Fellow Americans, we have many many underlying problems that need to be addressed. I don't know how to put it into words, but America has strayed far beyond where it needs to be to be not only economically sound, but morally sound. We are in trouble, and it's up to each and every one of you as Americans to listen to your heart, your instinct, and grab hold of every value and moral you have been taught. We need a change like none other in history. I know this sounds insane, but this guy honestly is making more sense to me than either of our presidential candidates. I would not hesitate to vote for him. Don't just vote for somebody because your friends are voting for him or because he's a certain party. Think deeply about where we are headed as a country. We can't do very much while voting because both candidates are not going to solve even our smallest problems. But we can pass the word on to others and maybe spark some sort of moral uprising to allow us to steer our country in the right direction. I wish I could put my feelings into eloquent words and phrases, but my feelings are so strong that words could not possibly describe them.
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SouthernStrut56: I don't see the sky falling. Many things are better than they were -- public education where my kids go to school is pretty darn good, presumably better than it was earlier, DEFINTELY better than it was when I was in the public school system. I'm making more friggin' money than I ever dreamed I would be able to -- affluent -- and I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth, and I haven't made all the right moves, just kept trying and working. Terrorism is being addressed, unlike before 2000.
My vote is going to McCain, not to Obama who is the gun banner, the tax increaser, the socialist (e.g., wealth redistribution, e.g., rob from the rich and give that money to the poor -- one example, remove the $102,000 social security tax cap and tax all income for social security).
You know, if things are so awful bad, I wonder how I am able to draw breath to live, how I am able to lift my fork to move food to my mouth. What a smelly crock you guys lay out. "Oh lordy! Oh lordy!!! It is bad. No . . . it is BAD!!! So very, very bad. Gosh gerwiligers bad, bad, bad, bad, bad."
Ted Nugent talking about morals, you're kidding right? Kind reminds me of John Edwards.
Ted Nugent Ordered To Pay Child Support
June 22, 2005 5:18 p.m. EST
Douglas Maher - All Headline News Staff Reporter
Dover, NH (AHN) - Rocker/hunter Ted Nugent is ordered to pay child support to a woman he had a brief affair with in 1995.
Nugent will $3,500.00 a month to Karen Gutowski, who is the mother of the now 10-year old boy.
According to the Foster's Daily Democrat Newspaper in New Hampshire, Nugent was originally served with papers regarding the lawsuit while playing a show with ZZ Top at the Meadowbrook Amphitheater.
Gutowski will have sole custodial rights to the child, but no visitation rights for Nugent have been ordered as of yet.
Oddly enough, on Nugent's own website, it states the guitarist was named "Father of The Year". He has been married to his wife, Shemane, since 1989. they have four children together.
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If you only look for the negatives, you will surely find them. People often bemoan the quality of candidates but the fact is no person is perfect and neither is any candidate. Deciding on which candidate to vote for is like making any other big decision in your life. Each decision or choice contains benefits and detractions. You have to analyze all of them and decide if the trade-offs are worth it or not.
It also helps to remember that no single president is going to completely control congress and their overspending. A president can threaten to veto a budget and different bills but in the end, a president still has to keep the federal budget moving forward. A president will have his/her greatest effect upon who is nominated for the Supreme Court followed by his/her stand on issues that congress actually has legislative authority over (abortion is no longer one of them) like gun control, crime control, balancing the federal budget, etc.
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Ted Nugent talking about morals, you're kidding right? Kind reminds me of John Edwards.
Ted Nugent Ordered To Pay Child Support
June 22, 2005 5:18 p.m. EST
Douglas Maher - All Headline News Staff Reporter
Dover, NH (AHN) - Rocker/hunter Ted Nugent is ordered to pay child support to a woman he had a brief affair with in 1995.
Nugent will $3,500.00 a month to Karen Gutowski, who is the mother of the now 10-year old boy.
According to the Foster's Daily Democrat Newspaper in New Hampshire, Nugent was originally served with papers regarding the lawsuit while playing a show with ZZ Top at the Meadowbrook Amphitheater.
Gutowski will have sole custodial rights to the child, but no visitation rights for Nugent have been ordered as of yet.
