In My Own Home

[Gary Triplett]

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We have a very big and desirable home, built and handed down over many, many generations. We love our home because we earned it and it's filled with goodness. My family has been very successful through hard work and always trying to do the right thing. Although I'm the head of our home, we've always had family votes to help determine the important things of our home. We make sacrifices, are all responsible, caring and contribute our fair share and some extra to the family. We've tried to be good neighbors and friends by giving a step up when some fall. Most folks run into a difficult time once or twice in life and simply need a hand to help pull them back up.

That's all great until one day, we came home to find another family had moved into our living room. It's a big house and we have lots of other rooms, so in keeping with our giving nature, we allowed them to stay. Since we don't care much for cutting the grass and taking out the trash, we paid them to do that for us too. They

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ate our food, watched our tv and started to use our bedroom as well. We are so giving, we allowed them to use any part of our house. We also started paying for their doctor visits, school for their kids and gave them extra money for food and other supplies. It became such a nice place for them, they told their friends about our home. One by one, they all stated moving in and soon, our home didn't seem quite as big as it once did. Our housemates believed that they also should be able to vote on our family matters; so we let them, because we're just good people. It really would be nice if they invested some of their money back into the house, but they send their extra cash back to their family still residing where they were all born. The expenses are going out of control, but we still welcome them all. We've had to go to the bank and mortgage the house to pay for some much needed repairs and things around the house. With so many people, there's a lot of wear and tear, but that's ok, we're just good people and welcome all.

We still have all the same expenses that caused the need to borrow money, but now we have many bank loan payments to make too. Where will it end? I keep needing more and more money. I wonder what my great-great-grandfather's thoughts and advice would be for me?

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I think he would be SO upset with this way of thinking that grandpa would be using his foot on this guy's back-side before one word was spoken.

If this story about the events in someone elses big home seems troubling, then that big home could also be our country. What's the difference except most can't relate that our country IS our big home. You, I bet, wouldn't just let some family move into your living room, eat your food, expect you to pay for all they need and also allow them to vote and tell you how to run your home, would you? Is that not what we're doing today with this, our own home/country?

When some people complain about states placing the strict requirement of having a photo id in order to vote, I feel sorry for them. They obviously have not considered what this really means. Yes, there may be a small burden to some to obtain their id, but states placing this burded should also relieve the burden, in kind, by giving assistance to those that need so the process is as painless as possible. Strick photo id's are the "family home security code". We want to make sure that only OUR family decides what happens in our own home... not those that are just using our living room and draining the life from our home.

As I've said to others... "It's called security. It's a pain to lock the car, house and have passwords and security codes too. I guess we sacrifice and go through that trouble so others can't screw with OUR stuff."

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[Frank Jenkins]

That's a great story. We don't want to give away our country to those that just came here for advantage and have no desire to be part of the country. They want to have a voice in government so they can be sure that their gravy train doesn't run out. If there were not so many illegals in this country, this whole thing would be irrelevant. We have to be sure that only legal citizens, those that WANT to contribute and call this country their home and the people in it, their family, have the right to vote. I say good for the states that have placed a strict photo id law requirement to vote! That taco looks good too. I guess you make some of the best with your Spanish heritage!

TWO THUMBS UP!!!

[Fred Starns]

Good analogy. The big home certainly does represent our big country. God bless our country for being the beacon of light, the shining star and land of opportunity. It won't stay that way if we allow non-citizens to vote and turn this country into what they came here to get away from. We want people to come here legally and with desire to acclimate to our country (not us to them), live a better life and be productive citizens. Voting is our biggest right AND duty so that we employ managers that serve our country and represent those that are citizens and have a vested interest in it. I say too, good for IDs.

[Concerned]

That's it! Anybody that can't see this and agree at least some must have blinders on or are lying to themselves and us. I want to know who they are. I want to move into their house. I hope they work hard and have a full refrigerator, big tv, a pool in a nice warm place and have a lot of signed blank checks for me. I'm thinking no one is going to offer me that though. If it's not ok in their house, then hmmmm.

[mreill01]

My response is this: Whether someone's home is large, small, rich, or poor doesn't matter so much. It is THEIRS. It is what THEY built, THEY created, THEY wanted. Any other person who enters that house is a guest. They should be treated as a guest, and behave in the manner of a guest. The owner of the house is under no obligation to do anything with his property other than what he wants. It is HIS. The generosity or stinginess of that household is the decision of the one who worked to build it. A guest may leave at any time; they also are under no obligation to the homeowner.

No person outside that household has any authority to dictate any of the conduct within that house. When the guest leaves, he leaves the house in as good condition, if not better, than he found it. He may not take anything from the house while visiting there, nor when he leaves.

Each person may build his or her own. Do not dictate to others what to do with theirs, just as you wouldn't let them dictate to you.

A few basic truths, properly respected and practiced, will benefit all. Remember what you learned in kindergarten: do not touch or take anything that does not belong to you.

[Gary Triplett]

A judge ruled Tuesday that a Pennsylvania law requiring voters in the swing state to produce photo identification at the polls cannot take effect for the November election.

The suspension of the voter ID law, one of the nation's strictest, could benefit President Obama. Democrats, civil rights groups and advocates for the poor argue that the growing number of voter ID laws targets people least likely to have photo IDs or to be able to afford any and most likely to back Obama.

Backers of the laws say they are necessary to prevent voter identity fraud.

In his ruling, Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson blocked Pennsylvania's measure until 2013, saying he was not confident that the state would be able to provide IDs to everyone who needed them before the November election.

More on this story at USA Today