Mr. Akins I want you to know I am excited the election is finally here! This is my first time to vote. In fact I may be the first person in history to vote before I get a driver’s license! I am waiting until the first week in December to finally take my driver’s test, but I am inspired to vote next week by many things. One is we have some good local candidates that will do a good job and I want to make sure I help them with my vote. One is all of the crazy behavior by people we hired in previous elections and my opportunity to tell them I think they need to pursue other career opportunities. A lot of my inspiration to vote comes from the ObamaCare and other tax and spend policies both around here and at the capital.
But my dad and I both think the most inspirational reason to vote this time is when President Obama explained the reason why he was going against what most of the American people wanted. Our whole family uses what the President said as kind of a joke every now and then. He said “we won.”
I was seventeen years old when he said that. I was raised by a dad who is a serious Republican and a mom who wants me to be a Democrat. My dad knew by my reaction to the “we won” comment that I was forever on his side. That one statement explained a bunch of stuff about politics to me. I had always wondered why things always stay the same around here. I now know.
You and the men and women at The Liberty Dispatch have done your part, now I will do my part Mr. Akins. Then we can tell these people why we are doing things different. It is simple Mr. President, “you lost.” Sorry mom.
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Keep up the good ideas and thoughts about positive change. There will be those who will constantly test us for weakness and limits. Those people will abuse the public trust for their own personal and financial ends. You are part of the next guardians of our freedom and rights. Be vigilant and be strong for your generation and those who will come after you.
Best wishes!
I agree Mr. Akins, this is an exciting time in History and Iam truly happy to be apart of the positive change in Liberty County and nationally.
Glad to see some of our younger people beginning to vote and that are able to see through some of these political SCAMS. Good story and you are on the right track.
Great Akins is now warping the minds of the next generation. This young lady needs to know the Democrats are for the people and the Republicans are for big business. It is the wealthy against the rest of us. Think for yourself.
Hahahaha! "Think for yourself" and become a Democrat? Polling indictes no significant difference in the wealthy supporting one party over another until you find out where the money the wealthy has comes from. Inherited or money that came to a wealthy person quickly - tend to be more for the Democratic Party. By the way unions and racial politics make up a great deal of the Democratic machine - that is hardly an indication of thinking independently.
This young person has it right. Obama said this weekend if you like what he has done vote Democrat,if you don't vote Republican.
Wake up, the democratic party of Harry Truman, JFK, that was for the working man is long since dead and gone. The Republican party is the conservative party. Voting for democrats now days is a leathal injection into the heart and soul of this country.
Hey "think for yourself" you need to heed that advise. The Demos tell you they are for "the people" but what part of tax and spend are you not getting? Unless republicans can reverse some of these narcisistic policies your president rammed down our throat,you will be feeling it for years to come! And I suppose you also like taking care of illegal's medical care and paying them to have babies? I can't even afford health care for myself now and if you have any, just wait. The cost is going up, if it hasn't already. These are just a few of the demo-policies on the surface, but there are many more hidden that will break America's back if not stopped. And the local political scene has always mirrored the national with one exception. It has always been democratic. I just hope the people "think for themselves" this election instead of listening to inuendo/BS and maybe we can take back our judicial system here!
It took Democrats in the House of Representatives 40 years to become out-of-touch and ge so liberal to get thrown out of office in 1994. It took 12 years for the Republicans who replaced them to abandon their principles and be repudiated in 2006. Now the current Democratic majority has lost voter confidence in only four years but that is simply because the voters never wanted what they were selling from the start - they just wanted change and to punish Republicans for not doing what they said. Now we are back to trying to elect serious Republicans (conservatives). Liberty County never has paid enough attention to how liberal the judges they have elected have been. they have been hard on a few criminals in high profile trials but they have been easy on crime in general AND THEY HAVE BUTCHERED THE CONSTITUTION.
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