There’s some wealth redistribution for you. No traction, crickets chirping. I’m just shaking my head. And my fist.

Obama & Biden in the Senate are impotent little men.
But wow!! Promise the world & the middle class a few bucks
and we are on to something!

From SurvivalBlog:
I predict that in the Raw Deal era, there will be a huge new raft of alphabet soup agencies that will simultaneously”share the wealth” (read: extract the hard-earned dollars from your wallet to inefficiently dole them out to others), “protect the environment and scarce resources”, and bureaucratically scrutinize and control every aspect of your daily life.

Do you think that you are heavily regulated now? Just wait for the Raw Deal. There will be bureaucrats prying into every conceivable aspect of your life and business, with proctological fervor.

Do you detest having to get a smog inspection for your car? Just wait until you also have to get one for your lawn mower, your fishing boat engine, and your weed whacker.

Do you dislike paying bridge tolls? Just wait until you are required to have a transponder mounted on your car so that you can be incrementally taxed for each mile that you drive.

Here are some other possibilities: Taxes on fatty foods, new taxes on ammunition, taxes on “conspicuous consumption”, taxes on “gas guzzlers”, taxes on “above baseline” use of electricity, taxes on”wasteful” incandescent light bulbs, taxes on “cruel” leather products, tax stamps for marijuana (I’m not kidding!), taxes on golfing greens use, registration and periodic inspection (with an inspection fee, naturlich) for private “arsenals” (owning more than five guns and/or more than 500 rounds of ammunition), special taxes for anyone with more than a two car garage, taxes for anyone with more than 700 square feet of house per family member, taxes on homeschoolers (since they “deprive public schools of revenue”), taxes for “wasteful” home water use, an Internet sales tax, taxes for any family that owns more than two cars, and a European-style tax on each television that you own. You get the idea. The only limit to the depth to which the iron fist will be shoved into your wallet is the imagination of the bureaucrats and their group-think “focus groups”. This will go on and on, and on, and on….

Press Release | February 13, 2008
WASHINGTON, February 13, 2008 — Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid disclosed today that a hugely expensive bill called the “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by Democratic Senator Barack Obama, was quickly passed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. Kincaid said that the major media’s cover-up of the bill, which makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations, demonstrates the media’s desire to see Senator Obama elected to the presidency.
In a column posted on the AIM web site, Kincaid noted that Senator Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was trying to rush Obama’s “Global Poverty Act” S.2433through his committee without hearings. The legislation would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the U.S. already spends. It was scheduled for a Thursday vote but was moved up a day, to Wednesday, and rushed through by voice vote. Kincaid learned, however, that conservative Senators have now put a “hold” on the legislation, in order to prevent it from being rushed to the floor for a full Senate vote.
The House version (H.R. 1302) was suddenly brought up on the House floor last September 25 and was passed by voice vote. House Republicans were caught off-guard, unaware that the pro-U.N. measure committed the U.S. to spending hundreds of billions of dollars. Kincaid’s column notes that the official in charge of making nations comply with the U.N. Millennium Goals, which are prominently highlighted in the Obama bill, says a global tax will be necessary to force American taxpayers to provide the money.

you and I think a like and that’s what makes me think the fix is in. I’m normally not the conspiratorial type but the fact there are so many substantive issues being ignored by both campaigns just boggles the mind.

Do you think that if the people of OH, MI, PA, WV and other ‘blue collar’ states knew about the Global Poverty Act and the blatant transfer of wealth it would require that these people would vote for Obama and Biden? Absolutely not. I firmly believe that, despite the efforts of the left (and McCain for that matter) to open the borders and pander to the lower-income to create a permanent left-leaning voting class, that there are still enough America-loving people to keep this country from going into the ditch. I sure hope because if not, and we give the country and Obama regime with a super-majority in Congress, those creative taxes you mentioned above will only be the tip of the iceberg.