Open letter to republican crybabies

My uncle Dan has me on his mailing list. That means that I get daily letters of republicans freaking out about how socialist the country is turning and how the liberal world view is destroying us. Normally I don't read the letters at all, but I did today, and it prompted me to write a response.

Well, here was my response; an open letter to kooks and crybabies:

Hello republican friends.

I just wanted to introduce everyone to a gentleman named Róger Calero. Calero was the 2008 candidate for the socialist workers party. Please note how Calero is not President Obama. In fact, if you research Calero's issues and what he believes in, I think you'll find that he believes very differently than Obama. Obama became rich because he believes in captitalism. Obama became president because he actually seems to believe in helping people that aren't necessarily already rich. If this is troublesome for anyone, just realize that the only reason that this was possible in the first place is that there were so many people so desperately needing help. If you're not one of those people, then congratulations. You've succeeded in life. All thats left now is to care about your fellow man.

Calero's website is http://www.themilitant.com/2008/ElectionCampaign/platform.html
I reccomend reading it, just so that you guys can quit using the word socialism incorrectly, and so you can actually show a little knowledge about the political philosophy that you hate so much, and that you insistantly tie to Obama.

I am not a socialist. I am a capitalist. I don't like that the government is spending so much money, but I understand why we have to. The economy gets better if and only if we spend money. The economy needs to get a lot better. The only system with enough money to spend enough to get the economy going is, unfortunately, the government. I don't like it, but really, it makes a lot more sense than doing nothing. Doing nothing is what everyone is doing, because no one has the money to spend on goods and services. Why would you want the government to echo the same activity that is deepening the recession?

I'm not going to talk about blame and who got us into this hole, because we're just going to disagree. One thing you can't disagree with however, is that Obama walked into the recession, and didn't create it.

Thanks for reading
no hard feelings
signed,
the liberal nephew of a conservative uncle