E-Group Rant- Wassup with the Economy
Oct 28
politics Bush, Democrats, mccain, obama, Republicans, War No Comments
This was a very interesting post from a colleague of mine from my fraternities egroup. Thought others would enjoy it.
OK so we have touched on many different things pertaining to Dems, Repubs, Obama, and McCain. By this time its very clear who is voting for who, although the only person who actually expressed a reason why their voting a certain way is Troy. Everybody else just says I hate Bush and war so I have to vote for Obama. Texas may play out to be a very important vote this time around, so think really hard about who your voting for.
This is whats bothering me, 2 things.
First- that stupid wassup video. Lets go through the dudes and their situations.
Losing my home dude: Why is he losing his home? Did a Republican sign him up for a home loan he knew he couldn’t afford, or did he not use his brain and took on to much debt. This entire situation has Dems and Repubs finger prints all over, but once again we can’t take responsibility for ones self off the table. How would Obama fix this–by voting for the same fucked up band-aid as McCain. Hows that working out?
No Insurance dude: Dude had enough insurance or medical care to get a cast and a neck brace, but not enough to get a $4 bottle of hydrocodone at walmart. Or did the Repub. push him down and hurt him, and that’s why he is in pain? How would Obama fix this– by raising our taxes and socializing the health care industry which has proven to give substandard care i.e. Medicaid, Medicare
Hurricane dude: This is my favorite, I didn’t know Republicans created hurricanes and Obama will stop them. Or is it the Repubs fault he lives in a hurricane zone, or the fact that Bush or McCain didn’t go pick him up and take him to safety. Once again self responsibility. How would Obama fix this– He will not allow Hurricanes and if one does occur he will drive down and pick each person up, or raise our taxes to rent cars for them.
Stock Market Dude: Refer to Losing home dude and bailing us out with our own tax dollars.
Army Dude: This might be the only good argument. should we have gone? doesn’t seem that way, can we leave? Not now, because we have proper fucked that place. The crap thing is, that guy in Iraq is going to get on a plane and go to another war with no end in sight.
This is my main issue though. MONEY. I like money, and I know each one of you also. We have a lot of people on this list who work hard and make a nice living doing what you do. So why would you vote for somebody who flat out has said I want to spread the wealth around?
For those who don’t know this is what that means. I’m lazy so I like to use valet when I go out, so lets say homeboy runs his ass off and brings my car back and as I’m waiting i see a homeless dude with a sign just sitting there. I pay homeboy the valet cost, but tell him I’m not going to tip you because I’m giving your tip to the homeless dude because he needs it more than you. I know he is just sitting there waiting for a handout and your working for your money, but it’s not fair for him to have less than you so i am going to spread the wealth around. That’s called socialism. That’s what the government is going to do to all of us, why would you vote for that. You don’t penalize people for doing well, please somebody help me understand how this works for you.
So then they go on to say, if you make less than 250K/yr your not going to be taxed. Do I make more than 250/yr now no, will I at some point in my life that’s the plan. But it won’t come through handouts, it will come through my hard work and sacrifice. Why should the government take my profit from working harder and pass it around to those who haven’t?
bigger scale: Some of you work for smaller companies, and those companies are already having trouble in this economy. What do you think a tax hike will do for those companies and your job security. If you work for that smaller company you could be casting a vote to get laid off. I know it sounds dramatic, but honestly if your company has just let people go in the past 6 months how is even less money going to stimulate anything.
