Evening, Commissioner..

Dan Kenitz states in his article that the socialist views of Barrack Obama would cripple our nations economically. I disagree somewhat with Kenitz points. Kenitz states how Obama's "economic justice" policies would cut military funding and "our own economy at the knees." I disagree with Kenitz point that Obama's socialist policies would cripple our economy. I believe that we need more liberal and socialist ideals that will help the citizen. By cutting military funding and increasing the minimum wage, we can put more money straight into the pocket of the average citizen, rather than heavily tax them to pay the lucridous amount of money we spend on our military. Take for instance Japan after World War II. Japan's first use of overseas military since World War II was the deployment in Iraq. As Japan didn't spend so much on military they focused on their economy and are now hailed as one of the most technicalogical countries of the world. Since 2001, the United States used almost 700 billion dollars on military spending.^[1] So Kenitz’s argument that Obama's policies would cripple our government seems unfounded. He compares Obama's policies to those of Castro's, insinuating that Obama will make everyone equal, in poorness, hunger, and a oppression. Kenitz views are very radical in suggesting that Obama would communize our society. Kenitz makes it look like he is in favor of a Republican President, which is the last thing that our country needs. I think Bush's eight year term has provided sufficient evidence that power shouldn't be in the hands of the corporate world. Mike Huckabee, however did have an interesting solution to the problem of poverty in our country. His plan was to eliminate the IRS and income tax, and increase sales tax to make up for the different. While you pay much more for goods and services, you have more money in your pocket to begin with that you can choose how to spend it. This idea is known as Fair Tax, and also includes a monthly rebate from the government.^[2] Kenitz also states that Obama's father insinuated that the populace would pay for all the services Obama is proposing, like free college tuition, universal health care, universal 401ks, free job training, more subsidized housing, as well as a living wage with a ten dollar minimum wage indexed to inflation. But all these things could be easily accomplished if we limited our military spending, which Kenitz argues heavily against when he states he would rather have an "army of soldiers", rather than Obama's "army of teachers." Kenitz tries to deface Obama by implying that he masks his socialist ideas by calling it, economic justice. But isn't that it is? Helping the average middle class worker, and taxing the rich to provide for the poor?

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