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Timmah! on 30 August 2008
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akuma587 said:

I think most people who say Obama has no policies have not bothered to look at his policies, and expect him to explain every detail of his policies during every speech.

He wants to complete revamp health insurance, allowing people to choose the same type of coverage that Congressman receive and to stop insurance companies from discriminating against people who have medical conditions already. He also wants to give extra tax credits to pay for health care (as does McCain).

He wants to reform the tax system so that corporations can't take advantage of every loophole in existence to avoid paying taxes, which is the fiscally responsible thing to do when our deficit is spiralling upwards to a DANGEROUS level.

He wants to repeal the majority of the Bush tax cuts, because they have cost the country more than the ENTIRE Iraq war. Don't believe me? Go look at the numbers yourself.

He wants to invest heavily in domestic energy, especially renewable energy. He is also for some level of offshore drilling. I disagree with him in not promoting nuclear energy.

I am not saying all of you are guilty of this, but most of you saying Obama doesn't have good policies have probably not actually looked at his policies. Here they are, in black and white, taken straight from his website. If you want to say he does have bad policies, at least READ them:

http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/ObamaBlueprintForChange.pdf

 

I wouldn't call those policies. It's not really explained how he'll pay for these things, most are just more lofty goals with no real plan to implement them.

And wow, what great plans he has for MY MONEY. Big government getting it's hands into EVERY ASPECT of our daily lives. I'm sorry, but every government insitution I've ever visited, from the DMV, to social security offices, courthouses, etc has been poorly run, inneficient as hell, incredible wasters of money, etc, etc. All the problems government is currently trying to fix GOVERNMENT CREATED IN THE FIRST FREAKING PLACE! Lofty, impossible goals sound good on paper, but once the beaurocrats get their hands on this (which they will, Jesus-bama can't run all this by himself), it will be nothing but big crap from big government. Obama is young and a dreamer. He is well intentioned and I have no personal problem with him, he seems like a nice enough guy, but he is a tax & spend liberal who thinks governemt is the answer to all our problems (many of which, ironically, were created by government in the first place). The tax increases needed to pay for all this will far outweigh the 'benefits'... they always do.

My favorite promise: cut CO2 emmissions 80% by 2050. Great, by that time he won't be in the oval office anymore. How? not really explained. Typical over the top campaign promises.