Sunday, November 02, 2008
As Election Day arrives, I am frustrated and feeling as disenfranchised as the next guy, terribly let down by both the Republicans and Democrats.
Both parties are painfully guilty of corruption, deceit, irrational behavior and, more often than not, the abandonment of what my neighbors and I still cling to as common sense.
The current economic disaster is the proverbial tip of a cultural iceberg, a train wreck brought on by politicians negotiating on behalf of their own best interests instead of the citizens they are sworn to serve.
The same goes for the education debacle, the welfare outrage, the embarrassing, criminally unaccountable Fedzilla spending orgy.
The same goes for a court system off the rails, and a wasteland of entitlement programs guaranteed to break the bank.
The federal government is like Social Security: anti-social and insecure. Thanks for nothing.
Understandably, the people are wailing for change. But change as a concept can be very elusive. And it goes without saying that change can be for the good or for much worse.
Over many years, Republicans acted more and more like liberal Democrats — that is, out-of-control, doped-up hippies with a credit card and no boundaries.
They, both parties, spent unprecedented amounts of our hard-earned tax dollars propping up fantasy-driven entitlement programs that furthered the suicidal so-called Great Society of Lyndon Johnson.
The Great Society turned out to be not so great.
Like Roosevelt's so-called New Deal, we the people once again got a raw deal. We're still paying for it.
Beneficial change would be for Americans to unite to stop the economic and social hemorrhaging. Unfortunately, the Democrats, led by Barack Obama, have a different change in mind.
With every one of his speeches, as with every vote as a lawmaker in Illinois and Washington, he seeks to accelerate irresponsible spending, while reducing accountability to the people even more.
No more holes
Obama supporters think the best way to bail out the sinking boat is to blow more holes in the bottom. That will let the water out, right? Wrong. But if it makes you feel good, by all means, blast away. Bon voyage.
John McCain is no knight in shining armor, for sure. That said, in her short career, the good governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has proven to be a bureaucrat-stomping, status quo-destroying political warrior. Everybody I know is genuinely moved by her defiance of the old-guard politicos.
The Nugent family has researched until red in the face. We've weighed all the information and evidence we can get our hands on. In the best interests of America, we are voting for McCain and, of course, Palin.
He is ready to make tougher decisions for the overall improvement of the conditions we face in these trying times.
Obama will only make things worse in his scramble to make people feel good instead of actually doing good. If his ideas sound too good to be true, it's because they are.
It is not time to blow holes in the bottom of the boat. It's time for all of us to bail like hell, together.
Ted Nugent is a Waco-based musician and television show host.
