Editorials

This will be a five part series on my opinion of the candidates as non-biased as I can make it, based on facts obtained from the internet, newspapers and visual media. _____________________________________________________
Richard Pryor with John Candy stared in movie called "Brewster's Millions " where he was the illegitimate son of a deceased, extremely wealthy industrialist, while he was a pitcher on a minor league baseball team. The premise was the he had to spend thirty million dollars in one month, without telling anyone the conditions of the will, to ensure that he would eliminate the spendthrift possibilities in his life; in doing so, he would inherit the remained of the fortune, three hundred million dollars. Without going into detail, every extravagant purchase always returned at least double his investment, increasing his problem in exhausting his funds. His bright idea was to spend it on a campaign in running for mayor of a large city, I think New York. You will understand why I am mentioning this at the end of this page.

How long has it been since we have had a president or congress that has truly represented the people, you and I, the working class individuals who pay the majority of the taxes, bearing the bulk of the burden and although we are in the majority, are bypassed and treated like chattel,  drained and left on the side of the road. The 545  individuals representing you and I in then hallowed halls of government; one hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices - 545 human beings out of the 300 million+ are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

They sit on their ivory towers and forget their roots, if any of them actually came from a hard working class of people, pass laws affecting everyone, crying about the plight of the illegal aliens in our country, while ignoring :

b. the homeless, who have little or no hope what so ever; so you say they can get a job? Try getting a job, a decent job that pays a living wage, while having no permanent address, no phone where a prospective employer can contact you, a place to keep clean interview clothes, and you get the point

c. the workers who are barely existing on a minimum wage, while gas and food prices slowly drain their will to keep working

d. the middle class who are getting taxed out of existence to support pork barrel government programs, the illegal aliens who receive  billions of dollars of benefits denied the majority of the legitimate citizens; I can go on in the view but you get my point.

We do need a change, a major change as our county is slowly but surely on a downhill spiral into the sewer to becoming a third world country like those supported by our tax dollars. I heard an expression that requiring automobile manufacturers to reduce gas consumption by 10% in the next few years is like a moose urinating on a forest fire; too little, too late.

Ethanol is not the answer, as using the crops to make fuel takes food out of the mouths of the people it used to feed; we need a totally radical change from this type of dependency to a new way of providing a methodology of powering our various fuel dependent  devices that make our lives easier as well as heat our homes, get us to work, cook our food, etc. Remember the supposedly 70 mile per gallon carburetor back in the 60's and 70's that was rumored to have been tested successfully but disappeared, bought up by big oil? That seems more like a possibility with the government providing tax breaks, royalty exemptions, and direct subsidies  to the oil companies, who are still clearing 7 - 8 billion per quarter, since 1916. Now how many times has the president, congress and senate changed, but still ALL of them allow this to continue, with the United States deficit at an all time high. The House and Senate have proposed energy bills are planning to give coal, oil, and natural gas companies billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars in the next 10 years to subsidize their cost of doing business. The House and Senate both? If we need a change, then it's a clean sweep policy, replacing all of them with a voice for the common man.

The question is, are we going to get relief from any of the three still contending candidates? Instead of raising taxes on middle America, already struggling to keep providing, cut back on the deadwood; stop giving billions of dollars to other countries, not just third world, where no one should be starving, but the affluent ones. Exactly what does the UN do? The majority of the peace keeping is done by US troops with a major portion of the funding also coming from the US. Oh,   I'm sorry, I forgot about the one world, one government, one standard of currency that will make our sovereignty disappear along with our hard won freedom.

We need a change all right, not pipe dreams or promises, as we are sinking deeper into the quicksand of becoming totally dependent on foreign imports, with the dollar at an all time low. I don't see that for any of the three remaining contenders, nor did I see it from the majority of the prior contenders. You can't buy friendship, freedom, loyalty, trust and support by throwing money at it. Give us a change. Cut out the deadwood and freebies. Get a government for the people, not just to perpetuate their power bases on an ego trip. What have we got? An established member of with questionable motives, who changes her statements to suit the crowd, ala John Kerry; an existing elder member of the current party who makes the same old promises; a charismatic newcomer, with little or no experience, who wants to open the borders even more and repeal all of the tax cuts, draining the working classes even more.

Richard Pryor's movie ended with him running for mayor, against two established, very questionable opponents, which exhausted his thirty million dollars. When he determined he was the leading candidate, his policy changed to NONE OF THE ABOVE. Meaning, don't vote for any of them, but we can't do that, we have to elect one, almost a coin toss, the lesser of the evils, the one that will do the least harm.  Who, the answer to that question is up to you, the voter, who I hope will vote with their head, not the propaganda that is spewed forth.  
 

That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it!