I am just torn by this election. There is no solid republican candidate, or actually I should just say conservative in general, which kills me. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and I am a big supporter of that. This isn't a shot at anyone, but for me I could never vote for Obama.
The thing that is killing me about the liberals right now is how they advocate change. Change is fine in the general sense, when you compare it to GW who absolutely demolished the conservative side, with his not-so-conservative decisions in a lot of areas. Liberals say that the health care system is broken...I agree. They say that the war is being handled incorrectly...I agree. They say that people need an economic change...I agree.
HOWEVER, what I don't agree with is the insanely ridiculous ideas they have to correct these problems. To me the people running right now are taking problems and answering them the way a child would. How do we fix healthcare because it is too expensive? Make it free. How do we fix the war in Iraq? Just bring them home. These issues are not that simple. NOTHING is free in this world. Go to any economics teacher and ask them whether something is free and everyone single one of them will say there is no such thing as a free lunch, it is the staple of economics. There will always be some deadweight loss and inefficiency, but to what extent is the important part. It would be wonderful if it were as easy as getting healthcare for free, but frankly I am a training professional and if I am making over $100k a year, honestly I don't want to pay for anyone else's health care. I don't want my tax dollars to go towards their problems. This is more communist than anything else, taking money from the people that worked hard to get there (I am not talking about the super rich, just the ones that worked their butts off). This does not mean I agree with the way things are currently being run, but there is a happy medium in there somewhere and it needs to be found. Democrats will tell you that taxes will go up but not all that significantly. RIIIIIIGGGHHHTTT, they just hide the costs in other government programs. Unfortunately there are just two extreme sides to this whole situation and it sucks.
With Iraq, I don't like the way it is being handled, although it has gotten better recently. I feel more emphasis should have been put on Afganistan and that things need to be ramped up in Iraq and moved faster and I do not support a pull out.
With the border I am completely conservative. No offense but frankly if you don't come in legally GET OUT. Or more so get in line. Build the biggest fence you can and man them!
The most important thing to me right now is our dependence on oil. It baffles me how we have so few nuclear power plants. For what reason? Chernobyl? Three mile island? For one, Chernobyl was the result of a horrible reactor design and substandard regulations and other things. Three mile island was completely contained with no loss of of life. That was before we had all these advanced microprocessors and such, so we need to get back to this power source. As a scientists I do not believe in global warming, but I sort of don't say anything and let the green people keep saying what they say because at least they are pushing for new legislation and such. We need to pump more money into university research as well, there just aren't enough people interested in the subject because there is no money in it.
Lastly, big government. In California they are working towards things like thermostats with transmitters that allow the city to turn off your power when you have used too much. Are you kidding? I don't want bigger government and again I do not want to pay higher taxes to fund things like a $110 million bike trail in Minnesota that state taxes should be paying for and that was recently earmarked by democrats.
Don't get me wrong, I am not fully republican here, they have their issues too, but I really wish there was someone with more intelligence running and not so damn influenced by their parties.
Okay rant over lol.
The thing that is killing me about the liberals right now is how they advocate change. Change is fine in the general sense, when you compare it to GW who absolutely demolished the conservative side, with his not-so-conservative decisions in a lot of areas. Liberals say that the health care system is broken...I agree. They say that the war is being handled incorrectly...I agree. They say that people need an economic change...I agree.
HOWEVER, what I don't agree with is the insanely ridiculous ideas they have to correct these problems. To me the people running right now are taking problems and answering them the way a child would. How do we fix healthcare because it is too expensive? Make it free. How do we fix the war in Iraq? Just bring them home. These issues are not that simple. NOTHING is free in this world. Go to any economics teacher and ask them whether something is free and everyone single one of them will say there is no such thing as a free lunch, it is the staple of economics. There will always be some deadweight loss and inefficiency, but to what extent is the important part. It would be wonderful if it were as easy as getting healthcare for free, but frankly I am a training professional and if I am making over $100k a year, honestly I don't want to pay for anyone else's health care. I don't want my tax dollars to go towards their problems. This is more communist than anything else, taking money from the people that worked hard to get there (I am not talking about the super rich, just the ones that worked their butts off). This does not mean I agree with the way things are currently being run, but there is a happy medium in there somewhere and it needs to be found. Democrats will tell you that taxes will go up but not all that significantly. RIIIIIIGGGHHHTTT, they just hide the costs in other government programs. Unfortunately there are just two extreme sides to this whole situation and it sucks.
With Iraq, I don't like the way it is being handled, although it has gotten better recently. I feel more emphasis should have been put on Afganistan and that things need to be ramped up in Iraq and moved faster and I do not support a pull out.
With the border I am completely conservative. No offense but frankly if you don't come in legally GET OUT. Or more so get in line. Build the biggest fence you can and man them!
The most important thing to me right now is our dependence on oil. It baffles me how we have so few nuclear power plants. For what reason? Chernobyl? Three mile island? For one, Chernobyl was the result of a horrible reactor design and substandard regulations and other things. Three mile island was completely contained with no loss of of life. That was before we had all these advanced microprocessors and such, so we need to get back to this power source. As a scientists I do not believe in global warming, but I sort of don't say anything and let the green people keep saying what they say because at least they are pushing for new legislation and such. We need to pump more money into university research as well, there just aren't enough people interested in the subject because there is no money in it.
Lastly, big government. In California they are working towards things like thermostats with transmitters that allow the city to turn off your power when you have used too much. Are you kidding? I don't want bigger government and again I do not want to pay higher taxes to fund things like a $110 million bike trail in Minnesota that state taxes should be paying for and that was recently earmarked by democrats.
Don't get me wrong, I am not fully republican here, they have their issues too, but I really wish there was someone with more intelligence running and not so damn influenced by their parties.
Okay rant over lol.