Dave for President
Well if hurricanes/tsunami’s/earthquake’s/tornadoes weren’t an indication of terrible things coming.. The presidential race has apparently begun.
We’ve got a guy whose name sounds funny.. like it belongs in “the Name Game” song
A chick who is only famous for not being good enough to boink (by her husband)
A former mayor whose kids are not terribly happy with his wife (version3)
And probably countless other ridiculous ppl without even the slightest humor in them. If I were a betting man, I’d bet on the mayor guy. The chick seems good on paper, but I just keep coming back to her being not good enough.. HA! It may not be on a commercial from the other 2 front runners yet, but I hope it will. I tell everyone I know that I don’t see a need to vote. I don’t feel any of the candidates ever come remotely close to what I think a leader should be. The problem is that everyone is rich. Well thats problem 1, problem 2 is that everything is corrupt.
Why is rich a bad thing? I am going to quote what little I remember from grade school.. “..Of the people, by the people, For the people..” That line marks out all of our candidates.. pretty much ever. I think a government SHOULD be those 3 things. We tend to settle for 1.. BY the people. Most voters contend that they are voting for the guy the think is best. But ask them some issues that are normal, not red flag material like “is he for abortion”, and nobody ever knows. People do a relatively ignorant thing when it comes to voting. We consume whatever media is thrown at us..believe what we want (cause really, it could all just be BS).. and vote for the guy we “like”. No government job should be a prom king/queen race. Thats pretty much the heart of my argument there. I want an excel spreadsheet with everything this person stands for on it.. yes/no. I want it MANDATORY for everyone who is running to put this on www.presidential-race.info free for downloads. But none of this really detracts from them being stinky rich. Oh mostly not Bill Gates rich, but still. I doubt they had to weigh out on say getting steak vs sharing a hamburger at Denny’s. I’ve been there, and looking at the figures most ppl have been too given that most of us don’t have a savings of $1 million. How could someone who has $1000 shoes know what its like to not be able to get my kid some shoes? (not sayin I’m there now, just sayin.. I have been) The answer is obvious. They can’t. Due to THAT specific criterion he cannot be “of the people”. ergo, not worthy of a vote.
Problem 2, everything is corrupt. This mostly stems from problem 1 putting rich people in control of everything. That leaves an ENORMOUS burden on them to be responsible for not going for the bucks, and going for what is needed. Need an example? How bout oil? The combustion engine is so out-dated, and many “prototype’s” have been developed around hybrids, and other fuels for combustion. My wife not too terribly long ago told me.. “so and so oil company is dumping $4million into R/D for alternative fuels. Isn’t that great?!” As usual, I rained on her parade with the smirk that $4 million was probably less than 1/2 of a percent of their total working capital they COULD invest in this. (And by the way, this company was an AMERICAN company. Arab company’s should WANT us to stick with oil at any cost since that is the only thing that makes that patch of earth they live on worth anything.) Who do you think owns stock in this American company? Well, I honestly haven’t looked. Have you? I would contend that most of the politicians are deeply invested in things like this.. Why? because it makes money, der. Now consider for a second, if you made windshields. For Ford, okay? Now is it at all right that you should get a vote on who Ford uses to BUY windshields? I think legally thats called a bias, or vested interest. Given that we live in 2007, and hybrids are the answer we have been given to “Gas is frickin expensive, is there an alternative?”.. I’d say our “of/for/by the people” people have been not too terribly just. They seem to get richer.. but that doesn’t seem to help 98% of the rest of us. Oh to be born into a rich family..
Now am I for/against anyone? Not especially. I don’t like Hillary Clinton. I don’t have a problem saying that I know zip about her politics, or about her beyond her issues during her famous husbands’ presidency. But akin to Paris Hilton, she seems to be famous for being famous. Elected to a congressional position, with most of her voters wonder how that happened. She consistently irritates women, who would normally be her saving grace in votes. I just don’t see her making it. The name game guy.. Well I honestly love hearing his name by stuffy media types on the news.. so.. I hope he sticks around. If I were to vote, I’d go with what information I can find from Ipac. If you don’t know what Ipac is and you are a technology savvy individual, you need to go there. First probably read up from the EFF. The problem this attempts to solve is, most of the rich people that make decisions about what I can do and how I can do it on my technology I have/use do not use that technology nor do they know what the crap it does. Much like a tribal guy from a deserted island voting on guns… If he doesn’t know what it is/what it does, he has no business voting on it.
So I’ve ranted.. there. Go learn something..