but hey, big government spending isn’t a big deal as long as it’s for big dreamy neo-con ideas like spreading democracy and fighting terror in a country that didn’t have any before we got there.

A more interesting point, however, is that when you search “Barack Obama bio,” it returns entries such as “short biography.” Short not in terms of length, but short in terms of sparse.

“Strategists for Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign believe it is imperative to identify her high-flying opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, with the “McGovern wing” of the Democratic Party - but they want to keep their candidate’s fingerprints off the attack.

During the two weeks remaining before the important Ohio and Texas primaries on March 4, Clinton insiders want to spread the message that Obama represents the radical left-wing politics of George McGovern’s 1972 candidacy, which won only one state. But they don’t know how to accomplish this. When Clinton herself has launched past attacks on Obama, it has hurt her with voters.

The Clinton campaign is confident of winning in Texas because of the state’s Hispanic vote. But it sees the need in Ohio to identify Obama as a leftist in the eyes of lower-income white voters, who often have supported Republican candidates against Democratic opponents they consider too liberal.”

The $150 billion in “green” infrastructure wouldn’t be so bad. After all, this supposed tax rebate scheme is said to be about $150 billion and already people are saying it won’t work because people will use it to pay down debt or buy things from China rather than helping the U.S. economy (the scheme already failed when it was done in 2001). At least here it would provide jobs and keep on giving rather than this tax rebate which will help the economy for a couple of days.

EITC could be reworked by taking money out of unemployment and welfare’s $350 billion a year. It was originally set up as a monitary swap from people not working and collecting social security and welfare, to people working and collecting the EITC.

The $65 billion in extended health insurance can be done by taking money out of the welfare program and mix it with government/community service (aka working for the government). I would put that at 96 hours per year for a single person and 480 hours per year for a family without touching welfare or 48 hours for a single person and 240 hours for a family and touching welfare.

“He intends to regulate the profits for drug companies, health insurers, and energy firms.” Here are his major flaws. The only reign in the insurance companies cost and prevent dumping is for the government to create a for profit inhouse insurance company like the post office. Other companies would have to do a better job or lose customers. The drug companies have decided to make blockbuster drugs (often for useless “problems”), but this is a world wide problem. No drug company is going to spend millions of dollars or even billions to help a few hundred or even a few thousand people. They make their money selling to hundreds of thousands of people. The only way for drugs to be created to help rare diseases is for some organization to take a loss, which is only something a government organization would be willing to do. Energy firms are already efficent and if one invests in them, they get some good dividends (some of their money back). Energy firms don’t need tax breaks (an estimated $76.5 billion from 2005-2014)or subsidies (any money they want could still be taken from their own dividends). I wouldn’t call an end to tax breaks a tax increase, but it might be labled as such.
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/energy_enviro_nuclear/electricity/energybill/articles.cfm?ID=12395

I don’t know if there will be more taxes. Reagan and both Bushes just took the money from Social Security and Medicare and increased the debt. Obama could do the same, but maybe he could take from welfare too.