This has been a very frustrating political year. All of the candidates seem to have managed escaping answering real questions, once again. The so-called media seems to have no interest in the truth any longer. Where does that leave us?
I have been asking that very question for some time now, and I think I have an answer. We need to stop listening to Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, PBS; stop buying The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, etc… Stop giving them our business until they stop trying to play politics themselves. All we see is a non-stop barrage of spin from one side or the other (depending on the source.)
Maybe, if they see that we are no longer willing to put up with them talking circles around the issues, we can get them to actually start reporting the news and informing the public properly. Tonight is the first presidential debate for the 2012 election season, and I can’t help but wonder if it’s all just a waste of time. There’s no question what Obama’s intentions are, we can simply look at what he started and know that he will continue that agenda. Romney’s lack of personality shows us that he will say whatever it takes to get in, and then follow the party line.
We don’t need party lines, and we don’t need empty shells. We don’t need Obama-style spending, and we don’t need his kind of future. America is broke, and lost. We need to focus on getting the people back to work, freeing the education system from all the restriction that reward apathetic teachers. We need to have a little less talk about religious issues like abortion and gay marriage, and a LOT more talk about fixing our budget crisis.
Today I was watching a morning news program (national, not local) and they asked people to tweet what they were looking to hear the candidates discuss tonight. Once again, people are too worried about OTHER PEOPLES’ LIVES, and asked for more of the same! Is it any wonder why the parties never get anything done? It’s because they spend so much time bickering over things they shouldn’t be legislating that they can’t stop for ten seconds and talk about what really matters right now. Leave social discussions for when the economy is booming.
We (as a society) will never agree on social issues completely, so why do we expect our government to force our own ideas on others for us? Does it really affect YOU if some woman in Florida gets an abortion? Does it really affect YOU if a same-sex couple in Idaho wants to get married? The answer to both questions is NO! A truly faithful Christian would not judge, and would not try to force their will on others. So let’s all get over it and move forward so that our country can move forward.
I fully expect the time to be wasted on such issues, and allow the party-drones more time to spin the lack of economic growth. We need to hear about how they are going to do the following things, in order of importance:
- Get Americans back to work by bringing manufacturing back to America
- We cannot provide for the needs of a middle class with service industries that pay barely over minimum wage
- Reduce government spending!
- We don’t need to be building bike-paths, funding research on the mating habits of termites, or making bridges look pretty. We need to minimize to help reduce the cost on the American public that has already taken so many hits through a terrible economy and lack of jobs that pay living wages.
- Balance the federal budget!
- This should not require raising taxes! Reducing spending will do it.
- Make the tough decisions that will anger a lot of people, but be better for the country as a whole. You CAN keep your office if you do this, look at Wisconsin and how Gov. Scott Walker managed to stay in office through a recall campaign that seemed relentless in it’s desire to vilify a man who was actually doing his job!
- Restore our rights that were taken away in the name of “fighting terrorism” (both sides took part, so this is NOT a partisan issue)
- “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” -Benjamin Franklin, 1775
- Restore the American image abroad, to what it was before we started trying to tell the whole world how to run their own governments
- Our government needs to understand that what we think is “just” or “right” here, may not be seen the same way in other places. Just like it’s not our place to run an individual’s life, it is not our right to run a sovereign nation.
- Get America back to the top of the education pile.
- We used to lead the world in education, now we are only “average”
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