To be honest with you, right now is when I want someone to just take charge and fix shit. I could care less if I'm in the dark about certain things as long as my country gets fixed so my children don't end up as college graduates with minimum wage jobs.


I right now am looking at a couple of people for a couple of reasons. I like McCain because he has most of the ideas to help the economy instantly by stopping all the pork barrel spending. His website, when he started campaigning, showed all the money that was funded by the government to places like Toilet Bowl Museums and off the wall stuff like that. The total number was in the billions. I also think he is the least loyal to his party, but more loyal to his country. What I mean by this is he has a track record for crossing party lines to work with democrats on issues to come up with compromises. He actually got ridiculed for it by the other Republican candidates.

Now on the flip side. I think the first thing we need to do to fix our economy and our country in general is to bring the troops home. I didn't say get out of Iraq for a reason. We have troops all over the middle east and parts of Africa that get absolutely no media attention so you wouldn't know too much about them. We are actually in those places for good reasons and what kind of news story would that be. I think the start to a good economy comes from a government who is not in a deficit. We are spending way too much money to send our troops over seas and are seeing nothing back from it. Did you know that when a Soldier goes over seas his whole pay is tax free. He also gets extra money for being away from his family and for being in a combat area and so on, but all that money that us Soldiers are raking in over there is all tax free. What do you think most Soldiers do with that money? Well, while we're off in these places with little to no entertainment or escape from the cold hard war, we go out on the local economy and buy up their bootleg DVDs, food, electronics, etc. Us Soldiers are pumping all of this tax free money into the economy of the middle east. Am I saying we shouldn't get this extra pay when we're put in harms way? No. I'm saying we shouldn't be in harms way for more than we need to be and should worry about protecting our country more than someone else's. I feel very strongly about this and this is why I want some reason to vote for someone else.

But to be honest with you, I think I'd rather vote for Hilary than Obama. I don't know why I get the feeling that Obama is a fast talker who just says what you want to hear, but that's how I feel. If I knew his issues, point blank, I might not feel that way. All the controversy is for people with little to no brain capacity. Bill Clinton was caught in a huge scandal in his personal life and I think he did more for our country's economy than any other president. I don't really like Hilary's stand on health care though. I don't like this universal health care system yet because it's just going to take more money from our tax dollars that our country just doesn't have yet.


My favorite candidate was John Edwards. I wish he was still campaigning for the Democrats because he would have got my vote, not because he was a white male, but because during all the debates, he was the only one that stuck to the issues and didn't point fingers at other people. I felt he really cared about the middle to lower class people (people making less than $100,000 a year).


And to go back to what Blay said about me stereotyping.......I may have, but I pulled up to the office in my military uniform, in my 1997 Ford Contour with only one hub cap left and no air conditioning, and my free cell phone that I got for signing up with Sprint because I needed a cell phone for my job. The people I saw were well dressed, talking and messaging on what looked like expensive phones and irritated that the line for free money wasn't moving faster. They could have been trying to better themselves as well, but I put them in a class of people that weren't, which wasn't fair.


Sorry Blay. I'll try not to judge so quickly next time. Seriously.

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