I am sure many of you were disappointed last night as the election returns came in.
The American middle class decided to vote for their checkbooks instead of their children.
What we saw last night was a choice by middle america to foreclose on freedom.
The illusion that the government can tax the rich to solve all our problems proved to be stronger than the common sense belief that there are no free lunches.
So the Republicans find themselves out of power. There will be plenty of debate in the coming weeks and months about why we lost, and of course I have many thoughts on the matter.
Those are thoughts for another time though.
The important thought for today that I'd like to share with you is this:
The election, the government, and talking heads on television do not force you to live your life a certain way.
As a free citizen you have choices about how to live your life. Nobody forces you to buy a home with no down payment, nor to buy things you can not afford. They do not force you to constantly change jobs or invest in a stock market that is risky by nature.
Taking responsibility for how you live is the path to liberation, while relying on the government for a handout is slavery.
You might not have a president that represents the traditional American value of rugged individualism, but that does not mean you can't practice it personally and set an example for others.
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Are you really trying to pretend that any of our freedoms will remain intact? (Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, lol)
I don't think they will do anything too radical, except impose the fairness doctrine and the typical tax increases.
Remember, Obama must embark on the goal every sitting politician strives for....to get reelected.
lol, you guys act like the Republican's are the party of freedoms when that is our creed :P
If you all claim to want more freedoms from government, then why does your party want to deny the right of marriage for gays? Or force a woman to carry a child to birth that she has chosen not too?
And what is this about children? Educated was never a priority for conservatives, in fact a lacking education system is how they fill their conservative base with so many miss-informed, easily lied too people.
lol, you guys act like the Republican's are the party of freedoms when that is our creed :P
The Republican party traditionally has been the party of fiscal freedom. The democratic party advocating personal freedoms is a joke, since they seek to regulate and socially engineer society into whatever they see fit.
If you all claim to want more freedoms from government, then why does your party want to deny the right of marriage for gays? Or force a woman to carry a child to birth that she has chosen not too?
Tension over gay marriage is mostly the different wings of the republican party fighting with one another. Christians do not want gay marriage for obvious reasons, libertarian Republicans think it's a states right's issue, or none of the governments business in the first place.
As for abortion, if you believe the governments main role is to ensure freedom, and to prevent people from using force or fraud on others, then it's a matter of when you think an embryo becomes a child. Abortion is murder from the point at which you think a child is a child. I don't know what democrats can't manage to at least see why people opposed to abortion think the way they do.
And what is this about children? Educated was never a priority for conservatives, in fact a lacking education system is how they fill their conservative base with so many miss-informed, easily lied too people.
Amusing, too bad that people who never attended college were more likely to vote Obama than those who had according to CNN's exit polls. You're assuming things based on liberal myths.
What did you think of Obama's speech last night?
I didn't catch it, I went to bed after Pennsylvania/Ohio was called.
-Vir
Amusing, too bad that people who never attended college were more likely to vote Obama than those who had according to CNN's exit polls. You're assuming things based on liberal myths.
And according to the same polls, college graduates were less likely to vote for McCain than those without a college degree.
But the differences were in both cases very small.
If you however look at postgraduates, Obama won by 18 points.
So I'm not entirely convinced that it is a myth.
I am a republican. I am going to give Obama the benefit of the doubt and support him hoping he can be somewhat bipartisan. I care about the country more than my party, and while I could pout for 4 years (like the liberals) I am above that.
Also, what do you think about the Louisiana Governor Vir? He sounds like a young, intelligent republican who could be a big help to us.
I live in Louisiana and Jindal has very high approval ratings. His forte is the economy. Here is a quick interview of him on Jay Leno's show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg5GWI7UKtQ
This is Klynx. I love you and want your seed. I'm terrified and the only solution to the election outcome as of right now, the weekend following black Tuesday is heavy consumption of liquor.
Here I am writing a novel with the intent to publish and a president gets elected that will take a larger chunk out of the money I make from it's sales. He is going to stomp out the "up by your bootstraps" and "compete for success" foundations our country has had since the early 1800s like a stiletto on a cigarette.
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