Shane's blog
If character and integrity mean anything to the American people then John McCain and Sarah Palin will win this historic election. Although the polls are leaning towards Obama and Biden, I believe the Democratic candidate has proven that he will say anything to try and get elected. Also, factor in his judgment and the group of people that ignited his political career, Rev. Wright, Tony Resco, the ACORN Group and William Ayers. The American people are smart and although they want change, I believe they also want a president with character and track record of consistently putting his country ahead of his own personal interests. I predict the majority of Americans will trust McCain more than Obama who has a very troubling group of people surrounding his past.
Yesterday! Obama said yes I believe in Redistribution of wealth, when I was kid I split my Peanut butter and Jelly sandwich with a friend. But as an adult, he made $4,000,000 and only gave to charity 1% and his VP made $2,450,000 and gave 1/8% or $3,600. Maybe he should define spreading the wealth of others a little bit better Mr. Obama!!! Sounds similar to Bill Ayers explanation, I was 8 years old…..
Sarah Palin, our most trusted American.
Only once in a lifetime does a woman with so much swagger and energy resound the American dream. No matter where you live in the United States, people connect with her simply because she is a typical everyday mother running a business and running a family. The typical American woman has a work ethic that is unmatched by anyone. I’m a father with three boys and my wife relates to Sarah since she wakes up 5:30 am, gets all three boys fed and dressed on top of reviewing for possible tests and quizzes before they hit the school trail. She then goes to work from 8:30am until 1pm and picks up the younger boys to go home and do homework with them for a few hours. She then fits in the sporting events and makes us all dinner. On average, she comes to bed around 11:30pm and I must say that I cannot even keep up with her! Now I’m sure that Todd Palin helps out a much more than I do, but my point is that Sarah has five children and runs one of the most economically important states in the country.
I love the story on how she came to power. She didn’t have the Kennedy name, money and power. All this woman did was attend local PTA meetings and then took the leap and ran for public office. She felt that was the only way she could make a difference. Than as the Mayor of a small town, she lead by example and cut her personal salary by 10%. Only after improving the town did she get a pay raise. I read many publications including the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and the NY Times and I don’t ever remember a local politician getting elected and dropping their salary. If you read her bio she basically starts in the mail room and works her way up to the top job. All of the elitist politicians in Washington brag about graduating from Ivy League schools, but most of them have no integrity and will simply bend over backwards for power. Sarah isn’t perfect, but she has a proven track record, she also has great common sense which in my opinion is one of the most important characteristics. We can all hire smart people from the best schools, but in the end, common sense and leadership are key. Ronal Reagan hired the best, but he didn’t make decisions based on one persons view, he seemed to fact find from the smart people and then decide what’s best for the country. Sarah, while in public office, saw the corruption at the top within her own party and she aggressively attacked a powerful republican Governor that was corrupt.
None of these current politician, no matter which side they are on, have demonstrated that kind of integrity or leadership and have taken on the bad guys, let alone their buddies. Let’s look at the current credit crisis as an example. No Democratic politician has publically and denounced Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and others involved with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae scandals. If Sarah was on either side and had the power to do so, she would have demanded an investigation and go after these filthy politicians. I believe that she would appoint a man like Rudy Giuliani who cleaned up Wall Street and locked up the bad guys like Ian Bosky and Michael Milken in the ‘90s. This woman has the guts and leadership skills to go after both politicians (Republican or Democrat) and these negligent Wall Street CEO’s guilty of greed.
My thoughts are simple. Sarah understands family values of the middle class and knows what it’s like to buy school supplies, pay a mortgage, buy gas or shop at Wal-Mart for her kids. She has the leadership skills, integrity and common sense judgment where the American people can trust her and realize that she will put the people ahead of her own interests.
PS… Charity Sarah Palin and Husband(Sarah has 5 kids too) make 166,000 in income and gave $3,300 and Joe Biden(generous guy)income $2,450,000 he gave $3,600.00
Top 10 reason for no Obama
1. Community organizer(very thin record)
2. Religious Leader 20 years (Rev. Wright sound like he hates whites)
3. Investor connection (convicted man Tony Rezco)
4. Political start (domestic terrorist Williams Ayers)
5. Democrat Leadership contacts or friends (Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Barney Franks)
6. Known Interview Redistribution of income or wealth 2001 abc has it!! (civil rights)
7. Fund raising from any source (Both Hillary and McCain refused such tactics)
8. Changed ideas depending on polls ( campaign pledge, taxes, meeting with dictators)
9. Acorn and voter fraud (Obama work with and for Acorn/His campaign has sent money to them why)
10. 95% tax cut of which people paid no taxes ( MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE MAKING 50K OR MORE WILL GET HURT!)
To America,
If you Google Obama on ABC radio 2001, You will hear his version of Wealth redistribution for African Americans or civil rights through legislation, not through our courts. I’m not as smart as him, but it sound as though his theories is to redistribute wealth. I just wonder where will these type of issues end. Once again a man who wants to control and allocate the governments monies or peoples monies. According to his ideas, instead of figuring out how to make all of us better and create jobs and new inventions. With his attitude every soldier and his kin too, should get a piece of the pie! In the end most people had hardships in the beginning coming to US soil. When handing out to many crutches will devalue our country. I believe a leader needs to help a bit, but really make all citizens feel like they have an incentive to work and they will win. Bottom line average Americans feel slighted with this topic already!
