It's About Responsibility

for our friends and family and neighbors, across the street and across the world, and for this home we all share. Responsibility for the necessities for a good life: clean air, clean water, and a healthy place to live, for us and for the myriad living things we share this planet with. Responsibility for present generations and future, responsibility to properly train and equip those who dedicate their lives to serving and protecting us, responsibility to create an affordable and attainable path to educate or train each individual toward the vocation they were born to. Responsibility to be guided by our science and by our hearts, responsibility for our poorest and weakest, in the morals and values with which we raise our children. Responsibility for everyone from the moment of conception, but responsibility in our choices so that everyone conceived will have someone to love and care for them so that they will not have to struggle for food or shelter. Responsibility for all who are sick, so that they will not have to choose between health and home, and for those who provide our care so that they have the tools and equipment they need, and are justly compensated for their dedication to our well being. Responsibility to enable those who want to create things that will better society and enrich our lives, but also to create and enforce the laws that make sure they do so without harm to us and this one fragile planet we all share.

Responsibility is the common thread so these should not be mutually exclusive, but somehow, in our two party system, it seems they are taken that way, and so yet again my vote is for "none of the above."