Just leave me alone…

Apparently I am more worked up about this election than I thought.

Rant/Soap Box/Pissed off post follows – consider yourself warned!

• Tenth Amendment – Powers of states and people.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

I am nervous about today. I am nervous because neither candidate is a good choice for me and my family. One wants to tank the value of my biggest investment, my house, and could keel over at any moment leaving us with our first female President who, umm, needs some training. The other wants to take my guns and my money and govern how I take care of my family’s health choices, among other things.

“Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” is pretty important to me and it isn’t just a phrase on a piece of paper that somebody on a whim named “The Declaration of Independence.” It is one of my (and your) inalienable rights. Period. It isn’t a perk for being a member of the Republican party or the Green party or the Democratic party. You get it because you live here and breathe the air of freedom.

My wife and I work hard for what we have and we want to teach our children that through personal responsibility, you can actually have a pursuit of happiness and even be happy. But to take that away from me and my family, no matter who you are, and just GIVE it to someone else is taking away one of my inalienable rights as a citizen of this country. That is outright defiance of the reason this country was founded. And even if you don’t want to call it defiance, it is just plain ignoring parts of our Constitution. So, if you can ignore parts of the Constitution or some are more important than others… Yeah, let’s don’t go there.

What scares me is that Mr. Obama has said on many occasions that the redistribution of wealth by tax cuts is part of his plan. Unless you can’t read or just choose to ignore history, Venezuela, Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, etc., this is the basic definition of a socialist economy (and if you didn’t get this in Civics or world government classes, the progression is capitalism, socialism, then communism). Call it dramatic that’s fine. But it is what it is.

Mr. Obama also plans to address the essential constraints that the founding fathers put forth in our Constitution regarding our economic system and taxation. Umm, in order to do that, you must make an Amendment to our Constitution – or just burn it… Or, you can vote for him and have him rewrite the damn thing. And if you don’t understand that, here is another view. He says that the Constitution is a document about negative liberties (not new if you had Whirls and had to read “The Federalist Papers”) – that it dictates what the government CAN’T do to you but we need to address what it (government) MUST do for citizens. Again, I refer him to Amendment #10 and ask, politely, to leave me alone. The point of founding America and The Constitution is and always will be freedom from an oppressive king/government… Doesn’t this look familiar to anyone? Doesn’t anybody care that we are actually going down this road?

Why am I so scared? Because people are publicly supporting this and voting for him. And I don’t understand how this is going to help the country as a whole. It will help get someone elected because people are going to get something for nothing. Something for nothing brings a devaluation of what it is that you got – a lack of respect. Look at how easy it is for people to take freedom for granted… Which is also why I am personally offended by this election. You’re taking my stuff, dammit.