Throwing your vote away

Change... Everyone claims to want it. I thought Americans knew what they meant when that word gets thrown out there. If a Democrat wins, the only change the American people will see is that for the first time ever, the American president will be "African American" or a "Female American". They talk about Universal Health Care as if it is a right to get free health care. Let me just say that we all have the right to health care, just like we have the right to own a home. But we do not have the right to be given a home for free, nor do we have the right to any hand outs. For me to get free health care, that means that somewhere down the line someone else is paying for it (through higher taxes). Is that the change that people want? Putting a Democrat in office is not going to bring our troops home from Iraq or anywhere else in the world where they have no business being in. The Democrats got the control of Congress campaigning on that issue and they didn't "change" anything.
Now, let's talk about the Republican candidates... The root of Republicanism is to lower the power, and spending of the Federal Government. Umm, the "Republicans" trying to become president are not trying to limit the power of the Federal Government. They, like the Democrats are increasing Federal authority and spending with no oversight.
The truth is, there is one man running for president who wants to lower taxes, lower government spending, and change our Imperialistic foreign policy. That man is Ron Paul.
Many people I know wanted to vote for him but didn't because they felt that it would be throwing their vote away (my father being one of them).
This is very dissapointing. Discounting the person you agree with to vote for someone who seems the lesser of two evils in between other candidates, is throwing your vote away. That is saying that you submit to what the Corporate Media tells you is your choice.
America is not on its way to a recession... We are in a recession. Corporations are sending jobs overseas, the federal government is borrowing billions from foreign countries to fund wars that we can't afford, and the Federal Reserve keeps printing money out of nothing. Meanwhile, the IRS takes 1/3rd of your income away unconstitutionally and the American people have been sleepwalking through life thinking everything is hunky-dory. I honestly believed that Americans were waking up. Apparently, I was wrong
Yesterday, we finally had a chance to make a stand, to vote for real change, to lay the groundwork to a better life for those that come after us, and America choked. I am ashamed.
If Ron Paul decides to keep running as an Independent candidate, you owe it to your country and fellow citizens to vote for REAL change.