Iowa Straw Poll Indicates Radical Shift

The ultra-conservatives among the Republican presidential candidates seem to be gaining an upper hand. Michelle Bachmann took first place in Iowa’s Ames Straw Poll, an early unofficial vote to determine where the candidates stand.

• Michelle Bachmann 28%
• Ron Paul 27%
• Tim Pawlenty 13%
• Mitt Romney 3%
• Rick Perry 3%

The message of “no more Obama” can be heard loud and clear from every candidate but the most important message we tax payers wont to hear is HOW are things going to improve with one of these candidates as president?

Through all the rhetoric, I have not heard one solid hint at a plan to turn this nations woes around.

Anybody can get in front of a crowd of people who are demanding “Obama must go” and yell to the crowd that “Obama must go” and get cheers. But this does not result in anything to improve our situation.

So far the record of ‘accomplishments’ touted by each of these candidates have only been tested in very small scale arenas. It is doubtful that what they bring to the table will result in wide spread improvement for the country.

Rick Perry claims he holds the ‘magic key’ to put people back to work based on what has happened on his watch as Texas governor. But a close examination shows that the increase in  employment in his state has been in low-paying jobs, and have come as a result of deregulation and painful cuts in social spending. Put this on the national stage and his ‘plan’ will be to allow special interests to write their own rules, hire corporate lobbyists to oversee corporations, and cut funding for programs that would create opportunity for middle class families. How is this a real improvement to the US tax payer. This will result in more wealth going to the upper class which is the basically the same plan all of these candidates will follow.

We Americans have become the servant class to world corporations. Not one Republican will do anything to improve that situation.

Americans are not asking for a bigger federal government to ‘take care’ of our every need. We need the assistance of corporations working with the federal government – because this is where all the money is.

America has become so dependent on corporations that we have become a corporate nation with politicians unable to get anything done without their financial backing. Why should all of that financial backing go to only the upper class when the middle class workers helped those very corporations succeed?

I’m not asking to ‘give away the farm’, I’m asking to recognize the contribution that the American worker has given this country and not just throw them away after they have been used up.

History has shown that many, many Americans will stay away from the polls next year. If you want the wave of rapidly rising ultra-conservatism to wash over this country then do as you have in the past, stay home and let others decide your future for you. Every individual vote does count. Get out and vote for someone in what ever party most closely matches what you would like to see for our future. Each of us is voting for more than just ourselves, we are voting for everyone. Please, don’t let us down.