Huh?

Polls show ppl believe Obama will lower taxes,while McCain will raise them.

You must be kidding?!! Ppl REALLY beleive that?

Are ppl listening? I don’t think Obama is hiding his plans.

Let’s take a look..simply. No economic blathering.We’re going to break it down.

1. Obama says he will give a tax cut to 95% of Americans.That’s his mantra.He’s been driving that home from day one.

Possible? NO. 42% of Americans have NO tax liability.They will just be given a check;that is a ‘tax credit.’

2. He’s going to raise taxes.Ok.You say on the rich.

That’s what Obama says.

On the rich. Who is going to determine rich? Obama? Is this arbitrary? Could the definition be changed? Are incomes the same across the board?

Why raise taxes at all?

Why not take a pledge not to raise anyone’s taxes? In this economy wouldn’t that make sense?

Besides didn’t Obama himself say that if the economy were bad he wouldn’t raise taxes period?

*yeah,like he said he would pledge to take only public financing

3.He’s proposing some TRILLION dollars in new spending PLUS universal health care.

My question;who is going to pay for this?

Even if he ended the war in Iraq(and that’s a whole nother topic)that still wouldn’t cut it.

4.McCain and Palin will cut spending as well as taxes.

Their records show a history of this.Obama’s record shows otherwise.

So if you go by what ppl have done in the past-and that’s usually a good indicator-McCain will lower taxes,get spending down and Obama will increase spending as well as taxes.Now if you believe Obama has changed then go ahead-believe what he says now.

John McCain could very well be one of those rare Presidents at a pivotal time in our history.
He’s not George Bush. We know that raising taxes will send our economy into a tail spin-what’s happened so far would be nothing in comparison.Obama says he will not raise taxes on the middle class.The point is why raise taxes at all.We know very well with a rubber stamp Congress that once you open the door to raising taxes on this group of ppl it doesn’t take much to open the next door.
McCain wants to freeze spending EXCEPT on essentials. Good.They’re up they’re trying to spend like drunken sailors.
Obama wants to increase spending by trillions.You don’t spend your way out of a troubled economy and then have to tax.How else do you think those programs will be paid for? I’m also tired of this.PROGRAMS,PROGRAMS,PROGRAMS.Every election cycle we hear about these ‘programs’ and then it depends on whose programs you like best.All PROGRAMS do is increase the size of government and decide how the pie is going to be divided.Obama has got his eye on the pie.Pelosi and Reid are just waiting too.

WRONG! We need POLICIES and we need someone to make the tough decisions.
That’s John McCain.
I don’t totally agree w/ his health care plan but i can tell you Obama’s plans are killer.
Look at the slogans first of all.
Obama:
CHANGE WE NEED
McCain:
COUNTRY FIRST
I know they’re only slogans but they say a lot about the candidates.
Obama takes out an address to the nation that appeals to ppls emotions and i can tell you he did a focus group on the words he used to fine tune it to get a great response.
What he should have done was a press conference where ppl could actually ASK him questions.McCain took the fight to the ppl. He connected with a man named Joe,he connected with a man named Tito.
He connected with a Gov. named Sarah Palin.He connected with the ppl.
This is the kind of President we need.Not someone who spends millions on Greek columns,a lavish victory party and 6 million dollar infomercial.What does that tell you right there?
Got a clue?
Obama is not a bad guy;but he’s not the man for this job.NOT NOW.
He needs more than 104 days in the Senate to know about service to the country.Let him come back 4 yrs from now, get a record in the Senate and let us get to know who he REALLY is-then run for office!!
Anyone who shuts down hard questions, throws off reporters,gets rid of ppl who question him and avoids situations where he might slip(which he did in Ohio)-is not ready for the office of President!
Sorry.Common Sense.

Posted on Saturday, October 25, 2008 8:06:19 AM by tnye

Mr. Obama,

Given the uproar about the simple question asked you by Joe the plumber, and the persecution that has been heaped on him because he dared to question you, I find myself motivated to say a few things to you myself. While Joe aspires to start a business someday, I already have started not one, but 4 businesses. But first, let me introduce myself. You can call me “Cory the well driller”. I am a 54 year old high school graduate. I didn’t go to college like you, I was too ready to go “conquer the world” when I finished high school. 25 years ago at age 29, I started my own water well drilling business at a time when the economy here in East Texas was in a tailspin from the crash of the early 80’s oil boom. I didn’t get any help from the government, nor did I look for any. I borrowed what I could from my sister, my uncle, and even the pawn shop and managed to scrape together a homemade drill rig and a few tools to do my first job. My businesses did not start as a result of privilege. They are the result of my personal drive, personal ambition, self discipline, self reliance, and a determination to treat my customers fairly. From the very start my business provided one other (than myself) East Texan a full time job. I couldn’t afford a backhoe the first few years (something every well drilling business had), so I and my helper had to dig the mud pits that are necessary for each and every job with hand shovels. I had to use my 10 year old, 1/2 ton pickup truck for my water tank truck (normally a job for at least a 2 ton truck).

