A Peek at the Price Tag

It seems that Mr. Obama’s campaign promise to only confiscate the income of the wealthy hit a mathematical roadblock. Class warfare got Obama elected, but it doesn’t pay the bills.

Reality is seeping into the White House’s surreal economic projections. Who would have guessed that annual trillion dollar deficits are not sustainable? But don’t kid yourself. Mr. Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Barney and company knew monstrous tax increases were required to support the transition from capitalism to European styled socialism.

Of course, these utopian miscreants had hoped the reckoning would be delayed until after the 2010 congressional elections. This would have given them time to complete the reorganization before their supporters realized that their incomes were on the Treasury’s short list of available donors.

It seems that Obama’s timetable was based on the assumption that the government could temporarily suspend the laws of economics with unbridled spending. This would have extended the introduction of a Cap and Trade energy tax and a 10% national sales tax (VAT) beyond the election.

But nationalizing banks and the auto industry was capital intensive. Without huge infusions of funds, the integrity of the US monetary system will continue to deteriorate, along with the value of the dollar. And Geithner’s ponzi scheme of buying the US debt with freshly printed money didn’t fool the international investors.

The 52% of voters who trusted Obama’s promise of a free lunch didn’t realize their incomes would be on the menu. They are now looking down the barrel of the largest income redistribution scheme in the history of mankind.

Setting aside the segment of Obama supporters who have never contributed a penny to the government, nor have any plans for doing so, there sits about 40 million Democrats and Independents who are about to get a remedial lesson in arithmetic and political reality.

These are the well intentioned, fiscally illiterate, trusting fools who voted for change and wanted the bragging rights for electing a product raised on affirmative action. They got what they voted for, and they are about to take the beating of their lives.

Obama is driving the country down the only path with which he is familiar. He is turning affirmative action into a government prerequisite.

Of course, affirmative action is nothing more than government sponsored economic and political discrimination against the productive segment of society. In Middle America this group is commonly called working taxpayers.

The average family in America earns about $50,000. In addition to their current income, Social Security and Medicare contributions, excise and capital gains taxes, state and local sales, excise, property and income taxes, Obama and friends attempted to squeeze another $3000 from their net incomes for energy usage (Cap and Trade).

After those nasty conservatives pointed out that Cap and Trade was a tax concealed in environmental clothing, the proposal pretty much fizzled, but Waxman and Markey are still pushing it. Undaunted, Obama and friends are now floating a Value-Added Tax (VAT).

Its implementation would reduce the buying power of the average family at least 10% (about $5000). A VAT will guarantee decades of the same double digit unemployment, second rate healthcare and the flat-lined economies enjoyed by the prosperity-adverse Europeans.

Get prepared! Obama’s policies are fermenting a taxpayer revolt unlike anything America has experienced since the American Revolution. It’s going to get ugly.

Winners Raise the Bar

Obama is a well packaged pretty face who looks and acts presidential. Senator McCain isn’t pretty, and short the intervention of a fairy godmother, this fact won’t change.

On his best day, Senator McCain couldn’t hit a three-pointer from midcourt. But he can fly a jet, take a beating, recover and keep ticking. Senator Obama can’t even take criticism without whimpering.

It’s the difference between being raised by a family, which for generations has honorably served the nation, and being the offspring of affirmative action. One expects to be judged on the merits of his accomplishments and one expects a free ride. One works to win and one demands a lower standard to win.

Senator Obama is living proof that affirmative action creates sissies rather than men, intolerance rather than compassion, and belligerence rather than understanding. Obama epitomizes the decline of the nation’s willingness to stand tall when other countries cower; to put truth ahead of politics.

He believes that might is never right. He would rather see the nation cower than plant its flag for a just cause. That’s his definition of compromise. He is ashamed of our success, because he can’t comprehend the sacrifices it took to build it. This lesson isn’t taught in affirmative action classes. His skill set was built on handouts and political correctness.

