[fabsroman]

So far, of all the political ads I have seen run during the Olympics, the one I like the best is the one by McCain stating that this nation has had a rough 4 years. At least he understands that. Sad thing is that I don't think it is going to get any better.

The issue with taxes isn't an easy one. Honestly, if I were elected as President, I would cut off some of the benefits to the poor and tax everybody else some more. Not only do we need to cut spending, but we need to generate more money through taxes. How else are we ever going to balance the budget and at least partially reduce the national debt of $9,000,000,000.00? That my friends is a rather large number. What my generation, the older generation, and younger generation has done is take from every generation. We have taken from the prior generations and the generations to come, and we want more. We want our turbos to spool away, we want our vacation homes, we want a rifle in every caliber and a shotgun in every gauge, and we want a farm to hunt on too.

The next thing I would address is social security and medicare, and create a further sliding scale to do away with it gradually. Those under 18 will be responsible for their own retirement. That way, people will not feel a false sense of security that the government is going to take care of them after they retire. There are plenty of people out there that didn't save for retirement, thought they could live off social security, and then were horribly shocked after they retired. Same goes for medicare. The younger generation would also experience a decreasing social security and medicare tax as they got older.

Immigration would be another issue.

Health care, while being an issue, I have no idea how to address it other than to tell Americans to buy a catastrophic insurance plan that covers incidents above $10,000. Most people can afford minor hospital bills, but it is the unexpected large bill that kills people. I have one client that pays over $800 a month for health insurance. That is $9,600 a year for her and her 3 daughters. I'm sure she could pay most of her medical bills for the year with that $9,600. When people have great, or free insurance, they tend to go to the doctor for every single cough and sneeze, which drives up the cost of insurance.