Ode to Joy

First off, Drew wanted me to say that he wrote a note detailing some of the things I will say, but Facebook rudely interrupted and erased his note. Just wanted to get that out of the way.I'm kind of glad that things turned out the way they did last night. I voted for neither John McCain nor Barack Obama. I believe that neither of them was worthy of a vote, and I do not believe in "holding my nose and picking which one stinks less." I am glad that Barack won for several reasons, however. First of all, and maybe most important, I believe it important that we get the first AA (African-American) president out of the way. And yes, I say it in this manner. It's really quite pathetic that people label this as a huge leap forward socially that we finally elected an AA president because it shows that it's still an issue, and therefore we are not as socially forward as people would like to believe. We are still horribly backwards socially, and now that we have this out of the way, maybe we can focus on ability and the issues instead of how amazing it is that we now finally have an AA president. Secondly, I think it was very important that the country made it's decision so soundly, and that there was no controversy. This will make Obama's actions hopefully much easier to make, although I believe that in reality they won't, and even if they do, that they will be his downfall. However, I wish him luck, and hope that he is a great president.Let's talk about some of the issues that I deem important. I'm mostly interested in our economy. I really want someone, anyone, to give me a single example in all of history that socializing and regulating business has helped a nation's economy. How is it a good idea to socialize medicine? Ask a Canadian how they feel about it. When they are actually ill, in nearly all cases they come running across the border into our country. Why? Because private medicine works. Competition forces doctors to be competent, and allows them to force people to pay money to them so that they can actually afford better medicine, better equipment, better facilities, more research, and a healthier, better way to stay and get healthy. Now, however, Canadians may not be able to search out better health. Also, maybe you idiots who believe that regulating this or any other industry is a good idea should ask someone from Iceland how they feel about it. Iceland just went bankrupt a little while ago, and this was almost entirely because Iceland's government attempted to control business and save the economy. Again, competition makes business work, and government interference only hurts the economy, not helps it. Welfare is also very important to me. It's a subject of dire importance. We are creating a WS (Welfare Society) that simply drags and drains on our economy. All of you who believe in taxing the rich and giving to the poor, consider this. There was an article in a newspaper I read awhile back which intended to show that Barack will save lots of people who aren't making it. However, it did the exact opposite for any intelligent reader. In this article, this family of three was interviewed regarding their welfare status. There were two daughters in their late twenties and early thirties living with their mother who was almost sixty. All three were beneficiaries to welfare, and none of these three had ever held a job in their lives. They were each around 5’4” and weighed at least three hundred pounds. These three were not making it in their eyes, and were eagerly supporting Obama, hoping that their lazy lifestyle could be maintained by the peoples’ choice for our Messiah. They were complaining because their welfare could not cover their ice cream anymore. Do I really need to explain this?This is what needs to happen with welfare. We need to enforce some kind of incentive to get off of it. I am all for helping out someone who lost their job, or for helping those who are disabled and actually can’t work. However, there needs to be a time limit. This is essential to force people to look for a job. Yes, it can be difficult, indeed, impossible in some circumstances. However, force someone to get a job because their handouts from other people are drying up, and they will find a way to get money. Yes, this will increase crime. However, this will also in itself help our economy by creating jobs in the police force. I know this is probably impossible to enact, and the dangers it represents probably outweigh the benefits, but I feel it’s important to force people to do something with their lives. However, I will concede that this just may not work. However, I have another idea which is much easier to enact if we don’t have a time limit, so thus I am willing to yield on the former idea. We must take away voting power from those who are on any kind of welfare, even those on disability. In today’s society, it is unbelievably easy to find jobs which require no manual labor, as we move more and more into a service, rather than goods, economy. People who are stealing money from those who actually work should not be able to vote in more handouts. Plain and simple. The way Obama and other politicians look to gain more votes from WS is sickening, and dangerous for our overall economy. People need to realize that the ability to live is not a right, and that one must actually attempt to swim, or maybe they should just drown. How can anyone deny that this is true? Your bleeding hearts are also bleeding mine and everyone else’s wallet, and is a huge detriment to our national health in many, many ways. I really hope everything works out with Obama. I hope all our dreams come true and he becomes a great president. I really do. But he is set up for failure in so many ways. The many failures of the Bush administration must be dealt with. He made so many promises to so many different groups of people, that he will both not be able to go far enough to please most of them, and will alienate so many people by reaching out to them. This is true of every politician, but especially so of Obama. I wonder how many college students who are so excited by this radical change will still be so pleased by it when they come out of college into a recession turned into depression by Obama and our Democrat majority (how a %12 approval rating from a democrat majority Congress gains more seats is beyond me, they steered us here, and are about to go crazy with handouts). When the economy is not flowing, you do not enforce government control. Has anyone studied history or economy in their entire lives? How are people so blind to this? Also, I am becoming terribly afraid for our national security. I hope Obama is ready for an international crisis early in his term, because there are many surely to come. Even before he is in office, we may have a huge situation on our hands. Israel is terribly afraid of Obama and the stance he will take with Israel, and as a result, may view our electing Obama as us abandoning them and elect this crazy militant who will almost assuredly cause Israel to attack Iran, and possibly cause a war with a very real possibility of causing World War 3 and also the ever-present threat of nuclear warfare. Man, I wish people paid attention to what was actually going on in the Middle East. Those militant assholes will not rest until Islam is spread to all corners of the world and the Western Powers are destroyed. Even if Israel does not attack Iran in the coming months, there is still the threat of terrorism again on the horizon. You think their ecstatic celebrations over Obama’s electing are because they will be happy with how Obama treats them and they will find peace with us? You don’t know a damn thing about their culture if you do. They will be happy with how he treats them, because they will be able to get away with so much that they could not before, and Obama will either not act strongly enough or do nothing by voting present while in the Executive office. When people start dying, Obama is not going to have any other answer other than, “Those are real bad men.” Please forgive me for leaving out his stuttering. I hope for the best. I hope all the demonstrations from the Arabs in the Middle East are all show, and that they will not attack or cause havoc. I hope that our economy somehow recovers and we become the first example in history of an economy doing well while instituting socialism. I hope. As so many others do without really considering the repercussions of yesterday’s election. And this is NOT an endorsement of John McCain.