Quote Originally Posted by Total_Blender
I'll tell you why I'm voting for Obama. I'm tired of the neocon currently in power and the regressive tax policies they have been trying to foist on us. I say tax the rich. Theres no reason the working class should have to carry the lion's share of the tax burden when the major corporations and the top 1% of the population have all the wealth. Oil companies paid 30% of their gross as taxes? So what... if they are giving executives $400 million retirements it sounds like they are doing fine to me

And for universal healthcare... why not? I'd rather wait in line for an X-ray than not get one at all and die. There are a lot of working Americans who still can't afford health insurance. For every story I've heard about someone in a socialized country having to wait on a procedure I've heard 2 or 3 stories about someone here in the states not getting the same procedure because they either can't get insurance or they are getting screwed over by their HMO. People in socialized medicine countries live longer than us and are healthier. I know a lot of America's health probalems are more cultrual than the fault of its health care system, but allowing more Americans access to health care will probably be cheaper in the long run. Like preventing people from getting cancer rather than helping them fight cancer. That sort of thing. The more people who are healthy, the more people who can work. The more workers the higher the GDP. etc.

And having a president that is not a neo-con in office would also mean that the whole wiretapping/surveillance/patriot act deal would be resolved. I trust Obama and the Dems with my privacy and my civil liberties more than I do McCain and the neocons. They have both voted for the Patriot Act, but at least Obama voted against the roving wiretaps.
This argument is ripped to shreds so easily however I don't have time to gotta go take a drug test however I will when I get back.