Pete's BLOG-Day 26,286. It's election day in America.

Today is Tuesday, November 6, 2012. My stats for today: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes on the exercise ball and 45 minutes of walking for a November total of 16.1 miles. My weight was 163.4 poubds.

QUOTE - an American proverb: "The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old."

My THOUGHTS today. Well, it's finally here - ELECTION DAY IN AMERICA. The quote struck me as being so true. If Romney wins I think it will be because his supporters do NOT necessarily like him or believe him. So why will they vote for Romney? It is because they HATE President Obama so much they are willing to put Romney in the White House even though they have no idea what he will really do. He has taken so many positions on nearly every issue that I have no idea what he will do as president.  A lot of the HATE has to do with the color of Obama's skin. Just look at the people in Romney's campaign crowds - they are all white people. To me, it is scary.

Now, back to the quote. Romney is espousing the same philosophy of government that George W. Bush had - tax cuts for the wealthy, increased spending on the military and less regulation on big business. We tried that and look at what it got us. A near financial collapse of the our economic system - mainly due to removing regulations for the conduct of business in the U.S. And now Romney wants to do the same thing. Why will it work his time when it has not worked before? We need regulations on business, especially the big Wall Street banks. The Great Depression was caused by having no regulations on businesses and banks. It comes down to greed, money and power. Humans will not change when it comes to these three things.
This election reminds me of the 1948 one between Harry Truman and Thomas Dewey. From 1947 to 1948 Truman had to work with a Republican Congress that blocked everything he wanted to do for America - Obama has had the same situation in 2011 and 2012. When Truman campaigned for President in 1948 he had this to say about the Republican Congress and their wealthy supporters. He referred to the Republican Congress as the "do-nothing Congress" and their wealthy supporters as "gluttons of privilege," "bloodsuckers with Wall Street offices," and "economic tapeworms."

Those words sum up my feelings about today's Republican Party.