Vote David Stewart 2008!!!

Are you fed up with all of this election nonsense?

Do you realize that your vote doesn't really matter anyway?

Vote David Stewart!

Post any questions you'd like to ask him about his policies, because I will be posting another video, in which he will answer them all. Leave your questions in comments or e-mail them to me.

Thank you for your consideration, and remember, slogans are pure propaganda.

Signing off,
Konasierri

Purity

Now, I'm not going to go on some religious rant about purity, as you might expect (those of you who don't know me). I believe in maintaining purity until marriage for other reasons entirely.

What I believe is that purity is something special. It is a gift you can give to only one person, and there will be one person some day that you wish you could have given it to. That person will be very special to you. You will never want to leave that person. So, you take vows (i.e. marriage) to eachother that you will always be together, just to make sure.

Don't you think this might be the time to give away that special gift, not to some teenager you hardly know in high school?

Just a thought,
Konasierri

Exporting Factories

So, I was thinking about U.S. businesses making factories outside of the United States, like the ones in Asia and South America.

Do any of you know what this means for us, the American workers?

In short, it means that there are little to no jobs left for us.

It means that corporations are making all of the money and saving big on cheap labor, while the middle class (i.e. the majority of U.S. citizens) are stuck desperately hunting down jobs that don't exist.

It means the only job you can find is at Walmart or McDonald's, unless you went to college. If you went to college, you can probably get a job as a marketing specialist, a real estate agent, or an accountant. Basically, you can help sell things to people and help people buy things made in other countries!

I'm sure many of you have heard someone say "America is a consumer nation", but do you know what this means? It's much worse than it sounds.

A consumer nation is a country that does not produce anything for export.

Let's say that an American shoe company called ShoePlus (made up name) has a factory in Cambodia. They do this because the only need to pay the Cambodian workers 10 cents an hour, and they'd have to pay American workers minimum wage and benefits. So ShoePlus saves a BOATLOAD of money on employees.

So they sell these products in the United States. American people give their money to ShoePlus, and Shoeplus gives a percentage of that to their Cambodian employees.

Go through that process again in your head. Do you see any money coming into the United States there? Any? Now you see any money leaving the United States?

You see that ShoePlus is taking American money and sending it to Cambodia. It's not a lot, though, right? Well, it adds up, especially with just about every corporation in America sending their factories elsewhere, not to mention the debt our nation is in already.

Now, if we are only buying and not producing and selling, and employment is dwindling, what to you think is going to happen to our economy?

How can we buy anything if we can't get a job?

Does anyone sense something catastrophic headed this way?

Anyway, that's enough for today,
Konasierri

Well....

This is the awkward stage between not having a blog and writing your opinions online....

I guess I'm supposed to introduce myself.....

Well, I'm an 18 year old female American citizen, and proudly so....

I live by the original principles of the United States. Rebellion, uprising, freedom... Beautiful things...

My hobbies are baking, reading, intelligent debate, babysitting, volunteering, political activism, and all that good stuff.

I like to study religion, politics, history, economy, and just about everything the majority of people ignore.

I'm lower-middle class, if even, and I dare blame the economic policies of the government.

I'm not sure why anyone would take the time out of their day to read my blog, or anyone's, for that matter, but to each their own....

Well, that's me,
Konasierri