A year and a half after I started the business, I scraped together a 20% down payment to get a modest bank loan and bought a (28 year) old, worn out, slightly bigger drilling rig to allow me to drill the deeper water wells in my area. I spent the next few years drilling wells with the rig while simultaneously rebuilding it between jobs. Through these years I never knew from one month to the next if I would have any work or be able to pay the bills. I got behind on my income taxes one year, and spent the next two years paying that back (with penalty and interest) while keeping up with ongoing taxes. I got behind on my water well supply bill 2 different years (way behind the second time… $80,000.00), and spent over a year paying it back (each time) while continuing to pay for ongoing supplies C.O.D.. Of course, the personal stress endured through these experiences and years is hard to measure. I do have a stent in my heart now to memorialize it all.

I spent the next 10 years developing the reputation for being the most competent and most honest water well driller in East Texas. 2 years along the way, I hired another full time employee for the drilling business so that we could provide full time water well pump service as well as the well drilling. Also, 3 years along the path, I bought a water well screen service machine from a friend, starting business # 2. 5 years later I made a business loan for $100,000.00 to build a new, higher production, computer controlled screen service machine. I had designed the machine myself, and it didn’t work out for 3 years so I had to make the loan payments without the benefit of any added income from the new machine. No government program was there to help me with the payments, or to help me sleep at night as I lay awake wondering how I would solve my machine problems or pay my bills. Finally, after 3 years, I got the screen machine working properly, and that provided another full time job for an East Texan in the screen service business.

2 years after that, I made another business loan, this time for $250,000.00, to buy another used drilling rig and all the support equipment needed to run another, larger, drill rig. This provided another 2 full time jobs for East Texans. Again, I spent a couple of years not knowing if I had made a smart move, or a move that would bankrupt me. For the third time in 13 years, I had placed everything I owned on the line, risking everything, in order to build a business.

A couple of years into this, I came up with a bright idea for a new kind of mud pump, a fundamentally necessary pump used on water well drill rigs. I spent my entire life savings to date (just $30,000.00), building a prototype of the pump and took it to the national water well convention to show it off. Customers immediately started coming out of the woodworks to buy the pumps, but there was a problem. I had depleted my assets making the prototype, and nobody would make me a business loan to start production of the new pumps. With several deposits for pump orders in hand, and nowhere to go, I finally started applying for as many credit card as I could find and took cash withdrawals on these cards to the tune of over $150,000.00 (including modest loans from my dear sister and brother), to get this 3rd business going.

Yes, once again, I had everything hanging over the line in an effort to start another business. I had never manufactured anything, and I had to design and bring into production a complex hydraulic machine from an untested prototype to a reliable production model (in six months). How many nights I lay awake wondering if I had just made the paramount mistake of my life I cannot tell you, but there were plenty. I managed to get the pumps into production, which immediately created another 2 full time jobs in East Texas. Some of the models in the first year suffered from quality issues due to the poor workmanship of one of my key suppliers, so I and an employee (another East Texan employed) had to drive across the country to repair customers’ pumps, practically from coast to coast. I stood behind the product, and made payments to all the credit cards that had financed me (and my brother and sister). I spent the next 5 years improving and refining the product, building a reputation for the pump and the company, working to get the pump into drill rig manufacturers’ product lines, and paying back credit cards. During all this time I continued to manage a growing water well business that was now operating 3 drill rig crews, and 2 well service crews. Also, the screen service business continued to grow. No government programs were there to help me, Mr. Obama, but that’s ok, I didn’t expect any, nor did I want any. I was too busy fighting to make success happen to sit around waiting for the government to help me.

Now, we have been manufacturing the mud pumps for 7 years, my combined businesses employ 32 full time employees, and distribute $5,000,000.00 annually through the local economy. Now, just 4 months ago I borrowed $1,254,000.00, purchasing computer controlled machining equipment to start my 4th business, a production machine shop. The machine shop will serve the mud pump company so that we can better manufacture our pumps that are being shipped worldwide. Of course, the machine shop will also do work for outside companies as well. This has already produced 2 more full time jobs, and 2 more should develop out of it in the next few months. This should work out, but if it doesn’t it will be because you, and the other professional politicians like yourself, will have destroyed our countrys’ (and the world) economy with your meddling with mortgage loan programs through your liberal manipulation and intimidation of loaning institutions to make sure that unqualified borrowers could get mortgages. You see, at the very time when I couldn’t get a business loan to get my mud pumps into production, you were working with Acorn and the Community Reinvestment Act programs to make sure that unqualified borrowers could buy homes with no down payment, and even no credit or worse yet, bad credit. Even the infamous, liberal, Ninja loans (No Income, No Job or Assets). While these unqualified borrowers were enjoying unrealistically low interest rates, I was paying 22% to 24% interest on the credit cards that I had used to provide me the funds for the mud pump business that has created jobs for more East Texans. It’s funny, because after 25 years of turning almost every dime of extra money back into my businesses to grow them, it has been only in the last two years that I have finally made enough money to be able to put a little away for retirement, and now the value of that has dropped 40% because of the policies you and your ilk have perpetrated on our country.

