Follow-up

So I wanted to say something about Prop 8, but I suppose I have to at least address why I haven’t  followed up on what I said last time. I had no idea agreeing with Barak Obama on one issue would bring so much familial controversy. I was afraid of what would happen if I actually said what I agreed with him on.  So just to set the record straight I would like to say why I support John McCain. It actually has more to do with fundamentally disagreeing with Barak Obama than really liking John McCain.

Obama is liberal, very liberal. He believes in big government and lots of government spending, I don’t. I believe government’s role is to perform tasks for the people that could not be performed individually as effectively. For example, I want the road to my home to be maintained. Certainly not badly enough to rent a machine and crew to resurface the pavement myself. Thus it is the government’s responsibility to see to it that the road is improved so that all that benefit from it can contribute to its improvement. It is similar in items such as law enforcement and national security. Then comes the problem. Individuals in the government do not own that which they care for.  As a result some become careless and are not concerned for the performance of what they are responsible for, rather their own personal convenience and comfort(Note: I said some not all). In contrast when an individual who owns a business they are deeply concerned with the performance of that business, because it is their performance that determines there quality of life. If they perform they make money, if they don’t, well then they don’t make money. So I want government to only perform the essentials, and leave the rest to private owners.

Now it is the government’s responsibility to regulate commerce, which is a fine line to walk. Too much regulation and it’s tough for people to get their business done and too little  regulation and you get our current financial crisis.

Barak Obama has said that he wants to “invest in Americas families”, this is actually a code for he wants to increase government spending. He doesn’t want to invest his money he wants to invest my money( I can actually say that now that I have seen a good chunk of my check going to taxes).  And you now I would rather keep more of my check and invest it myself. John McCain has said he will balance the budget. I don’t think he will (especially with a congress like the one we have now) but at least he wants to. Obama doesn’t even want to try. So with increased government spending that requires that money to come from somewhere eventually. If it is not in increased taxes now it will be in the future, so that means we are only taking a loan out from future generations, which sounds rather irresponsible to me.

Wow am I exhausted… and that was just one issue. I know there is a lot more to that issue than can be said in a couple paragraphs and there are a lot more issues than government spending. Maybe I will talk about other issues later, we will see what the reaction is to this. Please remember I may insinuate something unintentionally, so don’t get to excited if I say something you don’t agree with.