Posted on 11/02/2004 2:24:05 PM PST by VideoPaul
On a political discussion board that I participate in, one member challenged a fellow freeper by asking if he voted his conscience or voted for paranoia, the inference being that only a paranoid would vot for Bush. Here is my response.
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I just voted here in Chicago. I very much voted my conscience.
My conscience tells me that I don't want to pay higher taxes. It told me that my kids don't need to grow up in a country where activist judges legislate form the bench. It told me that I want to be able to open up a small business without tens of thousands of dollars worth of headaches before I even hang a sign. It told me to support someone who will go after terrorists whenever and wherever we find them without going on bended knee to the United Nations and saying "Please, mommy, may I?"
My conscience tell me that I don't want my firearms taken away from me, and I own a couple that a certain party very much wants to forcibly remove from me. My conscience tells me that I should defend my family, by deadly force of necessary, if we are attacked in our home and now cower like a scared little girl in the corner of a bedroom hoping against hope that the cops get here before the bad guy gets to us. It told me that the State of Illinois has no f*****g business telling me how to raise my children. It is sick of my 9 year old son being harassed by the Mexican children who now dominate this neighborhood. It is tired of literally needing to grab a Hispanic co-worker to go with me to the McDonald's at 6 East Chicago Avenue to place my lunch order because the counter help simply does not understand English.
My conscience doesn't believe that I should pay a higher tax rate because I am married. It doesn't think that the rich should be punished by taking away their money to give it to people who do not work for a living. In fact, it has a problem with many government giveaways. If you want to make money, get a f******g job. I don't have a problem with unemployment benefits, but out and out welfare is wrong.
My conscience feels that I can manage my retirement better than the government can, and very much wants to take my social security private, because the amount of money that is removed from me will produce MUCH larger results for me if I invest it than if the government invests it. It also tells me that there are simply some jobs that are NOT with ten dollars an hour. If we pay what the liberals call a "living wage" (read: $15.00 an hour) to the lowest paid workers, how much will all of our costs go up, and what impetus is there to ever learn more and move up?
My conscience has a problem with labor unions where only the most senior employee gets the highest pay and the best work hours, and assignments, when these rewards should go to the worker who has the highest productivity and the fewest defects. It doesn't care for their violent harassment tactics in elections, picket lines and union elections. It bristles with anger at union workers' wages being forcibly removed from them as "dues" and being used to support political candidates that they may not support. It happened to me.
My conscience has a problem with me losing jobs simply because I am NOT a minority--it happened to me. I scored much higher on a civil service test but lost the job to a minority who was bumped up the list because she was both black and female. My conscience understands that the highest scoring person should get the job and score additions because of demographic facts are an abomination, and cheating the taxpaying public out of the best employee. My conscience understands that "equal opportunity" and "equal outcome" are two very very different things. It is the biggest supporter of "Equal Opportunity" that you will ever find. It believes that someone denying another person a job because they are black should be flogged publicly. But it also believes that quota systems and set-asides, which have nothing to do with equal opportunity but have everything to do with equal outcome, are wrong, bad and should be abolished.
It won't stand for city and county governments fining someone $15,000 for removing two blackberry bushes out of her back yard in the middle of a major US city, telling her that she has "destroyed a wildlife habitat." It understands that animals are animals and do NOT have "rights". It understands that there is a food chain, and that we are on top. It thinks that jailing someone for having an eagle feather in their possession is an indication of just how far off the tracks we have taken this place.
My conscience says that if someone smoked for 30 years after the Surgeon General made it clear that they were killing themselves by doing so, that she doesn't deserve tens of millions of dollars in compensation. It doesn't feel that someone who drops hot coffee into her lap at the McDonald's drive-thru is entitled to one damn penny. It understands that trial lawyers and excessive jury awards must be stopped. It understands that socialized medicine will hurt seniors and discourage medical breakthroughs. It knows that unless something is done about malpractice awards, that medicine in this country will become inaccessible to 95 percent of the nation due to cost alone.
In short, my conscience and I voted for President George W. Bush. We were proud to have done so and very much enjoyed the high-five between us and another voter who were both wearing "W" T-shirts. And it will be staying up very late with me and my family to watch the results.
--PP
You just got pulled.
This is huge!
Amen! Amen! Amen!
Gee, I was just paranoid. I really AM afraid of what RATs running the country would mean.
This warms my cockles!!!
Strangely absent any mention of Abortion or Gay Marriage.
My Conscience tells me that God is watching this. This election more than any other is the fight between good and evil. From this election a decision is made about the fate of America. Hope or Judgement. If Kerry is elected then this grand country called America is over. The people will have choosen there own punishment.
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