To the Editor,

We have Barack Obama tied to the following radicals — Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Saul Alinsky, Rashid Khalidi, Tony Rezco, Michael Flager, and an Islamic-backing thug in Africa named Raila Odinga.

Although I don’t believe Obama is plotting a terrorist attack ...

— Why is Barack Obama drawn to these radicals?

— Why is he sympathetic to their messages?

— And how will the indoctrination of their ideologies influence his policies?

Those who downplay these alliances as merely passing acquaintances fail to recognize that this goes to the very heart of Obama's judgment ... and the effect of his judgment on all of us.

With his massive $1.3 trillion price tag of additional government spending, we can certainly see socialism in his proposal to “spread the wealth around.”

Obama says 95 percent of the population would receive a “tax cut” under his plan, yet 40 percent of the population doesn’t pay income taxes. The money to cover those 40 percent would again fall on the backs of taxpayers and small businesses.

Why? Simply because big corporations don’t pay taxes either. The taxes on their businesses are built into the price of the products they sell, and it’s the consumer who pays those taxes when we purchase their items.

And with the majority of the public unable to afford additional tax hikes on goods and services, company CEOs would simply take their businesses overseas to escape the tax increases, taking millions of American jobs with them.

So the “change” promised by the junior senator should cause great concern.

Kenya Smith

Lumberton