There are many great resources out there on Obama’s plan for tax increases that make a great case for McCain, here however, I would like to share a little more personal story.
I was recently talking to one of the Indian men that works with me on my project, we have gotten closer as we have been working longer hours lately and he brought up the Tinkerbell movie that is coming out soon. He mentioned that his wife, who recently moved to the US, worked on the animation for it. I asked if she was working on it here and he said she couldn’t because she was on a dependent visa but, it had been a “dream job”. She wanted to be with him and knew there was even better opportunities here so she jumped at the opportunity to come to America.
The rest of the world is a great place, they have beautiful places to visit and some have almost every social service imaginable but, no other country provides the type of opportunity that America does. Especially in terms of upwards mobility. How do we do it? We have low taxes and a great business environment.
The rest of the world loves Barack Obama (by margins as high as 80-20), that’s an argument I hear from many of my friends (and the polls). They like him because he is more like them, more big government, higher taxes and supportive of more taxpayer funded social services. We have a choice with this election, we can go down the path that Europe and much of the rest of the world is heading towards - bigger government that Barack supports through “redistributing income”, etc, – or we can continue to be what has made us great and made so many people from around the world pursue, the land of low taxes, free markets, independence and opportunity.
I can’t wait to vote McCain tomorrow in the hopes that we can straighten this country out in the direction of lower taxes, smaller government and more opportunity.
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This is great and long the same lines too:
http://www.wpri.org/WIInterest.....n17.3.html
“We find ourselves at a rather odd place in our history. Measured against nearly any standard—compared to other countries or compared to earlier times in our own history—we are indeed a fortunate people. Yet we cannot bring ourselves to be happy. We have become a gloomy crowd with a melancholia that makes us suckers for populist leaders. You see, populists depend on gloom, for they cannot peddle their message of hope and change to the contented.
However, we cannot escape our true lineage, a strong, sure line that traces its way through the Greatest Generation on back to the Ellis Island immigrants who built the foundation for today’s America. Those Americans understood adversity much better than wealth or entitlement…
No, those people would marvel at the state of health care and would go slack jawed when they discovered that no fewer than 68% of households own their own homes. They would beam with pride upon learning of the generosity of their offspring…
So let us leave it to others to stand, stoop shouldered, looking at the floor with cap in hand. We will leave them to their gloom as they allow themselves to become victims of political pandering. That is simply not us.”
“I can’t wait to vote McCain tomorrow in the hopes that we can straighten this country out in the direction of lower taxes, smaller government and more opportunity.”
No doubt the same reasons you voted for GWBush…
How’s that been working out?