Today I received an email from my favorite aunt. The subject line was "The election". CRAP!! She is a very conservative republican and I read all the other new mail before reading it. And it was worse than I thought.
"... No matter your political leanings, I can't imagine you want to vote for someone who espouses such socialist ideas as Barack Obama. I don't believe everything I read but if only a small portion of what he espouses is true, omiGod! Do you want to share the fruits of your hard-fought accounting degree with those who barely lift a finger on their own behalf? We are full of compassion for those less fortunate but this spreading of the wealth to those who are waiting for any and all hand-outs is preposterous. It is our right to be generous, not the right of government to be generous with our (and your) tax dollars."
I don't know how much she thinks I make from my "hard fought accounting degree" but it is not so much that I will lose anything. I will actually get a cut in my taxes under Obama's plan.
There is another part where she mentions his "socialism". In my reply, if I do reply, would probably mention the fact that I don't have a problem with having some socialized programs in this country and I refer to myself as a socialist and humanist way more often than a capitalist.
My brother just sent an email with this link
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28645 to an article titled "Is Obama A Socialist? Not if You Ask One"
