Hear, hear!

Don't waste tax payer dollars to kill Iran democracy movement!

Obama can help this budding seed of hope for civil liberties even more emphatically by altogether cutting the budget "to promote democracy in Iran," evidently channeled through the U.S. Agency for International Development. Ken Dilanian of USA Today reports, "the Obama administration is moving forward with plans to fund groups that support Iranian dissidents."

This financial aid is not only a waste of taxpayer money under these severe economic circumstances, but is in fact the surest way to kill that inborn and grassroots movement.

It mostly will be abused by expatriate and entirely discredited opposition groups ranging from the monarchist supporters of Reza Pahlavi to the members of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization, and it will in turn strengthen the hand of the regime to denounce the Green Movement as funded by Americans.

I am never surprised at how our government wastes our tax dollars.

This is what worries me about Obama ...

... sooner rather than later, I imagine I'll be considered "upper class" and I'll be taxed to death. Exactly what is his threshold for "middle class"? It seems to be a moving target.

IIRC, when Obama started this whole deal with defining the middle class, he pegged it at anything above $75K. No freaking way. As a married government employee, my wife and I come close to that, and we still live paycheck to paycheck. Student loans and a mortgage take out a considerable chunk of our pay. An increase in our taxes would kill us.

Then it was raised to $250K for a family. Pretty high ceiling there, but now it seems to be creeping down again. Where it actually stops, is anyone's guess. Give me a damn number, and then stick to it. Jimminy Christmas!

The Wall Street Mess

How McCain and Obama handle this mess will go a long way in helping me decide who I'm going to vote for.

Adapting to the modern world ...

Obama ad claims that since McCain can't use a computer, he hasn't adapted to the modern world.

Barack Obama's campaign released a new television ad Friday that mocks John McCain for being out of touch with voters' lives and the economy. The ad uses McCain's admission earlier this year that he's computer illiterate as a sign that he's been unable to adapt to the modern world.

I'd contend that if you can fly a US military jet, you're pretty high up on the technology scale.

Come on folks, let's get to something serious. Now that gas is back up to $4 a gallon, I'd like to hear less about lipstick and computers, and more about how you're going to help ensure my job stays around, and how you'll strengthen the economy and prevent me from being tossed out of my house and onto the streets.