From: Al
To: manny
Subject: I should know better than to start this
Sent: Nov 7, 2008 12:38 AM
So are you happy that Obama won but yet sad at the same time because he is going to spread your wealth around, i.e. raise your taxes?
Thanks for tuning in to our new segment, “What makes Al so fucking angry”:
Actual quote from someone who voted for Obama:
“I voted for him because what if John McCain catch a heart attack? Then we’d have to vote again”
(After I punch a few babies and get out my aggression, I laugh at that last part)
Don’t these people know that you get a heart attack shot with the flu shot now?

Well he’s not going to raise mine, we’re actually going to get a bump bc of him.
But I sure as shit am glad that some health insurance credit isn’t going to be taxed vis-a-vis the mccain health plan.
The ones that are really going to be screwed are small business owners but that has been the case for years now.
Al, I don’t mind talking about this stuff, and I am open to criticise any politician, dem or republican. I’m a registered independent: so both of these clowns were trying to appeal to me. For national and judicial candidates, I voted dem, for state and local, I went repub. Frankly, I think we need stronger 3rd parties, but that’s not going to happen bc it would disrupt the status quo and americans like keeping everything either/or, black or white: they’re too lazy to actually be involved.
Mccain made a huge mistake pandering to the religious right and putting palin on the ticket: the woman was a moron and the choice of her is indicative of a kind of brash arrogance on the part of mccain. He wanted to snub the gop’s nose in it bc he really wanted lieberman and they wouldn’t go for it. Mccain at the start of the campaign is radically and disappointedly different than the mccain that finished. That guy wouldve given me a run for my money, but not this guy who thought so little of the vp position and so overconfident in his own health, that he chose a moron, and I really think she’s a moron (have you ever even tried to work through some of her sentences? They are utter gibberish), someone he barely knew, as his running mate.
But here’s the rub, and this has always been my stance when we’ve talked about these kind of things: in the end, it doesn’t matter, there is too much money to be made abroad for large corporations to bother with americans. There are countries who lack a strong consumer class and it is in the interest of global capitalism to develop those countries so that they afford more products and services. And I say this as someone who has seen it within my own company: american profits only rose like 5%, where overseas (latin america and asia) went up 40%. Employees in these countries are being paid 40 to 60 % less than american counterparts.
It’s hard to make the argument against outsourcing with numbers like those. Clearly more employees are need ‘out there’ than here.
This is why the whole corporate tax thing, at least for large companies like citi, exxon-mobil, is meaningless. Lowering their tax burden will not give them incentive to stay: they were already planning leaving. Would you stay with your current employer for a 10% bump in salary when you could be making 8x the money you’re making now?
It’s the middle class and small business owners that’ll get fucked, regardless of who or what party is in control.