Election Day 2010 is approaching quickly and coming in with a roarrr from Mama Grizzlies across the nation. As we all know, a mother grizzly bear can be quite ferocious if she perceives a threat to her babies, her family, her territory! And ladies and gentlemen, mothers throughout this great nation of ours don't just perceive a threat to their babies, families and homes, but we see it surrounding us daily!
Whether the threat is that of unemployment, home foreclosure, loss of insurance, schools closing and teachers laid off, child care stopped, gas prices rising, elderly parents medicare cuts, rising housing costs, no rise in cost of living for social security recipients when all their expenses continue to rise through the cloudy skys, facing deportation from the land of the free because of no legal paperwork, or which of the many clear and present threats and dangers we face in our lives daily; mothers from each and every state, province, territory and community are rising up to say, "WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!" -
I personally cannot say that I am for the Democrats, Republicans, Tea Party, Liberalist, Green Party, or whatever any party chooses to call itself. I am very independent on what I believe and how I choose to vote. I vote my conscience, my heart, and my beliefs! I don't care what party a candidate belongs to or doesn't belong to. If I believe in what they say and how they have performed in the past, then I will vote for them!
What do I believe in? Well I don't believe in putting a whole country at war with another country for one's own personal grudge and agenda! I don't believe in paying our elected representatives their salary for life! I don't believe in building huge expensive and outlandish sports facilities, water parks, and all sorts of recreational facilities while we close schools, lay off teachers and are negligent in educating our children! I do believe we have a responsiblity and duty to care for the elderly - they have worked their entire lives for extremely low wages, usually no benefits, paid into a social security account faithfully, and deserve to retire with dignity and the knowledge that their social security and medicare will take care of them as they were promised all those years they paid into the fund.
I believe in the right to keep and bear arms! I believe in the right to hunt and fish for food, to protect my family, my home and my self!! I try to have two deer in the freezer each year, along with fish, squirrel, rabbit and of course my garden fruit and veggies. We know that if we have two deer in the freezer, then our family - children and grandchildren will have food to eat for the winter! I don't believe in hunting just for the sport of it unless the meat from the hunt is donated to a food bank or community kitchen!!!!!
I believe in God! I believe each and every one of us has the right to choose and decide what we believe in and how we choose to exhibit or practice those beliefs. I don't believe that I should push my religious beliefs upon someone else and I don't think anyone else should try to push their religious beliefs down my throat either!! But there is a difference in pushing religion and being respectful of everyone's right to practice a religion of their own choosing!!!
I think that education and health care are two areas where this country would be better served with a socialistic system with national standards, national curriculums, and the Department of Education would be revamped with a focus on new and better teaching and learning techniques nationwide! Too many schools are being closed, too many teachers laid off, school room sizes growing, student and teacher ratios not at maximum achievement level, too many kids on streets rather than in schools, and a school system nationwide which presently does not work!!!!
Healthcare is ridiculous in our wonderful U S of A! Doctors and hospitals everywhere cater to the insurance companies which have business majors making healthcare decisions and over-ruling the opinions of our Specialists! Just imagine, a kid goes to college and studies business management, accounting, advertising, business law, etc., gets his degree in business management and finds a job with an insurance company. Next thing you know this same kid who has never had a single medical class of any kind and no medical training, - this kid is suddenly thrust into a position of approving or denying medical treatments, medications, surgeries, etc. for people nationwide with numerous, varying health conditions - some of which the kid has never heard of before - but it is now up to him to decide if each will receive the proper care and meds the doctors prescribe, or is he going to deny what may be a life saving procedure or med to someone because he judges it to be too costly for the company's bottom line!! I don't believe that this above scenario is the right way for our country to allow insurance companies to practice, yet they do it daily!
And then there are those who have no insurance - no money = no healthcare!
Children living in streets, under bridges, in sewers, in the woods and trees, in boxes, sick, hungry, helpless and homeless!!!! So by all means, we should as a community help to clean up our community and take care of others - my own communities answer to this was to enact a law making it illegal to sleep outside anywhere within the city limits, - that's in a park, on a bench, in a yard, in a car, on a corner, anywhere - and that's for children and adults alike!!! We bus our homeless now to a convenient out of town shelter house every evening so that visitors to our city won't have to view the ugliness that goes with this economy and the city!!! I personally don't believe that is the way to go - but I am but one voice of many.
This one voice of many has decided to roar along with the rest of the roaring mama's throughout this nation!!! I really don't care who you choose to vote for on election day as long as you get out and vote your conscience, your heart, and your soul!!!! It is time we let God back into our schools, our government, our lives - they have definitely all gotten out of control since we decided to try to take God out of everywhere - afterall we are "One Nation Under God. . ."
So now election day 2010 is just around the corner - only 5 days away! Do you know who you are going to vote for? Do you really know where those candidates stand and what they believe in and who has beliefs and priorities which are the closest to yours? Hope you do - if not, then take the next few days and discover who you really want to have making decisions which directly impact you, your family, your home, your future, your very life and livelihood!
Have a good election day and great life!
Just Me Granny D
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