Middle Class dad,
CNN, CNBC and ABC kept saying McCain needed a game changer. Well they
got it, Joe the Plumber has pointed out a key difference in philosophy
with both McCain an Obama. Most hard working Americans wants incentives
And hope for potentially getting to the next level.
Joe has caused the great awakening, he has awaken a sleeping Giant the
Middle class. You got a middle class that doesn't want a hand out,
What they want are policies to reward success and give the Middle
Class incentives to work harder. Like any normal Americans we want to
Work hard for the next generation and help our kids get better
Education and have a dream of them becoming the next great dream or
Hope. Obama wants policies that have the government more involved
And tax cuts to people that don't pay federal taxes. Our recent
Financial crisis happen from policies that reduce lending standards to
People with bad credit and reward them for their bad behavior. Yet people working hard and trying to save the right way for the future need or want incentives.Obama’s policies don't demonstrate growth incentives for the middle class,bottom line Joe has highlighted the American dream. Incentives!!!
Middle class dad,
Tomorrow’s debate the moderator (Gwen Ifill PBS anchor) has vested interest on the outcome of the election. It has been reported she is a democrat and supports Obama big time, especially with a book coming out soon about Obama. Bottom line this moderator should give disclosure prior to the start, of such biased information.
My list of the top middle class citizens issues against democrats:
1. Push for affordable housing started the financial troubles
2. Republicans raised red flags several times after 2001 with no acknowledgement from the democrats
3. Obama’s 95% tax cut is a hoax since a large percentage of those people never paid taxes
4. In the recent $700 billion bill, Barney Frank again trying to hand over $ billions to the Acorn org. while they were part of the original problem
5. Fannie and Freddie had been infested with corruption(since 90's) and the Democratic top guns have paper trails pointing ties with them
6. They blame the banks who were pressured to lend to people with bad credit
7. Chris Dodd and Barney Frank helped create the problem and are now give America advice on fixing it
Clearly, a large percentage of our economies problems stemmed from democratic govt. policies.
Dear America,
I’m a middle class citizen who has watched the elitists destroy wall street and the congress destroy the US middle class. Abraham Lincoln once stated “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” There has been more abuse by congressmen and women as well as the top guns at firms such as Lehman and Goldman than anybody else. The recent collapse in Financials started in the 1990’s and it stemmed from senators stating that everyone should own a house. Special programs were set up for affordable homes. The truth is that most responsible people work 10 years or more and then after years of sweat and tears, have enough money saved to put down 15-25% of the home price. This is important simply because when you work that hard to accomplish this, you will never walk away from your home.
Government policy went above and beyond the call of duty to reduce lending standards and made it easy for people to get loans with very little money down and very little income shown. This, coupled with low interest rates created the perfect storm for wall street along with other financial companies to abuse the system. I’m not a wealthy guy, but I am father of three and try to teach my boys fiscal responsibility. In other words, we don’t keep up with the Jones’ and extra monies always goes towards education. Watching these despicable senators say they are for the people when they created the problem in the first place makes me sick, and now they want more oversight and bigger government! Frankly, I’m scared. They created this animal and fed wall street and now want to point towards wall street as the bad guy. I agree that plenty of wall street firms are greedy and deserve oversight, but the key abuse of power was this theory of making home equity and housing affordable to everyone and now they want free healthcare for everyone as well! If you are part of the middle class and live paycheck to paycheck like myself, but have done the right things, where is the reward? I when I hear congressmen say that they we will make healthcare affordable. This sounds like the housing market which they made affordable for people who not only did not have a good credit standing but their income was too low. Remember that these problems happen over time and I believe policies from 10 to 15 years ago caused these issues.
I think about my family and say to myself, “I was responsible and now they are going to help people who acted irrationally and bail out wall street and the guy who is losing his house, but the family that was conservative and struggled and didn’t take shortcuts gets shafted.” I also look at issues like oil prices and see that drilling has not taken place since 1981! That is horrible. These actions have also caused markets to deteriorate while congressmen and wall street’s top guns fly around in private jets. People I talk to say that if we have the resources, let’s at least make policies to try get them and forget about not trying because environmentalists are worried. It is crazy when Americans cannot feed their families and put their children in good schools. The congress has caused a lot of these issues and I believe a strong economy will result from lower oil and fiscal responsibility. The bottom line is that the Americans who work hard and don’t cut corners should be rewarded.
To Middle America,
The recent slow down has politicians chatting and the real problem isn't mentioned enough. Our recent slow down is similar to the 90's recession which was oil driven and real estate too. In the last year it's been tough but oil prices have went straight up. Why is this a problem u ask? All our products and service revolve around oil. In other words clothes, cars, food, houses, transportation all need oil. When oil doubles it hurts our buying power and in the early 90's when oil dropped the economy got strong! In today's environment the American people got it right drill, drill, drill. Polls are saying the majority of citizen's want to drill. With that said Sarah Palin knows about the environment and safely drilling for oil. Drilling is key to our National Security and vital the U.S. economy. As oil prices go down this will strengthen
the consumer and businesses will also benefit. The Democratic party has taken a weak position on drilling and their current leadership has not allowed a vote for drilling. The Republicans have stated their case to drill now and are also discussing plans for alternative energy. I believe the recent pick of Sarah Palin, is huge for this country. The reason being she truly comes from humble beginnings. She also has a family and understands what the average family is going through. In other words the cost of supporting a family from groceries to filling up the car. John McCain and Sarah Palin make a great team which will help our country recover from these hard times.
Shane
