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Saturday, August 4, 2012

How In The World Do We Decide?

"We inherited a severe recession form our predecessor and we acted quickly to reduce the unacceptably high levels of unemployment and to stimulate the economy. It's working." Sound familiar? These words were taken from the Democratic platform for the 1980 Presidential Election! In the same election, the Republicans were going to: reduce taxes; fix welfare; deal with healthcare and education; address veterans benefits; deal with women's rights; and protect your privacy!

That's right! The candidate near you was promising to fix these problems - 32 years ago - and they are still not fixed. But hey, if they fixed these things what would they run on in the next election? Worse yet, what would all of these talking heads and pundits who appear 24 hours a day, have to talk about? Wow, heaven forbid some of them might even have to get a job.

Have you ever wondered how much these 20 something party spokespersons are paid? After all one only needs to memorize the faxed memos you get in the morning, appear on one of the many, endless cable news shows, and recite the words by rote with facial emphasis that will convince the audience you really believe the dribble you are spewing! The more believable you are, the more you will be invited. There are usually two of them on at once, fair and balanced you know, and the segment ends with "great debate, guys". I've often wondered if these pundits and spokespersons really knew more than those actually running for office why they didn't get in the race themselves. Probably below their pay grades!

I'm speculating on all this because my daughter asked me if voting for these two candidates wasn't really a vote to choose between "two evils" and I didn't have a good answer. She also wondered about sending a message by voting for a third party candidate. Unfortunately, this strategy usually results in the Third party helping one or the other major candidates win. How then do we decide who we will support for office? Well, if you live in a red state or a blue state you don't have a choice according to the polls and the pundits! It's already ordained who will win in those states. Wow! Doesn't that bother you? It does me! If true, then the election will be decided in only a few "battleground states". But wait a minute, there are certainly "red folks" and "blue folks" whose votes are already decided then who ..... oh, independent voters in those states will decide. So let me get this straight, a few people in a few states like Iowa and Missouri will decide who is to be our President? Make sense to you?

What does it take to make you angry anyway?

If you want an example of your choice this time, read the attached Bloomberg article on the plans offered by your next President!

Obama and Romney Tax Plans Are Pie-in-the-Sky - Bloomberg

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The Declaration of Independence

When in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Format of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying it's Foundations on such Principles, and organizing it's Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate the time Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes, and accordingly all Experiences hath shewn, that Mankind more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinced a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.

(The specific grievances are listed as is the Declaration of breaking the connections with Great Britain.

56 patriots (YOUR FOREFATHERS) signed the Declaration of Independence knowing they would be accused of Treason against the Crown and condemned to Death if caught!

YOU CAN READ THE REST OF THE DECLARATION ON LINE at: www.archives.gov>exhibits>charters

Gettysburg Address

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place--for those who have given their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate--we cannot concecrate--we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who have struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember, what we say here but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated to the unfinished work which they who fought have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth.
Abraham Lincoln

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How In The World Do We Decide?

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