A few thoughts.....

I watched Obama's infomercial last night. Honestly, I agree with a lot of what he had to say. Having personally dealt with a situation in which health care was unaffordable to someone who needed it I couldn't agree more that we need to make sure health care is available and affordable to everyone, not just people who have full time jobs. Also, being in a business in which I work with companies that compete with foreign companies for local business, I fully believe it should be more expensive for local companies to buy goods from foreign suppliers. The person who made it cheaper to do business with foreign companies is not interested in the best interest of this Country. Locally owned and operated companies have lost business to foreign companies because they can't compete on cost. Because of this, Americans have lost their jobs and local business owners have had to run lean and/or shut their doors. Now, this doesn't mean I'm going to go out and pull the lever for Obama. I still have a very fundamental concern with the idea of a more Socialised government. Nevertheless, if Obama does win this election, I will do nothing but wish him the very best and hope and pray that he does what is right and what is in the best interest of the people of this country. Personally, while I may not vote for the guy, I think the American thing to do is to be supportive of our leaders until they give us a reason not to support them (See Martha Alexander or Bev Perdue).

The follow is a few general concerns I have:
1. While I believe that politics should be controlled locally as much as possible, what do you do when your state government is noted for being one of the more corrupt state governments in the country?

2. At this pace, a college education may be too expensive for my children. That being said, at this rate I suspect college might be too expensive for more than half of our country. This would lead to less and less people having the opportunity to attending college. If this happens, we will head in the opposite direction of progress and we will get lapped by China and Japan. When I went to College my tuition each semester, for a State School, was right at $1,000.

3. While I agree with Obama in that companies like Exxon no longer need tax incentives to help their bottom-line, I wonder what the fallout will be if these incentives were removed. Would the crooks at Exxon layoff employees and/or try to relay their rising cost to their employees in an effort to not negatively affect their bottom line (Trickle-down Economics)?

4. I have good credit. With the interest rate dropping down to 1% why are my credit card interest rates and HELOC not decreasing. When I got my HELOC the rate was prime plus one. Now it's prime plus five. What gives, and who is going to blow the whistle on this? Further, while the intent of the Fed in lowering rates is to encourage lower interest rates in an effort to encourage more consumer spending, how can consumers spend more money if the lenders don't relay those lower rates to the consumers.

5. One politician I am without a doubt pulling against is Bev Perdue. She is trying to pit the State of North Carolina against Charlotte in an effort to win the Governor's race. Why, would any Charlottean in their right mind vote for a person who is clearly selling out Charlotte for their own personal gain? Amongst other things, Charlotte needs more funding for the Criminal Justice system. With someone like Bev Perdue in office I'm not confident that the next four years will pass and we will still not get the funding we need (Unfortunately, this is typical of the Raleigh Political Machine.). Personally, I think Charlotte might be much better off if we were on our own. There's no point in paying taxes to a state that doesn't support us but never misses a chance to boast about us.