Mcbama

During the presidential debate on September, 26th the candidates tried once again to establish their distinctiveness and persuade us they offer fundamentally different paths, with each of the presidential hopeful trying desperately to distance himself from the other, and the pundits seem to be listening. All over the press these differences are annunciated, such as the last issue of Newsweek which has a section dedicated to how “fundamentally” different the two candidate’s worldview’s are. With all this talk of how different the two major presidential candidates are at a fundamental level we have to ask ourselves, what really are their differences?

McCain has said that he will fight big drug companies. In other words he will continue us on our road of government interference into the medical industry. Obama has allotted to universalize- that is, socialize- our medical industry, which is different from McCain, only the same. Maybe we should read up on the enormously long waiting lines. Dr. Paul Hsieh founder of FIRM (Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine) gives statistics of Canadians having to wait an average of 18 weeks for most ordinary treatments, and much longer for more difficult procedures such as heart surgery. This time maybe it will be different, and Obama can get socialism right. McCain said in his debate with Obama we must reach for energy efficiency by building 45 new nuclear power plants. You have to wonder how he came up with that particular number. Why not 30 or 50 power plants? McCain must have some brilliant insight to know what the most efficient number of nuclear power plants would be. Obama has exclaimed he will fix our energy problems by pouring taxpayers money into “alternative energy” as if the government has the constitutional right to take monies from free citizens and subsidize tilting windmills.

Regarding the two major candidates Craig Biddle of the Objective Standard nicknamed them Mcbama. He explains that each of their views on the role of government is actually quite similar. As Biddle explains McBamas view is that “the purpose of government is to manage the economy, regulate businesses… to redistribute wealth.”
Is this really what our founders wanted and were trying to accomplish with America? The constitution and the framing of our country was set up for one purpose, to protect individuals’ negative rights. Most importantly however, the constitution was set up to bar the government from interfering in the lives of its citizens.

An act introduced into congress every year since 1995 by Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz, called The Enumerated Powers Act would require that any bill introduced would have to explain where in the constitution it is allowed to spend that money. In the House of Representatives it has received 44 co-sponsors, in the senate not a single one, and this is a senate that includes both McCain and Obama. This is a clear example of Mcbama not wishing to be held accountable to the Constitution.

There really doesn’t seem to be much if any fundamental differences between the two presidential candidates. The lesser of two evils is still evil, so what is there to do when these are our only options? One thing everyone can impact is to take a closer look at what these two men stand for and attempt to change the status quo. We still live in a semi-free country of great men and women; there really isn’t any reason that by 2012 by broadening our knowledge we can’t see a swing away from where we are headed now, towards an ever larger government. And swing ourselves back to a free country.