Many of your republican arguments are flawed. Forget that it is, after all, immoral to say that your financial situation trumps everything else and that spreading around wealth is a major problem.
First of all, I doubt that any of you have ever made anything close to 200K, yet you already are running around trying to protect your imaginary salary. First make sure you will make the money you claim (some of your comments make me doubt that you have what it takes to get the competitive specialties) and then attack taxation on the extremely rich. If you had your eyes open, you'd realize that you have several years of medschool plus several years of residency, during which time you are going to be nothing short of a fast food worker making less than the janitors. For some of you in certain residencies, you have a good eight years or more before you even start making any real money. Yet here you are, in a self righteous way, trying to claim that Obama is bad for you? Where is your foresight, my "friends"? Forget morality, I am talking business here. A study showed that Obama will give you I think twice the tax break as McCain will. Get off the damn bandwagon and think.
Second, have you ever thought that if the country does well overall, you will do well as well? These same "bastards" that are trying to spread your imaginary wealth around are the same (excuse my expression) "people" who will be paying you for your services. How do you expect to do well when the country is in turmoil? Or maybe you are trying to be a leech and suck the country dry so that once it falls you can take your patriotic, conservative values, along with your arse, to your abominated socialistic Europe. A couple of years ago I was reading a very interesting research letter in Nature. It studies a certain aerobic bacterial colony on the surface of a liquid where bacteria had to alternatively go up to the surface to get their share of oxygen. Well, there were these other types of bacteria that did not conform to the norm and wanted to be on the top all the time. While it positively affected their individualistic growth, the study showed that the colony that had the most of these types of bacteria collapse to the bottom of the flask much sooner than the colony with no such "parasitic" bacteria. It made a vivid impression on me because of the remarkable similarity between some brainless bacteria and intelligent people. This is exactly what some of you are proposing when you claim you and your income is the center of the universe. These past eight years showed that the trickling down of the money from the rich doesn't work. This Reaganomics has never worked. All my history teachers made the same claim. The fact is that the amount of money you have does not matter when the country is going down and the value of the dollar is dropping like a rock. Sometimes it helps to look at the big picture.
Third, Joe the plumber is your average dumb Joe. He is not a plumber nor is he ever going to buy a small business. He is dreaming about the theoretical money he will have, much like some of you here dream about your coveted "salarinous" specialty as if it has already happened. He finally admitted that actually Obama's plan would help him more than McCain's, yet McCain is still getting mileage on you guys using his name. Our friend Joe is now a Huckabee believer, a pastor turned politician, turned into a talk show host. Great!
I don't want to go through the entire list, as there is many, but I will say that you are wrong about healthcare too. McCain's plan is going to add 20mln uninsured. These people are going to visit you, Joe the doctor, and not be able to pay you. Whose salary is going to go down as a result? Obama's plan is not socialistic; however, not everything about socialism is wrong. If all you're worried about is your daddy's pocket (which I can understand if you live there) or your future income, then think about this: Obama is going to tax the top few percent of the population, including things like oil companies, to help pay for the healthcare. These people with healthcare will visit you and pay you for your services. It turns out that the rich are taxed to pay the doctors. There is nothing in the Obama plan that says anything about putting caps on physician salaries. The big losers here are going to be the insurance companies.
I'd expect a higher level of intelligent life forms among med students, but I guess you're just students, unlike the European socialistic education that produces much more well-rounded students than we have here. Our science education is creating a national security risk for our country. Now I see that it is also creating national health risk for the healthcare industry. At least it's good to see that the majority here are for Obama.
If you don't like Obama for racial, imaginary taxation, or whatever other reasons, please, don't vote for him. But don't vote for McCain either. There are many other good presidential candidates you can select or write in their name. I suggest you write in your own name because you apparently know best what is good for our country!
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