Sunday morning Dr. Georgia Witkin was on Fox and Friends Weekend talking about voter issues. She listed them as reported by a recent study as:

1) Personal money issues
2) Security
3) National reputation

Am I surprised, no. As stated yesterday, most people vote pocketbook over principle. Hopefully when it comes to the voting booth personal greed and immediate, temporal issues of money will be overshadowed by the greater issue of securtiy. After all, you can have all the money in the world but if you are scared to go out, dreadfully injured or dead it won't do you a lick of good.

The security of our nation, the security of our personal freedoms should come before all else. The Declaration of Independence asserted our right to persue happiness, interpreted in our materialistic world to be access to all of one's financial dreams and desires. That is the right of persuit, not the right to have.

However, that same Declaration maintains an individual's unalienable right to Life and Liberty. These are not something to persue through personal motivation, but to be enjoyed as a product of life itself. Thus a product of national and personal security. That same security for which the current war on terror is being fought.

Is the financial issue important, certainly. But more important is the security of our nation. With out that we will have no financial security.

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