Either Way, We're in Trouble.....

I heard someone say the other day that people who didn’t know the issues should just stay home and not vote. I couldn’t agree more. I think we should have an exam that you have to pass before you vote. The questions on the exam would be general questions that people who pay attention to current events would know. My take on it is that if you don’t pay attention to current events now, you have no purpose in voting because you won’t pay attention to them later to see if your candidate is trying to do the things he or she promised. The people who don’t pay attention to real current events should stay home and read their People Magazine and US Weekly and watch Showbiz Tonight, because that’s where they get their “news”. If these people would turn the channel and get their news from Fox instead of Leno, Letterman, and Conan, they might have a different outlook on who they should vote for.

That being said, looking back on the last several months, McCain has run a terrible campaign. I say that because there were so many things that could have and needed to be said that weren’t, and he didn’t take shots when he had the chance to. For example, when asked whether or not we should fear an Obama presidency, he said we had nothing to fear! Obama is the least experienced and least qualified person to lead this nation. Of course we should fear an Obama presidency because he thinks that Iran is a country that doesn’t pose a threat because they’re “small”. We shouldn’t fear a president who has had associations with terrorists? (Notice that word is plural). I have never heard McCain say a word about Jeremiah Wright either, and that bothers me. Obama sat in the man’s church for 20 years, heard racist and America hating “sermons”, but claimed that he didn’t know that Wright felt this way. You don’t sit in a church for 20 years and not know that your minister hates America and is a racist, and if you do, you’re nowhere near intelligent enough to be the leader of the most powerful country in the world.

The very fact that Obama is a presidential candidate is proof that America is going downhill. It proves that Americans are becoming more and more willingly ignorant by not recognizing the lies that he presents. He continues tell people that he will pay teachers more, give college students more scholarships amongst other things. What he doesn’t tell you is that the federal government has nothing to do with any of those things and that it would be impossible in a democracy for him to change that. However, American’s are so willing to hear something new and different that he could say he would lower the cost of movie tickets and they would vote for him, because they would actually believe him. If he gets what he wants and is actually able to do these things, it would be because he tore up the constitution and turned democracy to socialism. The only way to give more college students scholarships is by having the government take over the colleges, but nobody understands that.

Another thing that McCain has failed to do is defend tax breaks for corporations and oil companies. People hear about tax breaks for the wealthy, corporations, and oil companies and instantly think that it’s because Bush has ties to oil companies. What they don’t take into consideration is that the wealthy employ the middle class. If we tax the wealthy to death, which we already do now, they won’t be able to pay the people that they employ. With corporations, who do you think pays their income taxes? WE DO! We have the second highest corporation tax in the world, and Obama wants to make it higher. The prices of their products are so high because they have to pass on the costs, including taxes. It’s the same way with oil companies. They already have high taxes, and when they get taxed more, the price of gas goes up, so when their taxes aren’t cut, we pay for it! Obama wants to be Robin Hood by taking from the rich and giving to the poor. Only in this case, the majority of the wealthy people in America got where they are because they worked for it. The people that Obama wants to give their wealth to don’t work and wait for a government handout. He says that 95% will get a tax credit under his plan; however 40% of American’s don’t pay income taxes to begin with. In other words, he’s going to cut a check to the people who don’t pay income taxes, which is welfare. We should be strongly reforming the welfare system so that Americans can’t abuse the system and Obama’s plan is to make it worse and reward laziness even more!

I personally think though that it’s just getting started. I hate to be a pessimist, but this country is screwed either way. It’s difficult to word what I am about to say delicately, but I will do my best. If Obama wins, we are screwed for every reason that I have already mentioned, plus a few others. If Obama loses, America will be labeled as a racist nation, because it’s impossible to disagree with “the one” on the issues. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and all of the people who think that every white American is a racist will “prove their point” if Obama loses. What it boils down to though is that those two don’t want Obama to win to begin with, because if he does, they’ll have to admit they were wrong and that white Americans aren’t all racists. In other words, they will lose their jobs and all of their credibility. Voting FOR Obama just because he’s black is just as bad as voting AGAINST him because he’s black and people just don’t get that. All of these people who are proud of him for being where he is should look at what he stands for and then see if they’re still proud of him. While the numbers aren’t high, there are a few African Americans who are not voting for him because of what he stands for, they just aren’t heard by enough people.

This will be my last article before the election, which of course is tomorrow. I am nervous, because as much as I hate it, I’ve got a pretty bad feeling about which way it’s going to go. As I said in my last article though, maybe this is what we need to turn our country around. Maybe after four years of Obama in the office America will realize how badly we were fooled, and will be ready to put the republicans in the White House and in the congress. If you are a hard working American who earns your paycheck every week and want to keep as much of it as possible, stand up and go vote for McCain. Obama will take it and give it to somebody who sits around watching soaps and Judge Judy everyday when they are completely capable of working. Those people already get enough of my tax dollars and they don’t need more!

My name is Shaun Mount and Barack Obama would NOT approve this message!