Voting For The Greater Good

Posted by Lorren on October 18, 2008

I was reading some comments on a web site about Joe the Plumber, and I was concerned… it said something like “if those plumbers don’t make $250,000, they should vote for Obama.”

Since when is voting all about what we can get now? Shouldn’t we be voting for the greater good?

There’s a lot more at stake than what will happen to us as individuals in the next election. The president affects what happens to everybody, and the consequences can last a very long time. If you like paying social security taxes for the social security that you will never personally see, for example, you can thank Franklin Roosevelt for that.

What about the millions of babies that are killed every day in the name of choice? What about the babies that survive abortions but are thrown in biohazard bags and placed on top of the roof to die, like baby Shanice?

What about the education of millions of school children? If you don’t send your kids to public school, or if you don’t have kids, should you be concerned at all? While I do think that there are problems with the public schools, I think that we should keep them in mind, even if it doesn’t directly affect us.

But back to plumbers that make less than $250,000 a year. Should they strictly have their own interests in mind? Shouldn’t we think of things like the national debt, terrorism, and whether businesses will actually be able to hire more employees because they won’t be taxed to death? Should we care about whether businesses move their jobs overseas?

Perhaps if everyone voted for the greater, long-term good, rather than for what they can get from the government for the next four years, we’d be a little less frustrated with what was going on in our country now.