Playing the game!
By: Bob "Irish" Gossard

 

It isn't to early to think about Americas Future!  It isn't to early to think about the next election! It isn't to early to send off your thoughts and ideas to your Elected Officials!
It is time that we all get involved with ... how to play the game!

 

Manipulating the Veterans for their votes has been a game, politicians have played since the inception of Politics! Have Sheep Will follow; Is the game most politicians play when it comes to gathering in the flock! No, I'm not talking about church ... I'm talking about blurring the issue; by condemning the opposing Candidates to do battle on their own personal beliefs, or forcing out the skeletons that may be hiding in the closets.

 

We all want the straight and perfect man or woman in our Highest Office: ... The Presidency of the United States of America! I'm sorry ... I can't find him! So, we must look for the better man, ... and that too can be a hard job! Finding the almost perfect man is impossible! ... So, we must all settle for the best man or woman!

 

Personally ... I don't care if a President has outside sex while in Office! I don't care that Janice Jackson showed off her breast at the Super Bowl! This is a personal preference that has to be dealt with as independent individuals, ... this isn't the business that Congress should be in evolved with!  So ... I don't care if Gays get married! I don't care if John Kerry Protested the War! I Refuse to play this game ... of bad and negative politics!

 

I don't Understand ... how Politicians in Congress can justify spending millions of tax payer's money to get elected to his or her office! I don't Understand how a President ... can justify spending $500,000,000 to get elected to the highest office in this Nation! Then say ... Our Country is in Financial Trouble, and the middle and lower classes must pay the bill! What about You?

 

WE as Veterans need to think of Our Nation Today! Number one ... Have we seen an increase in jobs, or... a clamp down on High Paid CEO's that do little for the Economy? Have we seen an increase of domestic job development, that will cover those who have been put out of work because of NAFTA? Have we seen the re-establishment of Industry here in the American States? Have we seen the border control that keeps illegal aliens from crossing over to facilitate their Drug Trafficking, ... or jobs seekers as undercover workers of poor Nations, that have taken the so called Unacceptable jobs available to the American Worker?

 

 Number Two ... Well, ... When the Unemployment Insurance runs out ... there are many Americans that will and are willing to take these so called dirty jobs; ... just to put food on the table, or possibly save the family's mortgage! Or, they may pay the lawyer to help them file for bankruptcy, so they can move down to a lower scale of living!  But ... Unemployment is down ... (so they say), ... but what about those that have stopped looking and have already exhausted their Unemployment Insurance?  Where are they listed on the employment roles?

 

Then we have the Social Security Issue! Private Accounts ... that will not benefit the young, but will benefit the DoD and the Government to put us even deeper in debt! Telling Young people (18-40) who are looking for fast cars, trucks, buying a Home and starting a family that they need to set aside money for their retirement and not touch it ... (No matter what their needs are!) ... is ridiculous!  Had you been able to draw from your Social Security Account these past 50 years ... you would have sent your kids to School ... paid off bad debts ... and had nothing to draw from at Age 62 or 65. If you had a Private Account and not drawn on it ... ENRON, WorldCom, TYCO, and others would have devalued your stock holdings! As it is ... most Retirement Funds from the Fortune 500 has become cut in half, or emptied completely ... all in the name of progressive ... called ... Down Sizing or Out Sourcing!

 

So ... Have you seen a President, Congressman, or Senator that YOU, ... as A Veteran and an American, ... Can Trust; ... especially when he says that he supports the needs and the wants of all Veterans? Do you see a President, Congressman, or Senator that will back off the Special Interest Groups, that are destroying this Nation by supporting the Bottom Line over their workers? Do you see a President, Congressman, or Senator that truly wants to insure ... That every American has Health Care; no matter what his/her social status is? Do You see a President, Congressman, or Senator that will back down the News Media, by telling the truth on all matters of policy; by providing both sides of the issue instead of just the Politicians side? Do, you see a President, Congressman, or Senator that will back down the Banks, and their back door tactics to provide the usurping of the Usury Laws to keep America in debt? If you see this man ... running for President in the 2008 Election, or a Congressman and Senator running for office in 2006 or 2008 ... Vote for him or her! These are the people who may change the way we live here in America! If not ... then we will be saddled with ... more of the same!

 

You need to use your own brain; ... and with my experience with Veterans for the past 20 years, they do have one, ... and they have a very analytical brain with a wealth of intelligence stored on their shoulders.  It's time to cut out the Bull Sh_T in Politics and find out what these Politicians are going to do for; or against America! Negative campaigns only cover up the real issues! ... If They have to run a negative campaign; HE or SHE doesn't have the answers, and he/she will end up doing more damage to this Nation! ... And they don't get my Vote!

 

I've been raised by a man who fought in World War II, I was a Vietnam era Veteran, I've sent two sons to war During the 1st Gulf War, ... and a Daughter to the Iraq War! ... Thus ...  I'm no longer interested in sending my children's children to a foreign nation to work, or play kill or be killed, ... been there done that! I don't have any interest in looking backwards, ... but I do have an interest in looking forward for my grandchildren, and a Nation of American People that can feel free to raise their children in both freedom and safety! The only way I can see this happening is by looking for the man that will lead us into the future, with answers to the questions presented above! So, if you want to wallow in negative campaigns that mean nothing to the Normal American ... Then I say; "There is no hope for you or America!"

 

They tell me that I'm long winded, ... but what I've seen on the Veteran Chatter Circuits ... in the short form; ... we are not getting our points across properly! ... Veterans want what they were promised, but going for additional safeguards will only water down the Grass Root Movement's Issues; that the Veterans have started, by getting the attention of their Elected Officials! Veterans are being one sided, because they are ignoring the American Issues that plague all the AMERICAN People!

 

So, ... If you want a change in Government ... Vote for the right Politician! Look for the new blood that lives among you; not the old blood that has isolated you from him from today's reality! ... If you want to keep things as they are; then elect someone that does not intend on helping you, but will cozy up to the Big Business Lobbyist every chance they get!  But neither can be accomplished unless you VOTE: (if you haven't registered to vote as of yet ... Do So Today!)... Neither of the above, can be accomplished by avoiding the issues, ... and nothing can be accomplished by pushing any candidates image into the dirt! I Vote for the best man with the right Message ... what about you? By the way ... this isn't sitting on the fence ... this is getting involved with all the issues that are plaguing America!