Every so often one of our readers shows that he or she is just as angry as we are. When my hombre Angry Code Monkey send me this vituperative e-mail scree about how he’s not voting for Obama and how all his friends can stick it, I knew he’d make for a great guest rant. Especially, since, like the mainstream media, we’ve been pretty easy on the junior senator from Illinois. Well, courtesy of our loyal reader, Angry Code Monkey, this is no more.
Your editor du jour,
Angry New Mexican
I don’t usually voice my political decisions that much, but this year it’s important.
Our country faces a critical decision in one week.
I am generally viewed as independent slightly leaning towards the Left.
I never did, and still don’t, support the bulk of G.W. Bush’s policies.
I have voted Democratic or Independent more then Republican.
However, this year, I am in full support of Republicans. Why?
Because B. Obama scares me, a lot. I have never before feared for my own country’s future as much as I do now.
Here are my reasons:
1) B. Obama and his team are Socialists! They want to redistribute the wealth. Literally. The hard working and innovative should not be punished while the loafers are rewarded! When this happens, people stop working hard, and more people start slacking. The government has no right to decide who makes too much and who makes too little. Socialism doesn’t work. And it doesn’t belong in America. If you do not like capitalism, move to Finland or somewhere else in Europe. But this is America, land of the free!
2) B. Obama wants to hand out rebates to millions of people who don’t pay taxes. He wants to be “fair” to everyone. He calls it a tax refund. This is a hand out! This is welfare getting out of hand. The government already distributes too much money to anyone with an open hand as it is. We don’t need to give out more. Only 40% of Americans even pay taxes as it is. On the matter of taxes, B. Obama has a record of voting to raise taxes on the middle class (anyone making more then $42k/year).
3) America already has one of the highest tax rates on corporations. Is it surprising that American companies are moving to foreign countries? B. Obama wants to raise taxes on corporations even more. If America continues to drive out corporations, our economy will reach even new lows. By the way, if you raise taxes on corporations, they will pass on the increased prices to consumers. This will not solve any problems.
4) B. Obama wants to cut seriously back on weapons research and development and eliminate all nuclear weapons. Try to envision an America where we have second rate weapons and are behind the technology curve. What makes our military so great is that they have top-notch weapons and tools. If eliminate our nuclear weapons that doesn’t mean other countries will. If we disarm, as B. Obama supports, our country will be at grave risk to external threats. We need to maintain our stockpile and keep it ready otherwise we having nothing to back our interests.
5) B. Obama (and the bulk of the Left) want to spend billions (trillions?) on going green. What a waste of money! Even if we destroyed our entire economy to go green, it wouldn’t matter. China and other developing nations are polluting (and not going to stop) at an insane rate! Faster then we can compensate for. Should we reduce our pollution, yes we should. But we shouldn’t invoke carbon taxes or other crazy ideas that redistribute our wealth to 3rd world nations. You want cheap, plentiful, safe, and domestic energy? Build nuclear plants. They are proven safe and work reliably.
6) B. Obama would like to substantially increase the inheritance tax. This will seriously hurt our American right to pass on our worldly goods to our own children when we die. The government should not be taking the bulk of a person’s wealth when they die!
7) B. Obama has a history, old and recent, of associating with people and entities that have extreme viewpoints. While he quickly disassociates himself with them when the media mentions them, it does say something about B. Obama’s character that he maintained those associations in the first place for years and decades of his life.
8-???) Gun control legislation, the Fairness Act, etc. … and the list goes on, but I should stop this email before it becomes an essay.
This year America is on the verge of voting in the most Liberal senator in the senate to become President. This should scare you. We should never vote in the extreme leaders of either the Left or the Right. The fundamental fabric of our country is at stake here. If you are upset with G. Bush and want change, don’t blindly vote for B. Obama. Consider what you are voting for and what is at stake here.
Please note that I don’t adore J. McCain. I do not support all of his ideas. I would probably vote 3rd party this year if I thought I could. But I can’t! Every vote for J. McCain is needed to stop B. Obama from running our country into the ground in his quest to make everyone equal and fair.
Two final notes:
First, the media is biased so far to the Left it’s maddening. Almost all networks present biased broadcasts every evening. If you want the truth, you have to search for it. The media will (generally) not give it to you.
Second, if you want smaller (less costly) government, vote Republican.
B. Obama’s plan to make everyone fair and equal will not in any way reduce government costs. He will increase the size and complexity of the government even further. Both J. McCain and S. Palin have records of stopping pork and excess government.
