It's Time

It's TIme To Call Out The Politicians

It’s time that we, as Americans, stop worrying about the minor issues of a political campaign, and begin looking for the person who can lead the nation, and control the Congress, and get the things done, that need to be done, to move America forward. It shouldn’t matter if that person is a black man, white women, war hero, or a Martian. We need to find the person who has the tools to do the job.

                It’s obvious that whoever our next leader is, they are going to need to provide a vision that the American people can buy in to, and they are going to have to bring Congress, kicking and screaming to the point of making the hard decisions that will need to be made to move America forward.    

                Let’s be honest, all three of the current possible Presidents have the ability and knowledge to hold the job. They all have different ideas on what it will take to solve the problems, and they even have different ideas on what the problems are. We need to hear exactly what they see as the problems and we need to hear detailed plans to solve the problems. They need to stand before the people and give information on what their administration will look like, not stand before us and make up stories about their past actions, or to play gotcha with something that an opponent said. Let’s face it, if you were to spend the hours and days that these people spend, before crowds, answering questions, we would all probably say things, that when they are played back 50 times, would not make sense, or would sound funny in some sense.

        It seems that the politicians have begun to think that we don’t have the attention span to deal with the issues. They feed us personality attacks on each other and each party instead of the answers to the tough questions. The political parties seem to take polar opposite positions, which leave no room for compromise, and therefore, there is no motion to address the issue. There is just an opportunity to stand before the cameras and paint the other side as the bad guys, and themselves as the angels trying to keep the country safe. We, as Americans, need to stop this game from being played, and we need to demand that these people step up and work together to address the problems.

We need to demand movement on the issues. And we need to demand responsibility from our politicians, if they can’t work together, they need to be replaced. Today’s issues are the product of the failures of leadership and the Congress of the last Administrations having a take it or leave it attitude. The attitude needs to change and change soon.

                Please get involved in the process, search for the answers to your questions and vote your heart, and your head. Please don’t worry about trying to give a hero, a woman, or a black man the chance, give the person who will actually step up and make things happen  your vote.

It's Time For Some Changes

It’s time that we stop paying all this money to oil powers in foreign lands. The oil powers take our money, hold our economy hostage, and then, in many cases, fund terror against us. Isn’t it time that we stop the insanity?
It seems that we need to begin to seek out the changes that will give us power over our own energy future. France, the U.S. Navy, and other countries have used nuclear power without incident for years. We had one incident, over 20 years ago, that stopped us in our tracks, and don’t you think our technology has progressed to the point where we can do this safely?
Where is the "Apollo program" to help develop new energy sources? If we’re going to pay all this money for energy, shouldn’t we either get the energy companies to invest in new technologies, or we should use tax funds to bring new technologies on line. Yes, some of this will take time, but the future looks pretty dark otherwise.
Again, it seems time that we have the technologies, and the common sense to drill for oil in areas within the North American continent. We should be able to do this with minimal impact on the environment. Let’s face it; the tanker ships that now bring in the oil from the Middle East is a huge catastrophe waiting to happen. It seems drilling on solid ground, or off the coast would be no more dangerous than this.
It’s time that we fund mass transit between and within the major cities of this country. AMTRAK is a disaster, but with leadership, and new technologies, we could move more people, more efficiently, and more cheaply, than the auto does today.
Oil Shale, clean coal, wind powers, and even solar should be part of an integrated plan that gives the country the power it needs in areas where each type of energy makes sense. There is no ‘silver bullet" answer, or one size fits all approach that will work. We need people working together, for the good of the country, making decisions, and coordinating programs, before it’s too late.
All of these changes will lead to new jobs, in exciting new fields, for Americans. The money spent by the government and private industry, will be spent within the U.S, instead of overseas. These programs and companies will pay taxes and help the economy. Who loses in this scenario? Only foreign powers. who don’t like us anyway.
It seems like it’s time to make changes, and take control of our destiny.

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