McCain and Palin....Really?

A scientist usually goes to extremes to prove or disprove a theory. I don't think you have dug deeply enough. I applaud you for your thoughtful and unbiased question. There are many rich people other than Warren Buffet who are voting for Obama. I have worked, or am presently working for some, and I'm talking 500 million a year that these people make. I agree with your point that if abortion is the only reason someone would vote for Palin, they should consider the larger picture. But if the democrats, and liberal republicans, ever took time to consider the larger picture, there is a very good chance that this country would not be where it is today. Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate. But during the 25 years following LBJ's declaration on the war on poverty, U.S. taxpayers spent more than 3 trillion dollars, providing every conceivable support for the poor, and private and religous charities spent billions more. An avalanche of government welfare money with no strings attached, paid people not to work or marry, save or invest, or confront the behavioral causes of their poverty. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both. Unless welfare, medicare and similar relief programs are rigidly controlled, they get out of hand, and the poor become more numerous and worse off than they were before, not only because they have lost self reliance, but because the sources of wealth and production on which they depend for jobs and/or welfare have been destroyed. Ronald Regan cleaned up the mess from the Carter era when we had gas lines, double digit inflation, and a real threat from Russia. There is no trickle up policy, as Obama claims, think about it from a scientific standpoint. How can the less fortunate ever provide the jobs, stimulus, and venture capital that will create the very jobs that will employ others and improve their conditions.