Please vote today... Rant warning

Response to the voice mails and emails I received this week telling me I must vote....
"Please vote today as we need to test the machines that will be used to dispense food stamps in January." ;-)

Things to know before you vote
Before you read this please understand that I personally believe that there is NOTHING wrong in America that can not be fixed by what is right in America.


But, "NOTHING in life is free, including freedom" - Haase
And if we continue to believe that we can keep writing checks backed by debt to pay for unnecessary "free" things to "stimulate" unnecessary spending while we can not care for our children, elderly and dying. We have no future.

The Biggest Election Myths of 2010 -  Wall Street Journal 545 people by Charlie Reese 
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

• Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without.
• When one party owns a house it is the definition of a dictatorship not a democracy.
• Over half of US Senators are millionaires
• Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
• You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
• You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
• You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
• You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
• You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.


I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.


Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.


What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall.. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

• If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
• If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red ..
• If the Army &Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ
• If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems...
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

~ Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.~

And while there is no "hope" for my vote to "change" our system,
I would implore to go out and vote IF you feel as strongly for candidate as I do for a "lack there of".



Related:
Wall Street Journal 
Voters don't want to be governed from the left, right or center. They want Washington to recognize that Americans want to govern themselves. 

...none of this means that Republicans are winning. The reality is that voters in 2010 are doing the same thing they did in 2006 and 2008: They are voting against the party in power.

This is the continuation of a trend that began nearly 20 years ago...That's never happened before in back-to-back administrations. The Obama administration appears poised to make it three in a row. This reflects a fundamental rejection of both political parties.

More precisely, it is a rejection of a bipartisan political elite that's lost touch with the people they are supposed to serve. Based on our polling, 51% now see Democrats as the party of big government and nearly as many see Republicans as the party of big business. 
That leaves no party left to represent the American people.
 

Business Insider

It's Okay That You're Not Voting Today...

The odds are that you did not vote today.
If you are anything like us, not voting is a triumph of sense over propaganda.
We've received a bunch of emails from friends and concerned citizens urging us to vote this way or that, for one politician or his doppelganger. Some have even implored us to vote regardless of which candidate we favor, out of some sense of civic duty.

Yet we didn't vote. 

And if your rational neither did you.