Saturday, October 25, 2008

Our Political Rant


So, we are almost a week away from the election and things are looking tight. There are many, many, many reasons as to why Obama should not be the next president of the United States of America, but the one we are going to rant about is that he is a socialist. He is a member of socialist parties (just google it if you don't believe me). It is public knowledge that his stance on issues are socialist. Socialism doesn't work. We are living in a socialist country. We are watching socialism at work first hand and it is not good.

Let's start off with universal health care. They have it here and it is awful. Everyone here says it is a joke and totally corrupt. There are incredibly long lines for treatment. There was an article in the paper about a lady who had a lump in her breast and was going to have to wait eight months to get a mammogram. They have 21.5% sales tax on everything and outrageous income tax. You would think being taxed like this would secure a good, cheap healthcare system. Think again. They still have to pay for healthcare if they ever get an appointment. If universal healthcare can't work in a small country with 4 million people, what makes you think it will work with a country of over 300 million people. The more a government gives you, the more they control you.

Many people are believing the lie that the rest of the world loves Obama so that is why he should be president. They think he will bring peace to the world. Not true again. The world is not in love with Obama, they are in love with a candidate that doesn't exist. The news here is worse than it is back home. We can't even watch it anymore. It makes us sick. The portrayal of Obama here is completely false. They don't talk about the issues. They just show a nice man who looks good on camera and can hold an audience's attention. They don't talk about all the sketchy stuff Obama has surrounding him. The people over here have no idea about his corruption. Just about every article and news story about McCain is in a negative tone. So much for objective journalism. If you go into the book stores here, the only books in the political section are about Obama, Clinton and other democrats. No wonder these people like Obama. They are brainwashed.

It is sad that this election has turned away from the issues. People are more concerned with who has the most hype around them or who is the most interesting. Instead of watching CNN or NBC to get your information about the candidates, find out for yourself. Look at the candidates voting records and see where they really stand on the issues. Its all out there as public records. Here is a great link to see if you line up with Obama on the issues. www.barackobamatest.com
Here are some other links that are very interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozFhWTfO8YQ -Who really is behind the economic crisis?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCz6dPpP9v8

Saturday, October 11, 2008

So, we haven't blogged in a while...

A lot has happened since Laura & I ate dinner at McDonalds... We worked and worked and worked some more, but Friday was our last official day working at Chapati Grill as full time managers. We decided to leave the hussle & bussle of the M-F, 7-6pm life and start seeing what this country looks like during the week! We are going to return & work here and there in between trips. We are also going to work other random temporary jobs along the way.

Today we celebrated by having a nice brunch with Helena & Richard at The Gresham Hotel in Dublin. Lucky for me it was a buffet style Irish Breakfast! Needless to say, I ate a weird amount of food. That was almost 12 hours ago now, and I still feel a little uncomfortable... but good. Anyway, later in the afternoon Tadhg took us to the K Club for a luxurious exhibit which consisted of a lot of looking but no buying. The K Club is a very nice golf club & apparently hosted the Ryder cup in 2006 I think.

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