Honestly, now that Obama is the nominee........

[ajmccarrell]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

These idealogues somehow ignore science. I don't think they even understand it. My dad says there's no common sense anymore in politics. Maybe there never was but lately logic and reason seem to have no place in the R's policies. This is so dangerous as we are seeing now with this endless war and the plunging value of the dollar and our sliding economy. The Rs actually just left the war cost out of the budget. Imagine if you just left some part of your monthly expenses out of your budget? Where is the common sense there? It's so frustrating as a thinking person to witness this bullsh*t.

However, Obama is NO alternative.

The basic problem is that Bush has tried to be all things to all people. Most people don't understand enough basic economics to know that there is a tradeoff for everything you do. The dollar has fallen because we have lowered interest rates to help stupid homeowners who got themselves foreclosed on. The REAL republican position would have been to do nothing at all and let the market correct itself and let prices fall so that regular people can afford to buy houses again.

Obama isn't any better as far as economics goes, in fact, he's much worse. He keeps saying we're in a recession, but he also says he wants to raise capital gains taxes. That would destroy what's left of the value of the dollar and drive new businesses overseas. He also says he wants blanket "windfall profits" taxes, but complains about manufacturing going overseas. He says "we can't drill our way out of this mess" as far as oil goes and complains about how long it will take to extract oil out of the ground, but he wants to continue dumping billions of dollars into fuel alternatives that haven't yielded results in the 20 year life of some of these programs. He also said that he wasn't upset by the price of oil, but by how quickly it rose. He offers no real alternatives, other than more of the same throwing money at the problem via government grants. He wants to use wind power, which is notoriously inefficient. He wants to continue using corn ethanol, which it is said would take a field the size of Texas to fuel the US for one month, to replace oil. Not to mention, again Obama is ignoring supply and demand, as using our corn for fuel drives up food prices, as well as crowds out wheat and other substitute crops.
Social Security is bankrupting the country and we will have no social security for my generation at all. YET! Obama wants to implement a national health care system and he is ignorant enough to think that using the funds for the wars would pay for it. If just (very poorly) paying for the elderly is bankrupting the country, do we really think we can realistically pay for every man, woman and child in this country?! He also wants to give "middle class" tax cuts as he spends us further into oblivion.

It appears Obama has never cracked an economics textbook in his life! I have a Master's from a top 30 school on the subject and his basic ignorance of economics, as well as history, is staggering beyond belief. I guess his popularity is a reflection of how poorly educated our own society is anymore. No doubt Obama would suggest nationalizing education to fix it. No wait, that's already been done..... and it is the reason some arrogant and ignorant clown like Obama can become president.