[Gathnet] Comments on the choices we have before us.

[stuart gathman]

Dear Gathnetters,

I have been able to not comment on the upcoming election until now. I am 
not happy with the way Bush handled the open border problem nor the bail 
out of banks etc. Certainly anyone would not want to continue with these 
misguided policies. I am not a fan of McCain either.... I was originally 
planning to vote for a third party until I saw what Barak Obama believes 
and plans for America. Indeed He is a masterful speaker (with video 
prompters). You all should look a some of the speeches of Adolf Hitler. 
He also was a masterful socialist speaker. He even wrote his “vision” 
for Germany and world in “Mein Kampf” and yet the German people, being 
in a bad financial situation, voted for this man in a perfectly 
legitimate way. He also had the leftist brown shirts using the streets 
to further his “will”. I am not saying that Obama is a Hitler, yet there 
are some very disturbing similarities.

Fortunately, Obama when talking without his teleprompter has let us know 
what he really thinks. The very idea of “sharing the wealth” comes right 
out of Marx. The Socialists all use this as a battle cry but in every 
case where it was tried, it turns out to be a sharing of poverty. I 
don't know how many of you have been in Marxist countries but I have. My 
most persistent memory is from a grandmother sitting on a dirty blanket 
with a pile of beans about 6 inches high which she was selling at the 
market to try to get cash. She wasn't the only one, there were many many 
more. This was in Tanzania while they were under a pure Marxist 
government. I also had a number of Russian friends who were scientists 
in the state laboratories in the years before Reagan. They had the story 
of “They pretend to pay us while we pretend to work”.. Thus unnecessary 
poverty for all. Some of course did work because of their character. I 
remember especially the international meeting in Canberra Australia. One 
of the Russian special speakers gave a masterful talk which I thought 
was Biblically Scientifically and Morally Great. However, this poor man 
was surrounded with a group of about 6 thugs. When he left the 
auditorium to go to the bathroom, all of the thugs went with him. He 
couldn't do anything with out these thugs watching him. It was awful. 
(Obviously, the thugs were too stupid to know what he was speaking about 
during his talk in English.)

I can't imagine why anyone would with their eyes open give any power to 
a socialist especially with a one party congress. What ever happened to 
the old Democratic Party who believed in the constitution and freedom etc.?

I have a reading assignment for any of you who are considering voting 
for Obama..... Read “Animal Farm” again.

I spent my whole working career working for bureaucrats in the 
Government. Indeed the major problem with Government run programs is 
that bad apples in the line of command are usually let to continue or 
are booted upstairs to get rid of them. In private business, they are 
out! I had a small physical problem while in the UK once and made the 
mistake of going to the “free” hospital for care. What a laugh! Same 
thing when we experienced the FEMA “care” here when we were evacuated 
from our home. Again, what a laugh. The only thing that helped here for 
our neighbors who did loose their homes was the local church.

Anyway, to avoid such possibilities here is that I guess we have to vote 
McCain.

Love, der alt Grossvater