Another day to rant

I am becoming older and grouchier every day. The way I see it, what's left of the middle class is going to end up with the short end of the stick come election day. (I don't think it matters who wins.) If Obama wins, he'll classify the middle-class as the upper-class and raise our taxes so we can pay for the failed social programs that the Dems love to fund. I'm sick of paying for welfare for someone who refuses to work. I have no problems with helping those who help themselves but our country wasn't founded on the premise that those who work should take care of those who don't. If the Reps win, we'll be in for another "Trickle Down" theory of some sort that won't help anyone but the rich (yes I think that a small business owner who makes 250k per year is rich.) The Dems want socialized medicine but that is the stupidest idea I have ever heard. Ask someone in the UK who is lower middle-class how the health care is there. It's horrible. If they were really serious about fixing health care they would work on tort reform so the damn lawyers and insurance companies didn't get rich while the rest of us pay 3 times more for health care because of malpractice insurance. The problem is that the politicians on both sides are out of touch. Palin is the closest thing to understanding what it's like to be middle-class and even she doesn't quite get it. Obama is completely out of touch - I don't care what he says, he is. And Mccain doesn't even know how many homes he has. We are in for a wild ride the next 2 years at least. If some major changes are made in congress we might be able to make some positive changes but I see the status quo coming either way.