I watched the presidential debate Friday night to see why the polls show the race is still close. I confess, it wasn't clear to me because the differences between John McCain and Barack Obama seem to be stark. Consider the exchange about taxes: John McCain wants to cut $300 billion in taxes for corporations like mega-oil companies who already show $10 billion in profits a quarter. He still thinks the Republican ideology of "trickle-down" economics works. It doesn't. They try it every time they get in power. It gives the top 1 percent of the population much more wealth, it takes away earnings of the middle class, forces huge deficits (think Ronald Reagan and G.W. Bush) and ends up costing ordinary people like us.
According to the Wall Street Journal (Sept. 24), if you make more than $430,000 a year, you will pay more taxes under an Obama presidency. How many of us will that affect? If you make under that amount, and I think that is most of us, you will pay fewer taxes under President Obama than under John McCain. And, we will have affordable health care under President Obama and nothing under John McCain.
Sen. McCain doesn't seem to be bothered in the least by the $10 billion a month we spend in Iraq, and doesn't seem to think we can leave now even though he says we have succeeded.
Sen. Obama showed he is a smart man who thinks through problems and Sen. McCain showed that he throws out sound bites. He also showed by his demeanor that he acts somewhat like a petulant child, smirking, refusing to even look at the man he was debating. We don't need an angry, childish man with his finger on the button.
Please vote on Nov. 4 for Sen. Obama, and let our country come back to the strong, respected, wonderful place I remember it used to be.
I don't want to continue on this downward spiral for the sake of an outdated ideology, and the benefit of the big corporations and the few cronies at the top.
According to the Wall Street Journal (Sept. 24), if you make more than $430,000 a year, you will pay more taxes under an Obama presidency. How many of us will that affect? If you make under that amount, and I think that is most of us, you will pay fewer taxes under President Obama than under John McCain. And, we will have affordable health care under President Obama and nothing under John McCain.
Sen. McCain doesn't seem to be bothered in the least by the $10 billion a month we spend in Iraq, and doesn't seem to think we can leave now even though he says we have succeeded.
Sen. Obama showed he is a smart man who thinks through problems and Sen. McCain showed that he throws out sound bites. He also showed by his demeanor that he acts somewhat like a petulant child, smirking, refusing to even look at the man he was debating. We don't need an angry, childish man with his finger on the button.
Please vote on Nov. 4 for Sen. Obama, and let our country come back to the strong, respected, wonderful place I remember it used to be.
I don't want to continue on this downward spiral for the sake of an outdated ideology, and the benefit of the big corporations and the few cronies at the top.
