I would like to start off by saying that I am neither a Democrat nor Republican. If I have any tendencies it would be toward the latter, but I’m basically an Independent Conservative. I have always voted on the issues and character of the people running. That’s why when Obama was running for office, all of my alarms started to go off. I just kept thinking, “He talks a good game, but something isn't right.” I was afraid that if he won, he would not only raise taxes but expand the government’s control and throw massive amounts of money (that we don’t have) at all sorts of pet projects and social programs. Well, he didn’t disappoint. He is just marching us down that yellow brick road to Socialism and the majority of people don’t even see it! It began with the bailouts. It’s almost a joke now. Car companies, mortgage companies, banks…what’s next? My fear is that it will be nationalized healthcare. And the “stimulus” package? Thinking about it makes blood shoot out of my eyes! He’s only been in a month and he’s already spent more money than any other president in history, mostly on things we don’t even need! For example: almost 2 million dollars on swine odor in Iowa – are you kidding me? Now how do you think he’s going to pay for all this? Anyone, anyone…raise taxes. Right now it’s “only” going to affect those making over $250,000. I guarantee that won’t be enough. Soon it will be those who make $200,000 then $100,000 then $75,000 and so on. He won’t do it all at once. It’s incremental. Every one of you reading this WILL end up paying for it. I recently read a quote by Dr. Adrian Pierce Rogers that sums things up. "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."