Oh right, you haven't heard from me in a while. In the last year, I've moved, started a new job, got my son into a new school, graduated another one and well, it's been really hectic. Doesn't change that I've got an opinion on most things, just haven't had the time to type them down. So, tomorrow is the big day we get to vote in the great United States of America. I always dread when I hear someone say that they aren't going to vote. Really?!?!? I know it seems like nothing ever affects you and your vote is one drop in a bucket, right? But if anything, with the economy the way it is right now, we all know from watching the fiascos over the last 6 years it is definitely time to do something. I don't care if you're democrat, republican, libertarian, librarian or flat out anarchist for that matter. It's not just our right to vote; it really is our only job in our government's operations. We are not just the people investing our money into this country via our taxes; we are the shareholders. You think you're vote doesn't count. Ask any corporate executive if the shareholders count. They'll tell you. The shareholders might only vote once a year, but they can have a major impact on the outcome of a company and usually some of those corporate executives careers. And that is what every single one of those Congressional leaders all the way down to your district representative in your city or town is: An executive that you just hired to keep our country running and paying you back for your investment. So far in the last 6 years, the only thing that we have been asked for is more investment. But the return sucks. Increased costs in health insurance--no matter what the President promised. Increased taxes. Decreased tax credits. High unemployment. Money borrowed from China. I won't go into the war. That's an entire blog on its own. These are the things that every voter, every single stockholder of this country, should be thinking about as we cast our votes tomorrow and at EVERY level of government. How is that candidate going to benefit your town, your county, your state, or our country? Are they dishing rhetoric? Party line crap? Or do they explain their stance? Do they understand what they are talking about? Anyone can mina bird the President's, the Republican or Democrat stances. Do they have a clue or are they just wanting us to hire them for up to $400K per year because they are little more than con artists who found out the easiest way to make money? Why are we paying these people if they aren't doing what we need them to do? That's what our votes are for to decide who deserves to get paid for helping our nation along.
Fine, now I've given you my take on why you should vote. Next. Voter ID. Of course this has become a heated debate, although frankly I'm not even sure why. Another reason to believe a lot of politicians are con artists and who would recognize that better than other politicians. Takes one to know one. How does showing a picture ID, government issued, keep someone from voting? Most states have laws that as a resident of their state you must maintain a state issued driver's license or identification after turning 18. Yes. Really. An hundred years ago, pictures weren't exactly cheap and they couldn't be instantly transferred to a little piece of plastic with a magnetic strip with all of your information digitally available. But hey, an hundred years ago, they didn't take driver's tests either. They simply mailed in for one. Birth certificate? Yea, they mailed in for that too--especially in rural areas. Social security card? Yep, same difference. My Grams had three different birthdays on her driver's license, social security records and yes even her birth certificate which did not match the family Bible. So in this day and age, we have to flash our identification, a photo ID, to cash a check, to use our credit cards, to get into a bar, to purchase alcohol, cigarettes and even lottery tickets. So why in the world would we not show one to vote? Seriously. Never have understood the concept of not having to. Only way it makes any sense whatsoever is that some con artist can't get voted in without putting some fraudulent votes in the bucket. No matter what lame brain bozo excuse I've heard against flashing an ID, they simply don't make sense. There's only a couple states in the Union that do not require someone over 18 to carry a government issued identification with a picture and that's been for decades now. Decades. Since before I was 18. Not only that since 9/11, our government has become very strict on citizens carrying proper identification. Oh yes. In some states, you can be arrested if you don't have proper identification on you and you will not be getting on any Federal sites without one. Give it a rest con artists. Time to make sure that if you want to cheat to win it's going to take more than chafe or just a printed voter ID that anyone that can find an old typewriter can duplicate. You have to prove you are the shareholder casting your vote at a company's shareholder meeting. Can't even believe this is an argument in the biggest investment of any of our lives--our government.
Who do you want to win? No telling. Don't care. It's not the point. We were promised by the Founding Fathers that we would be able to have a government for the people by the people. What I see anymore is a government run by a lot of con artists, no telling who is or isn't half the time or more, for a complacent bunch of sheep that would rather be conned than represented. I seriously doubt the Founding Fathers ever meant for the United States government to be a government of sheep paying con artists to burying our Great Nation. Get out there. Form an opinion. It's not a bad thing to have an opinion. That's what the con artists want you to believe and they've been selling that hype for decades. "Opinionated" has become an insult. Who drove that? Con artists. Opinionated means you've given it some thought. We don't have to agree when we have opinions. We don't have to vote the same. That's why the separate balloting booths. You get to make up your own mind and it's nobody's business. But, you want people to see your point of view, then open up your mouth and share your opinion. Don't expect everyone to agree. That's what fascists do. We're not fascists. The Nazis lost WWII. But have a dialogue. Find out why someone disagrees with you. Let them know why you disagree with them. Then take your final result to that polling location and use the knowledge that you've accumulated to cast your vote as a shareholder in what I still believe is one of the greatest nations in the world, hopefully in the nation that you also believe is still one of the greatest also.
