Top ten things that make me want to dance with joy!
- Smaller, less intrusive government at all levels. Less government equates to less rules in our lives
- Decreasing tax rates and the all out elimination of some taxes
- Legislation which incentivizes new business upstarts and established businesses expanding into the Mountain State; the right to choose to be or not to be in a labor union
- Bipartisan policy initiatives which unify, not divide the masses; rare as they may be
- Teacher focussed reforms, but only after student focussed educational reforms that actually prepare our students for life
- Being able to live my life in freedom and without fear; government which sets the conditions for me to pursue happiness on my own terms
- The freedom to carry the personal protection weapon of my choice when and where I desire for the protection of my family and those around me
- The freedom to keep more of what I earn (see bullet comment number two above) and the choice of where and when to donate to causes in my community
- The freedom to discuss my personal opinions on faith and politics
- The freedom to do what I want on my own private property as long as it does not infringe upon the rights of others
Top ten things that tend to make my head hurt and blood pressure increase!
- Self-entitled, able-bodied people who think government's job is to provide for their happiness
- When government confiscates my earnings and redistributes to able-bodied, non-productive people who did not earn it
- When public sector (read taxpayer funded) employees get across-the-board payraises instead of merit pay increases based on individual productivity, work ethic, and positive measurable results
- Elitists who look down their noses at the rest of us and tell us we need to re-elect them so they can fix our problems; problems they themselves caused with their misguided ideas
- Social justice "warriors" who strive for subjective "justice" for SOME at the expense of others, instead of equal justice for ALL at the expense of none
- The brainwashing that caused good people to think it is somehow a good thing to take the lives of innocent babies in the womb
- People who, under the guise of "saving the planet" try to run off nearly every business that considers moving to our community
- Jackasses who will praise the criminal elements within our community while demonizing our law enforcement community
- People who subscribe to and demand the Karl Marx economic model, even while making their livelyhood in a free market economic model
- Mislead and brainwashed people who use their First Amendment right in daily attempts to infringe upon their own Second Amendment right