Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Michelle Obama's "America Plan"


As we all know, politicians' spouses generally serve as surrogates for the candidates. They're sent out to speak for their spouse, and recently Michelle Obama made so very telling comments on her, if not her husband's, thoughts on wealth and taxes. At a North Carolina campaign stop April 8th, Mrs. Obama said: "The truth is most Americans don't want much. Folks don't want the whole pie. Most Americans feel blessed to thrive a little bit... but that's out of reach for them. The truth is, in order to get things like Universal Health Care and a revamped Education System, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."Why, welcome back Karl. How's Mrs. Marx been?The sad truth is, we spend more money per student than any other country, only second to Switzerland, and what do we have to show for it. Our public school system doesn't need MORE money, it's over funded and then at least a 1/3 of that money gets wasted. The top 10% of wage earners in this country pay 70% of the tax bill, while the bottom 50% pays only 3% and the bottom 48% GET MONEY BACK!!!A few weeks ago, Michelle Obama had complained that she and her husband had a hard time paying for their children's piano lessons. I'm sure it must be difficult when you only make a minuscule $500,000/year. Either you then agree the government is taking too much money, or you simply can't organize and execute a simple budget. Either way, I don't want to see the Obama's in the White House.From her UCLA speech, February 3rd, Mrs. Obama said: "...And Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism, that you put down your division, that you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones, that you push yourselves to be better, and that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, and uniformed." Nothing like Totalitarianism dressed up with Oprah's trims and trappings. It would be one thing if she were calling for 300 million self-reliant informed individuals. Instead, she wants 300 million cheerleaders for a messianic Presidency.

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