The socialism of Barack Hussein Obama IV
Political ·Thursday June 26, 2008 @ 23:01 EDT (link)
You can probably see a pattern in the previous three "socialism of Barack Obama" entries, and to confess, the monotony is getting a bit boring. I'll cut to the chase with the rest and just post a list of things that BHO wants you, as a working citizen taxpayer, to pay for, for the benefit of indolent liberals.
Education: Barak wants money for teachers (rather than letting the market sort it out; the government has no business in education), and for kids (what, the tax deductions aren't enough? I favor a "pay for your own damn spawn", and feel free to replace "spawn" with "everything": it's the libertarian way). He also wants to hand out more "free" money for college students (work and get loans; I did).
Energy & Environment: He's already ecstatic that the price of oil is so high. As if subsidized farming wasn't enough, now he wants to subsidize growing trees. He wants to give my money to research into ideas that clearly aren't viable on the open market, or companies would be investing in them already; he's doing it purely for the Religion of Green (there's a Religion of Peas joke in here somewhere, I'm sure). Then he wants to create pie-in-the-sky standards for fuel efficiency: Hussein, you idiot, automakers are already investing in making vehicles as efficient as they can; because it's profitable.
Ethics: Surprisingly enough, he doesn't appear to be spending too much of your money here. I can get behind exposing lobbying and contracts to public search. If, God forbid, he does get elected, expect promises to be broken here, however (especially about his staff not working on contracts). Credit where due, however.
Faith: Hahahahahaha... ha. He may not be a Muslim (Mohammedan), but he's not like any Christian I've ever seen nor heard of, either: his pastor's a certified nutcase, and he's easily confused by simple Biblical concepts like the Old and New Testaments and Israel and the Church. Fittingly, this page isn't very long, since he knows it doesn't take him long to put his foot in his mouth here.
Family: Pretty much a duplicate of Economy.
Fiscal: Making the government "pay as [it] goes" and cutting wasteful spending sounds good: but the weasel is in what he considers waste. If he cuts the "Bush tax breaks for the rich" that he talks about, he may find that those "rich" will stop stimulating the economy by creating businesses, jobs, and trade goods.
Foreign Policy: Wow, where to start. He's an appeaser in so many ways. The U.S. is not Europe; we have weapons and will use them if necessary. Granted, Iraq was an imbroglio; we should have been more decisive and acted in our interests, not theirs, or at least charged the Iraqis for everything we did. Doubling foreign assistance is straight theft from Americans: charity should be voluntary, and should start in this country. "Obama will secure all loose nuclear material in the world in four years." Really. How does he plan to accomplish that? More pie-in-the-sky promises that he has no ability or intention to deliver on. "Expand the military"? It's already big enough to defend the country, and we have bases everywhere; I think I'd prefer not to subsidize even more cradle-to-grave entitled jobs.
Healthcare: Naked cash grab from educated working people. I support putting people buying health insurance individually on the same level as companies buying it, adjusting for age and conditions, but why should I subsidize anyone else's health, especially any non-essential treatment.
Homeland Security: Nothing too objectionable here, mainly because there's not really any content. Next!
Immigration: He has some good points, he really does—everyone wants secure borders, for example (although he's probably delayed and voted against actual work here), but they're really just sugar for his main wish, eerily titled "Bring People Out of the Shadows". The word you are looking for, Barack you traitor, is amnesty. They're not in "shadows" any more than a bank robber is in the "shadows" after he's left the bank with the loot; they're fugitives from the law, and should be launched over our border with a trebuchet after being chipped to ensure they never return. The fourteenth amendment should be clarified so its intent is clear: children of illegals and foreign nationals should not get U.S. citizenship; employee verification should be mandatory everywhere; and illegals should not get any social benefits whatsoever. That's comprehensive immigration reform: enforce the law.
Iraq: See above: get our troops out, or, ideally, charge for the war: we'll take payment in oil.
Poverty: Mainly a re-hash of the Economy topics, except with a few more freebies paid by us the working: free nurse care, free housing, free transportation. Move closer to your job and shut up; maybe you should have studied harder in school.
Rural: More farming subsidies; more payments not to farm.
Service: Making high school kids do community service sounds good, except I thought slavery was outlawed (you'd think he'd understand this; he would if he were "down for the struggle"); it's even more objectionable at the college level. These other service groups and corps are just more waste of my money. If you want work done, Hussein, pay a private organization to do it, like anyone else.
Seniors & Social Security: More tax breaks, cheap drugs, and more forced employment. Social security is a dying pyramid scheme and needs to be privatized: it's bankrupt and a huge target for frequent abuse. Fund your 401k/Roth IRA, and take some responsibility for your life.
Woohoo, we're nearly done… last page on the table of contents, three things to go… do we Hope for any Change? No, not really….
Technology: I think he's for it (as long as someone else pays), and he wants to break up Big Media.
Urban Policy: Let people arm themselves, you blockhead (and don't pretend that you were actually happy with Heller… you're not fooling anyone). Just a rehash of various pandering vote-buying that we've already seen under Economy, Poverty, etc.
Veterans: More money for veterans' health. Um. You knew what you were getting into when you joined the military; why should I subsidize you for the rest of your life because of your career choice? The only way that would make sense if it was for military acting in the U.S.' direct interest (i.e. local national defense, or actual wars for oil—honestly, if anyone things the Iraq war was for oil, take a look, because we're clearly doing it wrong), and we couldn't get enough volunteers without such promises. And I don't think that's the case.
And speaking of cases, there's the case against Barak Hussein Obama. His whole issues list is a big vote-buying grab, which he plans to pay for by, in the usual Democrat way, raising taxes, which will affect those that work more than those that don't, and those that actually bothered to get an education or skills more than those that didn't. He's so socialist he makes me sick: as a libertarian, for small government (government should only protect personal and property rights and national defense) and allowing people to make their own choices in everything by choosing what to support with their dollars. After all, if the Democrats are so compassionate, clearly every last one of them will "opt-in" to (now privatized) welfare in this new à la carte world, so things for them will continue as usual, right? No? No. They're thugs and control freaks, and Obama's just the latest charismatic incarnation. Parts 1 2 3 4 5.
Immigration: He has some good points, he really does—everyone wants secure borders, for example (although he's probably delayed and voted against actual work here), but they're really just sugar for his main wish, eerily titled "Bring People Out of the Shadows". The word you are looking for, Barack you traitor, is amnesty. They're not in "shadows" any more than a bank robber is in the "shadows" after he's left the bank with the loot; they're fugitives from the law, and should be launched over our border with a trebuchet after being chipped to ensure they never return. The fourteenth amendment should be clarified so its intent is clear: children of illegals and foreign nationals should not get U.S. citizenship; employee verification should be mandatory everywhere; and illegals should not get any social benefits whatsoever. That's comprehensive immigration reform: enforce the law.