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You Should NEVER Vote In An Election

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Did you vote in the last local, state or federal election? If you did should you be voting in this election? Politics is confusing and can really get on ones nerves especially in the days leading up to Election Day. You receive phone call after phone call promoting candidates, you are bombarded with television and radio commercials. The newspaper are offering their views of the candidates and trying to tell you how to vote.

Do you like all of the dirty politics that is going on? Do you believe the ads that tell you how great one politician is while taking snippets out of a comment made by the opponent to show how bad they are? Before I convince you of the reasons you should never vote in an election let’s give you a few reasons why you should vote every chance you get.

You Agree With the Candidate
If the candidates’ views and opinions closely parallel yours this is usually a person that you will want to support. It really is not enough to just vote for the candidate because they are likeable. If you think likeable is enough to get your vote you might want to take a look at some of the people that we now have running the country.

You Disagree With the Candidate
You may want to vote against a particular candidate, instead of voting for your  preferred candidate. This type of voter often feels that the candidate’s views and opinions should never, ever be allowed to influence local or federal politics. Emotions run intensely during elections, and some voters prefer to try to keep a certain candidate out of office, rather than using their single vote for the candidate they like.

Vote to Cancel Another Person’s Vote
This scenario in sometimes seen with couples that have diametrically opposing political views. The goal of such couples is solely to cancel out the vote of their spouse! Sometimes that means voting for someone other than their preferred candidate, but as long as their vote cancels their spouse’s vote, they are satisfied. The emotional factors come into play once again.

Vote to Take Votes Away From a Candidate
In a variation of “you disagree with the candidate,” While this can be a trap and result in the candidate that you would like to see winning end up losing, some people will vote for a relatively “harmless” candidate who has no chance of winning, rather than give their vote to the frontrunner. These fringe candidates try to win the votes of undecided, disenfranchised, or angry voters in an attempt to act as a “spoiler” for the more popular candidates. Sometimes these “take-away” votes are enough to swing the election in a particular direction, and sometimes they are not.

You Want to See Change
Wanting to see change is a strong reason to vote. Where you must be careful is that you are not voting for the wrong change. As an example, if you want less government and less debt that alone may be a good reason to vote Republican. If you want the government to control everything you do from birth until death that would be a good reason to vote Democrat.

The ONLY Reason You Should Never Vote In An Election

If you are old enough to vote there really is only one reason why you should never, ever vote in a political election. The only acceptable reason for not voting is if you are DEAD. In some locals even deceased persons have fraudulently voted, but that’s a discussion for another article.

If you live in the USA, it is your civic and patriotic duty to exercise the right to vote. Your ancestors and maybe even family members fought and died to earn this right for you, and you owe it to them to vote in every election. Some of them may be fighting right now and you need to honor them and protect their right to vote too. Do not disrespect our fighting men and women by telling them that their sacrifice is not good enough for you?

If you allow Election Day to roll around without voting or fail to mail in your absentee ballot on time don’t complain about the election outcome. You had a chance to change the results, but you passed. Remember that each and every election and each time a candidate comes up for re-election.

~A Proud Supporter of Kids Speak for America~

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: America, Candidates, Congress, Democrats, Elections, Republicans, USA, voting

Ronald Reagan vs Barack Obama Debate

Seth 1 Comment

Have you ever wondered what a debate between Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama might be like? Check out this video between the Ronald Reagan the President with the silver tongue and Barack Obama the President with the sliver tongue.

Filed Under: Historical People Tagged With: Candidates, Presidential, Ronald Reagan

Pork Barrel Spending is Putting Kids in Deep Poop

Seth 6 Comments

What is pork barrel politics and pork barrel spending? You keep hearing about pork barrel politics and pork barrel spending and maybe you don’t know what it is. That’s okay for I didn’t either until I first looked it up.

Pork barrel spending is wasteful spending that our politicians do. Those stupid politicians that I keep writing about at Kids Speak for America. These idiots are spending so much money that us kids will never get out of debt unless we take things in our own hands and straighten them up as it sure doesn’t look like adults want to do it.

The adults or people of voting age that elect politicians and can also get rid of them are called constituents. A politician wants to keep these people voting so they can get elected again. Unfortunately way too many politicians are only thinking of getting elected and are not thinking about representing their constituents the right way.

One way politicians try to get reelected is by getting the government to spend money in the area where their constituents live. Some of the money they get is good and very important. Some of the money they get is wasteful and this wasteful money is pork barrel spending.

Lets say that your mom had $50 to buy some groceries and you wanted her to spend $25 of that money on soda and potato chips so you could have a party for some kids so they would like you better.  Maybe that is not the best example for you shouldn’t have to pay people to like you if you are treating them right. But lets say your mom gave in spent the money on potato chips and soda for your friends. These kids would probably like you better while they were drinking the soda and eating the chips. The rest of the week you would be lucky to be eating pork and beans because there was only so much money to spend on groceries. That wasteful spending on party food would be just like the politicians wasteful spending because the money was not spent properly and the government only has so much money to spend.

It is good for politicians to represent their constituents and get money for important projects but the money has to be spent in the right way. Some pork projects might be good project when there is extra money for them. Many projects are outrageous, too expensive or should be paid for another way.

