If you've been listening only to the national US Media outlets you have probably not heard that Gov. Gary Johnson is running for President this election cycle along with Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. Jill Stein of the Green Party is also a national candidate for President, as is Virgil Goode of the Conservative Party.
Gary Johnson will possibly be on all 50 state's ballots as a choice(as well as the District of Columbia) and at LEAST 48 state's ballots, if the litigation to keep him off the ballot by the Republican Party in 2 states is successful. He is being challenged in Michigan and Oklahoma by those state's Republican Parties because the Republican Party is scared of losing too many votes to him. Isn't it nice how the Reps and Dems use the very deep pockets of their national committees to pay lawyers to challenge and exclude viable candidates of other parties off state ballots?
The Democrat National Committee and the Republican National Committee have succeeded so far in keeping Gov. Johnson out of the Presidential Debates, which are controlled by a private corporation founded and staffed by ex-DNC and ex-RNC executives.
The last thing THEY want is an opposing voice in the debates and competition for votes at the polls on November 6th.
We live in a Political Duopoly folks. The RNC and DNC control the process and limit your choice of who you can vote for in ALL elections in any way they can. One way is by controlling the media and keeping it from informing the public about having a choice OTHER than Romney or Obama.
Anyway, I digress.....
This post is about Why I Like Gary Johnson and Why I'd Prefer to See Him as President of the U.S. over either "Obamney" candidate. ;-)
1--Gary Johnson is NOT a career politician. He is an "Outsider".
I agree with the Founding Fathers, in that they did NOT feel our government should be staffed by men who spent their working lives employed as politicians in Washington DC. No, look back, waaaay back into our history. Our government use to be staffed with regular men who took time off from their lives and occupation to serve and then left and went back to their 'regular lives'. Granted, many of those men were LAWYERS in regular life(and none of them were FEMALE), but that's a rant for another time. ;-)
Now we only have career politicians.....career politicians who are rich, because you can't get elected to office in this country anymore unless you have a millionaire's volume of money to run a campaign. It's VERY easy to exclude anyone without vast financial resources out of politics nowadays. No wonder the only people who seek/attain high government office are among the 1% in this country! This is NOT representative of the bulk of our citizens.
Did you know every face on Mt. Rushmore was a political outsider when they ran for President? So don't think someone who isn't part of the "current" establishment CAN'T run this country.....they have run, they have won and they have done a good job!
Gary was a small business owner. He served 2 terms as Governor of New Mexico, then he left and went back to his life. He is running for President because he feels he is called to do so and there is a need for our country to go in a new direction.
Every time the media runs a poll about limiting political terms, the majority of the public thinks it's a very good idea. So why do these same polled people keep voting in the same old politicians and parties every election? You tell me because it boggles my mind!
I know Ross Perot ran as an outsider, non-politician in 1992.....because I voted for him too......so go ahead and blame Clinton on me. lol Ross Perot has some good ideas but he wasn't "Presidential" material in my book. He was a genius business man but he lacked political depth. Plus his running mate, Gen. Stockdale, was akin to Joe Biden.....someone who was clueless about politics and someone NOBODY wanted to see ascending to the Presidency in a crisis!
2--Gary Johnson has climbed Mt. Everest. Actually I don't care that he's climbed a mountain.//except that it's a metaphor for living your life and not backing down from challenges.
He's also run Iron Man marathons and other athletic pursuits. It just shows that there are other sides to him, like you and me. He's not "just" a politician and it's not the only thing in his life. Plus he's pretty hot for a man of his age...have you seen him in a pair of bike shorts yet? ;-)
3--Gary Johnson is fiscally conservative and wants to keep the Government out of your wallet. He is for smaller government. Less bureaucracy....less LAYERS of bureaucracy that adds to your tax bill but doesn't make any programs you pay for operate any better. Plus he believes the government(your tax money)shouldn't be funding certain programs.
Neither Dem or Rep Candidate wants smaller government. Both are all about big government spending....they just want to spend YOUR money on different things or in different ways, but they still want as much of your money as they can possibly get their hands on.
4--Gary Johnson is socially accepting and wants to keep the Government our of your bedroom. He is far and away more tolerant and socially accepting than the Dems and their candidate. Don't agree, go check out the Dems record on civil liberties. Johnson wants LGBT citizens to enjoy the same rights as Hetero citizens. He wants to end the War on Drugs, end the current debacle of Immigration Policy, repeal of the Patriot Act and end the Police State that our Government has created. Those drones being used in Afghanistan? Wanna bet they'll be coming to YOUR neighborhood in the near future to spy on you as part of the excuse that it's part of the Government's War on Terror/Homeland Security?
