I am glad to be a part of this great event coming up on September 22nd at 6:30 p.m. at Rocking H Ranch in Lakeland, Florida. I am will be speaking about the importance of voting along with other great speakers. I encourage all voters to come out and discuss the issues that we face and how important it is to be educated on the candidates in our area. Everyone in the Lakeland, Florida and Tampa Bay area are invited to come out.
The issues we face are great, but we are a great nation. Our nation was born under circumstances that history said was impossible so the issues we face are not impossible to face, but we must come together in order to change the direction of our nation. We face a debt of over $16 trillion that has never been seen in the history mankind. A debt so large that that if we paid back a dollar every second and did not acquire any new debt it would take 507,356 years! When you put that in a number like that it is simply outrageous and embarrassing. How did a great nation like ours get here?
While there are several reason why we got to this state of debt I would point at one glaring factor. It is the American citizen and voters fault. We the American people have allowed these politicians to be elected to office and create this ridiculous amount of debt. Voters have either decided not to vote and or simply did not do their homework on who was on the ballot. Voter education has been lacking in our nation and it apparent when people vote for fancy campaign slogans rather than the person that is running for elected office.
Americans must pay close attention to our local elections. You may ask why pay attention to local elections? These local elections will affect you on the local level which is pretty apparent by the name local elections. These candidates that become your local officials generally after a while are either term limited or decide to go higher in the elected office food chain. After time in a position they decide it's time to run for a higher office so they can continue to have power. I always say if we stop bad candidates from being elected at the local level we can prevent them from being elected to state or the federal level. We must stop these type of people before they acquire name recognition, fund raising power, and power that will lead these type of corruptible people from getting to a level that can put us in the situation we are now.
I encourage everyone to register to vote. I encourage everyone to question your candidates before we have someone elected that is unfit to lead us. When you do not question candidates or elected officials on their actions you are saying with your silence you are okay with their decisions that are not only affecting you, but they are also affecting your family, friends, and neighbors. The actions of a few elected officials can affect us not just now, but for generations because we allowed it to happen. We have to be question candidates and elected officials with boldness and make sure they understand we are not going to be silenced. We will use all of the tools available to us now. We will use Facebook, twitter, blogs, and other means to show we are here and we are involved and will get our answers or we will vote you out at every opportunity we have to show our strength. The strength of our nation is not our government or its corrupted power. It is still our citizens which should all be voters that can turn this nation around to a nation of free people that are able to become great with their work and not the government picking the winners and losers.
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