseases or sick animals. From the moral and political point of view, the difference between them is that the physician is expected to be the agent of the persons who are his patients, whereas the veterinarian is expected to be the agent of persons who own sick animals. In proportion, then, as the physician becomes the agent of the State and in proportion as the State is totalitarian, the physician becomes, from a moral and political point of view, a veterinarian- that is, the agent of a State who owns its citizens, just as the farmer owns his animals. This is why killing animals is part of the normal function of the veterinarian and why incarcerating people is, and killing them may yet become, a part of the normal function of the physician employed by the Therapeutic State."

--Dr. Thomas Szasz