re: #174 Sergey Romanov

OK, silly question. Cain v. Obama - who’s potentially more strong?

The more people dig into Cain’s economic plan the more he’s going to fall apart. From his issues page on entitlements:

For the generations or workers who have paid into Social Security and Medicare, the federal government’s inevitable failure to pay them as they retire is undeniably stealing. These are generations who have worked and sacrificed to leave this country a better place for their children and grand children as they retire. The current behavior of an out of control federal government does little to ease their minds.

The federal government has imposed expensive and often counter-productive social and welfare programs on the states and the people. It is time to admit the mistakes, and get the federal government out of the way. This will allow states, cities, churches, charities and businesses to offer a helping hand instead of a handout where they live. People closest to the problems are the best ones to solve the problems effectively.

Many people either don’t realize the specifics of what his plan calls for, or haven’t thought it through. It replaces SS and Medicare withholdings and doesn’t take in enough money to cover either program. That’s why he’s talking about churches and charities, he’s offering everyone a sink or swim approach, with no safety net. If you’re sinking then you’re supposed to reach out and beg for help from religious organizations and private charities that have finite resources and may very well not give a shit about you. His national sales tax is absolutely unheard of, has no exceptions for food, rent, medical expenses, or the purchase of new cars and homes. It would hit the economy like the Ebola virus, bleeding it out almost instantly.

The whole 999 thing really could only come from the marketing mind of a chain restauranteur, it sounds good superficially, has a snappy ring, but it’s an unbelievably simplistic, damaging and unrealistic way to fund a government.

He’s also a colon cancer survivor, crotchety mean old theocrat who opposes abortion in all instances, not to save the life of the mother, not in cases of rape or incest, no exceptions.

The Tea Party like him because he’s down with their dogma, economic, religious, and social. He’s useful to them because he’s willing to validate and repeat all the bullshit they want to hear about black people, that they’re brainwashed, lazy and on some Democratic Plantation.