Take off the blinders

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Submitted by ben (United States), Jun 29, 2011 21:29

I think you have reached the level of blind criticism of any and all things Obama that I reached with our last President. However, I didn't get there quite so fast. To keep your head from exploding, I would encourage you to pace yourself, as it is likely Obama will be around for another 5+ years. The number of cheap shots in this post is a bit much. One knows that you have gone too far when you start ridiculing the cost of the President traveling on air force one. Of course, there are many good reasons why we would want our President to be safe, Democrat, Republican or otherwise. In fact, Obama canceled a program to build himself a new fleet of helicopters.

But the one point you make that really drives me crazy in the "class warfare" argument. When Republicans propose decimating Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, that is class warfare as well. These programs are far more important to the middle and lower classes than the wealthy, who could afford their own medical coverage and already have a healthy retirement fund. As is very clear right now, our country has to make choices. Do we raise taxes on the rich to help limit the amount of cuts to programs that largely benefit the middle class, or do we cut deeper into the middle class programs. Either way could be considered class warfare, as it involves redistributing, or not redistributing money from the wealthy to the less wealthy. Clearly, I think that in tough times a country should ask those who have extra to help support those who do not have enough.

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