Vote Anti Incumbent

I was listening to the usual debate between Republicans and Democrats.  You know, the ones running all day long every day on TV and radio and mimicked all day long by everyday people, you and me.

It goes like this:
Republicans are generally in favor of big business.  They say leave them alone, don’t put restrictions on them and the market place will take care of everything.  Besides government is the problem.

Democrats are generally in favor of big government.  They say things need to be regulated and they will watch out for us.  They think big business is corrupt and greedy and needs regulation so they will protect us.

So goes this argument in non stoppable loop.  Which one will look out for us people better, big business or big govenment. Which will look after us, the treasury dept or Goldman Sachs?  The big insurance and drug companies or nationalize government health care?   The FDA or Monsanto?   Social security or Wall Street?

Then it dawned on me, neither.   They really are all the same.  The treasury and Goldman Sachs has a revolving door.  The lobbyist of the drug companies end up in FDA.  Hank Paulson investigates the big banks and brokerage and then gives them more money.  Who is worst Bank of America or our Federal Reserve?

I don’t really trust either big government nor big business.  No one will ever win that argument between the Republicans and Democrats.  Neither of their choices are correct.  Therefore neither Republicans nor Democrats are correct.  They are playing useless mind games.  Why let this endless argument confuse and frustrate you…. there is a better way.  The big picture is important but it seems our concern needs to be more on what we individually can do to improve.
So what is one to do?  Maybe the answer is within each one of us and the actions we take in our everyday lives. Well there are some things, albeit seemingly small, they do make a difference.  As an individual I have and will:
1. Be responsible

2. Stay out of debt  (don’t spend more than I have)

3. Closed my Wachovia big bank accounts and moved them to Delta Community Credit Union, which by the way pays higher interest and has a no cost checking.  The money stays in the local community.  I feel good about this move.

4. I will not vote for a Republicans nor a Democrat

5. I will continue to save and fund my own retirement, thank you very much.

6. I will exercise and eat healthy to do my part to stay away from big health expense.  Many will use more holistic and natural health remedies.

7. I will not spend money to impress people.   My 2000 Buick Regal still works well.

8. I will not gamble in the stock market.  Fixed income and real estate is more my style.

9. I will not watch much TV nor listen much to talk radio.  I will read more.

10.  I will not tell the contractor my insurance coverage is so he can jack up the price, only to leave me paying my deductible.

11. I will store emergency supplies of food and preparations.

12. I have enjoyed my victory garden and will do it again

13. I will buy some gold, silver, commodities, real estate, just in case the dollar tanks big time.

14. I will not participate in things I don’t believe in. (exception for IRS)

15. I will strive to be creative in things I do and think for myself. I will never follow the heard.

By Robert Fowler, Anti-Incumbents.com

EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE.  READ IT AND THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE. Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.

By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high

taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don’t. House of Representatives does. You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does. 

You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine..

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.    

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it’s because they want them in IRAQ. If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power. They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

What you do with this article now that you have read it………. is up to you.

This year, once again, there is buzz that 2008 might be an anti-incumbent election that will sweep out sitting House Members of both parties. National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (Okla.) has been making that case for months, and more than a few journalists and talking heads have picked it up as well.

A little more than a year ago in this space (”An Anti-Incumbent Election? This Year? Of Course Not,” Sept. 14, 2006), I argued that 2006 would be an anti-Republican, not an anti-incumbent, year. I never thought that we’d be hearing the same anti-incumbent argument so soon. more from realclearpolitics.com