Voting

I voted Monday. There were no lines. There was one other person ahead of me. She chose the paper ballot. I chose the machine. There were no people outside the courthouse trying to sway my vote. I registered to vote when I changed my address from Colorado Springs to Rocky Ford several months ago. I showed my driver’s license. The volunteer at the voting place verified my identity; which I thought was very reasonable. I am who my driver’s license represents me to be. I had my cheat sheet for the ballot initiatives so I could just go down the list and vote yes or no. I knew a long time ago who I was going to vote for. 

Although I switched from Republican to unaffiliated when I changed my address, I voted a straight Republican ticket. Actually, neither party represents what I believe in. Neither party has exercised budget restraint. Both parties advocate stimulus packages that send checks to everybody. This, in the end, is inflationary and only increases the deficit spending spree that has gone on since 2001. I voted against every proposition that sought to raise taxes for what ever. It is time to tell government, at all levels, to get by on what is in the coffers and forget about milking the American taxpayer for any more appropriations. And politicians should stop lying about what they can do for American citizens by proposing more or larger programs. These programs are not in the interest of American citizens. They are, instead, for the benefit of the government and its vast bureaucracy, to feed the ever growing minions of government employees and contractors.

One must look at every government proposal not from the point of view of what it can do for you, but what it does for the government. I am of the opinion that government no longer operates for the benefit of the citizenry. Furthermore, voting, though an individual right, has become a commodity for organizations like ACORN. It appears to me that ACORN’s purpose of registering voters is secondary to obtaining funding to continue in existence. I believe that every citizen should be responsible for their own franchise. Unfortunately, there are those who believe that this individual right is a commodity.

From my corner of Main Street and Beech in Rocky Ford, CO.

Dr. K