Election Economic Plans

I just hope they have the drive and power of persuasion to get done what actually needs to get done. They both have a lot of good points...

Obiden:



McPalin:



I do think that McPalin has a point about encouraging people to take their retirements out of the stock market early being possibly very risky. But I do think that Obiden has a lot of good ideas in there.

We will see when one of them actually gets into office.

Ewwwww Politics

Ok, so last night I watched the presidential debate. Interesting. I don't think anyone really hit it out of the park. There was a lot of facts without the whole story on both sides of the debate.

Example: Comments about Henry Kissinger and supporting communication between America and other less desirable countries. BOTH candidates were right. Obama said that Kissinger supported communication with countries like Iran (true), while McCain said Kissinger didn't support presidential communication without preconditions (true). Both of these statments can be true at the same time. Um what are we disagreeing about HERE? They seemed to agree on more things than they disagreed on, but put it in kind of a combative way. What is that all about?

While I've been keeping track of the political campaigning (which doesn't seem to focus on a lot of the issues) I've noticed that most of the bloggers I come across are for Obama. They seem to really focus on Palin and her drawbacks. Saying things like "this is why she scares me". Which is fine. They are allowed their opinion. As am I. So here is my two cents.

This is why he (Obama) scares me:

If you watched the debate did you notice that to almost every question he was asked his response included adding programs. Even when asked what things he would drop due to the economic crisis his answer involved programs we needed to add. (BTW neither candidate said much as to what they would drop, outside of McCain mentioning the possibility of considering a spending freeze on all non essential programs). The thing I don't get... as a fiscal conservative is this. How can he honestly pay for all of these programs without taxing the middle class more? Especially when the rich know all the loopholes. If you tax them more, they will just be more bent on finding loopholes to get out of it. And they will find them. Because our tax system is jacked up.

To sum it up +++programs canNOT = no increase in taxes to the middle class. And Adding increased taxes on just about everyone seems like it would be economic suicide in the current situation. Possibly leading to more serious issues, cause lets face it, the economy effects everything. It just doesn't make any sense to me. So if someone can explain how this could possibly work ... I'm all ears.

Er... eyes.

Er WHATEVER.

I'd be happy to read it and try to be open minded :)

My Favorite Late Night Comedian

And he was my favorite BEFORE this monologue. I adore Craig Ferguson. here is his thoughts on politics and voting. And GUESS WHAT? IT'S NOT AT ALL PARTISON! Yay for Craigypoo. This is about 9 min long but Sooo worth listening to the whole thing. This is SO how I feel.

Speach on the role of religion in politics.

Can I say that I'm truely thankful that Mitt Romney did not go into what "Mormons" believe in his speach? If people truely want to know, it is easy to find out. All they have to do is ask a leader of their local ward/branch... or better yet, Got to the wesite! That way they will know they got it right from the source and got it right rather than getting a warped view of our beliefs.

Here is a link to his speach, I thought he did well... then again. I am a big supporter of people who don't shy away from there positions just because the wind of opinion blows the other way.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,315486,00.html you can also watch the video of the speach there if you want.

Oh, and for those of you that don't know the official website for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It's http://www.lds.org/