You trust THEM to run the nation?
Joseph Starkloff
With all the votes having been cast, and in most cases the winners announced, I feel now is as good as a time as ever to gripe about the recent mid-term election.Without having to see the results I can guarantee you that in a vast amount of the races a republican or democrat won, and this is where my annoyance lies.
This election was publicized to be the wrath of voters against incumbents. The media has shown poll after poll of the public’s frustration over the Washington insiders, and the culture in which they live. A culture of irresponsible spending and corruption.
People are displeased with the current state of the government, and this has both parties scrambling to prove they are fiscally accountable.
Neither democrats or republicans are the kind of people I would trust with money, but then again, the voting public doesn’t really make them prove they are.
Campaignmoney.com reported that both parties raised a total of nearly $290 billion this election. If politicians feel they need to raise this much money to run a campaign, what makes you think they can run one of the world’s strongest governments on less than several trillion?
When times are tough, and finances become tighter, middle class Americans have to do more with less. Why are we not asking the same of the people we put in charge of the national spending? Why do we award them for this monstrous amount of fund raising with a vote?
Don’t support the candidate who has the most commercials, or whose name we hear the most, but who you genuinely trust or know is the most qualified.
Being a former business person doesn’t make you qualified either. Haven’t you ever had a job where you felt the people on top should be institutionalized? Certain tasks or policies could have been done much more effectively or cost efficiently. They were stable enough to keep you employed, but it was a living hell for everyone who worked on the ground level.
Guess what, we’re on the ground level. So if some of these so called qualified business men and women take office; then things are going to be like that job you would rather hang yourself than work ever again.
Let’s stop voting for the people who can’t even show that they can run a financially reasonable election.
Stop letting political parties buy elections.
