Sorry there was not a post on Friday.  I was unable to access my tools for posting for some reason.  It was crashing Firefox every time I tried.  Also, just as a little bit of forewarning, by January 1st I plan on being switched over to local politics (local being the Portland metropolitan area and occasionally Oregon as a whole).

Goodbye Ayers, hello McCarthy.  The latest attacks on Obama have changed their tone from calling him a terrorist to calling him a socialist.  Since the final presidential debate McCain has been repeating that Obama wants to “spread the wealth around”.  The irony is that both candidates want to spread the wealth around.  The difference is who they’re taking from and who they’re giving to.  Obama wants to pull money from the wealthy to give to the middle class, the trickle-up economics that created our enormous surplus under Clinton.  McCain wants to keep the taxes the same on the middle class and cut taxes for the wealthy, a continuation of the Jeffersonian economics that haven’t worked for us in over 50 years.  Which of these is going to appeal more to Americans?  McCain would like to think that America wants to keep paying taxes that are unproportionately high compared to the wealthy, but realistically it is Obama’s more socialist spreading of the wealth that is more appealing to Americans.  No one wants to think that the wealthy are getting off easy when they’re in dire straights, and in a time of such economic uncertainty it seems like suicide to try to appeal to that idea.  Hopefully we’ll see Americans voting in their own interests this election.

Posted by Wes Mueller on 10/20 at 11:19 AM  •  (0) Comments •  permalink