Oddly enough, on Nugent's own website, it states the guitarist was named "Father of The Year". He has been married to his wife, Shemane, since 1989. they have four children together.
First... It's been my understanding that only one person has ever been perfect, and I don't think He is running for office.
Second, Nugent is talking about political apathy, about various political issues, about encouraging political activism. How does that constitute "talking about morals"?
Third, if you are going to discount the opinions of every person who has ever made a mistake, you're going to have a very short list of folks you'll listen to. Is there a burning bush in your back yard?
JamesB: I'll assume your comment addresses my reply above. It generally fits. Let me begin by saying, its a free country and everyone is entitled to their opinion . . . and you are entitled to yours. I just want to provide some context for my remarks. You may not, in the end, agree with my "don't worry be happy" view, but I hope you understand better where this attitude comes from.
I am a conservative and think that the government that governs least governs best. Problems? Sure, there are an unending stream of problems -- this is the history of human life -- but most of these problems are not the natural scope of government, not a limited government which we have here in the United States. There is a private sphere of human life -- which I hope is the major component of my life, at any rate -- and a public sphere of human life which government has a role in.
Why is it the government's business to provide healthcare to people? I don't think that it is. It is opening a can of worms to invite the government into this sphere. This has always in the past been a largely private responsibility of individuals. To change this represents a substantial and material change in the balance of the private/public spheres of our lives. You are free to disagree.
Why is it the government's business to provide for the sustenance of people in retirement -- to provide pensions to non-governmental employees? This is with respect to the social security system. Obama has said he wants to remove the social security cap that currently stands at $102,000. Above this income level no social security taxes are levied -- because individuals will not receive benefits in retirement commensurate with paying tax above this level. To remove this cap changes materially the social security system from a government managed individual retirement program (if you don't earn wages and pay into social security, generally you don't collect social security benefits; if you earned more and paid more in, you collect a larger benefit) to instead a retirement entitlement decoupled from the amount of one's contributions -- just another wealth redistribution program based on tax.
I can repeat this analysis for many of the other "problems" that people whine about. And another point, it is not irrelevant to compare the magnitude of current problems to former problems. Without a context of comparison, the complaints really do devolve into mere whining. A case in point is the present economy. I don't think you have to look too far back into history to see worse economic times. If you aren't satisfied unless you are currently riding an all-time maximum, you are going to be frequently disappointed in life.
The economy is another of those things which I, as a conservative, would much prefer to remain dominated by the private sector rather than regulated and dithered over by the government goofacrats. There are some major economic decisions that we as a nation have made. One of these decisions is to embrace the free market and the global economy. There was no election on this specific topic, but I say that a public concensus has been achieved on this issue. If, to the contrary, the public concensus for this major trend of our economic activity is gone, then by all means let's change many things -- introduce protectionist tarriffs, prohibit off-shoring of work, punish corporations for shipping work overseas and importing products manufactured overseas, ban use of non-citizens for labor in the US. But I don't see this kind of concensus. On the assumption that the concensus is as I have perceived it -- support for free market and global economy -- then many consequences flow from this. If you are an unskilled worker on an assembly line at a US manufacturing plant, don't complain about the economy being the source of your frozen wages, your gloomy future work prospects, getting laid off, etc. The writing has been on the wall for 25 years and you ought to be doing something to prepare yourself to make money in some other line of work, because a guy in China is more than happy to do the same unskilled work for $0.25/hour. That is not a problem Obama can fix; it is not a problem our government should fix. It is a problem you need to fix for yourself. You are responsible for preparing yourself with a viable economic skill to bring to the party, not the government.
And that's the way I see it. Given this angle, I do not see a large number of serious, glaring problems out there. No, the sky is not falling.
I don't think the idea to vote for Nugent for any office is the question. He is just one of the few sounding boards that has a strong belief in the protection of our 2nd Amendment Rights. I know there are some of his views that I may not agree with, but that isn't the question. If you want to continue to have these 2nd Amendment rights protectedthen I think the answer is very black and white, you can either vote for McCain as the better choice or you can vote for a liberal socialist anti-gun candidate in Hussein, just be prepared to line up at the local National Guard Armory and drop your guns in the barrels. Don't say it can't happen, it has in other countries in similar situations.
America is in trouble, it's up to you.
