GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!

Come on people GET INFORMED!!!

I was just reading a poll of people who voted for Barack Obama.  According to this poll,  58% of people who voted for Obama thought that republicans controlled congress.   81% of these same voters knew that Sarah Palin's daughter was pregnant.  That is not saying anything against President Elect Obama.   He is extremely intelligent, articulate, and very appealing to all voters.  It is however a strong statement about the people voting.  As long ass people continue to allow themselves to be misinformed, we will continue to have politicians who pander to this extremly large voting block.  That is a politician who says one thing in Iowa, and the complete opposite in California.   We will continue to elect those with the charisma to sell and Ideal rather than deal in reality.  Maybe the answer is you have to pass a test on facts prior to your vote counting.  It was not in the poll, but I wonder how many of those same voters actually thought that Governor Palin's baby was actually her daughters baby.  I wonder how many of all voters actually watch a presidential debate, or listened to either of the candidates remarks throughout the race.  How many people know that the tax cuts that EVERYONE got during the Bush presidency will expire in 2010.  That means that unless congress and the president extend them, they will pay on average 6% higher taxes in the year 2011.  How many people actually know how John McCain voted against his party more than any other republican in the senate.  It is amazing how poeple get their news from the Daily show, or any of these idiotic gossip shows and treat material that is supposed to be for entertainment as fact and refuse any effort to validate this information through other sources.  It is clear that I am a Republican.  I however, spent as much time watching MSNBC as I did foxnews. 

Look,  there is nothing wrong with being a democrat.  There is nothing wrong with being a liberal.  Neither is a four letter word.  They are both associated with the same ideology.  Just like Conservatives and republicans are associated with the same ideology.  If the majority of our country decides that a capitalist democracy is not what our country needs bassed on factual information, then I guess I will have to tuck my tail between my legs and accept it.  However, If a majority of this country continues to elect a party that slowly erodes our rights and creates a socialist society that Karl Marx would be proud of based on punch lines delivered by entertainers and ignors fact, then I am going to go kicking and screaming to my re-education facility. 

This weekend I was watching the news coverage of the protests to proposition 8 in california.  They were holding up signs that say the majority cannot vote away right of a minority.  I happen to agree with this principal.  Although I do not consider homosexuality a group but a prefference.  We just elected a president who said that he is going to raise taxes on the top 5% of income earners.  That means that 95% of people voted  to take money away from 5% of people, and put it in their own pockets.  Or more to the point, the middle 80% of poeple voted to take money from the 10% above them and give it to the 10% below them.  In whose world is that fair.   That would be like working hard your whole life, saving your money and finally being in reach of the dream.  So you move into a neighborhood and build a big house.   Down the street is a drug addict who lives in a shack, raising 5 kids without a father and collecting more and more welfare with each kid.  The rest of the neighbors are uncomfortable seeing this everyday.  They think something needs to be done, so they get together and have a vote.  They even invite you and let you vote.  you are only 1 person and they are many and they vote to take your guest house and give it to the poor lady and her kids.  Now they feel good about themselves.  They didn't have to give up anything.   All it took for them to feel better, is for them to take from you and give to the less fortunate.  It doesn't matter to them that you already give more percentage wise to charity than the entire neighborhood.  The concept a democracy is that what you earn you keep.  As long as you earned it legally and ethically.  De poeple realize that the top 5% of income earners already pay 90% of the income tax collected.  Do peope realize that the the top earners under Bill Clinton payed  38%.  That is almost 40% of their income going to away.  Peoples favorite argument against that is 'well there are all those loopholes for corporations'.  The fact of the matter is, those loopholes are created to stimulate the economy.  Coorporations that pay a higher rate don't eat that loss, they pass it on to the customer, or they cut jobs.  Think about what corporations do in you community.  I know in my community, any community event is generally paid for by the big corporations here.  Every sporting event is subsidized by the corperations.  These giant refineries use of electricity and gas, keep the prices that I pay lower.  If that demand wasn't here, can you imagine what natural gas prices would be?  Those corperations provide some of the highest paid jobs on the kenai peninsula.  The people who run those companies were for the most part born and raised right here in Kenai.

When are we as a society going to stop looking at what might immediately benifit us, and look at what is truly good for us in the long run.  When are we going to start allowing people to suffer the consequences of their decisions.  Every once in a while you have to let you kid bump his head so that he can learn.  It is not the governments job to protect the individual from himself, it is the governments job to protect us from outside threats.  It is the idividuals responsibility to protect himself and his family.   This will only be accomlished when people inform themselves.  So here is my suggestion  Read a newspaper.  Listen to what people say, not how they say it, and vote for what is right for everyone, not just what will benefit you.