2008 US Election

It's funny to read these arguments and listen to the political analysts on t.v. talk about Obama raising taxes. Sure, he might be raising taxes, but what they fail to tell you is that middle and lower class income families aren't going to be effected. He is actually raising taxes for the top 1% in the country. I'm sure this is a reason to be worried...

Ryan

I oppose raising taxes on anyone, rich, poor, or some shade in between.

Then there's the massive social spending he's planning on doing. And nobody bother to say of course that it's all incredibly illegal to the Constitution. Nope, the media just keeps throwing their underwear at their rockstar.

Adrian

sounds like a new new deal to me.

not necesarilly such a bad thing given the way the economy is going...

how exactly is social spending unconstitutional?

Government using taxpayer money to prop up failing businesses to the tune of billions perhaps trillions of dollars is not good. We get stuck with the bill for bad business practices, and I guarantee you the government is now even further intertwined with running those businesses than they were before. The idea of the government having even more control over trillions of dollars of American mortgages makes me very uneasy.

Yes, the alternative is painful. Nationalizing (or coming close to) big parts of the economy is a bad idea though.

Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution lays out the only things the federal government is allowed to spend money on. Those items, nothing else. Until amended, any spending on items unauthorized is unconstitutional and thus illegal.

Adrian

So it's not good to bail out businesses, but it's ok to spend money invading other countries illegally?

that's not exactly what i'd deem social spending and is a totally different ballgame to actual social programmes.

but i digress.

yet you're going to vote for the scumbags that are doing this as we speak?

Ye Gods and little fishies, those words in my mouth, they don't taste like mine... Did I say what you said I did? No.

I answered the part about social spending right below the quote you cut out.

Yes, I am going to vote for McCain. For no other reason than to oppose BHO. BHO will be worse for this country than McCain will be, therefore McCain gets my vote.

Adrian

Wow. An anti-republican site runs an anti-McCain/Palin essay. Changed my mind for sure. How about something that doesn't have the subtlety of a sledgehammer and the bias of a bought-and-paid-for lobbyist?

Adrian