Politics

1. You are President Bush and have all of the power in the world to do whatever you want. When asked about the war in Iraq you admit that Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations were not there in the first place. When you get called out by the news reporter about this gigantic mistake all you can say is “so what.”

2. Your Vice President Dick Cheney and when told that over 66% of the American population says the War In Iraq is not worth fighting you reply with “so.”

3. You are so blown away by #2 that you decide to make a top ten responses video on why VP Dick Cheney should care “so” much about the United States.

4. You are named after your favorite color (Pink) and don’t care about all of the things you have lost because “so what” your still a rock star and your having more fun.

5. Your an expert at Rock Band and your favorite band is Weezer. Say it ain’t “so” man, a 100%. Nice work.

 6. Your some of the best jazz musicians (Miles Davis and John Coltrane)  of all time and even though you don’t say a word through the whole song you have to call it something. “So what” should I call this song?

7. You ask out the girl of your dreams and you shoots you down but leaves a small window of opportunity for you. All you can say is “So” you’re saying theres a chance.

8. Your family has sold out to corporate sponsors. “So what,” your getting paid.

9. Barack Obama has promised to pay your mortgage and all of your bills. “So” why would I not vote for him?

10. After looking at reasons 1, 2, and 9 its no wonder why our country is “so” screwed up right now.

1. You work for:

   

and you need a bailout by the U.S Government to keep your plants running.

2. You took a look at your 401k statement and it looks like this:

  

In this case you need to bailout from the stock market and put your money into money markets or bonds.

3. You are the engineer of a train and notice there is another train coming at you on the same tracks. You would need to bailout in this situation.

4. You own a home that is about to go into foreclosure and need some of the $700 billion bailout plan to refinance your 30 year mortgage.

In this case you would need some bailout help from the U.S Government to save you from financial disaster.

5. You are sledding and get too much speed going where you cannot control the tube you are on.

In this case YOU should have bailed out long before you even got half way down the hill.

6. You are driving your Ford Bronco in the Moab Desert and the brakes go out.

You want to bailout but you know its going to hurt just as much bailing out as it is to just ride it out.

7. You live in Michigan and are unemployed. There are no new jobs coming anytime soon thanks to reason #1.

(I know the chart is a year or so old so here are the current numbers) 

In this scenario, bailing out from the State of Michigan and living some where else might be your only choice.

8. You are an American citizen and learn that your trusted politicians are spending the USA into bankruptcy.

Here, the USA has to pass a bill to bailout its bailout. How does that work anyways?

9. Even your favorite cartoons are no longer funny. They some how are all about bailouts.

Here you need to bailout from watching cartoons because they are no longer an escape from reality.

10. Your an illegal immigrant trying to get into the U.S and get pulled over by a cop.

What else can you say in this situation except for RESCATE!!!!!! (Bailout in Spanish).

1. After doing lots of research in who I thought would be the best pick for President this year I was able to come to a clear choice. Some of the major issues to me were taxes, the economy, the War thing going on in Iraq, health care, and foreign policy.

2. I have never considered myself a Democrat or a Republican. In the last election I voted for John Kerry mainly because I did not like George Bush. Last time I voted I was making $8 an hour busting my ass off for nothing just so I had enough money to make it up into the mountains in Colorado every weekend to go and “Shred the Gnar.” I did not care about anything else. I was 23 and just wanted to live. The only issues I had in my life was deciding to get a growler of microbrewery beer from Rock Bottom or picking up a case of Coors Light. Man do I miss those days.

3. After moving back to Detroit I started working at Quicken Loans. Talk about an eye opener. Working 14 hour days was not uncommon. I learned about finances and issues because the majority of my clients were in way worse situations than I was. I did okay at Quicken. I did not make a ton of money because I did not like selling people into new 30 year mortgages when the one they had was fine.

