My Fellow Americans...
I read with great interest, "Cigarette Venders Taking a Hit" and "Banks Ordered to Lend." (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 10/29/08) It is ironic that these two stories should make the front page so close to Election Day.
The Republicans bombard us with ads telling us how an Obama Administration would expand government to historic levels and our very freedoms are imperiled. The Democrats warn us that a McCain Administration would be four more years of Bush. The Supreme Court would take away our personal liberties and we will have four more years of deficit spending.
Let’s be honest, neither party nor candidate is deserving of our vote. The Republican and Democratic Parties will not bring about change. When the government starts to tell you what you can do in your personal life: no smoking, or a business how it needs to do business: lend the money, we have almost reached the point of no return.
Once again the voter is left with two substandard choices for president. Each election year we are implored by the party establishment to, "hold your nose and vote" or, "vote for the lesser of two evils." That’s a choice? This is what the Founders of our Nation wanted for us? This is why Arlington and other National Cemeteries hold our scared dead?
My friends we must do better. We have an obligation not only to the future, but also to the past. Once this sham election is decided; I would encourage you to look to an alternate party that could challenge the two establishment parties and force them to offer better quality candidates. Why is it that both parties believe in competition, except in the political arena?
Perhaps Marx was wrong. It seems we are hanging ourselves with the rope we have made.
I yield back the balance of my time...
I read with great interest, "Cigarette Venders Taking a Hit" and "Banks Ordered to Lend." (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 10/29/08) It is ironic that these two stories should make the front page so close to Election Day.
The Republicans bombard us with ads telling us how an Obama Administration would expand government to historic levels and our very freedoms are imperiled. The Democrats warn us that a McCain Administration would be four more years of Bush. The Supreme Court would take away our personal liberties and we will have four more years of deficit spending.
Let’s be honest, neither party nor candidate is deserving of our vote. The Republican and Democratic Parties will not bring about change. When the government starts to tell you what you can do in your personal life: no smoking, or a business how it needs to do business: lend the money, we have almost reached the point of no return.
Once again the voter is left with two substandard choices for president. Each election year we are implored by the party establishment to, "hold your nose and vote" or, "vote for the lesser of two evils." That’s a choice? This is what the Founders of our Nation wanted for us? This is why Arlington and other National Cemeteries hold our scared dead?
My friends we must do better. We have an obligation not only to the future, but also to the past. Once this sham election is decided; I would encourage you to look to an alternate party that could challenge the two establishment parties and force them to offer better quality candidates. Why is it that both parties believe in competition, except in the political arena?
Perhaps Marx was wrong. It seems we are hanging ourselves with the rope we have made.
I yield back the balance of my time...
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