Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts

Friday, September 19, 2008

tri-partisan system

Today I was talking to one of my sisters. We were discussing in particular how we weren't really happy with either candidate running for president. She is a pretty hard core "republican" and I have always considered my self an Independent but usually tend to side with the right because I want Uncle Sam to keep his hand out of my wallet. Payne and I think there needs to be a third party: The Common Sense Party. We decided on a few tenants of our new party.

We the Common Sense Party believe these things should be done:

1) Legalize Gay Marriage: Why not let same sex unions benefit from the same privileges every other citizen has the right to. If marriage is so sacred a union why do half of all marriages end in divorce.

2) Get rid of the IRS: how much does our country spend each year just to keep this complicated system running? Shut it down, hike up sales taxes giving every one a tax rebate for the essentials. News flash-people who make more money will spend more and be taxed more.

3) Abolish abstinence only sex education: I think we all know that people will continue to have sex whether we say it is bad or not. What we can do is provide information and effective available contraception (at a reasonable age-no handing out condoms in kindergarten classrooms) so we can have fewer unplanned pregnancies, increase adoption education so that hopefully we will do away with the need for abortions. Abortion is something the CS Party is very against.

4) Legalize Marijuana and Prostitution (Yes, we went there): Regulate and tax that shit!

5) No universal health care: The CS party like low taxes and that will only increase taxes.

6) No child left behind should be left behind: 'Nuff said

7) Don't Kill people: we feel this is a very simple statement, we are anti-abortion, anti-capital punishment and we would like to prevent wars as much as possible (people tend to get killed).

Well those are the 7 tenants I recall. It was a pretty long conversation so I probably missed some if you have any suggestions to add let me know and I'll consider adding them.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

My name is Alyce and I approved this message

I have said before that I am somewhat apathetic about the upcoming election. I am not really a fan of either of the presidential candidates and I feel when I pick one I will just be trying for who would screw up the country least. This will only be the second presidential election that I have been able to vote in and so maybe before that I didn't pay as much attention. Or possibly I have forgotten what it is like to watch television since I haven't had one in so long, but I can hardly make it through my beloved House MD with out wanting to scream at the TV. I hate all the ads: "Obama will raise taxes and isn't ready to lead" "Can we afford 4 more years of the same with McCain?" Holy smear campaigns, Batman! Can the candidate in their million dollar advertisements take a moment to tell me what they want to do instead of how horrible their competition is. I have to tell you, Their plan is working! I think they both suck. I did vote in the primary election and did not vote for either of these 2. While I am excited that we have a woman running for vice president because I tend to believe women have a lot of common sense and having raised 5 children I can bet she helped negotiate a lot of things and didn't encourage any of her children to go to war against the others. I am just so tired of the election and we still have to go through 2 months of this shit!

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Sarah is the Man!

So I'm am getting a little crabby about all the guff Sarah Palin is getting with her VP nomination. But she doesn't have enough experience! If we are all behind a man running with only 3 years of being in the senate what is wrong with the idea of someone who has been a governor for 2. I am sorry but I like the idea of a Washington outsider being considered for this office. Something the McCain ticket is not lacking is experience...McCain sat next to Jesus in the third grade. The man is as old as dirt and been through it all. We add to the ticket someone who has not been corrupted by Washington and I think we have something. The first thing Sarah Palin did as governor of Alaska was sell the governor's private jet because that was a silly expense. She has been a mom of 5 children one of whom has downes syndrome, and been the governor of the country's largest state. I think she makes a pretty cool addition to the republican ticket. It is about time we have a woman in this high profile office (that isn't Hillary). You go Sarah...I think you rock!