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Originally Posted by rj1
The people younger than the Baby Boomers have realized that the Baby Boomers have f***ed this country up, and this is the younger generation trying to grab power away from the older generation. So naturally the younger generation that supports Obama sees this election as a larger-than-life issue. The Baby Boomers should be used to it, they did it themselves in the sixties and seventies.
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Correction, the socialists have f'ed up this country, doesn't matter young or old.
If the younger generation really wants to fix this problem, they would analyze Obama's campaign rhetoric and figure out it's pretty much the same old socialist medicine packaged in a shiny new box.
Go to Obama's site:
Barack Obama | Change We Can Believe In | Economy
Look at those issues he listed point by point.
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Provide a Tax Cut for Working Families: Obama will restore fairness to the tax code and provide 150 million workers the tax relief they need. Obama will create a new "Making Work Pay" tax credit of up to $500 per person, or $1,000 per working family. The "Making Work Pay" tax credit will completely eliminate income taxes for 10 million Americans.
Why all these Mickey Mouse "tax credits?" Why not just straight up lower the tax rate?
Simplify Tax Filings for Middle Class Americans: Obama will dramatically simplify tax filings so that millions of Americans will be able to do their taxes in less than five minutes. Obama will ensure that the IRS uses the information it already gets from banks and employers to give taxpayers the option of pre-filled tax forms to verify, sign and return. Experts estimate that the Obama proposal will save Americans up to 200 million total hours of work and aggravation and up to $2 billion in tax preparer fees.
If you really want simple tax code, go with a flat tax or national sales tax. A national sales tax will encourage savings too.
Fight for Fair Trade: Obama will fight for a trade policy that opens up foreign markets to support good American jobs. He will use trade agreements to spread good labor and environmental standards around the world and stand firm against agreements like the Central American Free Trade Agreement that fail to live up to those important benchmarks. Obama will also pressure the World Trade Organization to enforce trade agreements and stop countries from continuing unfair government subsidies to foreign exporters and nontariff barriers on U.S. exports.
So poor countries should have impossibly high environmental standards like us? Or else what? Tariffs?
Amend the North American Free Trade Agreement: Obama believes that NAFTA and its potential were oversold to the American people. Obama will work with the leaders of Canada and Mexico to fix NAFTA so that it works for American workers.
He doesn't say what's wrong with it....
Improve Transition Assistance: To help all workers adapt to a rapidly changing economy, Obama would update the existing system of Trade Adjustment Assistance by extending it to service industries, creating flexible education accounts to help workers retrain, and providing retraining assistance for workers in sectors of the economy vulnerable to dislocation before they lose their jobs.
Spending government money to look for jobs that otherwise people should look for themselves.
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I can go down the list and ask questions on every single one of his proposals. All of them are the same. It offers a little bit of government money for a specific portion of the population. In effect, he's buying votes with tax dollars. He's not making any tough decisions to fix our problems. He's just dumping more money onto the problems without fixing the root cause.
Running a nation is like running a household. You don't have unlimited budget to buy everything you want to keep everyone happy. We have to make choices. Buy that big screen I always wanted or take a vacation? Fix the house or buy a car for junior? Retire early or pay for kid's college tuition?
We make these choices everyday. Why can't our government?