1. The Flip-Side of Tax Cuts; and 2. The Trashing of The American Dream

1. The Flip-Side of 'Tax Cuts'


The flip-side of Republican tax-cuts --

And for that matter...

Democratic tax cuts too...

Let the American national debt....

Grow....

And grow....

And grow....

And grow....

As Senator McCain just said in a speech today....

'You get the picture...'

Both candidates want to talk about the 'goodies'...

In their campaign promises...

The 'hardships' and the 'sacrifices'

That lie ahead for the American people...

Sort of get pushed aside...

Pushed into the closet...

And swept under the rug...

They will re-surface...

After the election is over...

And the new President...

Has to face the realities...

Of a very tough budget...

Of money coming in...

Vs. money promised or earmarked out...

And a staggering American debt...

George Bush has certainly done nothing to address the exploding national debt.

He will leave it for the next American President to deal with....

McCain keeps saying that he is going to lower taxes...

And cut spending....

What is he going to cut?

He certainly does not plan to cut war expenses...

Is he going to cut health expenses?

Or education expenses?

Or infrastructure expenses?

Let the middle class flounder...

With their health and education expenses...

And let the poor...

Stagger in the ditch...

How is he planning to bring down the national debt?

While still conduction one war in Iraq,

A second war in Afghanastan...

And two more wars looming precariously closer...

In Pakistan and Syria?


-- dgb, Nov. 2nd, 2008.

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How To Destroy The American Dream


Both presidential candidates have said that they will cut taxes...

What presidential candidate in his or her right mind is going to trumpet higher taxes?

I just heard Obama speak a few minutes ago and he did not waver from his $250,000 tax threshold.

Both McCain and Palin keep saying that Obama's 'no tax increase for the middle class' pledge is not to be trusted...

That the 'higher tax threshold' will keep getting lower...

Affecting more and more middle class Americans...

It remains for the American people to decide...

Whether Obama can be trusted as being true to his word...

Or not...

We all know that it is not unusual for a politician...

To flip-flop after winning an election...

But it comes down to whether Obama can be trusted...

To stick to his word...

Or not...

Of course, the same criterion of 'congruence'...

Between 'before-election promises'...

And 'after-election White House action'...

Applies just as much to McCain as to Obama...

Who do you trust more?

Obama or McCain?

Who's going to lead America down the better path?

I voted 'Conservative' in the Canadian election...

That is roughly the Canadian equivalent of 'Republican'...

But that is because The Liberal Party...

Has any 'idealistic vision with any substance'...

Here in Canada...

There is no 'Liberal Obama' here in Canada...

There is only the not-to-distant memories...

Of past Liberal scandals...

Richocheting through this 'Liberal-Conservative' brain...

Through this 'Conservative-Liberal' brain...

My DGB Philosophy of 'Idealistic American Capitalism'...

Mirrors one of the latest speeches of Obama...

On his vision of 'Idealistic American Capitalism'...

The American Dream is meant for all classes of American people...

Who are willing to work hard enough to achieve it...

And ideally, at least some sort of helping hand up, for those who can't...

That includes all Americans....

Working together...

For a better America...

A better 'whole'...

A better 'unity'...

A better 'peace and harmony'...

Not more and more 'give-aways'...

To large corporate lobbyists...

And unethical corporate CEOs...

John McCain's vision of Capitalism...

Is a Capitalism for the rich...

And the richer...

The Republican corporate elite...

John McCain's vision of Capitalism...

Is a 'top-heavy' Capitalism...

Where the rich keep getting richer, and still richer...

While middle class and lower class Americans...

Get left further and further behind...

A 'healthy, ethical' Capitalism...

Is a Capitalism where businesses are strong...

Both at the top and at the bottom...

Where owners, executives, managers, supervisors, and employees...

All get paid well -- and fairly -- for a day's work....

Workers are not 'gouged'...

Or 'juiced'...

Or 'milked'...

And customers are not 'gouged'...

Or 'juiced'...

Or 'milked'...

In ways that 'narcissistically line the pockets'

Of the rich and powerful...

While at the same time 'skewering'...

The rest of the American people...

This is the hidden 'Unethical Capitalist-Republican Flip-side'...

Of Their Anti-Obama 'Spreading The Wealth' message...

The Republicans want to keep the wealth...

In the already wealthy Republicans Bank Accounts and Pockets...

And keep getting wealthier...

This is not Obama's idealistic vision...

This is not Obamas vision of ethical American Capitalism...

Of Democratic Capitalism With Integrity and Character...

Obama does not support Capitalism for The Ruthless and The Heartless...

And neither does DGB Philosophy...

Obama supports a type of Capitalism...

That is a 'win-win-win' type of Capitalism...

A win for the ethical owner(s)...

A win for the ethical employees...

And a win for the customer -- the consuming American public.

A win for the rich who own and/or manage their own American businesses...

Ethically...

That support the growth and well-being of all Americans...

Both at the top of the business...

And at the bottom...

Who work with their employees...

In and/or towards a win-win relationship...

And don't seek to exploit them...

Abuse them...

Gouge them...

Juice them...

A win for the hard-working, lower and middle class employee...

Who does not seek to exploit his business and/or his business owner...

And/or the manager he or she works for...

And a win for the American consumer,

The American buyer,

Who gets 'seduced', 'manipulated', and 'exploited' into buying an American house...

His or her 'American Dream'...

And then find out a couple of years later...

That there are 'trojan virus bankers and/or mortgage comany owners'...

That have just eaten him and/or her...

Out of house and home...

Out of his and/or her...

American Dream...

-- dgb, November 2nd, 2008.