In My Mind’s Blog

Voting day is almost here!

If you must know, I am a registered Independent coz I need to study and weigh the issues before I vote on who gets to be El Presidente de Estados Unidos.

I have to admit I was a skeptic, but I now know I wasn’t alone on why I thought the way I did. I did my research, I listened to the debates and heard the opinions of the media and common folk.

All I know is that I have had it with the war in Iraq and Afghanistan…$10B a month to fund the 2 wars is way ridiculous!  Two wars, WTF!  Soldiers having 3 to 4 tour of duties during their military service…we need our troops back so that they could be with their families and defend the US in US soil.  Use the money to invest on our own national security, infrastructure and oil dependency.  If those countries don’t want democracy…it is time to leave them alone.  Let us not waste any more resources on a lost cause.

The US has lost credibility with most of the world and the new President should be able to redeem our country’s status and ties with other nations.  Why do you think gas prices are so high?…coz the dollar is weak!  America isolated itself for a long time and now needs to realize that it needs the support of other countries.  As the saying goes, “No man is an island.”

People who make more than $250K or more should just shut up and eat it…hello, if you rich guys pay the bulk of the taxes then the middle or lower income people would have more spending power to buy the stuff you sell - the more we buy, the more you make, duh!!!  Spread the wealth, man.

I do not believe in bailing out my neighbor’s mortgage. I work, I’m financially struggling yet I make sure my loan gets paid on time.  Why should I support these idiots who got into a situation where they ate more than they could chew.  The whole darn economy is down in the dumps and the appraised value of my home is already low, so what difference would it make if my neighbour lost their home?  Oh geez, I get better neighbours or no neighbours at all…cool!

A lot of pension plans, including my husband’s, are on freeze right now.  People are forced to invest on their own retirement plans like 401k’s that are not doing well at the moment.  I personally want to retire financially comfy, if we keep up the way we are right now, I will not be able to support myself when I get old…and I honestly do not want to work in my 70’s and be a burden to my son.

America ate too much and now we are too gassy and have to belch.  Instead of eating more of the crap, we need to go on a diet.  It will not be easy, but we all know we have to do it.  We are used to quick-remedy schemes, like that rebate check that is now all gone, but what we really need is the courage to go through a trimming phase and we all need to wake up!  We need CHANGE.

I love this country and that is why I became a citizen in the first place and damn it to hell if we go through another 4 years of this bullshit economy. If I need to sacrifice today so that my son and other children of this great nation have a brighter future, I am so willing to do it.

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