The United States of.....Socialism

Socialism....Are you ready for it? Now who knows, maybe it won't be as bad as I think. All I know is that it will be different from what we have now and there is big potential in that. I am just afraid that if Obama goes through with his plans then the poor won't be so poor and the rest of us, that much closer to them. {If you go to a restaurant and pass a homeless man as you enter, order, eat, and pay for bill; not leaving a tip. Then as you walk outside hand the homeless man $10. Now who earned that tip, was it the homeless man. No it wasn't. Now do you think the waiter is happy as well.} Now I'm not rich, but I am also not poor. So what does this mean to me and my financial standing. It means that yes I won't see much of a tax increase, but it still means that my money is still going to help pay for someone to mooch of the government. I am willing to give his ideas a shot if he is willing to look into welfare reform, among other things. I don't mind the idea of the trickle down effect as long as its not trickling down to a dead beat that won't work because he can make more off the government. Thankfully I believe Obama will be so busy cleaning up Bush's mess that he won't have time to get anything of his own done. For now we will wait and see. I don't think we can get much worse, different may still be bad, but I doubt it can be much worse. Here's to the next four years. Thankfully for now, it's just four years.

Election Day

As you may know, today is election day. That day every four years were we pretend to make a difference. Sometimes we do, sometimes we don't. Regardless of how you feel about the voting process and who you are going to vote for, please vote. Now of course I have my opinions on who you should vote for but I wont get into that here. My only pieces of advice are 1. Don't just look at the big party candidates, and 2. make sure you have done your research. Don't just vote for someone because you were told too, and don't take everything a candidate says at face value. With the internet you are able to do mounds of research on everything a particular candidates plans to do in office and you can see if it fits your way of life. Also though, make sure it fits any potential ways of life you may change too, whether you may become richer or poorer. I believe right now that all of the candidates have their +s and -s, as with every election. I don't believe 1 candidate is extremely a better choice than another. I also feel that we are all adults and whether I agree or disagree with your choice, as long as you have made that choice by doing your homework and believe in it for all the rights reasons I wont argue with it. Point is do your homework, make an educated decision on who you are voting for and then, most important of all, show up and VOTE!