Despite Obama’s success at looking presidential during his Middle East pep rally, he remains an untested neophyte, and a wimp. Senator McCain’s international and military experience still stands uncontested. McCain won this round when the Islamic terrorists, Fidel Castro and the Europeans proclaimed Obama their candidate of choice.

We want a US champion. Whether the European socialists swoon at our feet is irrelevant. We have been carrying their water for sixty years. They aren’t partners and are only fair weather friends. They are the prototype for the UN. Their objectives are indistinguishable from our domestic welfare hounds.

The Iraqi Surge is history. Now it’s time for McCain to start articulating a domestic agenda. The message doesn’t need trumpets, lace and ruffles, or an angelic choir. He must layout the facts, and give the electorate credit for knowing the difference between staged choreography and real life.

McCain must remember that most Americans are proud of their flag. They don’t need or want a leader who apologizes for their success. They realize that America’s gains were accomplished by setting the bar higher than our competitors.

McCain Endorses Liberal Stereotypes

Every day Senator McCain provides new reasons for conservatives to stay away from the polls in November. The rationales for Republicans to sit this election out are piling up faster than his contributions. Gee, do you think there is a correlation between his empty campaign coffers and his public pronouncements?

Senator McCain is now promising to fill his cabinet with women. Conservatives would be outraged if he ignored any potential appointee because of gender, race or religion. But filling any government post with a female based solely on her gender is called affirmative action.

Senator Obama has already nailed down the staunch, affirmative action legions. They are called liberals. In fact, he owes his own candidacy to this double standard. He owns this market.

McCain’s decision to pander to this segment of women voters brings his judgment and convictions into question. Does he believe that he has a chance to win the hearts and minds of these socialists? And like the liberals, does he actually believe women are innately incapable of achieving success without special concessions?

Apparently he does, which is a slap in the face to women. This pandering substantiates his attitude. Who knew he believed in the liberals’ assessment of women’s inferiority? Whether the decision to fill his cabinet with women was the idea of some moronic handler, or the result of his own logic, it insulted every successful woman in this country.

There is nothing wrong with wooing female voters. But why select a strategy that deliberately embarrasses them by suggesting they need charity? Why mimic the liberal position? Any woman swayed by the double standard of affirmative action, rather than by her innate confidence in herself, is already a victim of political paralysis.

These voters are not in contention.

But there are millions upon millions of women who have faith in themselves. They don’t see themselves as victims. They see their sex as a random, biological happenstance of birth. They are bright, educated contributors to America’s success. They have never seen themselves as second class citizens, nor have they capitulated to the liberal caricatures of their gender.

They are winners. And their votes are in contention because they have always been on our nation’s front lines. They don’t need John McCain’s endorsement. They don’t need Barack Obama’s sympathy. They are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves, their families and their destiny.

And they are realists. They know that government incompetency and political wrangling are the major contributors to the energy crisis, the illegal alien quagmire, the healthcare inadequacies, the deteriorating educational standards, the nation’s neglected infrastructure and the decline of moral standards. They want a strong nation, fear terrorists and they want to be safe.

These voters are looking for solutions. They want to know how you, Senator McCain, are going to address these issues. So stop depicting them as helpless losers; stop splashing in the liberal agenda.

Treat them like intelligent, rational decision makers. Give them concrete reasons for voting for you. That’s all they are looking for. They will do the rest themselves.

Liberal Anticipation

Energy, the issue du jour, had Senator Harry Reid sulking in front of the microphones. This Democratic congressional specimen was seen sagging at the knees and weeping bitterly because those nasty Republicans blocked his efforts to raise the taxes on gasoline to reduce its cost.

Good old Harry is not mathematically challenged. Nor is he stupid. He is a socialist who got carried away. Harry and his comrades truly believe that it is better to starve the US economy and a few million families, than to lose the momentum of their big government crusade.

Harry and the other leftwing fanatics running Congress have too much political capital invested in Senator Obama to slow down. Their affirmative action creation is now in contention for the Oval Office; no longer just a fairy godmother in their political dreams.

Harry’s excitement over the prospects of the cooperation of a pure socialist president clouded his judgment. This explains Harry’s poor sense of timing in enthusiastically begging the Senate to raise the cost of energy before an election when it’s already skyrocketing.