You see, Mr. Obama, I’m the guy you intend to raise taxes on. I’m the guy who has spent 25 years toiling and sweating, fretting and fighting, stressing and risking, to build a business and get ahead. I’m the guy who has been on the very edge of bankruptcy more than a dozen times over the last 25 years, and all the while creating more and more jobs for East Texans who didn’t want to take a risk, and would not demand from themselves what I have demanded from myself. I’m the guy you characterize as “the Americans who can afford it the most” that you believe should be taxed more to provide income redistribution “to spread the wealth” to those who have never toiled, sweated, fretted, fought, stressed, or risked anything. You want to characterize me as someone who has enjoyed a life of privilege and who needs to pay a higher percentage of my income than those who have bought into your entitlement culture. I resent you, Mr. Obama, as I resent all who want to use class warfare as a tool to advance their political career. What’s worse, each year more Americans buy into your liberal entitlement culture, and turn to the government for their hope of a better life instead of themselves. Liberals are succeeding through more than 40 years of collaborative effort between the predominant liberal media, and liberal indoctrination programs in the public school systems across our land.

What is so terribly sad about this is this. America was made great by people who embraced the one-time American culture of self reliance, self motivation, self determination, self discipline, personal betterment, hard work, risk taking. A culture built around the concept that success was in reach of every able bodied American who would strive for it. Each year that less Americans embrace that culture, we all descend together. We descend down the socialist path that has brought country after country ultimately to bitter and unremarkable states. If you and your liberal comrades in the media and school systems would spend half as much effort cultivating a culture of can-do across America as you do cultivating your entitlement culture, we could see Americans at large embracing the conviction that they can elevate themselves through personal betterment, personal achievement, and self reliance. You see, when people embrace such ideals, they act on them. When people act on such ideals, they succeed. All of America could find herself elevating instead of deteriorating. But that would eliminate the need for liberal politicians, wouldn’t it, Mr. Obama? The country would not need you if the country was convinced that problem solving was best left with individuals instead of the government. You and all your liberal comrades have got a vested interested in creating a dependent class in our country. It is the very business of liberals to create an ever expanding dependence on government. What’s remarkable is that you, who have never produced a job in your life, are going to tax me to take more of my money and give it to people who wouldn’t need my money if they would get off their entitlement mentality asses and apply themselves at work, demand more from themselves, and quit looking to liberal politicians to raise their station in life.

You see, I know because I’ve had them work for me before. Hundreds of them over these 25 years. People who simply will not show up to work on time. People who just will not work 5 days in a week, much less, 6 days. People always looking for a way to put less effort out. People who actually tell me that they would do more if I just would first pay them more. People who take off work to sit in government offices to apply to get free government handouts (gee, I wonder how things would have turned out for them if they had spent that time earning money and pleasing their employer?). You see, all of this comes from your entitlement mentality culture.

Oh, I know you will say I am uncompassionate. Sorry, Mr. Obama, wrong again. You see, I’ve seen what the average percentage of your income has been given to charities over the years of 2000 to 2004 (ignoring the years you started running for office – can you pronounce “politically motivated”), you averaged less than 1% annually. And your running mate, Joe Biden, averaged less than ¼% of his annual income in charitable contributions over the last 10 years. Like so many liberals, the two of you want to give to the needy, just as long as it is someone else’s money you are giving to them. I won’t say what I have given to charities over the last 25 years, but the percentage is several times more than you and Joe Biden. combined (don’t you just hate google?). Tell me again how you feel my pain.

In short, Mr. Obama, your political philosophies represent everything that is wrong with our country. You represent the culture of government dependence instead of self reliance; Entitlement mentality instead of personal achievement; Penalization of the successful to reward the unmotivated; Political correctness instead of open mindedness and open debate. If you are successful, you may preside over the final transformation of America from being the greatest and most self-reliant culture on earth, to just another country of whiners and wimps, who sit around looking to the government to solve their problems. Like all of western Europe. All countries on the decline. All countries that, because of liberal socialistic mentalities, have a little less to offer mankind every year.

