A Conclusion I'd like to share

After watching, listening and researching as carefully as I can, I have come to a conclusion I’d like to share with you. I will be voting for the Romney/Ryan ticket when the ballots arrive in the not too distant future. While there are a number of issues and areas that have convinced me, among them, while in no special order are: • Philosophy: I believe one candidate believes strongly in a centrally controlled government while the other believes decisions should be made at the local level as often a possible. An example is President Obama’s call, both in 2008 and 2012, for the federal government to hire teachers. I believe this should be left to the local community. I cannot see any reason why this effort would be at all improved by being controlled by another large central bureaucracy. • Acumen: I see them both a venture capitalists. One raised private money, invested it in away that created jobs, created wealth and had success north of 80% of the time, often enough his firm was called the “best” in the industry. The other took tax payer money and selected an emerging industry to invest in and far too may failed, Solyndra as an example, where the investors (taxpayers) lost all their money and every employee lost their job. • Experience: One has a short time as a Community Organizer, a truly brief stint as a US Senator and nearly four years as President. The other has a long and public track record in private industry, community leadership and public service and in each category he can point to significant success, while the former never talks about his “organizer’ experience, missed nearly every vote while a senator and ha failed to deliver on nearly every commitment he made while he was running for office. • Wisdom: while one views those who don’t share his ideas as opposition, the other views them as”enemies” as he has said a number of times. So, while one reaches out to forge agreements with a legislature that t is 87% populated by the other party and has significant success doing so, the other refuses to even meet, has developed few if any relationships even within his own party, delivers three budgets in a row that can’t get even a single vote from anyone in his own a party. His apparent view of himself is that he is able to govern without input, as we saw when he told us if we allowed him to spend about a trillion dollars we would see major improvement, and as it turned out it affected unemployment not an iota, he was unable to identify any “shovel ready” jobs and the money spent served only to deepen our mounting federal debt burden. • Respect and Civil Rights: passing an executive order that gives the President, for the first time, the right to arrest and hold indefinitely without charge and/or to eliminate (kill!) US citizens without receiving the constitutional protection (or so we thought!) of the right of due process just scares me to death. It’s an ugly slippery slope and one we should recoil from. And we need to decide as a country, will we be a country that strives to give every person an opportunity or will we be a country largely controlled thru dependency? It’s a valid question, and either choice won't be perfect, but the underlying philosophy is a critically important decision. • Discernment: while one inarticulately commented on why 47% of the people who will not vote for him “no matter what” the other looks out at a large audience in Cleveland Ohio and comments that he only sees “hard working people.” Anyone who looks at the population in Cleveland and sees people who haven’t had a job for too long and see no prospect for one in the future is too out of touch with our current reality. And just giving away free “Obama Phones” won’t fix the problem, it’s just another small attempt o create more dependency in my view. • Libya: we use to call events like this another SNAFU, a WWII military term. But losing an Ambassador and several other key fellow citizens, seeing that loss as “a bump in the road” and failing to recognize the true enemy is an enormous and unforgivable catastrophe. And the inept follow up is frightening. Listening to VP Biden describe it as a failure of the intelligence community, not a single department, but the whole darn community and then he says immediately thereafter that he is relying on the very same community to decide there is “absolutely no atomic bomb risk in Iran” is beyond imagination. It is truly time for a change, and I hope each of us will take this election seriously, think carefully about the choice each of us will make, and I’m hopeful that you will arrive a the same conclusion and give the Romey/Ryan ticket your vote. Although these are humorous, they also have elements of truth to them, and you may find these short videos entertaining yet insightful. http://thehayride.com/2012/09/maybe-the-best-ad-of-the-political-season-so-far/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdnY8r7_fLw&feature=player_embedded