Posted: October 31, 2012 | Author: Imagine Truth | Filed under: In an official capacity | Tags: Barack Obama, campaign promises, Election 2012, fair taxation, fair taxes, middle class, Mitt Romney, obama is awesome, ridiculousness, students, tax cuts, taxes |
You know, people are talking about how the middle class is shrinking constantly.
And yes, I do mean that they are conversing about the fact that the middle class continually gets smaller – not that they’re constantly talking about the shrinking.
I say what I mean, and I mean what I say … which makes me a part of two groups of endangered Americans: people who say what they mean and the middle class.
In fact, depending on which criteria you use to determine who the middle class is, I might be in both the lower middle class AND the middle middle class. Most information points to me being the middle middle class, based on my salary and the fact that I’m a single person living alone.
But let’s point out for a minute that no matter what, I own my own car, my own home, my own student loans and am going to spend the next 25 years paying off all three.
Barack Obama knows that I have bills. He knows that all of my bills are stimulating the economy. And he wants to make sure that I’m not going to be forced to pay more than my fair share just so that millionaires can afford to fuel their private jets.
If you’re like me, and you’re a member of the middle class, you need to realize that a vote for President Obama is a vote to continue to keep your current lifestyle. A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote to basically pay extra percentage points of our income so that millionaires can pay a smaller percentage.
Yes, there’s a more sophisticated way of explaining it, and there’s more to it than that…but that’s what it adds up to for us “Average Joes.”
You know what? I’m not okay with that. Life isn’t fair, and I know that. But that doesn’t mean that we should elect someone to make it more unfair.
Posted: October 17, 2012 | Author: Imagine Truth | Filed under: In an official capacity | Tags: Barack Obama, bin laden, campaign promises, debates, don't ask, don't tell, election 2008, Election 2012, healthcare reform, insurance, iraq, loan programs, Mitt Romney, nclb, No Child Left Behind, obama, obama is awesome, Obamacare, pell grants, portugese water dog, senior corps, students, taxes, violence against women, women's rights |
One of the very first things that any opponent will say about an interim candidate is that they aren’t fulfilling their campaign promises.
And of course they’re always right. No one EVER makes it through every promise because it’s impossible with all the ridiculous posturing that goes on during any election.
But what I’m looking at is what Mr. Obama HAS accomplished. I’ll list off what I know, but understand that it is in no way an exhaustive list. He:
- Got the girls a dog.
- Made an international tax-haven watch list.
- Implemented the “Women-Owned Business” contracting program.
- Created a credit card rating system that normal people can understand.
- Expanded loan programs for small businesses.
- Expanded the Senior Corps. (That’s a thing, look it up.)
- Required insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions – and that’s a MUST for me.
- Everything else under the Obamacare stuff.
- Fully funded the Violence Against Women Act.
- Ended war in Iraq.
- Ended stop-loss, torture, and a lot of other not-quite-right military policies.
- Reformed NCLB.
- Expanded Pell Grants.
- Repealed ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’
- Killed Bin Laden.
Honestly? This is enough for me to give him 4 more years. And I’m surprised that it isn’t for many of the Obama supporters from 2008.
Posted: October 11, 2012 | Author: Imagine Truth | Filed under: Because he's a G | Tags: Barack Obama, Election 2012, fair taxes, government, Mitt Romney, obama is awesome, real person, sharing, taxes |
Sharing is caring, just as I tell my students who run around like hoarders taking everything they want and keeping it. It’s also something that’s kind of gone out of style as of late.
Sharing is also a part of good manners, which we established our President has a few too many of in my last blog.
So it should come as no big surprise that Barack likes to share at least as much as Barney. The purple and green dinosaur, not NPH on HIMYM.
Want some proof?
Okay, I can do that.
And may I point out that Mitt Romney spends an awful lot of time telling rich people that they don’t have to share their money with the government, while expecting middle class citizens to pick up the slack?
Not very caring, I don’t think. Obama FTW.
My President is More Awesome Than Yours. 