soapbox

Okay, so I have to get on my soap box for a moment in response to my sisters. Where do I begin? The socialist comment I find disturbing (along with any further mentions of Joe the plumber who is not even a plumber). The comment regarding spread the wealth was in reference to taxes, which is what Joe and Obama were discussing. What are taxes other than a redistribution of wealth?? 90% of the taxes of this country are paid by the rich and then all the taxes paid in are REDISTRIBUTED to many things including, welfare, food stamps, medicare etc. His plan only recends the bogus tax cuts of Bush and it will mean paying the same taxes as when Clinton was president which is only a 2% increase on those making more than 250,000 which will effect at best Jase in Alaska but the rest of us will not be affected. The movement to get people believing the socialist thing was started by small minded people who use scare tactics to influence votes. It's worked in the past and I am happy it did not work this time. President Obama started as a community organizer and believes that change will happen through the people of America stepping up and making changes in their own communities. In building this nation from the ground up. I do not see anything in his positions that speak otherwise. I guess time will tell but last Tuesday night I was so proud to an American for the first time in at least eight years. In fact I got misty eyed during the small bit of his acceptance speech that I got to hear during a rather busy night at work. I feel like hope is alive in this country again after 8 years of gritting my teeth and bearing what will easily go down as the worst president in history. I could also go on and on but I will stop. On another note I wonder how everyone feels about how much money the church put into backing proposition 8 in california. I thought there was supposed to be seperation between church and state. There was nothing else 15-20 million dollars could be spent on? Hmmm....