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After reading a post by clemar that asks Senator Obama a question, I gave it some thought, and decided to write a post summarizing what I believe to be the difference between a democratic win and a republican win.

In a nutshell, when dems are in office, taxes usually go up to pay for all the government sponsored and government monitored social programs provided, at the expense of those who pay higher taxes -- usually higher income earners and business. Unfortunately, a business that gets pinched by higher taxes, hires fewer employees, and spends less in the marketplace, affecting jobs.

When reps are in office, fewer social programs are provided creating some real poverty conditions with some rich just getting richer, but businesses usually prosper and can afford to hire more workers -- but without the government's big brother intervention. Sometimes this means greed for those who exploit. Hence, the situation we currently have.

It comes down to whether you want to be provided for with government money and government monitoring at taxpayer expense or whether you want to be able to provide for yourself and succeed in your own business without being heavily taxed -- to pay for those who aren't able to or don't want to work as hard.

I believe both dems and reps may not be seeing the entire picture right now, otherwise we wouldn't have the national debt we have or all the plans for more debt in the future.

Voting this time around, because the economy is important, many voters are focusing on a quick fix. But I believe the focus needs to be more than jobs and home mortgage rescues. Focus needs to be on our economic future, health of social security, and national security -- to be able to have a future.

If all we focus on is fixing our current ills, we might just find ourselves too inwardly focused that we fail to defend ourselves against a totally different threat to our security -- that threat being to our national security.

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