Comments on: The Audacity of Obama’s Hope http://www.dominica-weekly.com/ramblings/the-audacity-of-obamas-hope/ Ramblings From The Nature Paradise of Dominica Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:25:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jim R http://www.dominica-weekly.com/ramblings/the-audacity-of-obamas-hope/#comment-11533 Jim R Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:36:44 +0000 http://www.dominica-weekly.com/?p=1471#comment-11533 Saying that Bush's policy to shift corn and sugar production to ethanol caused worldwide food price increases is disingenuous and far too simplistic. There are many factors that led to increased food prices, including a weakening US dollar, increased oil (transportation) costs, and skyrocketing raw material demand from China. The time has come to pay the piper. If we weren't experiencing this price inflation now, the problem would be worse in the future. Dominicans and everyone else in the world has rode on the coattails of American ingenuity and prosperity for a long time. Things are not that bad now, and the ills of society should not rest on the US alone. This is nothing but a veiled puff piece for Obama and a cheap shot at the current administration. Obama's "vision of hope" is nothing more than politics as usual, except this time it is coming from someone with little experience in real world problems. If elected, it will be politics as usual and after the initial afterglow of the election, we will see policies implemented that hurt small businesses and tax people to the hilt in a quasi-socialist attempt to redistribute wealth from the most productive to the laziest members of society. You think things are bad around the world now? Just wait until Americans are rewarded for laziness. You will see a trickle-down effect of malaise spread around the world. Hope does not create prosperity. :mad: Saying that Bush’s policy to shift corn and sugar production to ethanol caused worldwide food price increases is disingenuous and far too simplistic. There are many factors that led to increased food prices, including a weakening US dollar, increased oil (transportation) costs, and skyrocketing raw material demand from China.

The time has come to pay the piper. If we weren’t experiencing this price inflation now, the problem would be worse in the future. Dominicans and everyone else in the world has rode on the coattails of American ingenuity and prosperity for a long time. Things are not that bad now, and the ills of society should not rest on the US alone.

This is nothing but a veiled puff piece for Obama and a cheap shot at the current administration.

Obama’s “vision of hope” is nothing more than politics as usual, except this time it is coming from someone with little experience in real world problems. If elected, it will be politics as usual and after the initial afterglow of the election, we will see policies implemented that hurt small businesses and tax people to the hilt in a quasi-socialist attempt to redistribute wealth from the most productive to the laziest members of society. You think things are bad around the world now? Just wait until Americans are rewarded for laziness. You will see a trickle-down effect of malaise spread around the world.

Hope does not create prosperity.

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