Six Ways Obama Wants to Change America

Townhall.com ^ | June 13, 2008 | Floyd and Mary Beth Brown

[Bernard]

and he would withhold life-saving measures from babies born after botched abortions

Just because the baby is born, does that mean the abortion was "botched"? Is that the only cause of a botchery?

[The Raven]

>>We heard the president say he wants to make tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans permanent, when we know that at a time of war and economic hardship, the last thing we need is a permanent tax cut for Americans who don't need them and weren't even asking for them.”

I really, really, really hate this kind of rhetoric/propaganda

[Kaslin]

That is exactly what it is, rhetoric propaganda.

[WayneS]

Well is THOSE are the only six chnages he wants I can’t for the life of me figure out what all the anti-Obama fuss is all about.

[ripley]

“six ways obama wants to change america”

nah. there’s really only one way he wants to change america; down, dirty, socialist revolution with lots of thugs to enforce it.

IMHO

[noname07718]

Get used to it. More is comming.

[Kaslin]

Of course it’s a botched abortion to the pro abortion crowd if a baby is born alive

[Kaslin]

Interesting tag line and well fitting

[Coldwater Creek]

It is a down right lie!!

Those “middle class” people that would retire on their 401’s and have to pay huge capitol gains, will find out that out.

[LibertyRocks]

“Change number five is education. His far-left voting record voices his beliefs about education. In 2003, he cast his vote in Illinois to allow “age appropriate” sex education to be taught in elementary school. Planned Parenthood and the ACLU also supported this legislation.”

Not just in Elementary School, but in KINDERGARTEN no less!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pO1dIKgfPw

[Dick Bachert]

“Yes. In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again – and CHANGE. DON’T FORGET CHANGE!”

This is the same phenomenon that gave America Oprah Winfrey. But this is A LOT scarier. All it gave Oprah was tons of money and influence. Obamalamadingdong will have REAL POWER to damage the country in ways about which Winfrey could only dream!

[RexBeach]

No nation ever taxed its way to prosperity. Period.

[yldstrk]

And we’ll have all the efficiency of the socialist paradyme to look forward to. Very efficient at making people miserable, very efficient at producing things no one wants or needs, very efficient at slowing an economy, very efficient at impoverishing the majority.

[rabscuttle385]

"And the Bush tax cuts -- people didn't need them, and they weren't even asking for them, and that is why they need to be less, so that we can pay for universal health care and other initiatives."

C'mon, Obama, stop toying with us and just go for the gold: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!"

[Entrepreneur]

We heard the president say he wants to make tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans permanent, when we know that at a time of war and economic hardship, the last thing we need is a permanent tax cut for Americans who don't need them and weren't even asking for them.

Personally, I sorta agree. I think Warren Buffet and George Soros should pay more. They keeps saying we're undertaxed. Let's give the pair of them the government they keep asking for, and give the rest of us the liberty we've lost (while it was taken, not lost, we failed to defend it, which is tantamount to the same thing).

[Entrepreneur]

I forgot all about Being There. Wow, that is a movie for our time.

The Garden of Barack... shudder!

[Bobarian]

It’s about time for Atlas to shrug.

[Sender]

While socialized medicine in theory sounds like a nice idea, one has only to look at England and Canada to see that it doesn't provide the same care as we have now. Or, Michael Moore wants us to look at Cuba, healthcare paradise. They are routinely denied treatments or forced to wait months for critical surgery, or threatened with ending their medical benefits if they finance treatments privately. In the case of Cuba, the common person gets a dirty, dilapidated hospital with inadequate medicines.

But the USA surely won't have those problems since we're so rich, right? Even Obama will only be able to raise taxes so far without causing economic chaos, so the budget for this universal healthcare will be limited. The giant new Department of Healthcare will quickly bloat with civil service workers providing their usual high degree of efficiency and non-redundancy. Doctors and hospitals will be told by the Feds exactly what they will be paid for a procedure, and they will have to accept it and like it.

Persons now illegally in the US will get healthcare cards too. Millions of the poorest people, who have the most serious, chronic problems due to obesity, inactivity, smoking, cancer, bad diets etc, will flock to the free healthcare teat. Soon doctors and operating rooms will be overbooked for months, the doctors will not be happy about the $158.60 (or whatever) they are getting paid for the surgery, and the hospitals will be screaming that they can't continue to run on the alloted budget. Hospital employees will be cut to skeleton staffs, doctors will revolt and we will wait for our turn in the healthcare queue, right behind millions of others in that giant waiting room.

I guess that will result in emergency calls for more taxes to rescue the now foundering socialized medicine behemoth. Remember President Clinton's healthcare plan proposal, the one Hillary was dungeonmaster of? At the time, Senator Moynihan proposed a 10,000 percent tax on handgun ammunition, supposedly to help pay for healthcare victims. However, no one but the Government would actually pay $200 a box for handgun ammo, so there would have been no actual tax revenue. Moynihan later admitted that his purpose was to get rid of ammunition ("The nation has a 200-year supply of guns but only a 4-year supply of ammunition").

They would have better success slapping huge new taxes on cigarettes, but they are already so expensive that many people would quit or handroll their own. So again, little new tax revenue.

Aha! We'll just take those corporate windfall profits away from those evil corporations! And then what? Prices go through the roof and pension plans suffer. More economic chaos.

So we'll just tax the rich "their fair share"! If you take 75% of rich peoples' incomes, soon they will either not be rich for the plucking, will not invest in American jobs, or will shelter their money and jobs outside the US. Chaos.

We may have to put up with this bumbling experiment just to prove it doesn't work. Many will receive late, substandard care. Some will die. Then, at the beginning of the next Republican administration, dismantling the giant healthcare beaurocracy will be a great talking point for the Democrats. "President Ends Universal Healthcare, Thousands of Useless Beaurocrats Hardest Hit".

[layman]

Obama wants no limits on abortion

In Obama's own words .... "Why should anyone be punished with a baby?"