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If you wish to continue with your Big Government, Socialist/Statist agenda;
If you insist in carrying on with secret meetings and arm-twisting your own Democratic colleagues who disagree with you;
If you insist in bribing Democratic Politicians with our tax dollars;
If you insist in Tax and Spend, Hyper-inflated deficit (the largest jump in our entire history);
If you insist in wasting money but generating ZERO jobs;
If you insist in ramming Socialized Medicine down our throats (even after America has told you we do not want it),
?DO IT AT YOUR OWN PERIL.
Mr. Obama,
You are like a ?One trick Magician??the gig is up: we can see you now.
Your speeches BORE us. Your lies are being registered, so is your insincerity.
You are OUT OF TOUCH. Class warfare is not working.
Your arrogance shunned the Opposition from your SECRET MEETINGS, so do not blame Reprublicans.
Mr. Obama,
America has awakened to YOUR Socialist/Statist agenda and -as shown with the Massachusetts wake up call.
America has rejected YOUR plans. No re-packaging will change the rejection from the BLUEST of all states.
It is not that we did not understand you, on the contrary: your agenda was rejected because we finally understand were you are heading. WE do not like Cuba style Governments.
Mr. Obama,
I remember Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dhorm, your Pastor and your lovely America-hating wife. I think you are the political equivalent of a SUICIDE BOMBER: you sneaked in to destroy, and you will do what you came to do. So you won?t quit.
The question is: Would normal Democrats in Congress and the Senate go down with your Anti-American ship?
Seriously to The Democrats facing re-election I say: we will see you in November!
Next you err because you blame free markets for the predictable failures when government meddles in markets. The beauty of the free market is that idiocy is punished and prudence is rewarded. Free markets are the best allocators of resources and interest ever devised. The folly of the big government socialist program is that, in its arrogance, it manages to skew incentives and reward bad decisions by bailing out failures. Confiscatory taxation, destructive regulation, and faulty incentives are at the root of all the economic problems we have today. Guys like you and the golden tongued dimwit in the Whitehouse are the problem and not the solution.
So, silly Marxist, go back to the peanut butter and jelly section of the table with the rest of the children who slept through basic economics.
Jefferson said, "... a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise
free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement ..." (Thomas Jefferson, March 4, 1801)
The key here is to read "shall restrain men from injuring one another" BEFORE reading "shall leave them OTHERWISE free to regulate
their own pursuits ...". In other words, our government needs to step-in when a few key players of our economy (i.e. big business, the banking industry, etc) decide to put their own pocketbooks first at the expense of injuring their fellow American.
Furthermore ...
McDonnell says "overtaxing investors won?t foster more investment." How so? By ridding our system of the capital gains tax assessed on small-company investment returns, Obama is outright ENCOURAGING investment. He is basically saying 'Invest now and I'll make it a nearly tax-free return for your investment, and what you don't invest I'm going to tax' What's so bad about that? Either they invest it which creates jobs, or the gov't will tax it, and use the taxes to spur the economy. Where's the downfall?
Lastly...
MoDonnell states, "Top-down one-size fits all decision making should not replace the personal choices of free people in a free market".
Umm - not to overstate the obvious here, but wasn't it the "personal choices" made by a few of the "free people in [the] free market" that brought down AIG, GM, Chrysler, etc?
Hmmm... What was your point again Mr. McDonnell?
And my, what a contorted view of taxation you have if you believe that capital gains taxation actually enhances investment, because it FORCES those who hope to profit from their risk to "reinvest" lest they have their earnings CONFISCATED by the State. Do you have the first clue about economics? Really? Because I don't see any INVESTORS who are able to simply "reinvest" their money to avoid capital gains, and small business owners who are C Corps are taxed whether they invest in their businesses or not. Capital gains taxation penalizes risk, period.
And while we're talking about "encouraging" through taxation and legalized theft, isn't this really just social engineering to coerce behaviors through taxation or lessening of taxes? Isn't that what the Founding Fathers warned us about, and those opposed to the Sixteenth Amendment argued? Isn't this government power and control just another form of tyranny?
But why let facts get in the way of your fragile universe?
Sure, that is exactly what he meant. Please...
Several commenters brought up issues with your DMV. DMV issues are common throughout the land. First, why do you have to register a vehicle? Do you register a TV, a washing machine? Let's face it, the only purpose is to raise revenue and employ people. It serves no other purpose. You may say it helps recover stolen vehicles, to those I counter, if you have insurance, the insurance companies will put together a data base that will solve that problem.
