Where's Ross Perot When You Need Him?

Remember back a few elections when there was a short, loud, proud independent guy causing a ruckus? Ever stop and think that he was exactly what this country needed? And still needs?

Ross Perot may not have had the “Presidential look” per say, but he had all the right answers to all the questions. He could have balanced the budget, and our economy would be flourishing right now. He was a very smart business man that knew how to handle money, even on a large scale. The man, back then, was worth 4 billion dollars. He made that money on his own, and budgeted his money with prestine accuracy. This country is a business. This world is a business. And we passed up on a president that could run this business effectively, with a huge profit.

But we passed on him. Which isn’t really that shocking when Clinton and Bush Sr. has/had a lot of experience in the ways of governing, either local, state or on a federal level. It’s hard to contend with that. But then, during the 92′ debates, Perot slapped them both in the face with the greatest “smack” to ever come out of a debate.

ROSS PEROT: “I don’t have any experience in running up a $4 trillion debt. I don’t have any experience in gridlock government, where nobody takes responsibility for anything and everybody blames everybody else.” http://www.pbs.org/newshour/debatingourdestiny/dod/1992-broadcast.html

Words so true, that it sent a shiver down the spines of the other two candidates. Ross Perot had them by the cajones on that issue. A man with an overabundence of common sense and business sense, with great plans for this country to bring us back to a world economical giant (more so than we already were/are).

But we said nay. We let the last chance for “Change”, in a long time, slip through our fingers. He could have and would have stood up against the political robots and made changes for the betterment of the USA.

On the issue of war and foreign relations, he had that down too. He believed that you don’t stick your nose in other people business unless it was effecting your own. You don’t go to war without the approval from the people. Congress should not be the deciders when it comes to what effects the people. Congress is corrupt with everyones hand in each others wallets, and they don’t have the people of America in mind when making decisions.

Perot was a great man that sadly, was before his time.

Real Change

I am willing to actually make an honest attempt at running in 2020, which I will address on a future date. Whether that sounds silly or not, we the people are responsible for this country.

The ones that are regurgitated to the forefront ever 4 years by this ridiculous 2 party system of ours, are not of the people, by the people nor are they for the people. These political suits are there to make money and that's it. The common man is not in their best interest.

Obama's slogan of "Change" would stand a little bit taller had he picked someone not in his party affiliation. If you are going to "Change" this country, you have to start with the people inside. Recycling the same politicians in and out of major government offices is not "Change".

McCain is the same thing, but he did a little different. He actually went for the bold move of picking a VP that is not a complete Washington tool. Palin knows very little about a lot of things when it comes to foreign relations, economy on a grand scale, or pretty much anything else for that matter. Though she is inept in a lot of areas, she would bring a fresh, new, non clouded view of our flawed government system. But this is still not enough "Change" since she is already in the political drowning pool.

It is regular Joe people like us that need to make a stand and actually "Change" this country. As long as the upper 1% have control, us down here in the middle class will continue to suffer.

So this brings me to a question.

"Does experience really matter?" Lets break this down, shall we?

On one hand, we feel comfortable when a candidate or someone already in a high office, that has experience dealing with certain issues like economics, foreign police and health care. It's good to know that someone knows how to handle situations.

On the other hand, the past three presidential elections (including this year), we have been left with deciding the "Lesser of Two Evils". And one of the most common things you will hear gathered around your water cooler at work or on a blog online, is "We need an "Average Joe", middle classed citizen to run for president". So someone does, and the first thing out of everyone's mouth is, "He doesn't have any experience!".

So what's it going to be people? The same two people/parties every 4 years or finally allow someone in the Oval Office with a conscience, heart and love for your fellow man? Experience is gained by doing, not by being somewhere. You bring in an "Average Joe" with some knowledge and understanding of common sense, he/she learns as they go certain ways to handle things. And I am certain that if a middle classed commoner was in the Oval Office, he/she would bring a completely new aspect to how things should be done. Because lets face it, whats been done the past 80 years isn't working.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein.

We need a fresh, non political robot to make a "Change". We need an "Average Joe" to slap Capitol Hill in the face and remind them that this nation was founded on 3 simple things. Of the people, by the people and for the people.

Economy Crisis Solution

Welcome to my first blog post. Yay! Go me! The idealistic, overjoyed, happy go lucky, internet user, that wants to post his/her thoughts and feelings about certain things that he/she feels needs addressed.

Well. No need to continue the suspense. Here we go!

Is it really that hard to correct this depleting economy? We all have those words burned into our sponge-like brains, "700 Billion Dollar Bailout". Do we really have to spend money to make money? 9 times out of 10, yes. The first step in any business, and America IS a business, is you have to buy something in order for your product to even reach the production line. This is that 1 in 10 times that you don't. The money we need to fix this "crisis", if you will, is already in the system. It's just not going to where it needs to go.

Our government spends billions upon billions of dollars every year on research that is not needed. Funding projects that really have no beneficial outcome that would constitute any real meaning for the project, and or, give back in what was given to them. If the government would stop wasting our tax dollars on silly projects and research that is irrelevant to the people and to our society as a whole, we could use those billions of dollars to bring back this economy. And if we continue to starve these useless projects, our economy will bounce back up into a surplus. Instead of the tax payers and other countries having to pay for this 700 billion dollar "bailout", our own money that's already accounted for will cover the cost in just a few years. Once that is paid off, then those billions of dollars would go into our deficit. Our dollar would actually be worth a dollar again.

With the deficit where its at, as of right now that totals $10,128,542,109,245.01 (and it's gone up a lot more by the you even got to this sentence), it will take a while for this to go down. But with billions of dollars feeding it, plus with the economical increase, this number will slowly but surely come down. This is not a fast solution, but it is the most effective, sure fire solution.

Are you sitting here nodding your head in agreement? Please tell me you are. I would hope that this idea doesn't come across as "radical" or some type of "whacko", theory. It makes too much sense to me.

But then again, since when was "sense" used on Capitol Hill?