Thursday, November 6, 2008

Change, but at what cost?

Today I found one of the Social Justice Club's literature sheets, normally I toss out their sheets because they are usually tainted with communistic ideology. However, what came to interest was that they were criticizing some of the statements that were made by Obama. According to their literature sheet, he has stated that he wants to send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan and initiate mandatory national service. While we could use more troops in Afghanistan, starting a draft is not the way to do it, and this also begs the question of who will be drafted, males or both males and females? After Obama won the election, the Russians began deploying short range missiles next to our Czech and Polish NATO allies. I just wonder how he will address this problem, because the Russians are not intimidated by him? Universal healthcare is expensive and taxing citizens that make over 200K a year would not be enough to cover this venture, I just wonder how much more my taxes will go up? I also hope that these changes that he speaks of do not furthur impede on our constitutional rights. What good is change if it strips you of your rights? We will have to wait and see.