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Aug 25, 2004 I want to debate the other candidates. Not because my Catholic high school education prepared me for such a romp but rather because I need the exposure. AND I have a few points for the two front runners, Eastern Establishment rich boys, to ponder as on election night they watch me trounce them at the ballot box. The mighty Load of Crap (still not an acronym) party is gaining in momentum and strength working that grassroots groundswell that cries for an honest man to run the nation and defeat the insidious nation of Monaco. I am that man. As before I restate the fact that when I am elected by write in majority, winning both the popular vote and the electoral college I will sell myself to the highest bidder to ensure (guarantee; not the old folks drink) that I will be set for life, before turning myself to the problems that beset us. The first of which is the corruption of our fine gambling establishments by that monarchist dictator in Monaco. Back to the debate issue; I want to debate them who think they are qualified to run the country because number one I don't understand how people who have never known a days hunger, except for when the maid didn't make it to the store, can say that they can relate to them they'd rule. How is it that professional politicians have replaced the citizen statesman? When did we, the ones on whose backs the nation is supported, become nothing more than a herd to be swayed by slick "Madison Avenue" campaigns also developed by people with high six figure incomes? The three opponents of mine, together control a net worth bordering on a billion bucks (if not more) while it would take a city full of average citizens to control even a tenth of that. That is an average city where people are living paycheck to paycheck because the price of gasoline has wiped out their savings and the price of labor in Bangladesh (0.17 per hour) has wiped out their jobs. So what is it that qualifies the three candidates for president to be able to relate; fuel for the campaign jets alone equal a year's salary for three people; Baah baaah baah, (that is the sound of sheep being led to the shearing shed not the sound of Scrooge at Christmas), what is it that most people in this country have left to give? We get a puny tax rebate and the governors of the several states find a way to raise "fee's" to take it away or Wal-Mart, the user of that Bangladeshi labor lowers prices again to give them who have no job a break then raising them again when the "rebates" are spent. I find that to be a bit of a quandary, the earths largest retailer, paying low wages with limited benefits for a few (none for most) employing seventeen cent an hour labor to give them who have been displaced by that labor a price break. I have previously stated that the candidates should all have to go to work for that retailer, and not in the corporate office suite but rather as the guy in the parking lot who gathers the shopping carts. I don't care as much about the war records of the three candidates as much as I care about their work records. I have cleaned toilets for a living; have they? I have worked minimum wage jobs trying to support a life; have they? I can trace my social security taxes back to when I was fourteen; can they? Before that I was hustling money by cutting lawns and shoveling snow; did they have to do any of that? I spent better than a decade working two jobs for a combined total of greater than seventy hours a week, jobs that involved sitting down only during breaks and lunch, have they ever? I think the answer is no, I may be wrong but I doubt it. I think that is why they all have become professional politicians; beyond the benefit package, they never had to have swollen tired feet; swollen tired rumps maybe but never the feet. And the economy is why I want a debate with them who think they can lead us. The economy sucks. (That is a period at the end of that statement.) Everyone I meet who is not either very well off or a professional politician is feeling not a pinch but rather a squeeze from a twenty four inch pair of slip joint pliers. The current leader has had one of his minions shilling for the new overtime rules. These rules are from the same department that wants to quantify a McDonald's burger flipping job as a manufacturing position. I know that a hamburger is technically manufactured when you add bun and pickles, mustard and catsup (Heinz) but is it really a job that replaces say one of the million auto, steel, machine tool, textile or, furniture manufacturing jobs that have been exported to; heck I don't know; take your pick, Mexico, Viet Nam, Thailand, China, Africa? So yes I do want to debate my opponent in this election, G.W. Kerry-Nader we the Load of Craps, have some points for you to ponder that seem to have been pushed to the wayside in the debate over your war records and stupid advertisements. Thirty years ago is to long of a time to dredge up unless you're a historian, I want to know how you are relevant to today. How are you going to protect our gambling industry and its massive work force? How are you going to protect all those retail employees who have jobs with Wal-Mart (by the by remember they are already using imported illegal immigrants to clean some stores, displacing even more citizens of this country.) How are you going to make medications for an aging population affordable, so granny doesn't have to choose between eating and medicating? How are you going to make an even playing field, where the citizens of this country are not subsidizing them in another country? (You do know we subsidize prescription drugs for every other nation on earth don't you?) And finally as a point in the debate I want to know why they have made death a goal? Why is it that people now look forward to the time when they die so they can say "whew, I made it and now the problems belong to rest of humanity." In conclusion let me once again thank you for writing me in on every line of your ballot, together we will not only ensure (guarantee; not the old folks drink) my future, but yours as well. Well maybe not yours but mine anyway heck one out of three hundred million ain't bad. ------------ About the author: Mark C. Durfee is an independent conservative liberal hedonist Christian Bhuddist deveotee of Krishna who follows no crowds and who thinks that the Viagra commercial with Freddy Mercury singing while a bunch of men dance is funny. His novels are nothing like his articles and they cannot be found at Barnes and Noble or Walden books, Amazon.com or your local independent bookstore because he has not been discovered. His favorite saying is "Duck!!! That drive-by may have your name on it!" Email: mcd5255@hotmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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