Raising taxes on energy is not generally regarded by bread & butter Americans as a good way to reduce its cost. Ordinary Americans believe drilling for oil is preferable to cold homes, high unemployment and empty stomachs.

Harry and his friends have always ignored these stupid, unwashed masses. These ignorant savages don’t know that abundant, affordable energy in the hands of the private sector cripples the power of government.

It frees individuals to pursue wealth, which in turn creates economic gaps within society. Harry and his comrades believe this is detrimental to their goal of universal equality.

For five decades “evening the playing field” has driven the Democratic agenda.

They have actively managed to eliminate the grading system in schools, competition for government contracts, even score keeping in playground sports. Rather than immersing children in English, the basic building block of success, they implemented bi-lingual education.

They don’t believe success should be rewarded, or that the industrious should benefit from their labors. To this end they concocted affirmative action, diversity, and multi-culturalism to reward opportunity to those who can’t compete on an even playing field.

They can’t acknowledge the intrinsic differences between the genders because doing so is counter-productive to the goals of socialism. Even the mention of a Supreme Being sends shivers down their backs.

Every piece of legislation they propose is designed to undermine the rewards of success. They are not about building opportunity; they are about distributing opportunity.

Taxation, for Harry and his friends, is their weapon of choice to destroy incentive. And they want the price of oil so high that no one can afford it. That’s their definition of equality and the fast lane for the government’s consolidation of private wealth.

Political Correctness in 2008

Give the liberals credit for their candidate, Senator Obama, winning the Democratic presidential nomination. If the outcome gave you a déjà vu twitch, it’s more than likely your parents read you Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale about the naked emperor.

It would be sour grapes not to state that Obama is ambitious, a sparkling orator, a savvy politician and one great fund raiser. And his win is a testament to the honesty of the media. They admit that Obama makes their legs tingle. He’s their affirmative action baby.

This should thrill his avid supporter, Ted Kennedy. Maybe it is the reason this old socialist survived brain surgery. Had Obama selected a career in medicine, and was accepted and pushed through Harvard based on its diversity requirements, Kennedy might be dead if Obama’s specialization was brain surgery.

This is not to defame, or underestimate, the talent of the attending proctologist. This is the surgeon who had to clear a path through the brown matter to uncover Senator Kennedy’s gray matter. Obviously if this doctor was color blind Senator Kennedy would not have survived.

Neither are the liberals in the media, blacks, and upper class intellectuals color blind. On the contrary! They are well aware of color. Unlike the gun toting Americans who cling to religion, the liberals voted for Obama strictly because of his skin color.

Moderates or conservatives using this singular criterion would be called racists. But be careful. This double standard is not universally applied. Black moderates and conservatives are blasphemed as Uncle Tom’s. So listening or voting for them is bad.

Still confused?

Then once again for clarity: In the liberal lexicon, voting for a person strictly because he/she is black is not racism, but not voting for a black candidate is racism, unless the candidate is not a socialist.

Yes, it’s puzzling. Maybe a refresher course in political correctness will help. In any setting where politics are mentioned, remember that black candidates are superior to white candidates, and white female candidates are superior to white male candidates. And never, never voice a favorable opinion about a black or female candidate until you confirm their liberal credentials.

There are corollaries to this. Whites who attack the politics of black candidates are called racists. But whites who praise the opinions of black candidates are considered enlightened. And you must ignore blacks spewing racial bigotry, because according to the liberal handbook, blacks can’t be racists.

If you are still confused, tune into NBC, CNN, MSNBC or CBS for a refresher course. Their evening news programs offer live lessons nightly.

The good news is that the liberals have not succeeded in eliminating the privacy of the voting booth. Granted, they tried to override this constitutional protection by supporting the labor union bosses’ move to require their membership to vote publicly.

So there is one face saving alternative remaining for moderate and conservative voters. To protect your PC image tell the media pollsters anything that fits their definition of enlightenment, and then secretly vote for the candidate who is wearing clothes.