The Morning After: I spent last night angry, to the point where I couldn’t sleep. I just can’t understand why people don’t see that Obama and his pals will be BAD for our country. This morning, I’m still a little angry, but I’m mostly terrified about the direction this country will take in the next four years. The Democrats have been handed Washington D.C., and they are at liberty to do whatever they want with it because they are the majority party. Talk Radio Host Jay Weber wrote a list of 23 things that Obama (teamed up w/ Pelosi) has said he will do in office. I have narrowed the list down to the top 10 things I am most concerned about.
1. Obama’s 95 percent tax cut for all Americans would turn the IRS into a new welfare agency. Forty percent of American families don’t pay taxes, so they’d receive yearly rebates, money they never paid in and don’t deserve.
2. Felons may get the right to vote nationwide. Democrats must figure felons are more likely to vote democrat, because they have been pushing this for years.
3. Obama has told Planned Parenthood that, as one of his first acts, he will pass the Freedom of Choice Act, which would overturn the partial birth abortion ban and overrule parental notification laws.
4.Obama promises to move us toward government run healthcare, even if he stops sort of proposing universal healthcare. He is promising a public insurance program modeled after Medicare and open to anyone of any income. According to the Lewin group, it could cause as many as 52-million Americans to move from private coverage to public entitlement.
5. Obama and Pelosi both want to increase the minimum wage to at least 9.50 an hour by 2011 and index it–tie it to the rate of inflation–so it will increase as inflation does.
6. President Obama will be appointing at least one, maybe two appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court.
7. Democrats in congress vow to attempt to reintroduce the Fairness Doctrine and stifle conservative talk radio. Obama has said he has no interest in doing so, but if congress passed it and it ended up on his desk, would he sign it?
8. President Obama has vowed a quick troop exit from Iraq. Pelosi and the anti-war crowd will hold him to it.
9. Obama has vowed raise the top income, dividend, and capital gains rates for ‘the rich’, increasing the cost of new investment in the U-S.
The things that affect me the most personally are increased taxes on small businesses, health care requirements and increased taxes on ‘the rich’. The small business issue is a major one for me – I work for a struggling small business, my parents own one, and my boyfriend is trying to start one. The health care requirements on companies will cause my 401K to get axed, and my company (as well as many other small businesses) to have to make cut-backs on the number of employees. With the economy in such a shitty state, we need to preserve and help our small businesses thrive, not make it difficult for them to stay afloat.
Taxing ‘the rich’. Since when is $42,000 a year “rich” ? Now I don’t make that much money NOW, but I plan on making that much during some point in the next 4 years. However, what’s the point of working to get a raise/new job that pays better if the ridiculous taxes set me back to close to what I’m making now? I am FURIOUS that the government has the ability to take away MY HARD-EARNED money and give it to other people who don’t work for it. That makes me disgusted. The government is not here to fix your problems. People have gone from being dirt poor to successful and rich by hardwork and perserverance. Anyone can do that. ANYONE. So why should I be punished because some people don’t want to make an effort?
The next 4 years should be interesting. I’m terrifed at the amount of blind faith that people have in Barack Obama. I’m terrified that the number 3 most liberal Senator will turn this country into a leftist disastor. I’m terrified of losing my job. And most of all, I’m terrified of Michelle Obama’s wardrobe.
Here’s to the next 4 years of looking at Michelle’s ugly prom dresses and camel toe.
*Aisling*
