Well, with Obama you can expect your health insurance costs to at least triple from there in the form of taxes to pay for that "free" universal healthcare coverage you no doubt believe will end your health insurance costs; gas prices aren't under the control of a President from an oil consuming country, and while many countries in OPEC would love to see the POTUS come begging them to increase supply, since they are the ones making the real killing on the higher prices -it isn't going to happen. So those increased transportation costs which have driven up your food bill will remain. As will paying more for heating oil for your house. What your house is worth today doesn't mean much unless you are planning to sell it today and is the least of your problems.
But the good news is that with Obama, your tax bill will go way up and not just to pay for that "free" universal healthcare coverage, but all those other entitlement programs he wants to create you won't qualify for anyway -so you will have even less disposable income than ever before. At the end of 4 years, if you are really lucky -your husband will still have a job but with far less purchasing power and if you are really, really lucky still able to hang on to that house.
Obama is offering the very same failed policies of Carter and promising an economy as it existed under Clinton. A con game if I ever saw one since those Carter policies only resulted in a Carter economy and it was Reagan policies that resulted in a Clinton economy -polar opposite policies. The best entertainment available will be the Democrats and liberal media trying to explain why you are so much better off with an economy with so much higher unemployment, interest and inflation rates and far less purchasing power. They did under Carter too who was tossed out in four years. Took years longer than that to fix the damage he did.
The Democrats drag this crap out full force just in time for the next generation too ignorant to learn from history to buy into it. So after personally learning the hard way, you can expect to be among those trying to warn the next generation getting ready to fall for the identical crap. You will be rewarded for it by being told you are ignorant and stupid and lectured about why they are so much smarter than you although more ignorant than any previous generation. Happy days are here again, huh?
frazzle, you don't understand Obama's healthcare proposal, which is NOT universal health care paid for by our gvt taxes.
me personally, i don't think anything should be done with universal healthcare UNTIL the underlying problems with the yearly double digit rises in costs are addressed and reformed, starting with the Medicare Pill Bill....and streamlining the paperwork..., it will bankrupt our country with just our Medicare and Medicaid costs.
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President's policies can cause price rises in gasoline...WAR for instance, where we use a ton more oil in deploying our troops, affects the prices of gasoline tremendously because of it's "demand" factor being added in to normal demand.
Buying in to our oil reserves affects it, which is another task of the President.
Friendly relations with oil producing countries and the President's policies regarding such affects it.....(Venezuella as example)
The president and his party's policy positions on regulation or deregulation affects the price of oil/gas as well....(deregulating the speculation of oil has caused a great deal of the oil bubble we saw)
The president's different energy dept's positions and stances on oil leases also affect the price of oil/gas...
And whether to release our oil reserves on to the market affects the price of gas and oil.
The president's positions on conservation also leads Congress, affects the supply and demand and the price of oil/gas....(telling everybody to continue to buy those big suv's because we have the right to drive them)
There are many more things that affect oil/gas prices that the President has control or the position of leadership that could and does affect the price of oil/gas.
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on the house dropping 30% since we bought it, has TRAPPED US, IN TO having TO STAY HERE in Maine and gives us no options....like moving to a southern state where oil is not necessary to heat ones home.
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As i said previously, there is NO FREE UNIVERSAL healthcare plan that Obama is proposing....
it is a plan with private insurance companies similar to Romney's plan in massachusetts, only obama does not make it mandatory to buy in to as romney's plan required.
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Under this administration and this congress, we ALREADY have MUCH MUCH MUCH LESS purchasing power than we had under the Clinton administration and his congress. And it will ONLY GET WORSE, but not because of Obama, but because of the actions of this present President and his congress....the damage has been DONE with their excessive overspending and tax policies.
Why would I want to continue on the same disasterous road that President Bush has put us on?-------------------------------------------------------------
Obama is not Carter and he is not President Bush either....nor is he a Kennedy or a Reagan....
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Our country has been messed up so badly these past 8 years that no matter who takes the position of President, we have a VERY HARD ROAD ahead of us.
Those responsible for this HELL that we face should NOT be put back in power and rewarded with another chance.....it would be irresponsible for us to keep us on the same path and negligent to not punish those that did it to us....Republicans for the most part, and their policies of overspending and borrowing from foreigners, which essentially a HUGE TAX INCREASE on us all imho.
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