Change! Change! Change!
By now I’m sure, if you watch any news network or listen to the radio, you’ve heard the constant use of that word being thrown around like it’s the newest drug on the street. I’ve heard Hillary, Edwards, Obama, Giuliani, Huckabee, Romney, Richardson (although he’s GAWN!), and McCain spin that mantra catalyst like an old record. I’ve heard constantly of the “change” this country needs and that each of those candidates are READY TO BRING CHANGE!
*cues loud applause of crowd hearing that phrase*
Ok, ok….but now I’m going to ask you to stop cheering and do something for me. Please think REAL hard about this and ask yourself “change in to what?”
What are they changing? What do they plan to change? What needs to be changed? Why does it need to be changed? And how much of a change should we expect?
These are questions that nobody has yet to ask any of the candidates and quite frankly it scares the crap out of me. It shows that people are desperate for change but they aren’t willing to find out exactly what is being changed. they just want to change for change’s sake and that is the most dangerous type of change of all. Let us look at some topics that people say need some changin’:
- The War : What are they going to change? Are they going to pull out immediately? Extend the War in Iraq for another four years? Abandon a country to create a political vacuum for Iran or some other bat-guano crazy nation to overtake? What exactly do they plan to do?
- Healthcare: What are they going to change? Are we going to move towards a failed system of a single-provider method like Europe and Canada so that we’ll all be stuffed in to medical clinics waiting weeks on end for miniscule procedures while our freedom of medical choice is robbed from us? Or will they finally attack the tort lawyers who make it a habit of chasing ambulances and litigate the pharmacutical companies and the docters so viciously that it FORCES the insurance companies to raise rates to cover all expenses due to malpractice and drug manufacturing.
- Abortion: What will they change? Will they make it nationally legal for women to just abort a child whenever they feel like it? Or will they finally appoint judges who will overturn that horrible law Roe Vs. Wade and place the true burden of decision back upon the people and the states where it belongs.
- Social Security: What will they change? Are they going to expand the social program even further placing an even larger tax burden upon the younger workers in America so they are forced to support tottering old baby boomers who have squandered their lives away instead of planning for their own private retirement? Or will they finally move towards privitization so that the future citizens of this great nation can build their very own personal retirement and be held up by their own boot straps instead of riding the coat-tails of everyone else around them.
- Immigration: What will they change? Will they just throw in the towel on the whole situation and declare amnesty for anyone who decides to just one day cross the border without following the proper laws (FYI that DOES make them criminals)? Or will they finally build the border fence and secure our nation from the continuous mexican invasion which has been proven to also be an unsecure entrance for terrorist activities?
- Terrorism: What will they change? Will they bring our troops home and quit funding the continuous war of terrorism? or will they finally knuckle down and face the enemy they have tried so hard to NOT acknowledge? Will they remove the horrible law of McCain-Feingold, or will they still not allow our security agencies to freely pass information between them so they can work together to further protect our nation?
So much talk of change yet hardly any of them speak of actually changing anything. It’s a whole lot of nonsense that amounts to just pandering to your crowds and getting those applauses you so desperately like to see on national television. Like I said…..
“I’ve got so much change my pockets are rattling.”
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