Published: October 10, 2008 10:05 pm      

DAY: Think before casting vote

We need to take care of our own, first

It seems that I opened some eyelids with my columns about our coming election. I guess that something just needed to be said to start others to take a closer look at what we, the people, will inherit come the year 2009.

We have both parties making moves in order to bring the vote their way. One side says we need to stand our ground in the wars we are a part of, and the other says we need to pull out.

However, if you take a little while to just listen to what is being said, you will come up with a complete withdraw by 2011. That means that we will continue to spend our hard-earned money overseas instead of feeding our people right here in this country.

I personally want to see an end of the two wars so that we can get our great men and women back home where they belong. However, I don’t want to see our military force reduced or even done away with as one of the candidates says he will do.

We need our military right here in the good old USA and use them all around our borders to show all others that we are strong and we will defend our country without any hesitation or fear. We can be the sleeping giant ready to take down any one who tries to take us over. Our National Guard can be used to handle the places here in the states that need them in case of fire, wind or water problems.

In the last eight years, we have thrown caution to the winds via our man in charge, and we go into countries either to fight or to feed those that live there. Folks, we have many places that need our money right here in America. We have a terrible health program where you pay for prescription coverage but get none because you fell into the doughnut hole.

You pay for the coverage and also for the prescriptions after you reach a certain price paid by you and the plan. Now, does that make any sense to you?

We have several pharmacies helping us out with the $4 dollar plan, and that is a big help. Our doctors are limited to charging a price that is acceptable to Medicare, and as you can see, there are many of the doctors leaving the practice. We here in the United States need a health-care system that will benefit the patient and keep our good doctors in practice.

We need to tell our people in Washington that the change we want is that we come first. We don’t want to throw our money away, feeding and clothing a nation that, as soon as they are strong enough, will attack us. We need to stop selling our country to the foreigners.

One day we will wake up and find we are bankrupt, under the big hand of an enemy who took us down without a shot.

We need to tell those who think of Americans as infidels that we don’t need them here. The USA is a country that fought for its freedom. We started a country under God, with rights that other countries do not have. Our Bill of Rights and our Declaration of Independence is our platform of government, and those wonderful signers were God-loving men.

Our country is strong with those who want to keep it that way. We proved in both the world wars that we will protect what is ours, and our brave men and women are ready to stand up and show anyone that what is ours will stay ours.

Bless all those men and women who gave their lives so that we might remain free. However, the two wars we are in now have nothing to do with us, as it is only a man in power putting us in peril.

Let’s take care of our own before giving our money away. Those are the reasons that, come Election Day, we need to use our heads as we vote. It is your choice.

Ray “Uncle Ray” Day of Kokomo is

a weekly contributor to the Kokomo Tribune. He can be reached by e-mail at uncleray@earthlink.net.