-Choosing to NOT vote for a candidate because he is black is just as bad as voting FOR him because he is black. Nominating a Supreme Court justice because she is a female or because she is hispanic is as reprehensible as picking anyone else because of their ethnicity or gender. It all makes more sense though when put into the perspective that in politics, style is more important than substance if it can make people want to vote for you. Unfortunately, the positions of President and Supreme Court Justice are too important to be selected by such trivial matters as political correctness.

-There is only so far that a President can go into his term that he can still blame the former President for all of the country’s woes. While it is easy to keep reflexively chanting that everything is still Bush’s fault, critical thinkers can see what is really happening. The Democrat congress controls the purse strings in this country – as they have since even the last years of President Bush’s term in office. Spending record amounts of money that you do not even have has never been – and still apparently is not – the way to solve financial problems.

-One cannot be called generous or noble if you are using someone else’s money. President Obama has been described as having a “big heart” presumably because he wants to help people by giving them other people’s money. If I go to a restaurant to eat dinner and I choose to force the Smith family to pay the dinner bill for the Jones family, the Jones family will think that I am being noble. The Smith family will not.

-What polls may show to be a “good idea” should not decide public policy. We don’t need polls, we have a Constitution.

-If I decide that I should seize a portion of your assets, perhaps you may disagree with the idea. What difference should it make if I can come up with solid reasons – including facts, figures and polls showing how much better I can manage your money or how much better the world would be if I seized your money? Plus, if you go against the idea, I can always call you names in the newspaper such as “greedy” or “evil” and ultimately seize your assets anyway.

-Lying seems to be okay as long as the liars still promise to give you stuff. Truth and sense seems to become less important if the prospect of something for nothing still remains. It is perhaps easier for some to defend a plan that promises to take care of you than it is to take care of yourself. Being dependent is easier – yet less rewarding – than being independent and responsible.

-It is interesting how so many people assume that “The Government” is so much more capable in running everything from busnisses to health care than the private sector. They forget that both draw on the same pool of prospective employees. But which is more likely to do an efficient job? Choice “A” – the so called “greedy” private sector who must perform well in order to survive or Choice “B” – Big Government who need not compete against anyone since they can force all to pay regardless of quality. When a bank or car company is failing – it is mind-boggling to hear people say that it is time for “The Government” to take over  – as if it is some sort of mystical master of business management. Whether you choose choice A or B, you should at least have the choice.

-Imagine if a new store opened in your town and you had to shop there regardless of the price or quality of products. In fact – even if you did not want or need the products, you still had to buy from that store for the rest of your life. If you refused to buy from them, you could be arrested and/or your house could be seized. Not many people would likely support such a store. Yet this is how public schools, social security, government health care and Big Government in general are set up. Rather than demanding personal choice, people seem to be rallying behind such a setup – if you go by what you see on the entertainment news channels.

-The fact that so many people feel so strongly about a particular candidate becoming President underscores just how much influence they feel that a President has on their lives today. In reality, the President of the United States was never meant to have that much to do with the lives of the average citizen. The position was invented merely to establish the leader of the Executive branch of the Federal Government – whose powers were strictly limited by the Constitution. The Federal government was established to represent the states in the dealings with foreign countries, to organize a defense against those that wish to harm any of the states, and few other limited and enumerated functions. Further, the Constitution was written expressly to prevent the Federal government from becoming the Big Government that it has become today.

-There are nearly one thousand Federal agencies that each have their own rules and regulations that control virtually every aspect of your life. An interesting topic of discussion is trying to name any possible activity that you engage in that does not have some sort of Federal regulation that dictates your actions – along with the penalties of disobeying them.

-The National Weather Service actually gives warnings to use caution when driving due to the possibility of slippery roads when icy conditions are forecast. On very hot days, they advise to “seek cool areas” in order to prevent heat exhaustion. What have we become as a nation when we need a Federal agency to advise us of such things?

-I have talked to people who are totally ignorant of the U.S. Constitution. As a result, they take one word or phrase out of context and make it mean whatever they need it to mean for their argument. There are politicians like this too. They remind me of people who do the same thing with the Bible. They feel that they can justify any position based on a single quote and insist that they must be right since it is “in the Bible.” So often, people would rather take the easy way out by quoting either the Bible or the Constitution without ever reading it or understanding the context – and then become beligerent when they encounter someone who has.