Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach him how to fish he will eat for a lifetime! Maybe all politicians should have this tattooed on their foreheads so they can see it every morning.

Mr. Obama is a Progressive Liberal. It is their belief that giving people fish is the correct approach and doing so through income redistribution is the preferred method. This hasn't worked at any time in history! Socialism (which is where this is all headed) has failed time and again because it destroys incentive.

If Mr. Obama is truly a Progressive Liberal maybe he should sell his 4 million dollar mansion and give the money to the Kenyan Village he promised to help do in 2006 when he visited. The village and school are still waiting. His 4 million dollar home is about 40 times more than they were asking for. This I am sure would still leave the Obama's with more than most of the people writing here!

As a business owner I can tell you raising payroll taxes and my income taxes will not help the economy in any way. I will simply terminate an employee, eliminate our 401K and it's match and work a little harder to maintain my meager living. I see businesses that were around for 10-20 or 30 years closing because they simply can't pay the bills and taxes (let us not forget the property taxes, utilities and excise taxes, fuels and excise taxes on it, sales taxes on everything we buy). For anyone to think that raising any form of taxes is going to help the economy is absolute insanity or worse yet ignorance.

Mr. Obama thinks Mr. McCain is out of touch with the Middle Class. I have a feeling the Obama Mansion is not located in a Middle Class suburb. He is out of touch with the middle class and the lower classes as well as the business world. In his Bios I don't recall him telling us about his business and economic experiences. This guy hasn't even run a lemonade stand. Running a campaign is much different. He isn't writing the budget and counting the pennies and when he needs more money he goes to a Hollywood cocktail party. Try that when you live in Levittown and you can't pay the 400.00-dollar LIPA bill.

This guy represents the democrats who control 2 of 3 branches of our Government and have done NOTHING. They had a ridiculous approval rating (if you want to call it that) If I recall correctly it is 9%. George Bush is in the 30's so who is the problem here?

Mr. Obama talks about Earmarks that Palin may have tried to facilitate for her state. Ahhhh duhhhhh that is a Mayor or Governor’s job! They get money for projects and it puts people to work in the state, which generates more tax revenue. If a Mayor or Governor doesn't bring home the proverbial pork they don't get re-elected. But having no administrative experience he wouldn't understand that.

How come no one is talking about AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax)? This is the cruelest joke of all! Taxation without representation. I have to pay tax on my tax and lose all my deductions. If I live in a low tax state I don't have this problem, but because I live in Liberal Progressive state that just keeps giving away the fish I keep on paying!

Mr. Obama wants to eliminate the $500,000.00 exclusion many people are enjoying when they sell their homes. Yes all you boomers will be giving Obama 18-20 % of the profits from the sale of that home you worked 40 years to pay for. That sounds like a plan!

If you are a Progressive Liberal or don't know what it is I suggest you read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. While the book is quite old and a fictional work it does sum up quite nicely the outcome of Progressive Liberal thinking. I like many others will eventually take my savings and move to another country and leave all the Progressive Liberals to pick over the carcass of this country and try to figure out how to feed all those people that still can't fish!

By the way I can solve the Housing market's woes, increase jobs, accelerate the economy and get America Moving again all without really spending any money. We have already spent 150 billion dollars and it did nothing. Maybe we need to help people become fishermen instead of mailing them a few hundred fish!

Signed Atlas Shrugged