With Sarah Palin prepare yourself for more of the same

If you have listened to McCain’s vice-presidential choice Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, you probably heard what I heard in this speech:

The same rhetoric of the 2000 election. Ms. Sarah Palin continues to repeat the same slogans as the Republicans have used over the past decades as Ms. Sarah Palin said, "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, and raise payroll taxes, and raise investment income taxes, and raise the death tax, and raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."

Sarah Palin would rather give this money to the oil companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp. that had received the largest tax brake over the almost 8 years from the George W. Bush government!

Well, let’s look at the current situation after almost 8 years of Republican rulings. Are we really saver, as the current government is trying to tell us? Do we have more money than after the Democratic government under President Bill Clinton? Is the standing of the U.S.A better than after the Democratic government under President Bill Clinton?

Now, Ms. Sarah Palin and John McCain are trying to make you believe that things will change. I guess they are talking about the changes we have seen under president George W. Bush. President Bush had made the same promises during his campaign in 2000. Many people believed the Republican rhetoric (promises). However, now we have to fit the bill.

The Republican philosophy is as Barack Obama puts it - "give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. In Washington (Republicans), they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is - you're on your own. Out of work? Tough luck. No health care? The market will fix it. Born into poverty? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps - even if you don't have boots. You're on your own"

America has accumulated the highest budget deficit ($482 billion) ever in US history after a surplus inherited from the Democratic government under President Bill Clinton. Well, if you believe the Republican rhetoric you have to prepare yourself for more of the same and even worse. Except if you own a company like the Exxon Mobil Corp which has made $11.68 billion dollars in proffit in the second quarter of 2008.