Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Should I Sell mine for nothing?

Massive props to my mother's cousin Delores, who sent this in an e-mail:
NOTE: the reference to www.politifact.com is something I added in.
I have something valuable that I do not wish to sell. I have not listed it on Craig’s List nor put an ad in the paper. Yet every day I am bombarded by those who wish to buy it. Even foreign corporations are using the Chamber of Commerce as a go-between to purchase what I have. Some of the buyers introduce themselves but most do not. Why they want to remain anonymous I do not know. I feel no shame in possessing this asset yet there must be some shame associated with BUYING one.

As you may have guessed, it is my vote that everyone wants to buy. The funny thing is that if I were willing to sell it I would not receive anything for it. Where all this money goes I do not know but I do know that the seller doesn’t receive anything.

Perhaps you also have been approached in this way. If you simply accept the buyers’ word for how your vote should be cast then you are both lazy and a fool. Do foreign corporations REALLY want what is best for YOU? Do anonymous strangers? Why would they?

You can find out the truth about what they say by simply going to places such as FactCheck.org, or poltifact.com. You can check on someone’s voting record at VoteSmart.org. Or you can simply sell your vote and then complain about the results of having done so.

Thank God for giving us brains. Pray that everyone uses theirs to know what they are voting for - what is true and what is not.

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