The key to a successful nation

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."

Cicero - 55 BC

Our government needs to stop the spending immediately. Both of our presidential candidates propose to spend more. Senator Obama actually said as much. McCain - a better politician when it comes to playing the game - never uttered those words exactly, but we all know he means to (though his proposals do have a lower price tag).

Still, McCain is the lesser of two evils (as the Republicans typically are).

Obama's ridiculous proposals are filled with "universal" this and that in that oh-so-familiar left wing rhetoric that has proven itself nothing short of a train wreck time and time again.

I, for one, don't want the money that belongs to me taken against my will by the government to pay for some lazy douchebag in Queens to have healthcare or a college education. It is not my problem. Why should it be? I conjecture most of the country will agree when the reality of where Obama's money will be coming from should he be elected dawns on them. The problem is that it would likely be too late. A lot of people refuse to learn.

I look at the polls, I see the lead Obama has, and I don't doubt the numbers. But if the country is lucky, the slow-witted "can't someone else do it?" minded individuals to whom Obama has endeared himself will not show up at the polling booths. That would be a great victory for America. The last sentence in Cicero's quote eludes to this - and it is the unequivocable truth.

When I go to the polls this November to pull the lever for McCain, it isn't a vote for him - it is a vote against Obama.