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Republicans keep convincing themselves that even though they lost the election, the country is still a center-right country politically. Democrats are convincing themselves that since Obama was elected, and they increased their majorities in Congress, that it is impossible for the country to be center-right. So which is it?

Let’s analyze the Democrats premise. Does voting for a leftist for President mean the country has shifted to the left? Not necessarily. In a post George W. Bush political world, a certain percentage of the electorate will vote for a lawn chair before they’ll vote for a Republican in 2008. I liken this to not rooting for the Falcons because they once employed Michael Vick. Vick was the leader of the Falcons, much like President Bush is the leader of the Republicans, but no one blames the entire Falcon organization for his actions.

So has George W. Bush’s 8 years in office changed the core beliefs of the American people? Of course not. People that were against abortion aren’t now for it because of Bush. People that were for guns rights are not now against it. Those beliefs didn’t change substantially, as shown by polls on major political issues. So why did America vote for Barack Obama?

Because the country thinks Republicans “must be punished” for George W. Bush. The Democrat party has successfully sold the American people that line with the help of the major news networks, the Oscar-created mainstream status of anti-Bush propaganda films like Fahrenheit 9/11, and the inaction of Bush to defend himself. The Democrat party convinced a majority of Americans that voting for John McCain is a vote for George W. Bush. It was so convincing that Americans voted for Obama with excitement and hope for change. Americans ran excitedly to the polls to pull the lever for a man who himself has admitted he isn’t qualified. Those that didn’t run excitedly used every excuse in the book to justify voting for an unqualified, inexperienced junior senator with a terrorist for a friend. Palin derangement syndrome and the stock market plummeting in September assuaged the worries of electing Barack Obama. I have heard Republicans friends say that the thought of Palin being the close to becoming President scares them. I say to myself, “but voting for Obama doesn’t scare you at all…”
I’d like to inform liberals, now that Obama has been elected, that “failed policies of the Bush administration” and “Bush/McCain economics” must be replaced by the actions of Obama. When people question the qualifications of President Obama, answering their question with stuff like “Bush” or “failed policies” will quickly start to piss people off. The issue-by-issues polls have not changed substantially in 2008, so Obama is still dealing with a center-right country. The election of Obama does not disprove this. His election simply proves that people are willing to throw the issues aside when they’re angry with one party. If liberals don’t realize and accept this, they will make some big mistakes in 2009.

A new Rasmussen poll shows McCain has regained the public’s trust on the economy and taxes. McCain lost this poll after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and the sharp decline of the entire market shortly thereafter. McCain is preferred by voters 47% to 45% for Obama on taxes. McCain also leads 48% to 47% on the economy, and 45% to 44% on Social Security. McCain is still down in the generic voting polls.

All the talk of hope and change and “failed policies of the last 8 years” were blown out by 4 words: spread the wealth around. Not that you should celebrate if it sinks Obama’s campaign; John McCain thinks that Wall Street should be punished. You’re not gonna punish them by taking their money, are you John?

Joe the Plumber was able to ask a more hard-hitting relevant question than all the debate moderators combined. Now we have the big question: which incompetent, unqualified liar do we vote for? Barack, the socialist, possibly racist, incompetent, unqualified liar, or John, the global-warming-believing, fiscally moderate, incompetent, unqualified liar? Obviously John, but don’t tell me you’re excited about it.

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Whatever word you want to use to describe Barack Obama, there is no doubt he supports wealth-redistribution. Marxists, socialists, and communists alike think of wealth as though it is no different than oxygen. The fact that some people have more of it than others is not fair to them. The problem with wealth redistribution consists of two incorrect assumptions:

1. Taking money from the rich “helps” the poor
2. There is no difference in value to the community between two people who work

Taking money from the rich actually HURTS poor people. Econ 101: you can’t tax a corporation. All costs of a corporation must be included in the price of its product. You raise taxes on big business, they simply raise the price of their product, and anyone who buys it suffers. Taxing businesses is a hidden sales tax on the consumer.

