Who wants to vote for either of these candidates? John McCain is a mid-seventy year old veteran who, during all three debates, just stood there and pointed fingers at Obama and was nasty to him the whole time. McCain wants to help people stay in their homes by more or less butchering the value of America's homes. He then wants to fix health insurance by letting small businesses decide if they want to give health insurance. If they don't, which many will not if not forced. Obama wants to give everybody a $5,000 "credit" to help float the average plan of $5,800. This seems like a promising plan to me, no matter what your financial situation you will still recieve $5,000 you can get yourself either a basic by just adding a thousand dollars or so or a better plan by adding say $10,000. I only see two big problems: Where is this money coming from and how are these credits going to get payed back. Many people are going to take the credit on the basis they can't pay it back, thats exactly how we go into our financial crisis now, bad home loans.
I also haven't heard a thing about new fuels. I have heard alot about the heated debate between the two senators about off shore drilling; drilling that can only deliver about 5% of our consumption. McCain says we need to do it and do it know, "we need to show the world we have our own fuel supply." Well we do need to show we have our own fuel supply, but we don't have one! And we never will with off shore drilling. I think that Bio-Fuel or another alternative resource be thouroughly developed right here in the United States. That way we will own the means of production for the new world. No more polluting the air with the drilling of oil in the Middle East, and no more supporting governments simply for their means of oil. Instead of consuming 75% of a product that is killing our earth and making massive amounts of money for a foreign power we need to be the top manufacturer of an alternative fuel. An alternative fuel or means of energy found, developed, and produced, in the U.S. would create hundreds of thousands of jobs and in the same stroke lower all prices (assuming that all prices are based on the inclusion of shipping and transportation costs). This would create a BOOMING economy, one the world has never seen before. But hey, what do I know, Im just a college freshman writing a blog.
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