- Location
- Dracut, MA
Yeah, it's wrong when anyone does that. It was wrong of Romney and it'd sure be wrong of Obama too. Somehow I think it's not cool for anyone to blatantly ignore the Constitution and our Bill of Rights.
They're both douchebags, but Obama I find to be downright scary.
Some posts in this thread said something to the effect of "it sounds great if you say you'll cut taxes, but where's the money gonna come from? it's GOT to come from somewhere!!?!" My view on that is, no, it doesn't. Maybe the government gets too god damn much money as it is, and there are plenty of things in the government that the government funds and "needs" money for that, in my opinion, the government should have nothing to do with.
Health insurance is a great example, and talked about much by the candidates. Mittens was so proud of himself last night saying that he got 98% of adults in MA insured...what he failed to mention was the small bits that make people like myself so bitter about the .gov stepping into personal things like telling ME what health insurance is good for ME...last year I had insurance that worked great for me, I was very satisfied with the coverage it provided. When I did my taxes this spring, I got nailed with an eight HUNDRED dollar fine because my insurance did not meet "Minimum Creditable Coverage" since it didn't cover $X ambulatory coverage. Some BS like that. No, I didn't have to ride anywhere in an ambulance. I got fined $800 because IF I had needed that, I would've been forced to pay it out of pocket. I'd rather have paid that out of pocket than be fined for doing nothing wrong.
So, if the .gov would get itself the hell out of places it doesn't belong, such as healthcare, it wouldn't be an unreasonable stretch at all for us to see that it is in fact entirely possible to cut taxes, and not need the money. For a long time, government has been spending way too much, like a spoiled rich kid who steals mommy's credit card and goes on a shopping spree. When returning home, they've been lightly scolded but there's no serious consequences. The spoiled kid comes to the realization that they can walk all over the rich parents, and there's no incentive to stop spending other people's money like crazy.
I agree with a FEW of the points Romney made last night, but I agreed with NOTHING Obama said. Anything that came out of that %$(#(%$*'s mouth was him spewing total bullshit, or an outright lie. He has no grasp and is disgustingly detached from how anything truly works. He's an idealist, and has no realist in him at all. And IF he were given his ideal world...That scares the hell out of me.
I'm ranting, but the short version of my opinion is that big government is bad news, and in my personal opinion it's beyond insane for anyone to think raising taxes and making the gov bigger will do this country any good, or put us in a better place.
I understand that many folks say a libertarian vote is a wasted vote, but at least those people have their shit together and truly make sense. At this point, I'm not sure if I'll be going for the lesser of two undeniable evils, or "wasting" my vote. Not feeling too optimistic of where this country's headed regardless of who wins next month. =/
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