43 yr old in Marathon, FL. Interesting insight into someone who thought outside of the party lines.
Discuss.
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I voted for Ronald Reagan 2 times and was a registered Republican. Now I am voting strait down the Democratic ticket. Here is why.
Gun control, abortion, school prayer, flag burning, gay marriage, faith and values… do not affect my vote anywhere near as much as my financial situation and our collective national financial situation does.
The Republicans market themselves as small government, fiscally responsible and cater to business financially with the thought that doing that will ultimately give everyone the potential to have better opportunities and be able to move up. The reality has been far from that.
When Clinton left office, the budget was balanced and had his plan been followed, there would be no national debt right now. Since Bush took over, the national debt is over 10 trillion. If every penny the government collected for the next 4 years just went to that debt, it still would not be paid off. That is hardly being fiscally responsible. George W. Bush signed the first 2 trillion budget and just recently signed the first 3 trillion budget. That is hardly my idea of small government.
Deregulation, deficit spending and tax cuts were supposed to pay for themselves, create jobs and stimulate the economy. Yet look at where we are at right now! How anyone with even a modicum of self integrity can look at where we are at right now and still think the Republican philosophy is helpful to the vast majority of the working people in this country is quite beyond me. History speaks for itself. The Democrats spent money like drunken sailors. But the Republicans made them look like rank, grade school amateurs in comparison.
This party of values impeached a popular, sitting president for lying under oath about a blow job. Yet did absolutely nothing when it appears George W. Bush lied and started a war. Republicans talk a good talk but if you go just by their actions, they could utterly care less about the average person.
I see things being dredged up about Obama. He will take away your guns. No he will not. No one is going to take anyone’s legal firearms away. But hey, keep paying your money to the NRA so the can tell you exactly how afraid you should be about this nonsense of an issue. The fear mongering works for them VERY well. One membership renewal check at a time.
Obama is a socialists. No, actually he is an American. Are you, the working people really that frightened about having health care when you are laid off, between jobs or just want to retire early? Are you that afraid that your children will have health care when they are in college or trying to find their way in life? Going by the current sentiment, the vocal Republicans are far more content to just sit back and have them pay off the debt that we, collectively racked up.
Deregulation worked just fine. Unless you happened to be a shareholder in an airline or had money in an S&L in the 80’s. Unless you happened to purchase electricity in California earlier this decade. Or unless you happen to have any money in a bank or happen to still have a job right now.
I encourage anyone who reads this to sit back and vote Republican. Because you can be rest assured, getting an abortion will not be any easier, (whether you want one or not), The vast majority of children will not get a proper education on sex ed, they will get it off the streets from the just as ignorant friends like we did. It might, someday be illegal to burn an American flag. (How many times has anyone seen that happen in person?) Your likely to be divorced anyway neighbors will definitely be man and woman. That way we can at least keep the sacred and holy tradition of divorce just the way it is. Between a man and a woman.
If you want to sit back and continue to be little more than a defacto slave to our Wall Street overlords, by all means vote McCain. I voted for Obama today. Things might not change, they might not get any better. But I am convinced, heart, mind, body and soul that I, a middle class, working, tax paying, law abiding citizen will DEFINITELY not see my situation get any better under McCain.
My 2 cents
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