The only important Presidential question
Thursday, 28 June 2007 | 103 readers so far
What are you going to do to shrink the bloated federal government and get focused on its original mission? That is the most important question we should be demanding an answer to from the bevy of suitors for the highest office in the land.
I am tired of reading pap about this crop of Presidential candidates. I don’t care about Mitt Romney’s family trip in 1983. I don’t care about whether Barack Obama is a smoker. I am not in the least interested in what women see when they see Hillary. John McCain is a war hero. Don’t care. Tommy Thompson has gigantic ears. I don’t want to read a story about that. John Edwards’ wife’s body is riddled with cancer. Not my problem. I could go on about all the things I do not need to know about the various candidates, but I think you get my point.
What I want to know is why I should vote for any of these fools? Not a single one of them is going to get the government off my back, out of my affairs and away from my pocketbook. Not a single one of them is going to tread lightly in my life. They all want a bigger piece of me, and for that matter YOU!
They can all go to hell as far as I am concerned. I don’t want them to do anything for me. I can do what needs doing myself, please and thank you. All I want from a President is strong national defense, secure borders and an occasional speech about how great it is to be free, and maybe the President could throw in a reminder or two regarding the awesome responsibility that comes with liberty. I’d like that speech to be based on reality. Can we work on that?
Sometimes I think we are becoming a nation of tranquilized zombies. What can I say to convince you not to vote for another power mongering, empty promise making lying sack of crap?
1 June 28th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
datarat says:
How about “I’m running for president.”
The horrid contradiction is that often the people who want responsibility are not the ones who should have it. I then falls to those who do not want it to take it just to be free of the idiots.
It’s a terribly high price to pay, and sometimes to achieve the goal you must lie through your teeth and betray your principles in order to reach the point at which you can change things. By which time you have become what you have beheld, etc etc.
Most people (not just Americans) have a sadly short sense of perspective. They look at immediate gain without consequence for future costs. And denial is one of humanities most powerful abilities. Otherwise, how would there still be people advocating communism, a system that killed 75 million people in the 20th century?
2 June 28th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Trevor says:
So what is the alternative, datarat? How do we know when it is time for civil resistance or a revolution?
3 June 28th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Dale says:
It is not time for revolution when:
1. You can travel freely across this country
2. You can criticize the government and not be thrown in jail.
3. You know that when the police arrest you that you will be heard from again.
4. You are not forced to listen to Sean Hannity bloviate. ( Just checking to see if you are paying attention but there is truth in this.)
5. You can vote against the incumbent and have your vote counted.
Having a bad choice of candidates from two political parties is not time for revolution. It’s time to vote against Repubs and Demos. Vote for any candidate other than them. When a third party gets 15% of the popular vote, you will get better candidates from the main two. The government of America is managed by the two parties, not by the candidates themselves.
4 June 29th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Green says:
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5 June 30th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Trevor says:
Are you still blogging man?
6 July 2nd, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Gringo_Malo says:
Trevor,
The obvious answer to the question at the beginning of your post is nothing. I suspect that your only reason for asking the question is that you’re in a high income group, and are therefore paying a disproportionate share of federal taxes. In other words, you’re in that awkward minority whose members are envied by lower income groups but not rich enough to buy their own Congressman. Believe me, I feel your pain, being a member of that same awkward minority. As long as their tax burdens remain relatively low (or negative, in some cases), the majority of the voters are quite content to let you get screwed. It’s a feature of democracy.
7 July 2nd, 2007 at 7:28 pm
Trevor says:
Gringo Malo,
Most of what you speculate on is correct. I’m making enough to feel the pain but not enough to pay someone to find all those loopholes. I am tired of paying for other people’s self-created problems.
8 July 11th, 2007 at 11:39 am
DieHard Disiple says:
I know what you guys mean,
Roads are overrated, and old people…they need to buy their own freakin medicine.
And as far as keeping that strong national defense? Right on!
Lets show those brown people the long, white arm of a horde of individually armed Christians.
9 July 11th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Trevor says:
DieHard,
Your response to my post has nothing to do the content of the post itself. Keep it on topic, please. What’s your obsession with brown people?
10 October 27th, 2007 at 11:06 am
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