Voting

Just a quick thought here. Voting is everyone's responsibility. It's your duty as a resident American citizen. By that I mean that if you're an American citizen and you reside in these United States of America, it's your duty and privilege to vote your conscience. Everyone should be involved in deciding their fate. That's what this is. You're deciding the fate of your family when you cast a ballot. When you don't vote, you're letting someone else decide for your family. As an Independent Thinker, I don't vote along Party lines, I vote for the candidate or issue that I believe in. I'm not a big government person, as Gerald R. Ford, who said, "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have," in an address to a joint session of Congress on August 12, 1974 made that point quite well. I don't want a government like that. I also don't want to tear everything down and start over. The Tea Party taps into a lot of anger. I understand that. Anger leads to hasty action. "Act in haste, repent at leisure." It seems to me that there are people out there that have realized the potential that a lot of angry people have and are now trying to "steer" that anger by using half-truths as a goad. I don't want to be part of a mob, personally. Mob mentality NEVER pays off except for the one that incites the riot.