The Cost

Price of gas: about three bucks, maybe more.

Price of income: around a third of what you make.

Price of freedom: whatever we sell it for.

The elections are ten days away, folks. Ten days. Are we really thinking about what will happen as a result of our choices? What the cost will be?

We have all these people promising to make things better. Maybe they can. Maybe they can't. If they do, though, what's the cost?

Is free healthcare worth the control the government gets? The taxes they impose? The regulations and restrictions they create? Is free stuff worth freedom? Is a promise of a better life that has been broken many times worth higher taxes and more corruption? What are you willing to risk in the name of hope?

Have you even considered what things will be like in ten, twenty, thirty years? And what you can do to influence it? What do you want? What do you want for your children and grandchildren, for yourself in retirement? What do you want for those you love?

These politicians can make promise after promise, but in the end, you decide what happens. Unless you give all of you're freedom away, but we're not quite there. Not yet.

Maybe they can give you all of your wildest dreams. But what will it cost you? Your family? Your friends? Your freedom?

Can it last?

Is it worth the cost?

I hope we thin of all of these things in ten days, and all days to come. I hope we use our heads, not our feelings or whims or the heat of the moment. I hope we really stop to think about things (before that becomes illegal). I hope we realize the truth, the implications, the cost of electing those who would lead us farther down the road we're on.

We have the power. It's in our hands to change the world. No offense to Harry Reid, but we're saving the world, down here in America. We go to work every day. We come home and feed our families. We work hard for the American dream, and we live it every day. We send our kids to school and pay taxes that fund who-knows-what and more. But why? We don't have to comply to the government's every wish. They comply to ours. Because in addition to all of those aforementioned other things we do, there is one more, very important thing. Look out, Democrats.

We vote.