Here are some examples of some things that seem to be bad spending when our nation is already so far in debt.

North Carolina State got $253,123 to preserve dead bugs.

In Georgetown a ritzy Washington, D.C. neighborhood got 3 million dollars for bike racks.

Wake Forest University got $71,623 to study monkeys using cocaine.

Wake Forest University got another $141,694 to study how to reduce hot flashes through yoga.

In West Virginia they spent $380,350  to encourage people to grow shiitake mushrooms and ginseng.

University of North Carolina Charlotte got $763,272 to develop computer technology to record the dance moves of performers.

To me some of those things sound like real wasteful spending when our country has a huge national debt and is putting us kids in poop up to our heads.

When I was a little kid my dad didn’t spank me but he gave me timeouts. As I got older the timeouts were longer and longer. Timeouts are what these really stupid politicians need.  I hope that all young people old enough to vote and all old people will give them a long time out by voting them out in November.

I am saying vote out Democrats, Republicans, Independents or anyone else that is wasting our money. Replace them with conservatives of any party as long as they will not put us kids so far in debt. If you only have a choice of two to pick the one that is more conservative. If they get elected and keep screwing us vote them out in the next election. If we don’t do something now we will never get out of debt.

Filed Under: Money Tagged With: America, Candidates, Congress, Democrats, Government, Money, Politicians, Republican, Republicans

What Politicians Don’t Want You to Know

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The present political climate reminds me of this incident that took place in the past. A well known reporter was interviewing a retiring politician. This interview got off to a good start as the reporter questioned the politician on the accomplishments of his long political career.

As the interview progressed the politician said, “I want to tell the public what politics is all about – the real story about politics, whether you are talking about dictatorships, monarchies, totalitarian rulers or democracies. It is all about power. The power to run the country how you want it to be run.  It is not about the citizens of the country. It is all about you and your colleagues. Any politician that tells you that they are in it to help the citizens of their town, city, province/state, or country is telling a bald-faced lie.”

Many reading this article may find the statements made by this politician a bit shocking. I would like to think that what he was saying is an exaggeration but is it? Think about it for even 6th grade kids like Seth at Kids Speak for America see through these politicians. If kids are seeing through them it’s about time that adults do to!

A term that we hear and read day-in and day-out is “Party in Power.” Does this mean that when discussing political parties that form our government, politics, first and foremost, is all about power? Read on and listen to more of what this retiring politician had to say.

As the politician continued his description of politics that he himself had spent almost his entire working career in, he made the following statements:

“Dictatorships and totalitarian regimes hang onto power by fear and when that does not work, they resort to force. Monarchies hold onto power by birthright. Democratically elected people hold onto power by telling the public whatever the public wants to hear. What they say does not have to be true, just believable.

In a democracy, when a person joins a political party and lets the officials know that he or she would like to be the party’s representative in the area in which they live, the officials determine if the prospective candidate has the charisma to win the next election.  If they do, the party insiders indoctrinate that individual into the proper political mindset. The first lesson a potential politician learns is that they are responsible to the party, not the electorate. Their responsibility is to get elected and once elected to ensure that they will be re-elected in every succeeding election. Their responsibility is not to represent the citizens of their area, but to support their party’s plans for that area. The party’s first priority for any area is to ensure that their financial supporters are rewarded in some significant way. They then rate the area in how important it is in keeping them in power. The more important it is, the more benefits the area receives.

For every politician, there are dozens of party advisors, personal advisors, speech writers, aids and other hangers-on. As much as possible, all these “extras” keep the politician toeing the party line and in the limelight. Whenever a promised “goody” for the area does not materialize, the party instructs the politician to blame it on the opposition party, the economy, or the price of oil (most of which is controlled by OPEC – always a favorite whipping boy). (Just as an aside, have you ever met a politician that was successful in having the price of oil lowered? You will not find one. That is because it is in their best interest and the best interest of their party to keep the price of oil as high as they possibly can. This gives the public a focal point for their anger and it allows the politician and the party to do things that are in their best interest that would normally rile the public if they were paying attention. However, if the public’s attention is focused on the price of oil, or the availability of gasoline, they are not paying attention to the sneaky things the politicians are doing in the background to increase their own and their party’s fortunes).

As the politician continued to open up he went on to point out that a large percentage of a politician’s  friends, financial supporters and relatives were found in comfortable, well  paying jobs in the government, on government commissions or other  publicly funded groups.  However, that is just a side benefit. The real reason for becoming a politician is to be part of the group that decides the fate of their nation. The exhilarating thrill of having the destiny of a nation and the future of it and possibly the future of the world in the palm of your hand is a rush like nothing else you will ever experience.”

As the writer of this article I share this information for perhaps there is a new generation. Perhaps there really are those running for office now that want to see change in the way our system operates. Even young people such as I found here at Kids Speak for America can offer change. Like Seth said in one of his messages I read at twitter, “Politicians need to listen to kids for we are the future voters and taxpayers.” You go get them buddy and I am pleased to submit this article to you.

~An Old Fart That Wants Change~

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: America, Candidates, Elections, Government, Politicians, Politics

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