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I will pay only a small increment in taxes under President Obama. This is not a worry. This is not a spread the wealth program. It is a "re-open the opportunity factory". The real reason we need Obama for president is the dire need to restart America's middle class engine. No country can be great without a thriving, productive, entrepreneurial middle class. When the middle class isn't thriving, the economy stagnates. Oppressive belief systems and divisiveness take hold. Education suffers. America needs a jump start. Senator McCain does not grasp the concept of a thriving middle class as the core of a great country, he actually believes the core is a soldier's courage, or a workman's grit and courage. Great valu
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-- Mark Brennan, Principal, Brennan Project Management, San Francisco, Ca
I am as concerned about the future of United States as anyone, even though I don't have any kids whose future the Republican Party is so clearly putting in jeopardy. We all can see that Bush has messed up essentially every major decision he had to make as president, and McCain seems on course to continue the unbroken record. Look where that kind of person has taken us. Yes, the government now IS the problem, and Bush has made it so. Even now when Bush or McCain go on TV to say how concerned all people must be about the current financial mess and how it is a cricis, neither can bring themselves to give even the slightest indication that he has any responsibility for having dug us into this hole. In light of the
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-- Thomas Cline, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Development, University of California, Berkeley, CA
If the question is: How much more would I be willing to pay in taxes to achieve a country that would actually stand and act for human rights, not torture; equality of opportunity not the promotion of mindless greed and for a return to the best of the ideals that brought this country into being, then the answer is a very great deal. I support Obama, naturally.
-- Bruno Coon, Composer, Venice, Ca
I will pay only a small increment in taxes under President Obama. This is not a worry. This is not a spread the wealth program. It is a "re-open the opportunity factory". The real reason we need Obama for president is the dire need to restart America's middle class engine. No country can be great without a thriving, productive, entrepreneurial middle class. When the middle class isn't thriving, the economy stagnates. Oppressive belief systems and divisiveness take hold. Education suffers. America needs a jump start. Senator McCain does not grasp the concept of a thriving middle class as the core of a great country, he actually believes the core is a soldier's courage, or a workman's grit and courage. Great values, to be sure, but irrelevant to the economy. We need Obama to steer America back to greatness. It is not a military or homeland security issue - it's about money.
-- Mark Brennan, Principal, Brennan Project Management, San Francisco, Ca
I am as concerned about the future of United States as anyone, even though I don't have any kids whose future the Republican Party is so clearly putting in jeopardy. We all can see that Bush has messed up essentially every major decision he had to make as president, and McCain seems on course to continue the unbroken record. Look where that kind of person has taken us. Yes, the government now IS the problem, and Bush has made it so. Even now when Bush or McCain go on TV to say how concerned all people must be about the current financial mess and how it is a cricis, neither can bring themselves to give even the slightest indication that he has any responsibility for having dug us into this hole. In light of the current market mess, having someone as hot-headed, wrong-headed, and and/or clueless about economics and the financial sector as McCain and Palin so clearly are, is about as dangerous for the US and the world as any plans that Iran might have for developing nuclear weapons.
-- Thomas Cline, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Development, University of California, Berkeley, CA
If the question is: How much more would I be willing to pay in taxes to achieve a country that would actually stand and act for human rights, not torture; equality of opportunity not the promotion of mindless greed and for a return to the best of the ideals that brought this country into being, then the answer is a very great deal. I support Obama, naturally.
-- Bruno Coon, Composer, Venice, Ca
