WELCOME TO MIDLAND TEXAS GOP

It will be a very great day in America when criticism of a black
president can be accepted as just that, criticism, not racism, and I
hope you look upon this essay as just that.

Obama ran his candidacy on the premise that America had a failed system
and that we needed change; but in this humble person’s belief, I see
this presidency promoting the most radical, left-wing government in our
history as it attaches individualism, the heart of our democracy at
every level.

We are fighting two wars, losing thousands of cherished loved ones and
crippling many more brave men and women; we have a financial crisis as
banks fail, as industries fail, as unemployment rises, creating
financial problems for states, cities and towns. We have millions
losing their homes, living in tent cities, and most who have jobs
cannot afford a home.

While this is going on our leaders in Washington keep solving these
problems with more taxes put on the backs of middle-class Americans
already struggling to meet their needs through hard work.

The Cap and Trade bill, according to the Treasury Department, will cost
$200 billion and raise average Americans’ energy bills by $1,761 yearly.

President Obama is proposing 71 different, new welfare programs at an
estimated cost of $800 billion and a projected cost over the next
decade of $10 trillion.

His administration is proposing a Value Added Tax (VAT) that in some
industrial nations is as high as 25 percent added to the cost of goods,
but not seen at the cash register when purchases are made. Along with
this tax they propose a financial transaction tax that will cost
Americans another $100 to $150 billion a year.

Taxes on soda, on health insurance, on incomes — taxes on just about
everything to share the wealth for everyone — socialism, that dreaded
word — progressive liberalism for all. Welcome to change.

The current health care program in Washington is our attempt to have
what other nations have; but in all the talk, nothing is really done
about the cost.

Germany, which has health care, taxes its citizens at the rate of 14.9
percent of income and is now facing problems to maintain this health
insurance. France has health care and taxes citizens as high as 50
percent of income to support health care and is facing problems.

It is not possible to provide health care for 30 million more
Americans, not increase the budget deficit and allow everyone with
their current insurance to experience no change. Health insurance will
create enormous tax hikes, premium costs and Medicare cuts, but no one
really talks about this.

The president has talked about the future, green energy, save the globe
and the jobs that green energy solutions will create for Americans that
will lead us down the road to new economic growth and once again a
leader of the world.

Well, Mr. Obama, the world is not waiting for us to lead this new green
energy age. The Shenyang Power Group of China will supply 240 of its
2.5 megawatt wind turbines for a 36,000-acre wind farm in West Texas.
This project will create 2,800 new jobs, 15 percent in Texas, 85
percent in China. American green energy jobs? To top this all, the wind
turbine technology China is using comes with a license from a German
company. That’s what Obama calls American leadership — some change.

I hope America is waking up. I hope America is not blinded by the
rhetoric. Failure to look at the ramifications of these proposals could
destroy what made this nation great, its philosophical principles, its
moral values, its institutions that are necessary for a nation to
flourish and the very fundamental foundations that made this the land
of the free.

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