God help us…

Cory Miller

just a ordinary, extraordinary American, the way a lot of Americans used to be.

P.S. Yes, Mr. Obama, I am a real American… www.cmillerdrilling.com

Anymore than Herbert Hoover was Teddy Roosevelt or Carter was Clinton.

This is just Obama’s campaign mantra to get ppl to associate McCain with Bush and run against him.

Nonsense.McCain has always been his own man. Every campaign has to go with a strategy to try and win.I understand that. So that’s what Obama is doing.

Let’s not lose sight of Obama’s plan and vision for this country on its own merits.
Forget Bush.

Evaluate Obama and McCain.

Obama is going to tax.He’s playing on the tax the rich but the truth is we’re being killed by taxes-especially in the state of Pennsylvania-and he’s going to open the door to taxes on everyone.You START with the rich(whom most ppl resent)THEN work your way down.Let’s be upfront here. Any taxes in this economy are going to kill it.
Period.Economics 101 and you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand that.

Then Obama attacks Palin.You take out Palin-you take out McCain.But she actually has more of a record than Obama has.104 days in the Senate is NOT a record to run on.

I don’t want to go negative on Obama but you do have to look at their attacks and
see if they stand up to scrutiny. One way to do that is to make a comparison.

The other way is to see if what they’re saying is actually true.

INVESTIGATE the ads.They usually have some truth. They also usually have some falsehoods.

Quotes are taken out of context.

If you look at Obama and Biden look at their own UNFILTERED words.
Speaks for themselves.Spread the wealth,Redistribute wealth, tax cuts for 95%-their most famous mantra.What you do in a campaign is repeat over and over until it begins to sound like the truth.

Well,folks 40 some percent of Americans have no tax liability.That 95% doesn’t hold water.Let’s be honest though.Why raise taxes on anyone?Even if you tax the rich more it doesn’t change anything down here does it?

Never changed my life any.
Never made a bit of difference.Their income going down doesn’t affect me one iota.
Might make you FEEL like you’re fixing them; but it is the way to open the door to more taxes.Once you give the government that they are bound to come back to the table when they come up short.

McCain has the right plan!
I’m not sure i agree totally with his health care plan;but that’s one part.
We can revisit that.
Freeze spending.Yep.They’re spending it like drunken sailors up there.
Lower taxes.Yep.ON EVERYONE
Drill for gas here and now.Like the gas prices? How about if they stayed that low permanently because we didn’t import and we weren’t held hostage to the Middle East,Venezuela or Russia.
JOBS PPL.JOBS! Drill here,drill now.JOBS.
Let’s do McCain’s all of the above approach.Sorry but windmills across the country are not going to solve all our energy needs.
We might even see Palin convince McCain to do the windfall profit tax like she did in Alaska.Now there’s one tax we COULD handle.

And i do like our gun rights. We do have the right to self defense and the Constitution upholds that right.
Obama has his an ideological way of looking at gun rights.Besides he’s the one who thought we didn’t hear.We cling to guns and religion here because we’re bitter.

He comes from Chicago.We come Ohio,Pennsylvania and Indiana.We know what this is about.
They called us racist and redneck in Pa.
You see they think we’re backwards here.I say we have it right and they don’t.
Obama says he wants to take down the status quo.

He’s kidding right?

This IS the status quo!

John McCain was shot down
over Hanoi 41 years ago
this Sunday, October 26.

EXPERIENCE COUNTS when you’re trying to bounce back.
John McCain has been given up for dead…

… and, so many times, he’s lived to fight another
day.

Experience counts when you tell the American people
you understand their fears.

And character matters when you say you understand
what it is like to depend on help from someone else.

Opponents say John McCain has many houses.But, he
lived the longest time in a 6 x 4 ‘ cell.

They claim to understand health care, but John
McCain’s had to do without it.

They say they’ll fight for you, but he’s the only
one that’s ever really fought for you.

He knows what it’s like to be in a tough fight.

And he’s ready to fight for you again.

Experience, character. Yep,they matter!

Ever notice Obama has no real connection to anyone who helped him on his meteoric rise in politics?

They’re ALL just ships passing in the night?
He never heard his pastors view in 20 yrs as a member?
He was in Ayers neighborhood(though his campaign began in his house and he had contributions from him.Obama writes a blurb for his book)and on a board.Again 2 ships passing in the night?
Acorn-yep. Same thing.
Does anyone stick to Obama?
Or they’re just kinda associates who pass each other in the hallway?

As for Ayers.I wouldn’t sit in a house with him for 2 seconds or take one dime from the man.
Sorry.Just wouldn’t.
A Wm Ayers directive:

“Kill all the rich people. … Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents.”

He has a new book out too:

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