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Failed Elections

Congratulations Colorado! We’ve succeeded this mid-term election in dooming the state economy, supporting discrimination against American citizens, and helping push America toward a loss in the war on terror.

Let us begin with the Colorado economy which will suffer greatly now thanks to a minimum wage hike that is permanently connected to inflation. It shouldn’t be long now until the minimum wage is around $15.00 an hour (I give it 10 years). That might be fun for the majority of minimum wage workers: Little Johnnie, the full-time student, who lives at home with his parents and has a part time job at Blockbuster, but it won’t be good for the rest of Colorado. It’s long been shown that raising the minimum wage is a poor way to fight poverty. It will also result in an increased unemployment rate and a decreased number of entry level jobs.


But let’s move on. Not only was marriage already defined in Colorado by state statute as a union between a man and a woman, but civil unions for homosexual couples didn’t exist either. After the election what do we have? Marriage is now constitutionally defined as a union between a man and a woman (as if that were necessary), and civil unions for gay couples still don’t exist.

I am willing to concede to the masses the traditional definition of marriage, despite the fact I think it’s ridiculous. If mainstream America wants gay couples to call their relationships another name, they should agree, take what they can, and not complain. That’s exactly what was given to the voters and then denied. Remember all those polls where the community at large has long said that they oppose gay marriage, but wouldn’t mind civil unions? It would appear that was all talk, since voters were asked to put out or get out, not only did Colorado get out, but everyone started running the other way. Now gay people in Colorado will have to continue to hire attorneys and file court documents just to be entitled to the same benefits heterosexual couples are allowed, like hospital visitation. I guess discrimination of people based on who they fall in love with is now the benchmark in Colorado.

Lastly, it will be interesting to hear what democrats actually have planned for the war in Iraq. They’ve been pounding their fists for a change in strategy, but don’t seem to have any answers. This is the equivalent of the following:

You: “I don’t wanna go to McDonalds. I hate McDonalds. It’s not healthy, it’s too greasy, and the selection sucks. I think we should eat somewhere else.”

Your Spouse: “Alright. Where do you want to eat?”

You: “Um…I don’t know.”

People say that it’s black and white to insist “cut and run” or “stay the course” are the only two options, but they are. Call the two strategies what you will, the ideas behind them are very obviously the only two available choices. “Stay the course” doesn’t mean we can’t try new tactics and adapt to a war, it means we don’t leave until the job is done. Now, Democrats will hasten the withdraw of troops from Iraq which will embolden the terrorists and hand them a victory, sounds like cut and run to me. What does it say when Osama Bin Laden and other terrorists approve of our shift in power?