Oh yeah, and regarding the current economic downturn, this is not all G.W. Bush’s (or his administration’s) fault. The bulk of the blame lies with Clinton and his housing policies during his 8 years as President. Republicans are definitely to blame in this, but don’t give all the blame to them.
Regards,
Angry Code Monkey
October 31, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Oh puh-leese!!! How about some critical thought and analysis instead of just swallowing Fox’s pablum and fear-mongering!!! There are three branches of government and don’t believe that the Dems will just roll over for Obama if he’s President. Congratulations on being co-opted by the current administration to be SCARED!
October 31, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Let me make sure I understand your viewpoint. Your stance is that since not all of Obama’s polices will get implemented, we shouldn’t be concerned? Ok, obviously I have to respond to that….
My statements about Obama should scare you! These are not hyped up, exaggerated, false, or otherwise misleading accusations. They are easy to find facts about Obama and his campaign. Check out his own website!
It is true, there are 3 branches of government, and pretty soon the Democrats may very well have a majority in all of them. While I don’t expect the Dem’s will “roll over” for Obama, I do expect many of Obama’s naïve and short sighted objectives to get through. Additionally, just because a president won’t get all of his policies passed, doesn’t mean you can ignore his distorted view of the world. Some of his thoughts, policies, treaties, allies, and so forth will have a lasting and permanent impact on our country.
Let’s discuss just how scary two of these ideas are…
1) How do you decide who is rich? It’s the people who make over $250k a year right? Oh wait, I mean $200k. Oh yeah, that got updated to $150k. Well, really, whatever estimate the government decides on, those people should be super taxed to pay for all the new social programs we need to have to support other people who decide they didn’t need to worry about their own financial future. After a few years of this, people will stop striving to pay their own bills and just let the rich take care of it for them. In the meantime, the rich will be leaving the country or moving their money somewhere else. No self-respecting wealthy individual is going to just hand his money over to be redistributed to slackers.
2) To prove how committed the US is to disarming the world of nuclear weapons, Obama wants the US to 100% disarm all of its nuclear weapons first (i.e. before other countries do so) . So, once China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, and others hear that the US disarmed itself, they will all just get rid of their weapons too? Right? They wouldn’t keep them and maybe use them against us or others will they? By the way, this should scare you! This is a disturbing policy that could only conceived by an individual who is misguided and out-of-touch with reality.
So, why would we want to elect a man with virtually no experience who has an extreme liberal agenda? Well, I guess if you don’t pay taxes, don’t want to work, and want even more free handouts from other hard working Americans, then yeah, go vote for Obama!
- Angry Code Monkey
November 1, 2008 at 10:36 am
Wow, we’re really channeling Joe the Plumber these days.
He’s essentially talking about returning to the tax structure under the Clinton administration, one which IMO we should never have left—unless it was to simplify taxes and get rid of a shitload of loopholes, something the last eight years did not do. So call that “socialism” if you want. Maybe you should ask Alaskans about
No self-respecting wealthy individual is going to just hand his money over to be redistributed to slackers.
Oh, wait, they are getting a bunch of money from self-respecting wealthy individuals, i.e., the Lower 48!
http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/22685.html
Of course, you know who’s the big winner—consistently, year after year—in the Federal tax dollars lottery?
The Land of Enchantment.
Every presidential candidate is a gamble, no doubt about it, but Fox/GOP talking points are a bit much these days.
November 2, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Oh my
Obama is not a socialist, not even one of those mild types that form the Liberal Parties of most European states. I’ve worked with real socialists and social conservatives in Europe and believe me Obama is still far to the right of most of the latter group.
Politics in the USA is so far to the right until it comes to those who are making the most spreading their losses. The true socialist behaviour is in how the poorest people help the 5% with most of the money spread the losses. What is even more astounding to me is those poor slobs do it and do it with relish. Never has the phrase “turkeys voting for xmas” been more appropriate.
As for spending trillions going green, well at least you’d get some man-hours in and encourage innovation in the fields of research. Right now your giving a bunch o the most corrupt people in your country trillions and not expecting anything. The bankers line their own nest and your country still swirls around the toilet bowl.
As for who pays taxes, the bottom 95% don’t have teams of lawyers or off-shore accounts via which to swindle their country out of stuff they should be paying. They also don’t have access to those in power to change laws and hand out earmarks in their favour.
I was going to go through your points but each of them is so knee jerkingly inane my head is starting to hurt. Being human means thinking for yourself, not regurgitating crap and being a citizen means having the brains to realise that the republicans are bleeding most of you dry and your all in favour of it because somebody might say you’re a liberal.
Angry code monkey the GOP is peeing in you pocket and telling you it’s raining AND
You believe them.