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I've listening to Obama now during this election year and at first I was intrigued by him, by no means going to vote, but he caught my attention with his speeches. However, now the speeches have never developed past saying he is going to change things. Does this mean the elimination of private healthcare in the US, well what will happen to the many businesses and investers of those companies. Will there be a big expensive government buy-out that will cause taxes to increase or us to borrow more money from other countries or will those companines just go out of business and people lose millions and the stock market crash? How much will you increase taxes? A little won't hurt, but if you repeal the Bush tax breaks and increase inheritance and capital gains taxes, that will only leave us with change! What about the fact he wants to drastically reduce our military budget and the size of the military. Well this could, all be it very unlikely, lead to a change in the power dynamic of the world and leave us vulnerable to attacks by other countries. This wouldn't be a change that I am for. Government provided college tuition? Sounds good but then again how much will taxes increase, you can't add programs and not add taxes! Many people are caught up in the letter behind the names of the candidate and it is very very frightening to see someone potentially be the President of the US that we know very little about and that any time a question is asked about him or his potential policies he gets defensive. That's not change, that's the same way every husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend has ever acted when they are keeping something from their significant other. Change, could be good, but how about enlightening us on what kind. Maybe just Maybe by doing this we might actually agree. Wow imagine that the public knowing what you are for. But then again with many voters it seems that the old addage is true, what you don't know can't hurt. Or can it?