I was raised in a republican home. Both of them, that is. My
school was full of conservative Christians that felt it was a sin to
vote for anyone who supported pro-choice. I believed it was my civic
duty to join in the making fun of-and all around disliking anyone who
claimed they were a democrat, and would vote as such.
I have a lot of beliefs now. And most are drastically different
from what they were when I kept my mind in the small box of un-reality
that I was sure I belonged in.
I believe that it is wrong to vote without knowledge about each
candidate. I believe the people who vote per party only are blind. I
believe abortion is disgusting, and wrong. And I believe that my
democratic stance, and voting for Obama this year; is right.
First question I know that comes up. How can you, with your belief
about abortion-vote for someone who is pro-choice? Let me tell
you...remember back in middle school when we learned about prohibition,
and that when the government made alcohol illegal, it became a worse
issue than it originally was? People will not stop doing something
because it is outlawed. It's just pure truth.
What WILL they do then? Imagine a 15 year old girl who is
pregnant. She is poor. She has no job, and her family would not support
her in any way to have a child at this age. Her boyfriend has left her.
And abortion is illegal. Guess what she does? She finds a place, some
back-alley clinic with dirty instruments and high prices that say they
will take care of it. She does it in an unsafe environment and can even
contract a disease or who knows what as she gets the procedure done.
Now, first of all-her situation suggests that she cannot raise a
child at this time. But does she know that she can put the child up for
adoption? No! Maybe she "knows" about it, but she has no idea HOW to do
it, or WHO to talk to. She does this because she believes it is her
only choice. She is ignorant, and uneducated in the ways of adoption.
If she HAD known that information, what would she have done? Called
someone, and arranged to meet a young couple who cannot have children.
And guess what? She would be able to live her life, after bringing a
child into the world for this couple to enjoy. Everybody wins.
McCain wants to outlaw abortion. Obama wants to support groups of
planned parenting and adoption understanding all around the world, so
it is better understood and easier to obtain information on.
Now, who sounds like a better choice?
Other issues..homosexual marriage. Seriously, people are dying
from starvation and you want to vote based on who says who can get
married? Bigger picture......!!!
that's all I have to say for that one.
It really all comes down to this-we have to fight for the core of
the problems. And I believe Obama is really doing that. He wants to
break down walls by communicating with the people. Seems like a logical
choice to me. As for the taxes...there are parts of me that argue both
ways.
In one way, I think people deserve to have the money that they
worked hard to get. If they have an over-abundance it is (usually)
because they worked their whole lives to get it. But then there is the
other part that is saying...people are dying. Can't we be a little less
selfish? And if we are looking at this from a Christian stand point,
none of it is OURS anyway! How dare we think that we DESERVE anything!
We are rotten sinners!
In Jewish culture- do you know what the year of Jubilee is? (Keep
in mind, the Jews are God's chosen people, and they were told by God
that this was the ordained way to do things). Every 50 years the Jewish
people would sell all of their things and evenly distribute it among
the community. All people who had sold themselves into slavery would be set free. All land that had to be sold would be returned to it's original owner. That way there would be no poor people. Nobody would
have a big edge on any other person. And if a family was going through
a hard time, everyone would contribute to helping them, because if the
roles were switched, that family would do the same thing for anyone
else. No starving people, no poor. Sounds great to me.
Something about poor people...I think that the media and
corporations have really warped the minds of people like us. They tell
us that all those people on welfare who are sucking away are money are
lazy sons of you-know-whats who just want hand outs and don't care at
all and are just sitting at home watching tv.
This is so wrong! Okay, there ARE people like that. I know that!
But do you know why they are like that? Because their parents were. And
their parent's parents were. And why is that?
Here's how I see it happening. Lets go back to that woman who is
pregnant. Some 15 year old is pregnant and thinks "I don't want to have
an abortion, I want to keep my baby." She has no job and her family
says, "get out, ya slut." (Which is a whole OTHER problem, but I'll
leave that be).
So this girl says alright, I have to get a job so I can have my
baby and raise it. She drops out of school because she can't do both
things at once. She works her butt off and has her baby. And still has
no money. She has to live off of welfare now because she can't even
afford to send her baby to a day care and work at the same time because
the day care is to expensive. What is she really supposed to do other
than that?
So her baby grows up and says, "well my mom had to work for a
living so I do too." This baby, now a high school student, drops out of
school to help his mother make money because the welfare isn't paying
enough. He has no diploma, and no time to get one, and has a minimum
paying job because that's all he can get. He gets his girlfriend
pregnant because he was never told not to have sex. His girlfriend
doesn't want to have an abortion and decides to quit school so she can
get a job and save up some money.
So she is working a McDonalds and he is working at Burger King. He
is still trying to help keep his mother afloat, now along with his
girlfriend, and he still needs to get help from welfare for his mother.
He doesn't have time to go back to high school because he is working 12
hours every day to make ends ALMOST meet!
Do you see how the cycle goes?! Think about what could happen if
they got some money from some rich person who was living comfortably(or
more than that) in their 4 story house with 5 tvs. The son could go to
school and his mother could maybe take some classes herself. His
girlfriend could go back to school until she has the baby. He would
graduate high school and go to college, get a good solid job and
support his new wife and baby and offer a room in his house for his
mother.
The argument for that would be he COULD take the money and go to a
bar. And yes, he could. But WHY would he do that? Because he has been
living on his last string for so long he doesn't know how to get out of
the hole. Extra money has to mean having a good time, because that's
all he knows. Working his butt off or drinking booze. Why? Because he
is ignorant as to how he can be better than that. He has never had time
to think about what he really wants to be. And we miss out on one more
contributor to society because we don't think he is worth it.
A sad, sad story I think.
Keep in mind it's only an example-so I'm not saying this is the story for everyone.
To finally wrap this up-(sorry it's so long) I'm just going to
say; I really don't want to fight about this. After all it's only an
opinion. I'm not saying my way is the right way. But it's what I
believe in. I believe in equality. In communication, and in education.
In opportunities for everyone.
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