Selfishness
You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness.
-Barack Obama
What is the real tax plan for Obama?
Barack Obama has now shifted again. He’s now calling those who don’t want a tax increase “selfish”. He says that he wants to take from those who have more so that the less fortunate can have more money in their pocket at the end of the month. So we give every sub par earner a hand out and this somehow enables them buy a car? Unfortunately, this isn’t remotely based in reality. Handouts do not promote hard work, nor do they jump start progress. History does not show that handouts get spent on things to better the poor. If that were the case, they likely wouldn’t be poor in the first place in most instances.
Obama doesn’t really believe in change. This is just empty campaign rhetoric. He’s been running on change his entire political career. He’s never changed anything. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Democrats always play up the ideals of a society where everyone is financially equal. They don’t believe people have it in them to achieve greatness on their own without intervention form the federal government.
Obama’s response to Joe the Plumber’s concern about higher taxes:
How many plumbers do you know making a quarter million dollars a year?
I hate to break it to you, but $250,000 per year is a small business, not a corporate giant. It’s perfectly reasonable for even a moderately successful plumbing company with a handful of employees to earn $250,000.
Unfortunately, Barack Obama doesn’t think so. He would have you believe that the only way you can succeed is if the federal government gives you money you haven’t earned. Most Americans are insulted by that, and rightfully so. The American Dream is for one to work hard and earn their rewards in life. We all face various challenges, some more than others. This makes what you’ve earned that much more precious.
Barack Obama is living proof that anyone can succeed. He comes from a modest family. The federal government didn’t give him handouts. He worked hard all his life to become wealthy. Shouldn’t we all have the same opportunity that Senator Obama had? голова болит секс
October 31st, 2008 at 9:25 pm
I agree with everything in this article except the last paragraph. I do not believe that Barack Obama worked hard all his life to become wealthy. I believe that someone financed his education and groomed him to be where he is today. He didn’t need the US Government to give him handouts – someone else was already doing so.
He came from a modest family. How did his family afford to send him to Columbia? or Harvard? Is that why his college records are sealed? Who funded his education?
How did he “earn” his wealth? He worked as a community organizer. Last I checked that is not a high paying job. Looks suspicious to me.
Mr. Obama has not WORKED for a living and is out of touch with the average American worker. Wake up America – Barack Obama will do nothing for you except tax the working people to help the lazy folks get their large screen TVs, fancy cars, and houses they can’t afford.
November 7th, 2008 at 10:54 am
They are called scholarships and please post your the proof you have that Obama never worked. And please get your information straight about the GOP tax cuts that have only gone to the most wealthy corporations. If you had any logical sense at all you would see that GOP tax cuts every time they talk about giving one have only increased the wealth of the already wealthy, while the middle class has been steadily shrinking over the past 20 years. That is redistribution of wealth so who are the real socialists in the US? The GOP. As for lazy people you are so out of touch with the people who do the most menial labor in this country and thanks to GOP tax cuts pay a much higher rate that someone who makes 250,000.00 a year. By the way the Joe the Plumber thing was another piece of misleading conservative media designed to scare small business owners about the tax plan the President elect has.
I believe most small business owners will be getting far more money back than they ever had under GOP tax plans. The other point is President elect Barrack wasn’t referring to the taxing of the gross profits of a business but the actual income the owner paid himself with. Therefor a business making 250,000 will not see a tax raise as the owner of that business has all his business expenses which of course will put his take home pay far below a quarter million.
The people who are completely out of touch with American workers are the GOP. Reagan’s tax breaks for the wealthy in the 80’s along with his trickle down economic voodoo is what put all tax increases on working and midddle class Americans and of course he was another large spending President just like the current outgoing coup.
No wonder the country is in the shape its in when so many people have sucked up the GOP propaganda about redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the poor. If one iota of that had happened the poor would be growing less poor not more so.