All We Are Saying Is...

LEAVE US ALONE!
A lot is being made of next Tuesday's election and what it means for America.
Not that you asked, but here is what I think.

The citizens of this country are fed up.  We trust NO ONE.  We will vote for candidates who appear to offer to do the least damage.  Republicans, because they're out of power, should win big.  They should not take this as a mandate to do any more than back us the hell out of the government cesspool we're neck deep in.  A return to fiscal responsibility and the cherished principals of self reliance and individual reward for hard work are what we are after.
America is, and always has been, about the ability to succeed or fail on your own.  The only folks who seem to have forgotten this reside in the political class and the rest of us are sick of it.  Because of short-sighted, self possessed professional politicians who cynically buy the votes of an all too often lazy electorate, using their own tax dollars, our country is at risk.  REAL TROUBLE!  Spending money we don't have on so called "entitlements" and leaving the tab for our kids and grandkids is morally reprehensible and frankly impossible to maintain.  The time to settle up is NOW.  The freeload is over!

Of course there will be some pain.  A bender like the one we've been on demands the Mount Rushmore of hangovers.  I think the voters, on Tuesday, will say "We're ready, let's get started."  As long as the sacrifice is shared, Americans are surprisingly resilient.  A flat tax for everyone, means testing for social security, (most of us collect all we paid in after a couple of years in retirement), and an end to fat government departments that long ago should have been replaced by private industry are good places to start.

We have got to do this!  If our current leadership in Washington can't handle a $700 billion bailout program, (and they can't), how can they possibly manage a multi TRILLION dollar health care program or any of the other crack brained projects they have floated?  Based on their staggering record of incompetence, the answer is worse than anything you could imagine.

November 2 is not just a mid-term election.  It is the first round of the fight to take back our country from the people who remain clueless to what America is all about.  Let's send the bastards packin'. The power of the ballot box is mighty. We can do this.  God help us if we fail.