Political Equinox

This is a response to “The Obama Agenda” by Paul Krugman.

Mr. Krugman:

I must respectfully disagree with you. I am not calling on Obama to be “a do-nothing president.” I am calling on him to maintain a left-center tone throughout his presidency. The voters have given him a mandate not on healthcare, not on the economy, not on the war, but on his ability to unify, to lead, to solve the problems our nation faces. As much as conservatives like to claim, Obama did not run on a socialist ideology. I’m sick of hearing that, Barack Obama is not a socialist. He ran left (not socialist left) at the start, then centered a lot. If you aren’t convinced use archive.org …

Tags: America, Barack Obama, Democrats, economy, healthcare, IRS, obama, president, republican, socialized medicine, strategy, universal health care

Pork projects, discretionary spending, or whatever you want to call it, is capped at 1% of the total federal budget. Cutting 1% of the federal budget probably isn’t going to solve all our problems, so if John McCain is being elected for the purpose of cutting out pork projects that’s only going to save us $18 billion dollars.

For all the wrath pork projects receive, many of them are actually worthwhile endeavors. By cutting that spending we will be eliminating many of those grants, programs, and projects this money supports. While in the long run that probably would be a good thing for our country to cut it, I’m not convinced the problem has as large of an effect as it’s …

Tags: federal budget, John McCain, money, Pork Projects, spending

Over the past few weeks I’ve heard Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders speak out against “privatizing” Social Security. Now, I’m not sure if privatizing the program is the best way to go, I think we’ve got an awful lot more work to do with regards to that subject. But there is one thing I am sure of, these same people speaking out are railing that Republicans want to gamble with the future of Americans by putting this money into the stock market.

Investing in the stock market is absolutely not gambling. In fact, it’s not even close. Over the past one hundred years, every 10 year period in the stock market has made a positive return (even during the great …

Tags: America, Barack Obama, money, obama, republican, social security

I don’t often agree completely with the Republican National Committee. They are extremely partisan, which I cannot fault them for because that is the purpose of the committee. However, despite my support for Barack Obama in the election in just a few days, I realize the importance of the RNC’s recent campaign against electing 60 Democrats into the Senate. They have hit the nail on the head in regard to not electing 60 Democrats to the Senate, a House Majority, and a Democratic President.

For those that don’t know, 60 Democrats would mean the Republicans would no longer have the ability to block votes by refusing to end debate (of course, the flip side is true as well). Giving one party …

Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, healthcare, obama, president, republican

Whoa! I have actually written a blog post for once! I want to thank Neil and Patrick for welcoming me to their site and I want to apologize for not posting anything sooner.  Their invitation to join the site landed squarely in a time where mid terms were looming and I was practically living in the library.  However, now that midterms have passed and IU magically secured a victory over Northwestern, I thought it would finally be a perfect time to post.

It is crunch time for the candidates as the election comes to a close. What is astonishing to me is not the constant bickering of Obama and McCain but rather the failure of the government in securing proper election …

Tags: candidate, obama, voting