Not that John Edwards has a chance, but he's got the "let-the-government-run-your-life" list growing and so I thought I'd take a look. Here are his promises to: - ask Americans to make the sacrifice of paying higher taxes
- have the federal government underwrite universal pre-kindergarten
- create matching savings accounts for low-income people
- mandate a minimum wage of $9.50 per hour
- provide a million new Section 8 housing vouchers for the poor
- provide college for everyone
- end the Iraq war
- provide universal healthcare
- To overhaul the American energy system
Two other things stood out to me ( in addition to the insanity listed above). Edwards said that the rich have to "give back" and that "there are no free meals.
1. If Edwards has his way, I will need the Section 8 housing vouchers.
2. If Edwards gets everything else, I will not have money left in my paycheck to pay my bills...including school loans, which I doubt will be grandfathered into his "college for everyone" bull-pucky.
3. I will need free meals.
4. If it wasn't for the rich, there'd be fewer jobs created. Take away their money, and they won't buy the things that provide jobs...they won't even be able to keep lawyers like you, Johnny, on retainer. (You know this already, bonehead: To keep wealth, you have to create wealth. You see where I'm going here, right?)
I'm glad he's too dumb to win and too busy posing for the cameras to realize that he won't get elected. If he got elected, I'd make good on a promise to move elsewhere...even Canada and Europe aren't as Socialistic as he wants to be. New "New Deal," my ass...try rotten deal. (We are still paying for that new deal, btw.)
(H/T: Concord Monitor)
If I'm going to part with my money for some insane venture, I'll go the Invincible Donovan University and get my PhD in smoking something really good...well, Arnold says it is just a leaf.
8 comments:
You almost have to admire Edwards' honesty. The other Dems will raise taxes, too - but they don't have the grapes to say it.
Good points RT, the problem is 99% of the people out there do not dig deep enough, they stop at the free (insert item here)...sigh...
You forgot the one where he said he was gonna change that little check box on the front of your tax returns to ask "Do you want $3 of your return to be used to keep my hair stylist on retainer? Cause lookin this good is expensive!"
Read about the Donovan University at the weekend, weird guy, crazy idea.
Politicians will promise anything to get elected and then find some weasel way of breaking those promises.
Wyatt:
That's how stupid he is. ;P
NFO:
I was talking about this with a few of my students. Even they question his list o'goodies.
How do people like him end up with so much power and/or success in this world? Seriously, the good guys, with real ideas and real talent get tossed to the side while the mountebanks of this world rule the roost. It is quite the pisser.
Vinnie:
That made me laugh out loud! Funny!
I like the one on my phone bill asking me to donate a dollar to go toward helping children read. I donate. I wonder if it actually helps the kids?
DBA:
I wonder if the school colors will "mellow yellow" and "purple microdot." Ha!
It is funny how people fall the promises. I don't even believe the promises candidates I support spout off the top of their heads. They simply don't have the real power to pass everything they want to pass.
Rob C:
Amen.
He's as fruity as Kucinich is crazy.
RT, when was the last time Verizon came knocking on your classroom door, or your school's library, donating a stack of books for you to give to your students? There's your answer right there.
You could stay after school for one hour and help tutor a kid who's a slow reader, and make up for three years worth of the "Verizon Reads" dollars. So save your buck, and at least once every 3 years donate an hour of your time to make up for it (I know you already stay after long after your contract requires).
Captain:
Now he says he's seen an UFO. FREAK!
Vinnie:
I offer to stay after school to help kids. No takers.
I'd would really like to do volunteer work with single moms lacking education (who want to better themselves).
Oh, and you have a point. I teach in affluent district, though.
I've graded so much this week that my bicep started to cramp. I decided to leave at 3:00 today (and yesterday).
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