Whaaaa La! We reap what we sow.

As I watched the results of both local, state and national elections come in, I felt proud that so many people actually gave up the time out of their day to spend the 45 minutes to vote. That is precious time that could have been spent watching Stupido 60 or CSI-Philidelphia. That was admirable considering it's a privilage and not a right to vote. The sad part was that so many people don't study the candidates prior to casting their vote. They don't know squat about the folks running for Insurance Commisoner, the Senate or for God's sake...the Governor. We all see the ads on TV and know our parents view, but have a problem making a change. Change is what we need though. We've had the two party system for all of my life, my parents life and so on. It flips back and forth- a term for this party, a term for that party. Still, we continue to see our government grow larger and larger, more liberties taken away from us, more money taken away from us as our freedom wanes.

If you look at the Democrats website (http://dnc.org/a/party/stand.html), you'll see their 6-Point Plan for 2006. Scary thing is that only one of their six objectives is Constitutional and that one is security. The others are non of the federal governments business. It's just not. Not the governments responsibility to make sure you have health insurance, retirement, energy indepence or economic prosperity. These things would be nice to have and it would be nice to have an organization willing to help individuals achieve these things, but it is NOT the governments responsibility. If you forcibly take citizens money in the form of taxes to pay for these things, that's theft. Legal theft! It doesn't matter how good you intentions are. It's no more "right" than if I stole your money at gun point to give to a single mom to pay her rent. Good intentions, but wrong.

The Republicans are no better. Taking liberties with Homland Security and failing to take action on Tax Reform. Their platform (http://www.gop.com/media/2004platform.pdf) is extrememly long (long winded) and full of rhetoric soundbites. Continually adding new lines of blah blah blah jibber jabber to already strung out and continually confusing legislation. Their changes to Social Security, HSA's and Education are just as bad as the Democrats. These are things that are NOT Constitutional responsibilities of the federal government. So, they too are trampling on our constitutional rights.

Still, we go to the polls and put them back in. It's like their on the same team, just split into offensive and defensive. But they are still one team in opposition to the Constitution and the citizens of the United State's rights.

So, Nancy Pelosi is going to be the Speaker of the House. Great! Everyone that voted for one of the two parties deserves her. For all those races to be so close (near 50/50 in many cases), tells me the two parties are very similar. Both bad.

To ingnore the Libertarian Party's platform (http://www.lp.org/issues/platform_all.shtml) and their candidates is ignorant and short sighted. It's simple and easy to read and hard to argue intelligently any portion of it. It is fair and upholds the Constitution of the United States.

So, next time, whose turn will it be? I guess that depends on what you do with your bucket of lemons over the next few years. Who will make you feel like they screwed you the worst? Who will you choose to punish next time by voting for the other party?