Another way for a business to get their tax money back is by doing more with less, as in less employees. Putting a luxury tax on yachts may make you feel better about soaking that rich bastard, but it will result in decreased yacht sales across the board. Rich guy says, “eh I dont need a yacht” or “I dont need a 2nd yacht!” Rich guy is still rich, but some yacht-making craftsmen will see his work disappear. You may not like “trickle-down” economics, but I don’t like that beer makes me fat. Tough shit.

Filthy rich CEOs create jobs

As for the difference of value between one person’s work and another’s, the work of a CEO or VP of sales can produce contracts and capital to produce more jobs, while the work of the entry-level employee cannot. The CEO comes up with a good idea and fronts his own money to the entry-level employee to help him achieve a goal. Rich businessmen may be in it for the money, but their desire for it creates amazing byproducts. Their prosperity helps create prosperity for others.

Steve Jobs invested millions of dollars into a touch screen cell phone that could have bombed. The incentive to make billions from it is what made him take the risk. What happened? The iPhone is a huge succes, and as a result, Apple Corporate had to hire thousands of engineers, sales people, Apple Store had to open new branches, hire more Apple Geniuses. AT&T increased their customer base when people bought and signed up for service with the iPhone, causing them to open more branches, hire more people. Both companies probably had to hire new HR employees to handle all the new employees. Is Steve Jobs an evil businessman? Did his money and prosperity not get back to the “people”?

In this financial crisis, people have gotten fed up with rich businesses making “too much” money, so they want the government to take care of it. Americans are appalled that some CEO made $200 million, and they want people like Obama to take it away. Obama is happy to oblige, but just because Obama might be able to get his buddies to pass legislation stealing that CEOs contractually agreed upon compensation does not change the fact that it is stealing. You take all the crazy incomes of all the Wall Street CEOs, and give them back to the American people, it will be about $20 a person. Does that solve your financial woes? Why not let that CEO keep it and wait for him to invest it in the market, or in a new company that creates hundreds or thousands of new jobs?

The myth of Robin Hood

Robin Hood did not steal money from a rich businessman. He stole it from a rich dictator, who decided the levels of taxation with no concern or council from the people. Barack Obama would like you to think he is Robin, when in fact he is King John.

The Dow Jones climbed 936 points, or 11%. You’ll hear this is the biggest point gain ever, but points aren’t the issue. The 11% is, which ranks 4th among single day increases.

No one predicted this. No one could predict this. Don’t listen to any politician on why this happened. They don’t know why, but they will all take credit for it. The fact is tomorrow it could increase by more tomorrow, or maybe completely disappear tomorrow, or somewhere in between. Short-term investing is like playing roulette, so stop paying attention to what has happened in the last two weeks.

Both sides in the Presidential race have resorted to the liberal tactic of class warfare. Blame Wall Street for its corruption and greed, because blaming fellow senators unavoidably reflects badly on all senators.

The problem with all this class envy/warfare nonsense is that money and wealth are great things. Liberals would have you believe money is something rich people collect from poor people so they can roll around in it, making “dough” angels, and occasionally buying yachts. The reality is money is what pays for electricity, water, healthcare, and allows employers to employ employees. The more rich people there are, the more jobs there will be. The fact that the potential of making money may have greed as a byproduct does not mean we should be taking the high compensation of CEOs.

GREED HAS EXISTED SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME, AND WILL ALWAYS EXIST!

Complaining about greed on Wall Street is like building a house with no roof and then complaining when it rains. You have to build the roof, and you have to have laws that prevent greed from taking advantage of the financial layman. Punishing the rich by taking their windfall profits is like cutting off your nose to spite your face. The more profits those companies make, the more jobs they can create in the future. Those profits allow for more research and development, which will allow the company to make their processes more efficient, lowering prices.

You can’t punish the rich. You can’t tax a corporation. When you punish the rich, all you do is tighten their wallets, which hurts anyone that has rich patrons. When you tax a corporation, all they do is pass the taxes onto the consumer, so you are actually taxing the consumer. So stop trying in this fruitless effort of redistributing wealth through taxes and windfall profit confiscation.

Politicians want you to ignore their perpetual greed for tax dollars by distracting you with the downsides of a free market that isn’t policed properly by the policies of those very politicians.