Liberal Values Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought

John McCain leads Barack Obama in number of cars owned. Barack and Michelle Obama own one car while McCain owns thirteen. When you have nine or so houses (with nobody yet agreeing on an exact count), it only makes sense that you are going to need a lot of cars.

This may or may not have any impact on the election, depending upon whether middle class voters see this as reason to be skeptical over whether John McCain is really the candidate who is on their side. Actually this fact in itself is not a meaningful way to base one’s vote.

There is nothing wrong with being rich, and many middle class voters hope to one day become this rich. What they must understand is not how many cars John McCain has but that, if they want a fair shot at becoming rich, they need to vote for Barack Obama over John McCain.

From a purely economic point of view, those who are already rich, especially those in the top one tenth of one percent, come out best under McCain and will enjoy huge tax cuts. Income disparity will also increase under McCain, making the super-rich even richer than the rest of us. Those who desire a restoration of a true capitalist system, as opposed to Republican crony-capitalism, are far better off voting for Obama. This is both because of Obama’s plan for a middle class tax cut (and not an increase as John McCain dishonestly claims) and because this is the only way to end a system of government based upon transferring wealth from the middle class to the ultra-wealthy.