Keep long term strategies even if you are having to pull money from a retirement account by RMD.

Wall Street will respond better tomorrow (as it is clear now that Obama is our next President), but who’s in the stock market for the short term – not this guy.

Irrational exuberance lives on……

@Roland –
I disagree with of your second paragraph. Spreading the wealth around is not the job of the government. Our founding fathers knew this. Governmental welfare programs are simply unconstitutional. We are supposed to have a constitutional republic…not a socialized state. History has, indeed, shown us that private organizations/citizens are much more effective in helping those who are less fortunate. While I fully agree that God gives us wealth in order to be a blessing to others, it is not the government’s place to decide that for me. Governments create more red tape bureaucracies than help.
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That being said, between Obama and McCain, I would much rather see McCain in office.

Obama said he’s going to give a nice tax break to those making less than $250,000 (that number has since changed a few times…last I read it was around $100,000! I mean, come on! Be consistent!). However, it’s confirmed that he has also stated energy costs will skyrocket under his plan. So, there goes your tax break…plus some…literally!

In regards to Obama raising taxes on those making $250,000 or more (or whatever the number is now)…Ultimately, that’s going to hurt the people who have the power to create more jobs (ie: small business owners). You raise taxes on those folks, and unemployment rises. History tells us this.

All in all, the socialistic monetary plans that Barak Obama has for this country are not in good keeping with the Constitution or your pocketbook.

Now, I don’t like McCain, but I do believe that his monetary policies will be better for our wallets in the long run. He favors the Bush tax cuts. Argue all you want, but evidence shows those cuts have helped our economy even during the recent crisis. McCain also has a plan for some additional tax cuts. Again, if we look to history, our economy has been boosted by lowered taxes.

I have to say based on the bible, I strongly disagree with your thoughts about “abortion should be allowed as a choice for women(rape, incest, endanger of the life of mother, etc)”. How can we rationalize the killing of babies in our minds based on something that shouldn’t have ever happened to the mother? How can we say that there are ‘certain cases’ where it’s ok? God hates murder. Abortion is killing a baby- it’s murder that’s been legalized by Roe vs: Wade. Let’s not dehumanize this in our minds: there is never a case where it’s ok to take innocent life based on ‘individual cases’ of events that took place in a womens life. It’s sad, yes, that it ever happened in the first place, but the bottom line is what’s done is done, and you can’t kill another life just because something terrible happened to you.

(as a side note, there are other options: consider adoption as one of many.)

watch this showing Obama- it sheds some light on this topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbZJYWjkAPo “i don’t want my daughters punished with a baby.” since when did babies become a punishment?!

However, I believe this would be very short-lived, and think that, in the long run, McCain would be better for my pocketbook by allowing the owners of the company I work for to keep more of their money, translating into a better job situation for me.

Of course, Bob Barr would be the best on my pocketbook, in the long run…

On economy, I believe higher tax rate for rich people make sense. I believe God gives wealth to a person is not that this person can live a extravagant life, but to be able to use his blessing to help those who are in need. My biggest concern about Senator McCain is he is not really offering anything new.

While I do agree that there is times abortion should be allowed as a choice for women(rape, incest, endanger of the life of mother, etc), but I strongly believe anti-abortion is not a religious issue. Any human being should understand taking a human life should never be made easy, even there is special circumstances.

My 2 cents.

@Anonymous – let’s stop calling it the “pro-choice” movement and call in the “pro-abortion” movement. Obama admits to being disgusted by the term. Apparently he’s disgusted with own views.