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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Mojo and forseti....putting aside the personalities or taking the face off the candidates.
Why do you think more Americans agrees with Obama's (and/or general Democratic) domestic and foreign policies (perhaps with the exception of national security)....the policies that you believe are a "joke" or "destructive"?
Or specifically, which polities do you believe are a joke or destructive?
We hear the same tired and trite generalities all the time..but never the specifics.
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You want specifics? I'll give you specifics.
I don't like Obama's plan for wealth redistribution. I come from a family where both my parents grew up extremely poor and worked their way up to wealth. They didn't receive nor need wealth redistribution to get to where they got. Simple hard work and dedication got them where they are.
Why should they be penalized for their success. Why should they have to fit the bill for others who might not want to work hard? Wealth redistribution promotes contentedness, which hurts people's chances of advancing in society.
Obama wants to raise capital gains taxes. Another no no. Why penalize people who have be successful in investing? Again, penalizing hard work.
Obama supports late-term abortion - something I'm fundamentally against.
Obama want windfall taxes and raise taxes on the "rich." First off windfall taxes will just alienate business from doing business in this country. He has claimed that many companies are leaving this country for overseas, but don't you think windfall taxes will push more out? Now I know he has only mentioned windfall taxes on the oil companies, but what's to say he won't try to impose those on other "successful" businesses?
Obama wants to raise the taxes on the rich. My main gripe with that is how he defines rich. He defines rich as $250,000 or more. I hate to tell you, but having lived much of my life in Manhattan, $250K is NOT rich. Is it comfortable? Yes. But in no way is it rich.
He mentioned in the Saddleback Forum that he recognizes that rich is defined differently from region to region, and if he truly wants to raise to tax on the rich, he seriously has to go region by region to define rich.
Finally, my last big gripe with Obama is his foreign policy. You mention more American's agree with Obama's foreign policy. Oh really? I have yet to see a poll that shows that.
Obama wants to sit down with world tyrants like Ahmedinejad (sp?) without preconditions. He says that diplomacy is the way to go to deal with these people. Well wake up! Guess what we've been trying to do with them. All we have been doing is talk with them, but the problem is they cannot be taken for their word!
These world tyrants will see Obama as a pushover if he will just sit down and talk with them. Obama needs to be stricter on them.
One saving grace for Obama is Biden brings a ton of foreign experience with him.
Now lets hear your take on McCain (which I have made clear I do not like either, but I like him more than Obama).