The Blueprint for Success

Barack Obama's Blue Manifesto

Has anyone actually read this?

I'll tell you what I see.

-Preventing employers from permanently replacing striking workers
-Raising the minimum wage
-No privatization of Social Security
-Invest over $150 billion in green technologies
-Insuring "fair prices" for family owned farms
-Requiring employers to provide seven paid sick leave days
-Opposing any constitutional amendment banning abortion
-Promoting economic growth in Mexico
-Increase the supply of affordable housing
-Including Iran and Syria in discussions for the ensuring the stability of Iraq (Note, less than a page later it says that Iran supports terrorism in the region)
-A "Nuclear Free World", although he will "maintain a detterent" as long nuclear weapons exist

What I see? A destruction of economic freedom. By reducing the options employers have to ensure the continued profitability of their company, the entire enterprise endures greater risk, including company failure, and a stagnation in new, now more expensive, hires. The money for supplying homes (usually the most expensive item the average human being purchases), "green technologies" that may or may not be economically viable, and promoting economic growth in a massively corrupt society has to come from somewhere. I'm guessing you and me, but I don't know for sure. Maybe the green technologies no sane investor is putting money in will pay for it all. I also question the wisdom of inviting a state that you admit sponsors terrorism to talks about the stability of it's neighbors. A "Nuclear Free World"? Shockingingly innocent view of human nature.