“Get out there and cast your vote….you count!!!”

Over the past six months, the airways have been saturated with slogans and promises of everyone campaigning for office. You see the back stabbing and enough mudslinging to last you a life time. Over the years, it has seem to progress to more mudslinging than pointing out issues that need to be addressed. After the mud has been slung at a candidate then you hear, get out there and vote. Your vote matters. Yes it does and the American public knows this. I’m not a politically savvy person by any stretch of the word. I’m just like other typical Americans who are just waiting for the one candidate to come along that just tell the truth. Doesn’t get out there and slang mud towards someone and just addresses the needs of their constituents. What are our needs? I don’t even know anymore because of all the props this and props that that we have to vote on if we want to keep schools going and whatever else going. There are even propositions out there that will tax only the wealthy. Yeah right, you know that’s not happening.
I was watching 60 minutes news show and it’s probably the only news that I can watch without gagging. At least these guys try to ask the questions the average American wants to know. They try to make it accessible to all and not just the few who understand politics. Let’s face it. Politics this day and age requires at least a master’s level education to truly understand it. At that point, it still requires your 100 percent attention to truly follow the ever changing world of politics. That’s why the average American, like me, truly relies on those who do follow or run for office to tell us the bottom line up front and be direct and honest. It was refreshing to hear someone finally ask the real questions to the average American. What was unique about this program was the town they decided to do a story on reminded me of “my hometown”. This town had a population of 15,000 people and used to be the home of Maytag manufacturing company. It was a bustling business there providing over 2500 jobs for the locals who lived there. Of course this provided a stable economy there and other businesses started booming as well. Then the recession hit and it hit America hard. This town has lost so many businesses that it is on the verge of bankruptcy. The town is so close to disappearing that all the people that live there may have to move somewhere else so that they can just get a job.
So what have we heard focus on this election year? This person voted for Obama Care. This person wanted people to boycott AZ. This person didn’t want to protect the border. Not once did I hear anyone talk about big business and how they move jobs out of country because of the labor laws. How big business find it cheaper to pay for labor outside of this country. You ever wonder why you pick up an American flag and it says made in China yet still costs the same as if it were made here in the states? Cheap labor and yet people come here to find the dream. It’s funny how those that have lived here all their lives just want to find a job. What did fade to black was the War on Terrorism. Did not hear one candidate mention anything about veteran’s of our military. We’re simple Americans. We just want to provide for our family and send our kids to college so they won’t have to work as hard as we did; funny how that’s the problem now. Ever since that slogan made its way into the vocabulary, labor laws made it harder for big businesses to conduct daily business in order to make a dollar. We’ve made our way to just getting lucky and hoping to win the lottery.
We have taken all this time to taking the easy way out that those in power have pulled the hood over our heads and we didn’t know it. From where I sit and gaze into the eyes of every politician out there, it is you who’s the blame for this economy because of your petty disagreements. It is you that has taken the money from the hands of every hardworking American and put it in your own. You’re set for the rest of your life because you voted it that way; that by serving one term, you have served yourself instead of the people your represent in this great country. Just once we would like for you to stand up yourself and say it out loud, this is what I did wrong in office instead of what you supposedly did right. My guess is if you did do something right, would this country be in the condition it is in? I leave you with this. Every time I spoke with a Soldier who is always blaming the system, I ask them to look at the reflection in the mirror. If you can look at yourself and say I had nothing to do with what I’m going through, don’t you think you wouldn’t be in the position you are in now? Thanks for stopping by Stretch’s corner. Remember these are just my thoughts and may the candidate you voted for today, represent you well in their term in office.