Uninformed and Dangerous
-A friend of mine recently took a good hard look at Barack Obama's "plan." I'll call him Adam as revealing his last name could pose a danger to his family;) Enjoy:
I am excited that so many people my age and younger are getting involved with the presidential race this term. There are more important issues that should be addressed this election year than in any I can remember in my lifetime (pre-cold war Thanks Ron). In the past few months, as Hillary and Obama are still dueling and McCain has cemented his place at the GOP convention, I have noticed an alarming trend. You might have noticed this as well if you occasionally discuss politics.
When I ask someone whom they are voting for, I always ask them why they have chosen that person. If the person is well informed and educated you will get an answer like, “I like his/her stance on social issues and I believe his fiscal restraint and policies will strengthen the economy.” But I can’t remember the last time I heard something like that. Here is what you get now, “ I like what he has to say. I think he’ll be good.” I usually respond with something like “What positions of his do you really get on board with?” They respond, “Well, I like all of them.”
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard those exact lines. It is great when informed young people get out and cast their vote. The key word being informed. Maybe most people now just don’t care who wins as long as it’s not George W. That is extremely dangerous thinking. Americans are jaded by the lack of success in Iraq. Any kind of change is welcomed. So in essence Americans believe it cant get any worse than the last eight years. Terribly dangerous thinking. Here’s why.
I’ve spent the last couple weeks reading Barack Obama’s plan for the country aptly named A Blueprint for Change and I am convinced it can get much worse. Every Obama voter that I have spoken with has seldom studied this candidate’s policies much less read his manuscript for the future of America. Don’t get me wrong, I can see the appeal of Obama and can also see why so many people will vote for him in November. What I don’t understand is why an educated person would vote for him. Or why an upper, middle, or lower class American would vote for him. Or why someone familiar with the history of other governments would vote for him. So I’m going to briefly take you step by step through Obama’s Blueprint for Change and explain how Obama, and to lesser extent Hillary Clinton, would be poison for this country.
After reading the blueprint, I saw a common theme throughout. The word create is used over 50 times. Seems inconsequential but after every create there is a new and I’m sure, well-intentioned program. For example, a plan called Children First, which provides care from birth to K-5. Create a program to ensure criminals have counseling and work opportunities. Create a program to engage youth to work in energy programs. Create Rural Revitalization Program. Create Green Jobs Corps. Create RPS. Strengthen families via four new programs that give housing, jobs, counseling and other opportunities. Really? The answer to our deteriorating families is a program that gives you a cheaper house?
The other trend I noticed in this booklet was phrases like: double funding, quadruple funding, and invest 10 billion. I saw this over 50 times as well. I could go on and talk about the endless programs that will swell the government to a size never seen before but I have a different point to make.
There is a fundamental difference between Obama’s thinking and the brilliant founding fathers that crafted the Constitution. This set of laws (Constitution) demonstrates a moral commitment to liberty and was written to establish once and for all- that sovereignty will be placed in the hands of the people- not in the federal government. For this reason, the Constitutions theme is the limitation of government power. Government is now expected to provide profits, medical care, jobs, homes and food whenever the people demand these benefits as a right.
These programs created to try to eradicate say poverty will spend billions in addition to the hundreds of billions already spent, to get people off the streets and yet logic tells us the more and more we spend and the more we subsidize poverty in America, the more we will have of it.
What young people today need to understand is in order to fund these programs, the government needs money. Since they will be spending trillions more every year, the money will come directly from our taxes. Forget your tax refund at the end of the year and forget bringing home 75-80% of your income. If this radical swelling of the federal government is brought about with Obama being elected, you will be taxed over 50%. You earn $40,000/year- you bring home $18,000. But nobody cares about this, they just keep saying, “I like what he has to say”. Its very simple- money is taken from the people who have it and redistributed to the people who don’t. That’s socialism.The more we handout to the poor; the more poor people we will have.
I, like the founding fathers, believe a man should take personal responsibility for himself and his actions. The founding fathers envisioned America as a beautiful place where people are responsible for themselves and the federal government would stay out of everyone’s lives. Boy that sounds nice.
