Time to Decide: Part Three

I feel for the Canadians and Brits and Germans and Africans and Asians and Middle Easterners and all outsiders. I know what it is like to be an outsider. I am a Suburban Detroiter. I have to watch the city dwellers elect the Mayor of Detroit when I am one of the many that will have to pay for their decisions. I had to watch decades of a corrupt mayor being reelected while my State taxes kept rising to pay for his frivolities. Then I watched a mayor turn on the welfare of his own people in the name of fantastic greed and power, selling the city’s very soul to the interests of Vegas/Mafia-type casinos. And now–they have elected a party-guy who wears a bigger diamond earring then ever adorned Liz Taylor. Detroit controls how we in the suburbs will live, in fact, Detroit controls much of how the whole State lives and how the rest of the nation views us. But no one lets us vote for the mayor.

In the same way, they watch me vote for president. How will I pick one?

I am looking for a president who can give everyone a sufficiently well-paying job that wants to work and let people live off the land that want to live off the land.

I am looking for a president that will let me spend the fruits of my labor my own way even if I want to spend it foolishly. I am willing to accept the consequences for my decisions.

I am looking for a president that will NOT create a huge welfare society and then threaten the recipients with starvation at every turn.

I want a president that will not force me to bare the burdens of my neighbor’s follies, like those who wasted their money at the casinos or on designer clothes or on booze.

I am looking for a president that trusts the States to handle that which belongs to the States, and trusts the Counties to handle that which belongs to the Counties. A president that will not interfere unless the health or well being of our citizenry is in jeopardy.

The more I think of it, the less I believe in Socialism or Communism. In fact, those forms of society don’t seem to work very well. Anywhere.

Sounds sort of like Bush will get my vote. But that is certainly not my desire.

I sure do hate to vote for someone that thinks other countries would be better off if they were like us. I can’t help it! That phrase "fascist pig" still beats hard in my soul. I believe in the Federation’s prime directive of non-interference of primitive societies. And most of these primitive societies are much older than we. I believe in heeding the lessons of history. I believe in the words of this great song:

http://www.steppenwolf.com/lyr/mnnster.html

Choose well, my fellow voters. And take heart. Our selection, for better or for worse, will only last for four years. God keep us all.