Since I have seen the words truth, reason, and logic repeatedly on this website, lets check out a very basic truth – altruism doesn’t exist. Obama gives exactly as much of a damn about his fellow man as Bush, Mahatma Ghandi or you do. Everyone, whether he admits it or not, seeks to serve his own rational self-interest. If a man can gain power by appealing to the elite, he will. If a man can gain power by appealing to the huddled masses, he will.

Altruism doesn’t exist because always putting others before ones self isn’t conducive to survival. How quickly do you think the doors of the welfare office would shut if the government instituted a “put your money where your mouth is” tax, whereby one could choose whether or not (and how large of) a portion of his paycheck could be taken for social welfare?

Moreover, I have a feeling that McDonalds would find itself an eager pool of new applicants the very next week.

John McCain’s tax position
George W’s Tax ideas

This argument that social justice means welfare is a simple absurdity cooked up by the GOP to push the fear button on Americans once again. Turns out that Joe Sixpack is sick of being scared by terrorists, so they’ve had to come up with something new.

The fact is that what Obama is talking about is creating an economy in which all Americans have a chance to improve their lives, not simple the top of the heap. 34.3% of America’s wealth belongs to 1% of Americans. That doesn’t sound like a system that encourages the bootstraping American dream. That sounds more like a system that benefits the economic elitists, who have a very vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Two thirds of the top 1% owe their wealth to inheritance. These are not self made men; they are the new American Aristocracy, and they very much want to maintain their position.

Real working Americans would not face any increase in their share of the tax burden under Obama’s plan. The claim that they would is nothing but a lie that McCain insists on repeating. He’s fond of saying that 50% of small business revenue would get a tax hike. That would be 50% of revenue, given the most generous estimates of what constitutes a small business, and even then, would mean that 1% of small businesses would experience a higher tax. The $250,000 mark is for net income. Meaning that only people with businesses that generate $250,000 in personal income would be affected. That is, if they pull down a quarter million a year, after they pay payroll (which Obama would give a credit for every job they create), Operational costs and other expenses.

For years, we have made a habit of rescuing corporations when they get in trouble; Chrysler, the Airlines, and now, the banks. It seems that America has been comfortable with corporate welfare for decades. When it comes to our wealthiest citizens, it seems we can’t afford to let them fail.

But talk about educating Americans, or providing health care, and people go into a panic, and start wailing about socialism. The fact is that we provide the worst health care, and some of the worst education in the industrialized world. It costs more to go to college hear than nearly anywhere else in the world. Is the land of opportunity we keep hearing about?

This is not 1960 any longer. It’s a new world, and we need a new game plan. The ignorant, isolationist xenophobia of an earlier generation will not work in the 21st century. The fact is that without a healthy, educated workforce, America will continue to slip globally. So long as we continue to think we can bully the rest of the world, we will continue to be vilified by more advanced countries.

I, for one, am fully capable of grasping the fact that the better off my neighbor is, the better off I will be as well. I find it hard to believe that Americans are really this selfish. They seem willing to cut off their own noses rather than help their communities. It’s odd to me that the most Christian nation is also the most selfish. I don’t know what you call that, but in my book it’s called hypocrisy.

I am proud to be an American, and I have served my country. But the fact is that the last 8 years have made me ashamed. The number one reason for our despicable position in the global community today, is the constant influence of the neo-aristocracy that has taken hold of the Republican Party, and continues to manipulate honest, hardworking Americans through fear, hate, and misinformation.

From http://www.boortz.com:

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This man (that would be Barack Obama) thinks that it is the government’s job to decide who gets how much wealth? Maybe it’s just me, but I sort of had this idea that wealth was earned. You worked hard, you pursued an education, you developed job skills, you made good decisions, you took some chances … and if you held your mouth just right your hard work would lead to wealth! Well that’s just not the way it is done anymore. Can any of you cite an instance where Barack Obama has touted the benefits of hard work and said that a person is entitled to the fruits of his labors?

If ever there was a wealth envy, class warfare candidate, this would be the one. He actually laments the fact that the Supreme Court hasn’t come down with some ruling for what he calls “economic justice”; a ruling that would let bureaucrats in Washington use the police power of the state to seize wealth from the unfavored and give it to the favored. Well, since the Supreme Court hasn’t done it, it will just have to be up to him.

Come on, folks. Are you really ready for a president who believes that government has the power to tax not in order to raise revenue for its legitimate functions, but to bring about some bureaucratic idea of “fairness” in wealth distribution? Are you really ready for a president who talks in terms of how much of a person’s earnings they actually “need,” and the legitimacy of seizing the remainder?
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Would be interested in hearing your thoughts on the above…