Poll

I get a call about a poll regarding the November Election almost daily. I don't always answer the home phone when I see out of state numbers, but I answer everything that goes to my cell.

Got a call tonight on the home phone during dinner. I answered since I had already mailed my ballot thus making my answers firm and to the point, but the poll wasn't of that variety where you press 1 for "x," press 2 for "y," but rather an actual person with real questions. I didn't hang up or anything when I was on the phone longer than I anticipated, for I understand that this guy is being paid to make calls. I'm unemployed, so I wonder if the polling person will have a job in a month. Anyways, they ask questions about whether I or a family member belongs to a union, media outlet or other misc. subgroup that doesn't have independent thought followed by whether I had a political blog.

This isn't a political blog, seeing that I'm cynical and have no traffic coming through here for anything beyond random searches for "crotchless jeans" or "jalapeno crunch burger," but I do live in Ohio and have opinions about things.

I have the hardest time seeing how anyone could be excited to re-elect President Obama. His most readily available "proud" accomplishments are essentially continuation of things that Bush had started.

Bush cut "loans" to GM to keep them afloat, and Mr. Obama finished the deal.
Bush "tortured" prisoners at Gitmo, and Mr. Obama used the info to track couriers which lead to invading Pakistan to assassinate Usama Bin Laden.
Bush gave Medicare Part D to seniors, while Mr. Obama had Affordable Healthcare Act for everyone that had pre-existing conditions.

Those aren't things that really do me any good. I just want to work and the job market is way too competitive to make a living wage since most places consider minimum wage to be a good "entry level" salary where warm bodies are aplenty. Unfortunately, childcare costs more than said jobs pay. There are a lot of jobs that are being held up by Mr. Obama's administration such as the Keystone Pipeline that will generate new cash flow, but nobody mentions them. Mr. Obama only talks about adding teachers, policemen, and fire fighters which are all hired by local governments which don't have revenue to spend on new positions given rising costs of healthcare and pensions.

Also, Amazon is still siphoning sales taxes away from states like Ohio which leads to state budget cuts in the public sector which is where my profession tends to be found.

I imagine that Romney's being a former Governor gives him the insight to have the Federal Government pass laws that would benefit the State Government without making the States dependent on Bailouts from the Fed to hire teachers, fire fighters and policemen.

I already voted, and I voted for change. I hope to be hired somewhere soon.