As a president his job is the security of the country, enforce the laws passed by congress, uphold the constitution, create an environment where business can flourish in order to spur employment, and foreign policies. Our daily lives are usually governed by lower govt, such as city, county and state. The author talks about voter suppression. That’s silly. We need identification to drive, cash checks, buy alcohol and cigarettes. I guess that means the govt is involved in transportation, banking, and vice suppression? Think of all the the things that we need to show an id for. do you feel suppressed in those occasions?

It also begs the question, why did people have to show id to get into the speeches at the NAACP in Houston? I guess they felt suppressed. The big reason for id when it comes to voting is to make sure illegals don’t vote, it ensures that no one else can vote for you, which has happened to many people. It ensures that kids who go to school out of state can’t vote in the state that they are going to school in. That way, they can’t influence local elections, which would be unfair to the people that live in the city and also makes sure that they can’t vote twice in natl elections (in their school city, home of record city). Before anyone says this “disenfranchises” the poor, i can guarantee that we all know poor people that have flat screen tv, brand named clothing and whatever.

Also I believe in the last 3 years, the govt began giving cell phones to people on welfare and also gave HDTV converter boxes to the poor also. I guess they felt that it wasn’t important to give id to the poor. And speaking of welfare, if it hasnt changed since my mom got off of it, don’t welfare recipients have to show id to get their benefits? As far as public sector jobs. This country is in s recession and inner cities are the hardest affected by it. Where is the money coming from. Public sector money doesn’t grow on trees. It comes from the people who are out here working hard in the private sector, paying taxes.

There’s an old saying that goes ‘The bad thing about socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples money.’ Us tax payers are sick of politicians over spending on pet projects and expecting the hard working taxpayer to give more money, only to watch them keep spending and not cutting back. The education issue. Our education system is broke. Kids are coming out of school less educated, because the kids are taught how to take standardized tests. I guess that’s the how a teacher’s performance is gauged now. Every year we give more and more money to the education system for subpar performance from our kids. Since when does 1+1 cost more now, than 30-40 years ago?

I’m all for home schooling and giving vouchers to the inner city parents who want to send their children to charter schools It has been noted that those kids test higher than public school kids. I believe Wash DC has a program like that, that is very successful. Ooops… I forgot. Obama stopped funding that program, sending those kids back to the failing schools they came from, while sending his own kids to private schools. And before anyone says all politicians do it. I found that George W. sent his kids to public school in Tx.