Vehicle traffic law is another example of DMV intrusion. Do you think seatbelt laws are really designed with your safety in mind? They are nothing more than a revenue generator as are most traffic laws. I think Art Buchwald said, "you don't need seatbelt laws to have seatbelt compliance, all that is required is the insurance company(s) do not have to pay for injuries sustained when a seatbelt wasn't in use". I'm certain this would give 100% compliance in very short order. You don't need a 2000 page bill costing a trillion dollars to insure 300 million people($3,333/per person).
The problem on the federal level is that no one is bothering to read the final bill before signing it into law. If the bill is soooo good there should be no problem getting 75 or even 90 signatures. If the only way to get the required 60 signatures is through the use of bribery then maybe the bill needs to be tweaked a bit.
As for health care, and this is not health care it is health pay, what gives any legislator the right to determine what coverage I want.
Why can't I design my own health insurance plan, covering those illnesses / injuries I'm concerned with, the procedures I want implemented, the price I'm willing to pay, and who and where I want to do the procedures. One car insurance company is already doing this, and the CEO is a major Democrat supporter.
GOP: "But most Americans do not want to turn over the best medical care system in the world to the federal government."
Obvious insistence on a oft-repeated lie by the GOP
President: "But if anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors, and stop insurance company abuses, let me know."
GOP: "We will do that by implementing common sense reforms, like letting families and businesses buy health insurance policies across state lines, and ending frivolous lawsuits against doctors and hospitals that drive up the cost of your healthcare."
Standard GOP, totally irrelevant to the goals, one cannot buy what one cannot afford, no matter what state it comes from, and frivolous lawsuits in reality means that the GOP wants to protect corrupt health care services from malpractice when they screw up. No way the GOP plan will make health care affordable for one more American.
GOP: "Here in Virginia, we have the opportunity to be the first state on the East Coast to explore for and produce oil and natural gas offshore."
In short, continue the dependence on oil, continue the status quo. you can explore all day, no guarantee you will find anything, and if you do there is a guarantee that it won't last forever.
These GOP neos continue the same brain-dead ideas that created the mess, as a means to get out of it, I believe that fits the definition of insanity.
It is not the GOP that got us into this mess, stop blaming Bush for many of the problems that where created by the Democrats (Fanny Mae and Fredy mac for one, you dont talk about how Bush wanted then better regulated and the Democrats blocked it!) Or the fact in one year, your Democrats have doubled the debt!
Until we can get a good alternative energy source working, why not drill for oil we may have here? Why should everyone else in the world drill but not us? You know you can do two things at once.... Well if you are smart you can....
The only way they believe that compitition can occur is if the government is involved. The liberals believe that all of the insurance companies get together is secret and figure out how they are going to stick it to the public. Meanwhile they trust the most corrupt organization in the country, our government.
"The only difference between death and taxes is that death does not get worse every time congress meets." Will Rogers
The vast majority of doctors and health care providers are not evil corrupt individuals. They are just harder working and more dedicated than you are, so again take from the people who have something you do not. If for one second you think that medical providers are evil slit your wrists and see how quickly you are rushed to the hospital to be saved by these "corrupt" individuals. On second thought you might sue the Docs that sew you back up, how about you just open your eyes.
Last, even Al Gore knows that the first step in moving away from a dependence on oil is looking for new technology, we can not just expect everyone to go back to the 1700s and ride in horse drawn carriages.
Please stop drinking the cool aid!!! you are not helping yourself!!!
But I digress-
Point 1.. If there is a public option and businesses see it is more profitable to cancel existing plans and force workers into the public option then my health care would absolutely be diminished. If you don't believe that then look in Canada.. My fiance is form there and the have Public Health Care...which sucks so badly that most people who can afford it or who work for companies that provide it have supplemental health insurance to cover the gaps of their Public Option. But worse than that is the quality of care under the public option absolutely sucks...
Point 2.. if you create a competitive environment by allowing people/business to purchase insurance across state line the natural dynamics of the market will result in lower Insurance cost for all. Many people who don't have insurance today could afford it at a lower prices or perhaps they work for a business that would be able to afford it. Especially if those business were to receive a permanent Cap Gains tax cut. Regardless, those that still can't afford it, can apply Medicare.
