Obama is a great guy… But should he president? McCain… a Hero to this country… Can he lead? What about their VP’s? Because I have some much clearer views on those questions now… I will let everyone know it. Maybe I can help my candidate with a few more votes…
Now as a note, I really do think both are idiots in their own way. I’ve said it so much to friends who look on TV and follow the candidate with the most TV time and who the media likes with a strong power; the friends who know almost nothing about what is going on in politics. Which is fine (in a sick way), but I don’t expect much else in a hectic high school student’s life. Without further adieu I begin my points…
I will begin by highlighting the candidate’s various positive points.
Obama
• First black candidate
• Young
• Great speaker
• Very intelligent, as noted by going to Harvard.
(That basically is where I will stop for now. I will list 4 things for McCain to make sure it’s fair)
McCain
• Former POW because he was shot down fighting for this country.
• Doesn’t follow the RNP all the time (Subject to debate whether it’s a good thing)
• has been involved in Foreign policy
• Years of experience in Washington and knows how things work.
Now 4 not so good things.
Obama
• Almost NO foreign policy experience
• Served a grand total of about 140 days in Congress
• was part of ACORN
• Received 2nd most money from Fanny and Freddie. 125k actually.
Now 4 about McCain
• Old
• Tempered
• has supported unfair ad’s Against Obama… Note not all are unfair…
• Supported Amnesty for illegals
Now let’s get down to the nit gritty about this. In recent weeks there has been a crazy up and down of the economy, absolutely nuts. How did this all begin? Well I’m glad you’re going to pretend (or not pretend) to not know how it began. It started with jimmy carter in his push to get houses for everyone so he made the Community reinvestment act. Has nothing to do with reinvesting in the community, no it has to do with forcing banks to make the rules for loans easier. This would make banks lose money but of course it was made to sound that banks were reinvesting in the communities by doing this. How nice of him right? Some quick information about Jimmy carter’s presidency from 1977-1981 from a professor of this website (http://www.lewrockwell.com/sennholz/sennholz10.html)
“The purchasing power of the American dollar, computed in 1967 dollars, was worth 55 cents in 1977; by 1980 it had shrunk to 41 cents. In 1977 the index of consumer prices, according to Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, stood at 181.5; it hovered at 246.8 in 1980. In 1977 the average unemployment amounted to 6.991 million; in 1980 it stood at 7.637 million. During the same period, Federal unemployment insurance taxes which obviously increase the cost of labor, according to Treasury Department statistics, rose from $92.61 billion to $139.27 billion. The number of Americans living in poverty, according to Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census statistics, amounted to 24.7 million in 1977 and to 29.27 million in 1980. Federal outlays, according to the Office of Management and Budget and Treasury Department, soared from $409 billion in 1977 to $590.9 billion in 1980, budget deficits from $53.6 billion to $73.8 billion, and the Federal debt from $709 billion to $914 billion. And in matters of energy crisis, the President strongly urged Congress to continue price controls on natural gas, impose heavy taxes on crude oil and fuels used by industry, and rebate energy-tax revenue to consumers.”
Point of what he says being that those statistics are horrible and he was closest to socialism! Plus he started CRA. Which I guess didn’t help like it should have. Fast Forward to the 90’s during Bill Clinton’s presidency. He was trying to get reelected, ACORN was protesting outside fanny and Freddie, and advisors wanted him to do it… force fanny and Freddie to loosen the rules AGAIN in the CRA to make it easier to get a home. He did, now we had a housing bubble because everyone could get loans because banks started basically lowering the standard for everyone since it was required by law anyways. Now this bubble has just started coming down on us in about 2006 and now we are feeling the real brunt of the storm in 2008 with 900 point drops and then 300-900 point returns. I’m not sure how much longer the storm will last but we are certainly in the storm. We now we have to bail them out. Then we have to bail Wall Street and banks out because everything is collapsing! I kind of wished it all collapsed just to start from scratch… but that would never happen as it would need to. People would then lose faith in a free market, too bad they don’t really have a free market with all these government organizations. You know what we need to do? Ron Paul has the economic plan down to the wire. Maybe some other ideas by him are a little too far out of reach for now, but we must do something.
*We need to have a Gold standard to keep our dollar strong with something of value behind it. And so congress and the government can’t just print money out of thin air
*We need to remove the federal reserve bank and let the interest rate naturally fluctuate because artificially setting the rate makes it sound good or bad to an investor and misleads them to do things. Either sell or buy at the wrong times, making people lose money.
This country is in serious issues, and look at this. Obama has the 2nd most money from Freddie and fanny Mae next to Chris Dodd who is the leader of the board who oversights Freddie and fanny. Conflict of interest anyone? Next ACORN, the people who faked voter registrations and picketed outside of Fannie and Freddie are causing a lot of these problems! Obama worked for them on a case, and in an organization from ACORN in Chicago where he basically bullied companies into doing things. He also trained people how to do that at ACORN. That’s basically all they do, bully companies and businesses into doing what they want. Now remember he started his career in the most corrupt political machine in the world, the Chicago DNP machine. He was practically appointed senator. Now… more concrete evidence is that he was associated with a terrorist! NO One can deny that. He can’t even become his own FBI or Secret service agent because he was associated with a former terrorist who bombed our country! Like Osama bin laden? YES just like him. Except he has a relationship with Obama… and is free in America… isn’t that weird? Not really considering he lives in Chicago. AND GUESS WHAT? Hamas has supported Obama and the Middle East has donated $300,000 to him! Weird I thought they hated us… and that they were the enemy…
I guess you can figure out who I’m for right now. It’s only logical… because here is what McCain has done.
McCain made a bill for amnesty for illegals. He supported the bail out. He has been liberal and left his party when it most needed him.
But who is the worst of the 2 evils? McCain, while still “evil” he is less “evil”. Who should you vote for? McCain… its really America’s only hope in my eyes… because even though he won’t be able to do anything and will be stopped by the democratic congress ,which has less approval rating than the president right now by the way, Obama will bring about horrible and unfixable changes to America. We can’t afford another jimmy carter… we are in debt, in a war, and an economic crisis. There is no way around it… we are screwed… but how badly will you and me be screwed? Vote McCain and you will be screwed… Vote Obama and you will never get your IPod cause you were screwed, taxed, and used the rest for your bills.
