Greg Vernon

OBAMA IS NOT A SOCIALIST

SO SHUT THE HECK UP.

Now, I'm not a supporter of Obama, but in my never ending quest to end stupidity everywhere I've decided to educate a few misinformed people who for some unbelievable reason have the idea Obama is a communist.

"Barack Obama is the furthest thing from a socialist candidate." - Brian Moore, Socialist Party Nominee for President.

That should say something to you.  The socialist party nominee does not think of Obama as a socialist.  I know, its sad, you've been lied to by the Republican party.  HOW UNBELIEVABLE?!  How could the people in power who lied about 9/11, who lied about Iraq, who lied about almost everything lie about Obama being a communist?!  Face it, you've been played like the world's dumbest violin.  GET OVER IT.

When Obama wins, we will still be buying food at Wegmans and not a National Food Collective.  We will still be buying gas from ExxonMobil and not from the government.

The only thing Obama is handing out for free is hope; and hope is not a socialist ideal, it is everything America has ever stood for.

To the People of Rochester:

This is an letter to the editor of the Democrat & Chronicle written as an assignment for my college English class.  Undoubtedly it will not be published because of its length so consider this to be a GregVernon.com exclusive.

I will be the first to admit life in our city and country are far from perfect, taxes are high, jobs are few and far between and even are best schools are facing declining graduation rates; all while record high food and gas prices starve us inside our freezing homes.

But as Americans we have often found great pride in our abilities to make life better or to conquer unimaginable challenges. After all, we managed to land on the moon with the computing power of today’s calculators!

But it seems, with the modern challenges of inflation and corruption all around us we have lost either the ability or the will (though I’m firmly in believe that it is the latter) to face the difficult challenges that lay before us and instead we look to quick fixes (the $850bil bailout, for example) to temporarily alleviate our problems. Even as I type this there is a candidate promising “hope” and “change” we cannot look to one individual to solve all of our problems (at this point, I’ll confess. I am neither an Obama or McCain supporter). If we are to leave any opportunity for our children each and every one of us need to make sacrifices to truly change our direction.

We need to spend time with our children and worry about their education! Too many parents think of public schools as babysitting while they work; they think it is the teacher’s job to educate their children. This terrifying mentality has had the largest affect on our children’s minds – even above less-than-stellar school funding. If you want your child to succeed get involved. Why would your child care about his or her education when you, their parent, simply don’t?

We need to save more and spend less! Our economy is utterly destroyed; no bailout or economic stimulus package can fix the mess we have caused ourselves. If we want to restore our economy to its once great levels, we must live within our means. Perhaps one should forgo the trip to Europe, or the new car, or new house and instead save the money for the inevitable rainy day. We must never spend money we don’t have; too many of us (myself included) have purchased unnecessary items on credit, only to struggle to cope with the monthly payments.

With our approval, even our government is guilty of buying on credit. Our national debt (which our children must pay) is at a record $10,000,000,000 (that’s 10 trillion dollars). As Rep. Paul of Texas put in his remarks to the voter values summit, “[our country] is on the verge of bankruptcy.” Even as they run the debt our leaders in Washington cannot be entirely blamed for the currency crisis we are on the verge of facing; it was we the people who sent them to Washington, after all. To fix this we must move off the couch and avoid the endless distraction of television and demand more of our leaders. We must learn what our leaders are doing and protest their behavior if the need arise.

To my fellow citizens: even as the text of this letter may seem contrary, I am an optimist! We can overcome the problems of the present. The solutions we need are extraordinarily simple, if only we were to put forth the effort in using them.

The "I" Word

In these trying times, which presidential candidate do you think is better to fix the shanty town we call our economy?

John McCain with his pseudo-free market economic policies?

Barack Obama with his government funded initiatives?

How about neither?  Is it possible neither candidate has a plan to fix the economy?  More likely is that neither candidate cares enough about the American people to actually fix the economy.  I have come to this conclusion after watching the second presidential debate, the debate focused on the economy and how they will fix it.

If you ask any American what really hurts their wallet, without a doubt it will be the rising cost of oil and food due to inflation.  Yet at the debate the word "inflation" was not mentioned once, by either candidate.  Why is it the single biggest issue facing our economy in the long run was not addressed?

To put this in perspective lets look at some other terms tossed around:
Iran was said 17 times
Nuclear was said 18 times
"Health Care" was said twenty-eight times
War was said twenty-one times
Even Russia got more stage time than inflation with 21 mentions

All of this in a debate that is about the economy!  I think its clear what will happen if either candidate is elected: more of the same inflationary monetary policy that go us into this mess!

Both candidates have some explaining to do, Barack more so than McCain as we expect this from the neo-cons, but Barack is promising change and so far He has failed to deliver.

The REAL Issue This Election

Gay marriage, abortion, energy policy and so many other talking points fall in this category.  Yes each are important in their own right, however they have been used as a distraction from the more important issues this election.  The biggest of which, as evident by the recent Wall Street crisis is monetary policy.

Americans are in debt slavery, and not to China.  If the term "debt slavery" new to you, lets put it this way: no matter how hard we try Americans will always have a federal debt to the Federal Reserve, the private bank which controls our money.

Whenever the U.S. Mint prints money, which it does fairly often, the money is borrowed - with interest - from the Fed.  So even if we used every dollar currently in existence we would still owe the interest on the loan used to print the money.  Yet, even as both candidates claim to be fiscally responsible, they have not acknowledged the scary reality about our "money."

Americans are also suffering from the worst tax we have ever faced.  Though income tax, death tax, and property taxes are all terrible, they all pale in comparison this dreadful tax: the inflation tax.

It doesn't take a genius to know inflation is rampant, even though the Fed will only admit to 4% or so on the Consumer Price Index.  In reality, as you go to the grocery store or the gas station you're paying more; a lot more than 4% more.

Even though the Bush regime likes to blame Iran for the oil spike, that simply isn't the case.  The real cause: Iraq.  The cost for Iraq is $3,000,000,000,000.  That's $3trillion, with a 't'.  To pay for this war the U.S. Treasury simply printed more money, lowering the overall value of the dollar.

Since Bush took office the dollar has lost half its value, due to overspending and under-taxing.  THAT ladies and gentlemen are why prices are so high.  We spend more than we have in the treasury, its that simple.  Yet neither candidate even discusses monetary policy, just about the programs and 'investments' they will make.

If you have the chance, ask them how they intend to pay for their presidency - and how much they want us to pay to eat.