And They Wonder Why People Don’t Vote

Every year we always hear how unfortunate it is that so many people don’t vote.

The real tragedy is that we have set up a system which produces so few candidates worthy of our votes.

Candidates have become more like cartoon characters that morph into criminals once elected.

We have members of the locust party that only appear every election telling you what they are going to do when elected.

Most of these professional candidates only appear every two to four years and do little or nothing to help their communities between elections.

They are at least not as dangerous as the party “store bought candidates” who run on campaigns based on promises that they know the people want to hear but they know they can’t deliver.

Add these to the candidates whose only platform is bashing and badmouthing their opponents.

These candidates wouldn’t know a local issue if it bit them in the butt.

But this is the process that has been created.

There was a time when we could at least choose the lesser of two evils but nowadays that’s not even the case.

We now get to choose between criminals both accused and convicted or witches or wrestling owners.

We have people who have never had a real job running against those whose resumes are more fiction than fact.

And that is why we have a federal government that has spoken about fiscal responsibility for years that has managed to increase federal spending every year since 1954.

On a local level back room deals and partisan politics have made the NY elected officials the poster children all that is wrong with government.

At the federal level we constantly send back millionaires who never had to worry about what they spend and act surprised when they do the same with our tax dollars when elected.

Ronald Regan once said “Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first”

Maybe it’s not crazy that a former madam is running for Governor at least she will know how to deal with the Assembly and Senate in Albany.

But we cannot give up. We need to go out and vote.

We just need to be smart with our vote.

We don’t need to vote Republican, Democrat or Conservative.

We don’t need to follow the Tea Partiers or the Tax and Spend Liberals.

We need to become educated about the candidates and make educated choices.

Our own choices, not choices made by the self serving media.

It’s the only way that we will stem this tide of inept government and finally get some real change.

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Chilean Miners....British Petroleum and our Government

The effort to save the miners is a perfect example how a focused well thought out solution works.

A stark contrast to BP's fiasco in the Gulf.

Unfortunately our government seems to have missed the boat on focused and well thought out solutions and that is why the country is in such bad shape.

So cheers to all those involved in this rescue and hopefully we will be able to replace the do nothing but spend Representatives (off all parties) in government in November

Now that would be a legitimate change