Before I get started, there are two things you are supposed to never talk about to people. The reason for this accepted norm is because the feelings and emotions surrounding these subjects is too much for some people to handle. The two subjects are religion and politics.
I am not one to really get on the bandwagon and voice my opinion about political issues, but there is something that needs to be said about the Presidential debates and the Hawaiian race for governor. We are nearing the end of the road and campaigns are spicing up and winding down. Voting is next week and the current ads are focusing on the negatives and why you shouldn't vote for one candidate and why you should vote for the other.
The biggest reason to hate political leaders and their campaigns and speeches is because everything they say is just a lie to get you to vote for them. Seriously, if we look back at all of our past leaders and elected officials, when was the last time any of them the American voters that they were going to do something and it actually got done.
Election 2008: President Obama is elected. It had nothing to do with whether or not America was ready for an African American president. It was because the Republicans didn't put anyone against him that was worth voting for. Sarah Palin as Vice-President, what a joke. The American people are tired of watching GW act so illiterate in from of a teleprompter. Let's get a president who doesn't make us look like backwoods rejects. Oh yeah, we are starting to pull out of Afghanistan, but more needs to be done because we went over there and bombed the crap out of them for no reason whatsoever, so their economy and infrastructure needs to be rebuilt. In other words, if we build it, they will sell us oil cheaper!
Election 2004: GW gets re-elected. Right after he got elected, BOOM!!!!!!, national crisis and an excuse to go over to the middle east and finished what daddy started. Corner the oil market, by claiming that Hussein has hoarding "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and his accomplice is hiding out in Afghanistan. We got Hussein, but Bin Laden at large. Okay, so now let's get involved in a "War on Terror." WTF? Really? Let us tell you the same thing we told your daddy. Holy War!! Leave it alone. We have bigger problems on the homefront to deal with.
Election 2000: What!? GW gets put in office. Hello, popularity vote. We wanted the other guy. Right after the whole ordeal about a man getting serviced. Yes, he was married. Yes, it was wrong. Even after that whole "impeachment" hearing and "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" speeches, Clinton today is one of the most influencial and publicly political figures around.
Election 1996: Clinton re-elected. Yea, someone who is actually doing something about the defecit and the American economy is booming. New laws are being passed and people are starting to enjoy life a little.
Election 1992: George, what are you doing? We thought you would keep up appearances like Reagan, but we have our own oil!! Hello, let them kill themselves. Who cares about the middle east? They have been locked in a holy war for MILLENIA!!!!!
Okay enough of that, but the campaigns today are saying the traffic congestions will be worse with rail than without. Come on people. The world population is growing exponentially. There will be more people driving cars on the road. OF COURSE there will be more traffic. It won't matter if the rail is built or not. The rail has nothing to do with making Hawaii traffic any better. It is a way for tourists to commute faster from Ala Moana to Ewa and Ko'olina so we can get more of their money. Very simple.
Simply, any time someone says that there is some avenue that will be "better" for the public good in the long run usually has an ace up his sleeve of how some profit can be made at the expense of the lower and middle middle class. (middle middle class - make sense?) Namely, us!
So, vote how you want. Vote for the guy that shares the same opinions and values as you, but rest assured that whomever is put into office will do whatever for whomever is paying the most money! Period!
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