4. Before I started working at Quicken Loans I had never had to pay at income tax time. The most money I had ever made in a year was around $20k or so. My first year at Quicken I had made more than triple of my best year. Feeling pretty good about myself I was excited to see I might be getting back a ton of money at income tax time. Since I was not married, had no kids, and did not own a home I had zero deductions. I had paid over $6k in income taxes and was hoping to get back at least $2k. Since my income taxes are easy to do I do them myself. I’ll never forget this day. When doing my income taxes I got to the line where it said if this number is greater than 0 than this is your refund. If this number is lower than (or something like that) than this is what you must pay. I HAD TO PAY $2,200 MORE. I paced around my house for a hour dropping F BOMB after F BOMB. This is not like me as I am a pretty reserved guy. I told my dad about it and all he did was laugh. He was like “get use to it.” Luckily for the man I had developed good habits of saving money and was able to pay him his blood money. When I sent my check in I also asked for a receipt on what they were spending it on. Still have not got back anything from them in 2 years. It got me thinking about all of my clients I had and I knew probably 65% of them could not have wrote a check for $2k if asked. What happens to them? This was the turning point in my political opinions (or lack there of). From now on I was going to do my own due diligence and research the candidates. This way I would know who was going to tax me less and hold the government more accountable. I probably would not have done this if they would have sent me a receipt.

5. Getting more involved with political theory over the past 2 years because of this barrage of ads I decided to seek out my own info instead of this biased crap on tv and the newspapers. I was looking for a candidate who wanted a smaller government, less taxes, less government programs, understood that the war in Iraq is not a war, and had ideas unlike the other candidates.

6. It took my quite some time to do this. I took a look at one of those spreadsheets one afternoon where it had all of the Republican and Democratic candidates on it. After reading about the Democrats they all pretty much sounded the same. Nothing jumped out at me and said “I am that much different, vote for me.” All I saw was raising taxes one way or another. The Republicans were pretty much speaking the same. On the chart I saw from my local newspaper it only had the top 3 Republican candidates on it, McCain, Giuliani, and Romney. At the time back in 2007 I was pretty discouraged by all of the candidates at hand. It felt like more of the same or more of the same + worse.

7. Then one night I watched the Republican debate. There were a couple new faces up there. There was this one guy who kept saying things I have never heard before. Here is a highlight video of what he said at that debate. Um what. Eliminate the IRS in his first week of office? You have my attention. Only Republican to vote against the war. You have more of my attention. No “nation building,” no “policing of the world.” Seriously, stop it Ron. You must be crazy. Who says that kind of stuff?

 8. Heading over to Ron Pauls website I started doing some research. He never voted to raise taxes. His foreign policy is just as simple as the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The blacks were tired of segregation on the bus. So they stopped riding it causing the bus line to almost go bankrupt. The bus line needed them on the bus so they changed their ways to stay in business. Ron Paul did not want to fight wars with guns but with dollars. If we do not like you then we are not buying anything from you. By putting countries in the poor house, how are they going to be able to buy weapons to use against us. They can’t cause they are broke. Its really that simple. His policies were so simple and so in favor of letting the market decide what is best instead of the government just blew my mind. His argument was that the government is experts in nothing so why should they be the point of contact for information. Ron Paul’s resume is better than all of the candidates. He was a flight surgeon in the Air Force, had his own practice, delivered over 4,000 babies, and is currently a senator. It got me thinking that this guy knows a lot about the issues at hand and was not just some politician.

9. It was interesting watching some of the debates. Here is the only guy who sounds that much different than his party. The one guy who really wants to put power back into its citizens hands. The one guy who speaks the truth. I did my research about Barack Obama, John McCain, and all of the other candidates. This makes me a informed voter unlike the other 70% of the U.S population who probably voted because “I’ve always voted Democrat” or “Anybody but a Republican” or any other BS reason besides the real issues at hand. This led me to write about how we need to have a voter education course where voting is a privilege not a right. I could keep going on and on about his policies but instead you could read Ron Pauls website. I know Barack Obama was elected President last night and good for him. Unfortunately I believe it was because of popularity instead of issues. Maybe you could have watched a video like the one below to help you make a informed decision. There are so many videos on YouTube about Ron Paul but this is my favorite one. Every time I watch it I feel moved.

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