Go green

I have only had the opertunity to vote for the president of the United States once...due to my age of course...the presidential election was held right before my 18th birthday. Many of my piers were excited to finally be able to vote but many didn't really see a reason to vote.  Feeling that their one vote wouldn't make a difference in the long run. I was caught in the middle...excited to be able to and unsure if I wanted to.

I have been reading a lot of books about presidence, as fathers, sons, and real men who have the fate of a nation in their hands.  I read about Ab Lincoln and choices and beilfs he had to make and had that shapped our country. How different it is today to the founding fathers. 

I came to the conclusion that I want our next president to be a farmer. 

Not a corporate grower of food for a nation but a small time farmer that has felt the pressure, stress, and pain of sustaining his family with his hard work alone.  

A small farmer understands that land is precious. Our world needs to be nourished and so do our children.  He understands that you can not use things you don't have.  If you didn't grow the corn you won't be eating corn.  If you kill the cow the daily milk will stop, yes you get a steak but was the one time payout worth the reuse able resource? Don't use it all if you don't have something to replace it. 

He understands that waste is unexceptable.  We can't afford to waste resources, time, or energy.

He knows that you can't lend a hand to others if your own land is suffering. you need to nourish your own crop,harvest them and store them for winter, you can't offer to do it for your navigators first or somewhere in the middle.  

  

I feel this is something we have lost.  Although our president was not born with a golden pacifier in his mouth, he was also not born starving or grew up waiting to fail. He was privileged as most of our more recent presidences. They don't understand the hard work only your hands and nature can bring. 

Our country is in dept because it couldn't sustain itself and asked for help.  I have never found fault in asking for help but truthfully we have taken it into extremes.  Our country will never crawl out of dept at the rate we are going. 

We promise each other things we can not and will not be able to give. Healthcare is a glories idea... One that should have been put into effect a century ago.  I'm not sure we can reallly pull it off now.

We have our solders in our neighbors yards helping them tend to their fields while ours wither and die. We have more crime, and poverty in out country than people want to acknowledge, while those who are the strongest among us are sent away in our greatest hour of need.  

Farmer for president...

That's all I have... 

From the mind of a 24 year old.

-M