Will Obama help or hurt Fractionals

[gutshotdraw]

Warren Buffet has indeed endorsed Barak.

Nobody's perfect. Not even Uncle Warren.

 

[pilot22]

I won't really be voting FOR Obama, rather AGAINST republicans.

Just say "NO" to pasty old dudes who are squarely responsible for the great state of the union that we have today.

Amen and I am with you. Regardless of who you want to win just imagine the mess they will have to deal with from the last 8 years. The question is who will do the least amount of damage in the next four years. Hmmm. McCain is the closest to Bush policies so it isn't that hard to figure what who will do what.

Obama won't ever be able to touch the majority of items he wants to change because he will be entering in a major crisis. So the question is who can best get us out of the crisis. I say say make a clean break and try something different.

 

[gutshotdraw]

I say say make a clean break and try something different.

Yeah, let's try something different.

How about we try a 20% flat tax with the first $10,000 per family member exempt? Deductions for mortgage interest on the PRIMARY residence only and charitable contributions. Dividends, capital gains and interest ALL count as regular income. Want to see a rich guy squirm? Tell him he's got to pay 20% and a smart lawyer and accountant can't hide it.

How about we try school vouchers so poor people can send their kids to a good (read: private) school where they might actually learn something?

How about we try medical savings accounts where you actually control the money, pay directly for minor procedures and office visits, and therefore have to SHOP for a doctor and a laboratory and insurance is there for CATASTROPHIC injury or illness?

How about we try term limits so Robert Byrd can't spend more than FIFTY YEARS sending pork barrel projects to West Virginia?

How about we try applying the ENTIRE Constitution to the legal system and not just the parts certain people like? (Yes, I mean the Second Ammendment but I also mean FISA courts, wiretapping, and the like)

How about we try FREEZING the federal budget for 3 years? No cuts, no growth, just a freeze. Let the Cabinet Secretaries have a cage match over who gets how much.

I'll tell you why. Because NOBODY in Washington wants to try something new. Not Republicans, not Democrats, NOBODY.

There are a dozen other areas where we should try something new. Just putting a different pol in the White House AIN"T gonna make it happen.

 

[Wankel7]

http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/articles/2008/080829palin.html

That is good news for GA...now if it carries over to McCain's beliefs.

 

[Willy21]

Be careful Gut or we might just have to elect you.

 

[Bluewanabe]

BOMB, BOMB, BOMB,.......BOMB,BOMB IRAN.....






It's OK I can see Russia from my house......

 

[Voice Of Reason]

I have been messing around with the interactive electoral college maps on USAToday and have drawn one inescapable conclusion:

Unless Obama completely melts down in the debates and McCain wipes the floor with him, Barack Obama will be sworn in as President of these Unites States next January.

We all travel around the country and get to read the local papers, talk with the van drivers, overhear the locals at the restaurant, etc. It is clear that the American public wants a clean break. Don't confuse them with the facts.

Most of us understand that an Obama Presidency would be an unmitigated, colossal disaster for the economy (taxes), free speech (so-called Fairness Doctrine), health care (hope you have a Snickers bar while you wait 9 months for your bypass), crime (disarm the victim pool), foreign policy (nuclear Iran, resurgent and aggressive Russia), education (let's throw more money at failed schools), etc. etc.

Regardless, I think Obama will win and it will take just about four years for the country to completely implode. Then maybe we'll elect somebody that will actually return this country to what it was designed to be: A constitutional, representative republic where the federal government's only jobs are to provide for the common defense of the several states and settle disputes between the states. Period.

I have on the Nomex suit. Flame away.

I disagree...
It will be like every other crazy liberal agenda we've seen in the past.

The Media : Would have you believe that all of America wants Obama...whether it be through their fanciful stories, fake polls (take the AOL straw polls for example...if you attempt to choose McCain it gets hung up and won't accept the vote...Obama votes go right through...there are pages and pages of comments indicating thousands experiencing the same under the polls...This is only one of a VAST collective of tactics of the "Yes We Can" vocal minority)

Speaking of "vast," a vast portion of the demographics of these lunatics (and no they aren't the "educated elite and wealthy" as they try to brainwash viewers into believing) are people that, when it comes down to it...will NOT bother to vote. These people are so clueless and self-righteous that they expect EVERYONE feels the way they do...so when the time comes...they have other things to do. (Though I am not eliminating the chance of a "stolen" election with what I have seen going on at the local Board of Elections level...and changes to rules geared toward invalidating republican requests for absentee ballots, and extending voting for over a month before the election (which has never been done). I am sure there are plenty of "community organizations" who will gather derelicts to visit the election offices where they can FOR THE FIRST TIME register and vote (no waiting period) for an entire month before). If this is allowed to proceed (Ohio) all bets are off.

