Today is Election Day!!! Americans all over... well, America got off their butts and went to vote! A lot of states are going red. I don't think I've seen WI or MI red ever in my few years which is very cool. It's definitely about time. NEVERTHELESS..... just because there is a Republican trend right now doesn't mean they're going to completely save this country or make all the difference. They're just maybe the lesser of two evils or (on a more positive note) more likely to head us in the right direction.
Hopefully some things like repealing of the health care bill and downsizing the "super-size me" government. AND... a million other things.
It's been great to see a lot of my facebook friends voted (facebook had a little application that allowed you to say that you voted and tallied up all the fb votes). There have also been some great status' and posts... and I will share some of them with you.
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government"
- Thomas Jefferson
“Duty is ours, the results are God's.” -John Quincy Adams
"In 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, noticed a continuing pattern in the advance and decline of the world's democracies.
He stated then that a democracy would continue to exist until such time that the voters discover that they can literally vote themselves gifts from the public treasury. From the moment that revelation is made, the majority proceeds to vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury. The final result is that every democracy finally collapses due to loose fiscal policy. That collapse is always followed by a dictatorship.
Tyler charted the ages of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history... an average existence of about two hundred years. Every single time, these nations progressed through the following sequence:
from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; and finally from dependence back into bondage."
--- snippet from the book "The Heart Mender", by Andy Andrews
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Hooray for election day! :D Go Republicans! It is an exciting time!
Btw- I really like both of the videos you posted! The Chinese one is very interesting. You have to wonder if that will be like America in some years.
Also! The second video! I think that was one of their best videos yet! I really like the martial art aspect they through in there! I remember at the conference Dan was talking about that kind of stuff when we were eating Chinese! :D Lol!
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