5--Gary Johnson is going to work to force the Government to balance the budget. We are on our way to an economic collapse if things keep going as they are now. Gary Johnson vetoed more Government spending bills in 2 terms than every other Governor in this country combined did! 750 line item vetoes. He's serious about cutting the waste in government....it's not just lip service.
6--Gary Johnson advocates for the elimination of the IRS and the Federal Tax System. He plans to replace it with the Fair Tax System. Think about having your ENTIRE paycheck instead of what you get after the Government gets it's hands on your wages! Think about a tax system without all the loopholes for special interest groups both private and corporate. Think about a tax system that will essentially hand a pink slip to the Washington DC lobbyists culture. Think about a tax system that can fully fund necessary social programs and cost the working man and woman less and doesn't take from both the front end of your wages AND the back end.
I'm going to do a post on the FAIR TAX soon but until then, if you want to read up on it, go
HERE.
7--Gary Johnson will demand that the FEDERAL RESERVE be audited. Did you know that our money is NOT printed by our government, that instead it is printed by a privately held bank? The Fed is NOT a governmental agency, it is a private bank doing business with the Federal government. Did you know no one is allowed to see the books of the Fed outside of the board of directors? So our country is beholdened to a private, secretive company but has little control over it?
It's all more complicated than this but basically Money is created in a Closed Loop system and is loaned to the Government which has to pay interest on this money to the privately held banks. The interest is paid by us taxpayers in more taxes. Between the Government debt and our debt, the bankers are raking in the wealth and we all get poorer and poorer and our government goes further into debt. Go check on one of the many Youtube videos explaining our banking system and try NOT to panic!
8--Gary Johnson has serious experience running things. Not only did he grow and run a successful contractor business, but he successfully ran the state of New Mexico for 8 years and left office more popular then he was when he began. He also left the state with better better bottom line, a greatly improved infrustructure and more efficient state programs and bureaucracy. And he did this all without raising taxes OR laying off state workers.
Governors historically have made some of the best Presidents in this country. The skill set a governor needs is similar to that of what a president needs. We need to start looking closer at state Governors as potential Presidential candidates! A good Governor possesses the leadership to be a Statesman and the business acumen to oversee and run our country like a successful business.
9--Gary Johnson believes in a smaller presence outside of our borders. No more occupying foreign lands indefinitely and jumping into wars outside of our shores. Get out of Iraq and Afghanistan and bring the troops home NOW! Stop perpetuating the US Military Complex and spending enough on war and rebuilding countries we destroy, when we could take that same amount of money and feed every single person in American, every day. Why do we have enemies all over the world? Because we have become the world's bully in the guise of friendship and help. We always know what's best for everyone....just like our European forefathers knew what was best for the native peoples in America. And you all know how it turned out for the Native Americas in that contest!
10--Gary Johnson wants to end the War on Drugs. It's been a disaster and a failure. All that money wasted on nonsense. Didn't we learn anything from Prohibition in the 1920's? Look at what making alcohol illegal did for us......caused a rise in the Mafia in this country and untold deaths from unsafe bootlegged booze. Legalize marijuana and control it like those other drugs, alcohol and tobacco. This would make it safer for the general public and get it out of the hands of organized crime elements. Not to mention being able to grow hemp in this country. This cash crop with many applications has been banned in this country for decades due to the DEA's zero tolerance for any product related to Cannabis(and the Wood Pulp lobby which is scared of some competition). We are missing an opportunity to grow our hemp economy both at home and on the world stage due to this crazy policy stance by our government.
11--Gary Johnson believes in truly Free Markets. Before you tell me
we live in a society/country with Free Markets I will tell you that what
you think is a Free Market is not. We live in a country of Crony
Capitalism. There is no real open market of goods and services. We are
led to believe it is, but we are spoon fed only what the "Powers That
Be" want us to have....limited choices. Especially when it comes to
political choices in elected leaders, like Presidents and Congress persons.
A truly Free Market will give rise to
true price competition which will drive prices down. Imagine having
medical service's costs advertised and being able to comparison shop for
medical services. Did you know that 150 yrs or so ago we DID have this
kind of competition and free market?! Back before we had a third party(insurance companies) involved in the exchange of services between provider(doctor) and customer(patient) which led to prices charged skyrocketing.
This photo and caption is for SonyaAnn......lolz
12--Gary Johnson makes common sense. Go ahead.....go listen to Johnson. Google his name or search on it on YouTube. Go
HERE. Then go listen to Romney and Obama. Then tell me which one makes more sense.....which one actually SAYS something you understand and believe in and isn't just "talking the talk" to get elected.
Feel free to agree with me or not. I'm just trying to get people to wake up and THINK about the choices they make next month when they vote. Do some research and look at the candidates' track records.
An informed decision is the best decision.
Sluggy
"Live Free!"
