The Audacity of Change

Change, change change, change, change.

I am now qualified to lead this country, wait i need to say change one more time... change.

I want to change the greatest and highest quality health care system this world has ever seen.

I want to change our terrible 95 % employment rate.

I want to change our taxes to redistribute wealth to the economically challenged.

I want to change our education system that tens of thousands from around the globe come to.

Taking money from those who earn it and giving it to the poor and needy is not a governments job, it is the citizens job. The American Government has bitten off more than it can chew and now is choking to death on the bite. The Government can not save the world, it can only make it possible for its citizens too. The taxes that i see taken from me on a monthly basis in my mind are supposed to be paying for my representation in the government. So that if ten thousand dollars is given to the government it goes directly to paying for my rights( security, education, representation federally, and to cover expenses that come up on a local level ). It is not to pay for hundreds of social projects that have nothing to do with my interests and do not impact my life at all.

One of my greatest pet peeves of an elected officials campaign is telling the common man that if we tax the rich and give to the poor we are doing what is right. The Robin Hood theory of the big bad rich people who have taxed, stole and pillaged what the rest of us have worked so hard to make, so they will become a modern day Robin of Locksley and take it back for the common man. It is exactly the opposite of what they are going to do, Robin Hood gave to those who were taxed too heavily, so in a sense he would be giving money back to the rich who were working hard. To make Americans who work hard and benefit for it the bad guy in this election is maddeningly upsetting. By saying these things we are going to drive people who are in charge of the big corporations into other countries that offer tax breaks and free market conditions to those who succeed.

Success and Profit are being misportrayed as bad words today in America by people who want to socialize our country. By trying to put restrictions on success they are adding a form of Affirmitive Action in taxation form.

You can not make everyone in America middle class like Democrats want to, you can only increase the opportunity for freedom and success for the people who want to work hard for it.