Last night - overheard in restaurant

went to local diner for supper last night, 4 people were in the booth behind me. They were talking about - what else - the economy and the election.

one man was struggling to find some "positive" reason to vote for mccain. the two across the table from him were pretty good at shooting down his "reasons". the woman sitting next to the man (i'm assuming it's his wife), remained quiet.

the man scrapped the bottom of his barrel and said "But mccain reaches across the aisle.."

his wife blurts out - "yeah, he does, he does it just like he campaigns - reaches across the aisle and throws punches."

I love the wifes response.

I'm in a small business. In this part of the country, that is usually a pretty strong Republican profile. We don't talk politics in the office very often. But in the past week people have openly been ridiculing McCain. Even the owners.

And this is one of those small business that has been able to net more than $250,000 a year, so would potentially be facing a tax increase under Obama's plan.

As an aside, there are plenty of accounting tricks for a privately held small business to avoid that. A simple solution is for the owners to pay themselves more salary. Another solution is to buy assets that will permit accelerated depreciation. Point is that the $250,000 breakpoint isn't a huge deal for businesses. What this whole Reagan philosophy has done to our economic system is a much bigger deal. Business people are the last to see that, but many of them are reluctantly starting to accept the failure of that whole premise.

it's only after $650,000 that it really kicks in. even that, i think, is just a rollback to clinton-era levels.

increases.

A Republican for Obama friend (I bought her the pin :)) stopped in and we were chatting about the debate. We were blasting McLame pretty well, pointing out all his faux pas etc, when a man who I hadn't noticed was in the shop pipes up "I'd like to see Obama spend 5-1/2 years as a POW." My friend, the 2 time Bush voter, told him she heard him on a talk show years ago admit that if he knew he would be there another 4 years he would have left when he had the chance. I simply said POW status doesn't automatically make one presidential material.

Apparently that was all he had as he didn't say another word. :rofl:

not done shit for the American people, can't these people realize that? The man is not well and has anger management issues do we really need another unstable man in office.

I told him when the economy/bailout comes up to remind all the guys to do their Christmas shopping early. Why? Because if the stores can't get credit, there won't be any stock on the shelves.

so the subject came up at lunch, and they 'got' that!

:bounce: