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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (46037)	9/11/2008 3:23:39 PM
From: tonto	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

No, you posted a campaign position. The numbers as posted earlier do not add up. A plan has numbers which can be analyzed...this tells us little. Hell, anyone can say that. I missed all his new spending programs and which programs he is going to cut. I am looking for debt service....

To: puborectalis who wrote (46037)	9/11/2008 3:57:55 PM
From: dmark	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224750

How about making the voting system more fair. 5% of the people pay 50% of the taxes, but only control 5% of the vote. Do the unemployed and employed in your family household pool the money together and have equal say on how to spend and invest it? I didn't think so. How about proving to end Government waste first with an audit from the private sector to avoid conflict of interest. Then send in a army of Gordon Ramsay ( Hell's Kitchen ) types and televise it, advertise it, clean up inefficient government, take proceeds from the show, and leave my money alone. Everybody wins, even those "few" hint hint, non-contributing Guberment workers who get the kick in the arse they needed. Oh yea, the private sector companies .... you don't need to worry about them. An unfamiliar term to the Guberment ... "Going Out of Business", happens to them if they don't shape up and perform. Now you remember why they went to work for the Government.

To: puborectalis who wrote (46037)	9/11/2008 4:11:22 PM
From: MJ	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

What is Obama smoking these days. That is the most garbled statement I have ever read on budgeting. "Obama believes that a critical step in restoring fiscal discipline is enforcing pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) budgeting rules which require new spending commitments or tax changes to be paid for by cuts to other programs or new revenue." What would he cut, what would he not cut----what would he expand, what would he not expand----the Nanny Government? "Make Government Spending More Accountable and Efficient: Obama will ensure that federal contracts over $25,000 are competitively bid" Obama's idea of making government more accountable and efficient is to assure that the size of the government expands to monitor these small contracts beginning at $25,000. What's the cost of this $25,000. requirement-----how many overseers will he hire to assure compliance. A whole new beauracracy of pencil pushers-----with the expansion cost being past back to the taxpayers as the government payroll grows fat. Just another expansion of Big Government. Obama is a typical politician----give them a little power and they want more power. mj