Be Patriotic – Support Socialism!

After Joe Biden’s ridiculous straw-man attack on taxpayers (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_el_pr/biden_taxes_3 ) asserting that those forced to pay much higher taxes under an Obama administration should do so happily, as to be “patriotic”, one cannot help but watch with guttural fear as the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel keeps getting dimmer and dimmer.

You think paying taxes was so bad? It’s a sad time for America when private industry is nationalized in hopes that Americans will gain some kind of short-term ease. But once again, those in Washington, and across America, are being penny-wise and pound foolish.

As the $700,000,000,000 (pause for effect) bailout is being fought over by cronies in Congress, America waits with bated breath for Big Government to swoop in and make this all so much better.

Often I find that many people believe that the Federal Government should be responsible for easing the burdens of Americans – those are the people who also haven’t had the healthy realization that they are simply frontloading their own relief programs that don’t really work that well anyway.

It’s like giving your mom $10.00 so she can buy you a really crappy $5.00 present for Christmas.

And after all, it isn’t as if nobody would buy the pieces left behind from the credit crisis; Wall Street just knows that there is a mentally deficient buyer out there who will pay $0.80 on the $1.00 for what would otherwise be purchased for $0.20 on the $1.00: that buyer is the United States government.

But now, not only do we have to worry about funding a Wall Street bailout, we have to concern ourselves with Obama’s heralded campaign platform consisting of further redistribution of wealth to fund government programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and bad mortgage bailouts. The money-grubbing policy ideas don’t stop there though: on 9/11, Obama pledged that if elected, he will allocate approximately $3,000,000,000 to programs that promote the opportunity for people to get involved in volunteering for charity projects. Wow! That’s just what we, uh, needed right now?

As much as the previous paragraph may look like a tangential rant (which to some degree, it is), I hope to illustrate the bleak picture of the future if Obama is elected, and probably even if he isn’t. A country, built on a “pick yourself up by your bootstraps” philosophy has slowly succumbed to toxic socialist thinking and policy-making, and without some kind of exogenous force, the irresponsible policy-making and income redistribution will undoubtedly continue. Let’s just hope by the time most Ohio State students take the Shoe’s field for their graduation, the private sector will be able to afford to offer them gainful employment.

Chelsea