“Acta non verba.” Those words are Latin for “Actions, not words.” They also happen to serve as the motto of the US Merchant Marine Academy, an organization whose graduates serve this country with actions, not words. It’s also a great motto to live by, and to use in our everyday lives.
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Do our words carry weight? Can people count on us to do what we say we’re going to do? Are we trustworthy, or do our words ring hollow? Are we attracted to people who lie to us and deceive us? I think not.
We trust people who back up their words with concrete and real actions. Those kinds of people earn our trust and respect, through their ACTIONS, not their WORDS.
So during this political season, why would any of us vote for someone whose words never match their actions? I’m sure you’ve noticed that we are all being targeted with a lot of “noise” from millionaire politicians and their billionaire donors. Their television ads, postal flyers and junk emails are all chock full of deception and lies.
Do they really think we are that dumb? I believe their actions clearly show that they do. Do they really think that they can buy our votes with inane ads? I believe their actions clearly show that they do. If we filter out this political noise, we’re able to compare each candidate and compare their talk with their walk.
Obviously, incumbents have held office for a number of years.
Their ACTIONS during those years provide us with a clear record of what they’ve actually DONE vs. what their WORDS told us they would do.
Our incumbent leaders have given us rising inflation, rising gas prices, rising consumer prices, rising interest rates, rising national debt, a rising crime and murder rate, lawlessness, an illegal border invasion, a deadly drug epidemic, and a foreign policy that has brought us to the brink of nuclear war.
Leaders can delegate authority, but not responsibility, that rests with them alone. A true leader always accepts responsibility for their ACTIONS, and they never make excuses.
Our incumbent leaders are responsible for where we are as a nation today, period. If you like what their ACTIONS have given us, I guess they’ve earned your vote. On the other hand, despite the conjecture articulated by our incumbent political ad creators, their opponents have not yet cast a single vote in Washington.
This fact of course, discredits those ads, rendering them both deceptive and moot.
Their opponents have yet to take any ACTION. They have only told us, in their own WORDS, what they plan to do for Granite Staters. A vote for them would give them the same opportunity our incumbents were given, a chance to back up their WORDS with ACTIONS. So we need to ask ourselves some basic questions about these incumbents, and their opponents, who are both asking for our vote on November 8th.
Why are our incumbents refusing to debate their opponents? Is this what they call being transparent to the voters of New Hampshire?
Why are the WORDS of our incumbents telling us what their opponent’s ACTIONS will bring us instead of telling us what their ACTIONS have actually brought us? Do they truly believe that these fear-mongering tactics will work on common sense Granite Staters? I believe their actions clearly show that they do.
Why aren’t they proudly pointing out what they’ve actually accomplished for the Granite Staters they represent?
I think anyone who is a free thinker with a pulse and an active EEG knows the answer to that question.
I say, Live FREE or DIE, New Hampshire!
It’s time for every Granite Stater to think for themselves and to vote for themselves. We don’t need the media, talking heads or political pundits to tell us who to vote for. We simply need to open our eyes and look at what’s being done to our great country.
Silence the noise, look at the facts without the political spin, and you will see that we are all being used as political pawns. It’s time to use common sense, and the free will that God gave us.
We all need to be Independent voters in this election.
The future of our great country, and our beloved state, are both at stake.