When it comes down to it BOTH sides suck more than any two choices I have EVER seen (and I thought Bush/Kerry couldn't get worse)...BUT in the end, people know that Obama's "ideals" and "plans" will take this country down worse than we have ever seen. America (the majority of people) will not vote for someone because it will be "historic." They will (begrudgingly) vote for McCain...hope that he lives...and pray that Hillary (and her dumba$$/unethical but good President for a semi-lib husband) comes back in 4 years, or even better...the parties realize they need to do MUCH MUCH better than ANY of them.

I'd vote for Nader, but unfortunately, our society is so geared toward the two party system that it might actually help Obama, so won't. It sickens me that either way we are doomed...but one doomed is MUCH MUCH worse than the other

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

Back to the topic...


NJ pilots... did your union send McCain and Obama a Questionaire about what is important to NJ pilots?

 

[brokeflyer]

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2008/06/effect-of-obama.html

The success of Fractionals depends on small business owners and individuals who make well over $250,000 of income per year. Will fractional owners cut expenses, like our jobs, to keep their overall take home pay the same as under Bush's tax plan.

I'm curious to hear what some of you guys/gals think about this. Will it help us or hurt us as Pilots?

Glad they aint refering to NJ......NJ don't even look at targeting an owner unless they're worth at least 20 million.

 

[skyismyoffice]

I won't really be voting FOR Obama, rather AGAINST republicans.

Just say "NO" to pasty old dudes who are squarely responsible for the great state of the union that we have today.

This ain't no pasty old dude - and it's Republican!

 

[CA1900]

NJ pilots... did your union send McCain and Obama a Questionaire about what is important to NJ pilots?

I would assume not. Our union (unlike the Teamsters) doesn't get involved in endorsing candidates.

 

[Sparse]

I won't really be voting FOR Obama, rather AGAINST republicans.

Just say "NO" to pasty old dudes who are squarely responsible for the great state of the union that we have today.

In 1976 there was similar sentiment about Republicans, and rightfully so. We ended up with Jimmy Carter, an embarrasment in the Iran hostage crisis, terrible inflation, and 18% interest rates.

 

[glasspilot]

Okay, let's vote between Carter and Obama.

I still take Obama. You point is moot.

 

[ksu_aviator]

There is one upside to an Obama Presidency. Obama's $3 trillion in new spending, plus the market melt down, will result in the government not being able to get a loan to cover all the extraneous expenses. That means no more Medicare, Medicade, Social Security, or anything else that is not Constitutional.

Of course, 1/2 the country will be out of work and the only financial institutions that still have money will be pink and oink when you turn them upside down, but everything has a price.

 

[gutshotdraw]

Actually, I think the one upside of Obama becoming president is that it will hopefully shut the mouths of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Spike Lee and their incessant rants about what a racist country this is. With a black man in the White House, you'd look pretty stupid to continue arguing that the United States is a racist nation.

 

[PUCKFA18]

President age

I don't get why you all keep referring to McCain's age as a major issue on your vote. President Reagan was 69 when he first took office in 1981-1989. He was also the oldest president to live at 93(well minus the last 3-5 years with altimerzs). But he was very healthy up to around his mid 80's.

My .02

 

[av8tor4239]

Frankly, I'd rather not give the same folks responsible for Amtrack, the Post Office, and Walter Reed control over 1/5th of this country's GDP.

But you will let them privatize social securtiy and squander away your hard earned dollars??

 

[av8tor4239]

Just putting a different pol in the White House AIN"T gonna make it happen.

This is where you are wrong... putting McCain in the white house will ASSURE it is not going to happen.. Elect Obama and you will see these things change..

ONce again.. a McCain Supporter "JUST DOESN"T GET IT" kind of like McCain himself

 

[av8tor4239]

Actually, I think the one upside of Obama becoming president is that it will hopefully shut the mouths of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Spike Lee and their incessant rants about what a racist country this is. With a black man in the White House, you'd look pretty stupid to continue arguing that the United States is a racist nation.

You truly are an insecure idiot.. :cartman:

 

[jegermeister]

Why don't you try making an argument without getting all emotional??? Gutshot made valid points that I guess you don't like so you start making emotional pleas and even drag the oil industry into it.

Totally funny post though.

Emotional? Really? If you think the post is funny, then you probably think that faux news is fair and balanced.

The unfortunate truth of this upcoming election is the fact that we haven't any real choices. The puppet that is placed in front of this nation will only have as much control of it, as the special interest groups give him.

There was a time I wanted to see McCain as the next president (I voted for him in the primary against Bush). At the time he was a maverick. He's not the same politician now. He's an honorable man that no longer has the will or ability to do what's right for this country.

And back to the original question. Who will be best for the fractional world? McCain. Short term tax policy and loose financial laws will help to create more millionaires. Long term though, I believe that human greed will rape the system to the point of collapse.