VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
Alright, kids, I have been pretty good about staying away from the political topics for a couple of weeks now, to give you all a rest from the bombardment that we're getting so close to the election, but I now feel a need to put my two cents on the subject of voting. I guess what I really want to talk about is the utter ridiculousness of that fact that there needs to be advertising campaigns designed around getting people to vote. After 9-11, everyone was wearing their flag shirts and flag hats, riding with their USA bumper stickers and espousing about how proud they were to be Americans, but when it comes to the one thing that truly makes us what we are; a free people with the power to elect our leadership and the power to remove the leadership we have if we are not satisfied with their contribution (i.e. Gov Davis), we are reluctant to show up?? We don't want to spend the time to get out butts down to the voting booth and take five minutes to help decide our own futures?
This especially goes out to all of the young people out there. The world we live in is very screwed-up in many ways. Our environment is being devoured by greenhouse gases and the unwillingness of industry to make changes that will benefit future generations because of what it will cost them today. This is air that your grandchildren will need to be breathing, and the time to ensure that that air will still BE breathable, is now. Our dependency on foreign oils for the fueling of our massive transportation industry is what ties us to the middle east, and it's what makes us feel a need to stick our noses in to other people's business, to protect our interests there. A war is being fought in Iraq by the young men and women of our generation, and if we want this war to stop, and if we want our futures to be molded the way we'd like, it's up to us to take a stand and make our voices heard. Big business politicians don't think that we care, and certainly don't worry about us come election time, because we know that so many of us are apathetic to what we believe is a government beyond our control. But the minute you turned eighteen, the control of the government was placed in your hands, and that ONLY thing that will ever bring about any change is your presence in the voting booth. We have to let the politicians know that not only are we involved in this government, we will most definitely be holding them accountable for the mistakes they make today, because those mistakes affect our futures in the most direct way possible. We will be cleaning up after the generation that is now in power for a very long time, and the clean-up HAS to start now.
I am not here to tell you how to vote. The important thing is to vote in the first place. We need our voices heard in the voting booth, no matter the outcome, because if we do, and they realize that the youth vote is something to be take in to account, then the next time an election this important comes around (and I think it should be very clear that this election is the most important we've had in VERY long time...this election will determine the future of this country and will decide whether we remain on top or whether we will be removed from power by our own hubris), they will understand that the future is un our hands, and we will not be ignored.
Make your voice heard. One raindrop raises the ocean.
TENSION BREAKING SILLY JOKE OF THE DAY
"Knock knock"
"Who's there?"
"Control freak. Now you say, "Control freak, who?"
This especially goes out to all of the young people out there. The world we live in is very screwed-up in many ways. Our environment is being devoured by greenhouse gases and the unwillingness of industry to make changes that will benefit future generations because of what it will cost them today. This is air that your grandchildren will need to be breathing, and the time to ensure that that air will still BE breathable, is now. Our dependency on foreign oils for the fueling of our massive transportation industry is what ties us to the middle east, and it's what makes us feel a need to stick our noses in to other people's business, to protect our interests there. A war is being fought in Iraq by the young men and women of our generation, and if we want this war to stop, and if we want our futures to be molded the way we'd like, it's up to us to take a stand and make our voices heard. Big business politicians don't think that we care, and certainly don't worry about us come election time, because we know that so many of us are apathetic to what we believe is a government beyond our control. But the minute you turned eighteen, the control of the government was placed in your hands, and that ONLY thing that will ever bring about any change is your presence in the voting booth. We have to let the politicians know that not only are we involved in this government, we will most definitely be holding them accountable for the mistakes they make today, because those mistakes affect our futures in the most direct way possible. We will be cleaning up after the generation that is now in power for a very long time, and the clean-up HAS to start now.
I am not here to tell you how to vote. The important thing is to vote in the first place. We need our voices heard in the voting booth, no matter the outcome, because if we do, and they realize that the youth vote is something to be take in to account, then the next time an election this important comes around (and I think it should be very clear that this election is the most important we've had in VERY long time...this election will determine the future of this country and will decide whether we remain on top or whether we will be removed from power by our own hubris), they will understand that the future is un our hands, and we will not be ignored.
Make your voice heard. One raindrop raises the ocean.
TENSION BREAKING SILLY JOKE OF THE DAY
"Knock knock"
"Who's there?"
"Control freak. Now you say, "Control freak, who?"
