Ignorance for President

It all started when a co-worker was talking about voting for Hillary in the Wisconsin primary because she has a "lesser chance" of winning than does Barack, and that if Barack were elected, God save us, "our taxes would go up."

Playing reality advocate, I posed the question to her, "Are things any better with America blowing billions of dollars in Iraq without having a way to pay for it while the dollar is worth basically nothing around the world than things would be if Americans faced a tax-hike?"

And she had the nerve to say, "Freedom isn't free."

Freedom isn't fucking free? Are you kidding me? Someone who is worried that Barack might raise her taxes is actually okay with the war in Iraq because, "Freedom isn't free." She further went on to say that if Barack was elected, I might not even have a country to live in.

Too bad ignorance isn't running for president. There are actually people who on one hand are afraid Obama will raise their taxes but on the other hand think that the almost $500 billion and counting war in Iraq (the war which took the focus off Osama Bin Laden while two more dangerous countries openly developed nuclear weapons) somehow makes America safer and more free.

"Freedom isn't free" says a woman who lives in constant fear of a possible tax-hike which might actually help pay for the war she is glad we are spending money on. Where does she think this money comes from?

Perhaps the government has been hiding that "money tree" that our parents accused us of believing in when we asked for money as children? Even if that is true, it would seem that the tree hasn't been able to grow money that is worth anything outside of the United States.

Who even says that Obama is going to raise taxes anyway? Assuming we can somehow afford the war in Iraq (which we can't), as soon as Obama ends the war America will have hundreds of billions of dollars a year extra which we could actually spend elsewhere, possibly even on tax-cuts.

Are we so greedy in this country that our biggest fear is that someone might raise our taxes? My biggest fear is that American soldiers and innocent Iraqis will continue to die while our children will be forced to foot the bill and if any of the real terror threats that we have ignored throughout the Iraq war attack us we will not have the soldiers, the money, or the resources to protect our country, our people, and our freedoms.