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I come from a one high school town that had 82 students in the senior class the year I graduated. I went into the service and never got back home; but the old saying is true, "You can take a boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy."
So much for my qualifications.
We have some pretty obvious problems with our government. I will not submit a laundry list here because I am limited to 1000 words.
We have two political parties. One that advocates a continuation of the policies that created the problems and one that advocates change and is specific about how that change should come about.
I don't care if the candidates own seven houses or if they are black, purple, or are from mars. I do care about the future of this country. The issues are crystal clear, more of the same or go in a new direction.
I am mystified by the voters in this "enlightened" country that can not see the importance of issues over personality.
If we have another eight years of the same, I'm afraid it might be Mexico and Canada with the immigration problem, but perhaps that's been foreseen and the fence is going up to keep us in.
