Both of those keep spending the same (Which is too high, and basically socialist.). I mean, really, what is he going to cut from to maintain national welfare, national health care, and some DNA testing thing that isn't going to work? Is he going to pull out of Iraq and use the same amount of money we've been spending over there? Oh yeah, that's such an economic drain we'll have the inflation rate of Nigeria in two years. Maybe we should just cut from education? But then as schools wouldn't exist anymore, Obama could fund public education for the poor, (and minorities). Maybe we could cut from military spending? Maybe we could sell all our military goods to China to help pay for the cost of something as ridiculous as national welfare/healthcare.
His plan is to either cut programs, or reform and reduce spending in those programs.
He will create
many new jobs by opening up markets in renewable energy and deploying a next generation broadband infrastructure.
Improvement starts from the top and it trickles down, you will have the improvements and reforms to healthcare (Shift focus away from the socialist nature of his plan for a second and you'll see the reforms he has in store for both the pharmaceutical companies and for the transparency of the health sector itself)
The improvements should eventually reduce the amounts of chronic illnesses we now spend
trillions treating because people lacked the health care to get it detected early on. Do you know how much it costs to treat cancer?
"Cancer is among the most significant contributors of health care spending in the United States, with the National Institutes of Health estimating its costs in 2002 at $171.6 billion, $60.9 billion of which was attributed to direct medical costs, $15.5 billion of which was attributed to indirect morbidity costs, and $95.2 of which was attributed to indirect mortality costs.1"
http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/full/22/17/3524The same goes for his reform of NCLB and the education department as a whole, the improvements will show themselves in the form of higher graduation rates and a stronger working force as a result of it.
He's going to put an end to pork-barrel spending, close special interest loop holes, reform complicated tax codes, and stop the tax cuts for the wealthiest americans.
"President Bush's policies of giving tax breaks for the wealthy will cost the nation over
$2.3 trillion by the time they expire in 2009"
Blueprint for Chance - pg32
But sure, pulling out of Iraq will undoubtedly open some fund pathways, but you're not looking at the bigger pictures. Various reforms to government agencies and policies will save us a shitload of money -- and in the long improvement in our nation across the board will be shown.
I really don't get what's not to like, what I see under his Presidency is instant tax cuts to the middle class to give us some needed relief from $4 a gallon gas, and long term investments in renewable energy to cut our carbon emission footprint in half by 2015.
What are the alternatives? Offshore drilling? Essentially giving Oil companies more land which they have not even used, to see a drop of oil from them in how long?
"The price of retail gasoline could fall by half, to around $2 a gallon, within 30 days of passage of a law to limit speculation in energy-futures markets, four energy analysts told Congress on Monday. "
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/gas-could-fall-2-if/story.aspx?guid={2673C102-68E0-41D9-9C9A-10EE2E723948}To me, this seems like a
much sounder economic plan as opposed to "Here's a 300 million dollar GRAND PRIZE to whoever can pull an energy efficient motor out of their ass the fastest"
Anyone who thinks healthcare reform won't bring reduced costs in the long term is out of their mind, do you know how many people go
untreated because they can't afford it? That's not just a moral issue, but it leads to high rates of chronic illnesses and of course increase the numbers of morbid obesity.
How about the fact that a little under half of the seniors in my school
did not graduate my senior year? NCLB has put us in corrective-action two yet nothing improves? So what exactly is this program paying for? Flashy exams? Such money could be better spent elsewhere.
I suggest you read Obama's
Blueprint for Change, it may enlighten you some.
