McCain vs. Obama and Money Madness in America

MCCAIN VS. OBAMA AND MONEY
MADNESS IN AMERICA


Dear Fellow Americans:

Under the compassionate Republicans, the rich get richer while the middle class and below either remain the same or get poorer.

Under the compassionate Democrats, it’s the opposite: the middle class and below either remain the same or get poorer while the rich get richer in America.

I believe the people who profited most from eight years of a democratic Clinton Administration was Bill and Hillary Clinton. They went from being a lower middle class family to become multi-millionaires. The mass media estimates their joint fortune at $50 million.

After an Obama administration passes, he and his wife will receive multi-million dollar contracts for their memoirs. They will give some speeches and they will be elevated to the socio-economic upper class of the Clintons.

I believe both McCain and Obama will throw some goodies to the middle class and below. I’m not going to do a comparative analysis of the numbers and kinds of goodies. Don’t forget that it was Senator McCain along with Senator Feingold who campaigned for a ceiling on how much money an individual could contribute to a presidential campaign. This is now law of the land: no individual can contribute more than $2,000 to a presidential candidate. McCain has already thrown a bit of a goodie to the middle class. I don’t consider it a full goodie.

I see both candidates moving toward the center ideologically. At the same time, they proclaim that there is a vast difference in their points of view. Both candidates use sound bites and do some lying to ensure that blocks of voters will remain faithful to them, and vote for them.

For me the bottom line is this: no matter who wins the presidency, the middle class and below will either remain the same or get poorer as the rich get richer in America. As prices go up, up and up, the ability of the middle class to pay these prices will go down, down and down.

I see the essential difference between McCain and Obama being that McCain does not need to become president to get rich. McCain has married rich. McCain is super rich. Under our current socio-economic system, it should happen to all of us. I guess a case can be made that McCain being super rich is more likely than Obama to do things to protect his riches. It’s debatable.

A relatively few rags to riches stories cannot define the goodness of a socio-economic system.

There are other ways to reward people besides money.

When a TV judge can earn hundreds of times more for their work than a U.S. Supreme Court judge, does that sound reasonable to you?

When a TV medical surgeon on a TV ER can earn hundred of times more for their work than a real medical surgeon operating on a real person in a real hospital, does that make common sense?

When Sport Stars can earn hundred of times more for their work than firefighters, police officers and soldiers who fight for America’s freedom, is that fair?

As middle-class Americans struggle to pay their fuel bills, executives of the fuel corporations earn 8 figure salaries plus bonuses.

As middle-class Americans struggle to pay the mortgages on their homes, and many experience foreclosure loss of their homes, executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac receive bonuses in the millions.

Our socio-economic system is not even good for the kids who make the millions: the Britney Spears, and Michael Jacksons, and Lindsey Lohans. We watch them deteriorate or bipolarize as the paparazzi and the mass media pursue them in order to make more and more money.

There is a solution to this madness.

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