American Pride

What is the job of any elected official? Firstly, to represent the people that put him or her into that office as best they can--making decisions that reflect the values of the community they were elected to represent gives them the best chance to prosper. Secondly, to inspire confidence and steer his or her constituency into economic growth and self reliance, while making sure that the export business is 10% higher than the importing. Currently, I don't see this happening from the senators and governor that are supposed to be our "voice" in government. I hear excuses about how this presidency has let us down by allowing the economy to fall to the point where jobs are relocating overseas. What we have to remember is that these same Democrats were in office when the NATO agreement was put into effect that enables this to happen. Trying to level the playing field again has gotten us into a world of hurt. They were worrying so much about the poor in neighboring countries being unfairly stepped on by the big bad American economy that they started handicapping us; manipulating the general public into feeling guilty about our success, and blaming others' failures on our success. It is an idea that the party wants us to adopt, that whenever someone does something good the results are negative for someone else. Shame. That is what they sell and i don't buy it. I believe in having pride in where you came from, pride in the people that came before you and sacrificed life so that simple freedoms are safe. Pride in America.

I have heard the democratic policies described as "feel good" policies, while the republicans have more of a "do good" policy agenda. What this means is that instead of doing the right thing and making a tough decision that positively affects the community as a whole, they want to make everyone happy and install a pseudo-socialist government that controls how much we have, how much we make, and how much we spend. By instituting government policies that try and recreate everyone as equals, they are taking away what makes us such a great nation to begin with and that is our individuality. Even now, as we speak, congress is trying to institute a new law that requires business owners to offer paid sick leave to all workers. Taking away a business owners' decision making power is ridiculously overstepping the bounds of what the government is supposed to concern itself with. Sweden has tried this policy and close to 20% of the people abused it severely reducing the strength of the economy. Please give the people of this country back the freedom they fought for and vote republican next year.