Actually, my reasons are less about the tax issue and not even so much about experience, but pretty much reside with charactor and judgement and a prevailing mindset that I feel is contrary to everything this country was founded on. I don't care that he's black, I don't even care that he's a Democrat, I don't care that he's arrogrant or even that he disagrees with me because none of those things are very critical in my view on being a president... but in my eyes... the things that really do matter... the broader concepts that I believe make a good President... even if some of the choices turn out to be wrong... are at best lacking in the man and at worst are grave cause of concern to me.
But again, we can all have respectful disagreements. You can be passionate in your arguments and criticisms, and you can be 180 degree contrary to whatever I or someone else thinks is right in this world and it's okay. It's good that it happens. But being ignorant (and I don't mean that in the insulting way) of your very own beliefs is unexcusable in my book.
It's very hard to be a conservative. It's not cool, it's not hip. Everyone tries to paint you as some stuffy guy who wants to pollute the evironment and step on the backs of the poor and all the other regurgitated rhetoric. But those couldn't be any further from the truth. For instance, I don't hate the poor. But I don't believe in handouts. I believe in reaching out to those in real need, but not those who only find it easier to take that help rather than picking themselves up by their bootstraps and stuggle and claw their way to success. We recently attended a forum where Asian businessmen were discussing the ongoing disparity between African Americans and immigrant Asians. They sited that the reason Asians were able to succeed and prosper, despite a poor command of the English language, and some, not all, but some of the same prejudices, was because they work together and they work themselves ragged to succeed. And when they do, they open up to others in their community to join them. It was a very inspiring session.
I've hit on this many times in other posts. Our main issue in this country is that too many people have a sense of entitlement. When I first started in the financial industry, I started on the other side of it, on the sales side. I started my carreer as a financial planner. When I first got into it after college, I was working with Medicaid alternatives. I would go door to door in these poor neighborhoods trying to get them better health benefts through private alternatives which costed nothing. I was always surprised at how so many of these homes were filled with big tv's... the old 55" style RPTVs, statellite dishes, nice furniture, a cabinet full of liquor, and a car out front with $5k worth of rims on it. I'll be honest... I didn't and I still don't want to help them. I don't want to give, provide, lend, nothing-anything to people like that. I wanted and still do help people who live like they do in the small mobil home park not far from my neighborhood that's full of hard working folks who do all they can just to pay the bills. I've gotten them involved in community meetings and they've all very much worked hard to have a voice in city and county planning. Many of them are on welfare, but you don't see fancy cars in the driveway or dishes affixed to the home. They struggle everyday and those are the people I want to help.
I'm on a soapbox here going all over the place. It's been tough morning already. It's amazing how many things can go wrong here at the office. Since 6:30am it's been one thing after another.
