The Start of a Longer Story to Come
What some may say is the most boring subject ever is what I call a passion! Politics is a very complex issue, most adults don't think kids know much about this issue but they are wrong. Ask any kid today and they I can honestly tell you that at least 6/10 kids say they do not like Obama and what he is doing. My interest first appeared when I was just flicking through the channels one day. I knew absolutely nothing and I didn't care about government and law in 2006 but the election was just starting up and what an election it was to get involved in! I stopped on CNN, and there was good old Hillary Clinton speaking up on stage.
I still to this day do not know what sparked my mind that day, but it did. I thought that the election was only between Obama and Clinton but to my knowledge it turns out that there was another person who just secured a nomination from another side of the aisle on super Tuesday. Nominations were a whole new thing for me on that day. Sen. John McCain. I knew nothing about him because all my support was behind Clinton to win so I only followed the democratic nomination. Once Obama was declared the winner the media started to focus on McCain more and I got to see what he was all about and I didn't like Obama much because I saw him flip flopping on some issues very early in the primary season.
I looked in to what McCain was all about, i went to his web site and I looked in to his political party compared to ther democratic party and I just liked what the Republicans stood for, I liked there platform, and ideas they had, but with any politician or party there is always some things you dis agree on. I was a huge G.O.P (Grand Old Party) member at the time. and I stayed a big one until I learned something very important.
The election was just around the coroner, and we had to do a project for my 8th grade social studies class. I had to pick a person running for the oval office, and make a slogan and a little presentation on why they should be president. that was the very first time I looked at others, other than Obama and McCain. It really widened my prospective on things. I ended up choosing frm. US Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia. He was a former Republican turned Libertarian. He ran under the Libertarian ticket with his running mate Wayne Allyn Root of Nevada. I chose him because he belongs to the party of which our founders wanted this country to be.
Like me, most Libertarians are fiscally Conservative and Socially Liberal ( I'm Kinda). They were the golden party for me so after my project we had a mock-election in our school and I really wanted to vote for Bob Barr but I didn't know enough about him to cast my vote for him, so I voted for McCain. To this day I wish I could go back in time and recast my vote for him, because after the election I learned a lot about the Libertarian Party. They stand for more freedom, smaller Government, and true tax reform. Also because Sarah Palin was not on the top of the ticket.
Palin was a real mystery to me at first, but I soon found out that she was no ordinary politician! she was a fighter, she stood her ground and after doing a little research i knew why McCain picked her as his running mate. Sarah abides by the constitution and is a true patriot to the United States of America, i knew soon on that this is what she wants and it the past she got what she wanted the hard way, with work and dedication to reach that goal. Sarah is no quitter and a little later on I leaned that she can really take a punch from the national media, Keeping it honest and fair was another attribute i found in her, she never lied and when she meant some thing she meant it, Thats all I want in a President. As we all know by now Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States of America.
I gave him a chance, believe it or not, I did but what has been happening so far and the damage he has done to my generation is just outrageous! We are the ones who have to pay off all the debt, deficits, and liability's. Yeah, Bush did cause the debt, but most of the deficit is all Obama. It is at $1.4 trillion the highest since WW2 and the debt is $12 trillion, and total liability's are over $105 trillion, I don't know about you but we have a huge problem and Obama is just spending and making it worse. Yes, you need to spend to make money but what he said was to have happen by now has not happened, its like Al Gore and global worming. Just look at the figures he is presenting health care is ONLY $940,000,000,000 and lets push through Cap n' Trade and put an energy tax on all Americans, and $787 billion for a fail of a stimulus package. It is just getting ridiculous, and I am sick of it, and you should to! Kids aren't stupid its the adults, if you watch C-SPAN maybe you will see what the GOP has to actually say, they even say on almost every spending bill, "this is generational theft and monetary abuse" you need to look in to what the people on the hill are doing. You should be afraid what they are doing because in about thirty years from now you might be saying, "why did they do this to us?" because when you will be paying off what they are doing to us right now we will be sorry we elected complete jumbos are our elected officials, and Obama is just confused right now and doesn't know what to do, he is listening to his czars and just saying what they are saying to the public to pass it up as a bad joke. He surrounds him self with characters with questionable background's. Look them up and you will know where I'm coming from. Obama promised change but what kind of change? I think you guys need to pay some more attention to whats going on in Washington, in depth and in detail. because I don't think the adults know whats really going on. If we want a sound future you will listen to our call and do as we say because believe it or not, we are the future of this nation and by god we need to take control of it as soon as possible because we are in a nose dive straight to the deepest depths of hell!!!
I come to you as a concerned young citizen not a Conservative-Libertarian, right now during all of this perils time we all should be concerned. When Obama was elected many thought he was the next Jesus of all things, right after he won I think it was CNN who aired this woman who was just jumping for joy yelling all the things Obama promised and what she expected from him I only wonder what that young woman thinks right about now of what she was promised.
Back to the start I don't really know why I got in to politics but I do know that it is here to stay. All ready I have people saying that I will never make it, I don't care what they have to say because karma will get them and they will be living on the street asking for spare change and they will be crawling back to me asking for help, I will be more than happy to help them out, I don't need an apology or anything else. It would just be my duty, as an American citizen to help them out no mater what they may have said. The past is the past and that's where it belongs, we need to focus on the now and future of this community, state, country, and world. What has already happened we can not change, and that's just how it is.
-Ryan Burns