Point 3.. This point is almost too idiotic to answer but I will. There is an abundance of natural resources off both coasts and in the Gulf of Mexico that would allow use to reduce our dependency on Foreign Oil. (Provides competition, security) This is not a myth but a well documented fact. We could be drilling, finding, refining oil and ultimately selling to Americans this oil at incredibly cheaper prices than the land sharks form OPEC. Furthermore, as we do this there is absolutely nothing wrong with funding grants for finder alternative fuel options.. Electric, Hydro Electric, etc.. Name one Republican that is not favor of that... it's hard because there aren't any...
The fact of the matter is simply this... democrats like yourself are so closed minded that you don't see the train in the tunnel.. never fear..you'll see it in November 2010 and then again in 2012..
Got my passport and I'm outta here.....
One less socialist nanny-state advocate. This country is not like the others because we were ultimately founded by rebels. That rebellous, freedom-loving, independent spirit has been passed down from generation to generation.
Once you arrive at your socialist utopia of choice, please dispose of your passport and take up new residency.
The Demoncats have continued bankrupting this country, you are using Cloward Piven and this garbage health care, cap and trade and other centralized controls based on falsehoods and identity politics and committing deliberate malfeasance to destroy America. The demoncats are profligate spenders and liars, the demoncats have many wars open, the demoncats spend when the USA is broke and the demoncats are traitors. The demoncats will be put into jail one day for their high crimes against America.
This is the worst more cynical bunch of traitor liar criminals I have ever seen in Washington, and I can't even begin to imagine what demoncat scum think their children and grand children will inherit. By the actions of the Demoncats, they will inherit a weak, broke in debt authoritarian police state with foreign and oligarchical interests controlling our lives from cradle to grave.
The demoncats are against freedom, liberty and the constitution and they are all tyrants yet they can't even see themselves for the tyrants they are because they all have a mental disorder, liberalism is a mental disorder, that much becomes clear since Obama and the demoncats have been Cloward Pivening America to construct it claiming a utopian ideal as a model but instead are managing to implement INGSOC.
It is WE THE PEOPLE that will end up having the demoncat corrupt profligate bankrupting counterfeiting currency defacing traitors in jail.
Charles Schumer. Chris Dodd. Barney Frank. Harry Reid. Nancy Pelosi. Barak Obama, Ben Nelson, Max Baucus, Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Goldman Sachs, Ben Bernanke - all of these scum traitors and companies will be held to account.
This criminal Obama and all the demoncat thugs in Washington are using stimulus money to vastly expand government payrolls and using the stimulus as war chest of political money to manipulate politics and the electorate.
The corruption going on now is inconceivable, and Russia, India and China are going to devour what's left of America because of the demoncat arrogant traitors, THE DEMONCATS are the enemy within and must be stopped. The price is FREEDOM.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money
Virginia has, by far, one of the largest 'big government agendas' in the Republic. I think this will be a true tooth-and-nail fight to layoff even one established government employee from the many tens of thousands we don't need. Good Luck Governor!
*Got rid of the county sticker? RIGHT!!! All they did was rename it to a 'county vehicle registration fee' and then raised $$ the cost to the citizen.
*Charge property taxes twice a year to aid the poor? RIGHT!! All this does is cost the taxpayer more $$$$ in overall taxes to employ more people to collect more money from the citizens.
*In every other state I have lived, a citizen pays vehicle tax directly to the state when they get their tags. If they do not pay, they do not get the tags(stickers). In VA, citizens pay the county, then the county reports non-payment to the commonwealth, then the commonwealth revokes the right to get tags, meanwhile the county is charging $$ interest. MO MONEY!!! Why not cut the county out of the equation and have cheaper vehicle taxes to boot (less hands in that pie)?
*In VA, citizens are required to have yearly $$ vehicle safety inspections (because citizens are too ignorant and irresponsible to change their own wiper blades). Other states don't, yet their vehicle unsafeness, per-capita, is easily comparable to VA's.
*Property taxes are steadily RISING $$$$ during this entire economic downturn, while VA county and commonwealth employees have fewer (if any!! None in my county!) layoffs than the private sector and they still enjoy cost of living increases! In fact, with VA's unemployment rate between 10%-24% commonwealth-wide, Richmond bragged last month about the 'creation' of 4000 new government jobs!!!!!!!!! What are these new employees paid with???????? OUR RISING TAXES!!!!!!!!!
And just what are RepubliCONs in Congress doing FOR the country to earn their COST to the American taxpayer(besides "just say no")?