[FoRK] How Barack lost my vote forever

[Jeff Bone]

On Apr 17, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Owen Byrne wrote:

> I guess Warren Buffett is a socialist too.

The world's wealthiest are most always (guilty) socialists once they  
get there.

Note that despite the nod to those loathsome, demonic bastards - the  
hedge fund 50 - what Barack is proposing is going to impact, like, the  
middle class in a disproportionate manner too.  (Housing, 401ks, small- 
business partnerships, etc.)

On Apr 17, 2008, at 2:37 PM, geege schuman wrote:

> When it's capped at 20%, as Hillary proposed?  Or is any hike BAD  
> NEWS,
> PERIOD?

Again, it's not the hike, it's the justification he gave for it, the  
conviction with which he gave it, and what that justification and  
conviction says about his principles and ideology.

On Apr 17, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Luis Villa wrote:

> Wealth redistribution of this sort has been a core tenet of the
> federal government since well before any of us was born. You may or
> may not like it, but it should hardly be some sort of revelatory
> surprise.

It's the personal ideology issue and the conviction with which it was  
said, the sort of off-hand contemptuousness as if to say, "what, isn't  
it obvious on the face of it that earnings from investment are immoral  
and that fortunes should be confiscated?"

Yeah, I've considered voting for Democrats before.  Have, even, at  
this point.  None who've been that blatant about the motivation for  
their left-economic policies, though.

jb