Take the politics out of politics and elect on issues

Ok let’s take all the names, party affiliations and ideology out of the up-coming election and make decisions on the issues, not on some misguided ideology or loyalty that has long since gone missing:

National defense; someone is going to be tough and realistic and some refuse to even admit we are in a struggle for our very existence.

The war effort to confront terrorism world wide, i.e. secure borders; some want to allow amnesty and reward people for breaking the law and others wish to find a fair workable solution.

U.S.A.’s sovereignty and national security; it seems that some would welcome anarchy by allowing open borders and thereby furthering the dismantling of our society.

The Iraq war; Debacle that it may be, we still need to do what is best for our safety. Whatever your opinion, that above all should be driving your decision, not whether you like someone or not. That’s just plain old numb.

The illegal immigrant problem; Now look, Regan tried the amnesty thing and we all know how wonderful that turned out. Yes the government and business is complicit in our problem but, can we stop complaining about the government not doing anything to fix it, and yet when they do start there are all manner of people up in arms about the fact that we are finally doing something about it. We can’t have it both ways people, let’s buck up and get with it.

Taxes and governmental spending; I bet we all thought that one party over the other was for smaller government and lower taxes, well it seems that it is becoming increasingly harder to discern one from the other. We are spending like a bunch of drunken sailors and it appears that one is trying to out spend the other. They go to extreme lengths to find new ways to get into your back pocket, and that is way too close to my nether regions for my liking. How about someone coming out with some of the good old ethics and morals about government and spending.

Healthcare; I don’t know of one program that the government runs effectively, oh I’m sure some of you could list some but it hurts my head to try and think that hard. So why than does anyone think that we need the government to socialize medicine? That is on the road to disaster. If I ever saw anything going that way, that program would be it. This SCHIPS deal is a poorly veiled attempt to bring about a guaranteed debacle. Why don’t we do the right thing and stop this foolishness about, “Oh it’s for the children.” Last time I checked a twenty five year old was far from being a child and besides children are covered now. We just need to up-date the program not start another governmental fiasco.

Energy independence; Some don’t want to use the clean efficient technology we presently have in nuclear power. Others don’t want to drill anywhere. My question is this; what the hell are they doing? We need to develop some independence here. Until we have the new technology to get our energy from other sources we need to use what we have sensibly, not bemoan common sense approaches to our energy problems.

Foreign policy, including our support of a large portion of the world in some fashion; Our foreign policy while trying to do the right thing, helping to spread democracy and freedom throughout the world has to include working WITH other governments or factions within them to bring about change that is for the good of the planet not just some tin plated dictator with delusions of grandeur. The other thing we need to do desperately is knock off this politician and people of notoriety going on foreign soil and insulting and denigrating our country and our military. That needs to just out and out cease. Now we have freedom of speech in this country and that is as it should be however it does not extend to treason or defamation of hate speech. Dissension can be a good thing if tempered with sanity and common sense.

Big government, which includes more governmental control; some wish to enact and pass law after law that will eat away at your personal liberties in the name of the wonderful benevolent government. Guess what, there is no such thing. The more control you give the government the less you have, ergo, you lose again.

Entitlement programs; We have way too many as it is. Some wish to further the government programs to the point of bankrupting not only our pocket books but our society. When has it ever been shone that entitlement gimme mentality actually lifts up any segment of any society and that includes the experiment that the Romans try that eventually brought about their downfall.

The war on poverty; We have spent nearly nine trillion dollars on the war on poverty in the last forty years and maybe it’s about time that someone said, “hey maybe we should try something different.” Unless I’m very mistaken we have a considerable amount of poverty sill in existence. Why then do we not try some new approaches. President Clinton got some headway ( no pun intended) into the problem with his welfare reform. It was just the first step in what will prove to be a long and arduous journey, but a necessary one.

In most cases some common sense and the knowledge is there to do the right thing. The problem is the politicians get in the way. However since we are stuck with this system we need to make decisions on what is best not affiliation or demagoguery. Let’s try and see the problems for what they are and act appropriately. The time for partisan politics has to be over we as a society in order to progress and prosper need to stop the crap and elect officials that are truly trying to do what is best for our country not themselves or their party or special interests. We don’t need to elect people how’s lives are totally contrived and will say or do whatever it takes to get their hands on the power and the hell with the country and you and me.