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a few dozen reasons to vote "We are One or We are None." "A vote, is an individual's act of voting, by which he or she express support or preference for a certain motion (e.g. a proposed resolution), a certain candidate, or a certain selection of candidates." Wikipedia In the U.S.A. approximately 70% of the eligible population registers to vote, which may be an important contributing factor in the low average election turnout, which in recent decades just barely has topped 50% of voting age population in presidential elections. Most people don't vote because they haven't voted before, those people can CHANGE THE FUTURE. Poll taxes are gone, but far too many people feel it's ONE DOLLAR, ONE VOTE, so why bother. In TRUTH, a vote doesn't cost nearly that much, in fact it's free, but if an amount be needed... call it your two cents worth...  VOTE: [Etymology: Middle English (Scots), from Latin votum vow, wish] - the collective opinion or verdict of a body of persons expressed by voting. "Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln." ~ Will Rogers. "If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates." ~ Will Rogers (this statement does not constitute a breach in separation of Church and State). Patrick Layton Paulsen (July 6, 1927 – April 24, 1997) a comedian (also USMC) ran for president with the campaign slogan: "If elected, I will win." Pat first ran for president in 1968, and though he lost the election, he won a special Emmy Award. Pat Paulsen's platform: "All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian." Tighter immigration is big this time around, shouldn't you weigh in? It's equally important to decide who's in the #2 slot... "The man with the best job in the country is the vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How's the President?'" ~ Will Roger Three quick TEACHINGS from George Washington: "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." Thomas Jefferson "I am a Ford, not a Lincoln." Gerald R. Ford "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." ~ John Quincy Adams "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." Groucho Marx  Einstein said it first, "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." where it's ONE DOLLAR, ONE VOTE,  from Mark Twain: "But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got--the ballot box." - interview in Boston Transcript, November 6, 1905. "Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." ~ W.C. Fields "Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated." ~ Will Rogers "The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking." ~ Will Rogers "The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats." ~ Will Rogers Einstein postulated that, "Mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind." Could the same be true of liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats, cowboys and Indians? "Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." ~ Will Rogers "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." ~ Albert Einstein. So as campaign promises and accusations rage, keep your poppycock antennas up and finely tuned... truth and honesty have a way of shining through even the murkiest environs. Here's one from Will Rogers for the speech writers... "Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches." Benjamin Franklin... "Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." Dr. Einstein. We have approximately 1,125 days until the next presidential election.... Now, how much is that in dog years? In the spirit of "Which came first, the chicken or the egghead?" ... the question has to be asked, "Is it the President's fault when mistakes are made, or the electorates?" "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." ~ Benjamin Franklin "Because it's a grown up thing to do" ~ Cait Fletcher, age 10. On any given Election Day, if you wait until tomorrow, it will be too late!  |
