Hello all,  sorry it has been a while since my last post.  I have had the mother-in-law visiting and my wife on vacation for a couple of weeks, not a good scenario for blogging.  I should be starting up again on Monday Oct, 13th.  Until then, here are some thoughts I have had in regards to the election.

I fail to see how jobs will be created by taking money out of the hands of the people that sign your paycheck.

The social engineering program that forced banks to lend to people not qualified to have home loans failed miserably, but that isn’t good enough for Sen. Obama.  He now wants to expand this same type of program to all areas of the economy by forcing the wealthiest to now support lower income households.

I don’t see how Sen. Obama can say he has faith in the hard working people that make up the middle class when he would force them to go on a federally sponsored welfare program thinly veiled as a tax program.

Our government has become a reactionary government.  It waits until an issue has reached crisis mode before it acts and then it acts with crisis mode regulations.  The crisis eventually recedes but the regulations stay in place.  It shouldn’t be a matter of more or less regulations, it should be the right regulations that don’t respond to situations but stop these situations from happening in the first place.  Remember, it was regulations that forced banks to lend to people that couldn’t afford the loans in the first place, this is the base that caused the crisis in the banking industry.

Freedom isn’t just the right to make your own decisions; it is the right to make your own decisions and to allow those decisions to have meaning in your life.  Every time the government steps in and moderates those decisions for you it takes away from that freedom.

Our country is much younger that other economic powers of the world, yet in just 222 years we have become the only economic superpower in the world.  How did this happen?  By allowing the hardworking, innovative and creative citizens of this country the freedom to succeed and reap the benefits of that success.  These liberal, socialistic, government sponsored programs that Sen. Obama has proposed are the antithesis to everything that has made America great…they are a step backwards.

Sen. Obama has dressed up his policies in bright and shiny colors to dazzle your eyes.  The problem is that when you put them all together they just don’t fit quite right.

The government has no power except that which you the people give it, the government has no money except that which you the people pay it.  As such, any mistakes made by the government is born directly on the shoulders of the American people.  We know that freedom works, we know that capitalism works, we know that personal responsibility works.  What we don’t know is if Sen. Obama’s extreme left policies will work, and if they don’t work then once again the American people will pay the price.