What Happened to Politicians? A Boomer's Perspective from Grey Hair Dave

Welcome to five minutes with grey hair Dave, the podcast where grey haired Dave talks about what is happening in a baby boomers life and in his life, present and past.

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Here is grey hair Dave.

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So welcome back to five minutes with gray hair Dave.

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How are you folks?

I hope you're doing well.

This is great here, Dave.

I, I know that I said I was going to do this once a week and that's what I'm going to do.

I just wanted you to let you know that I have recorded the second episode of, or actually it's the first episode of Boomer podcasters on what is a podcast.

Gotta let people know what a podcast is, right?

Because there's going to be those out there who might want to do one and don't really know what it is or how it all works.

So I spent about 25, 30 minutes explaining it and found out that about 30, 25 to 30 minutes is going to be what, what the show is.

It's not like this.

I do call myself gray hair Dave there because I am gray haired Dave everywhere.

So that's the way it is.

So it's two weeks out, it's Tuesday.

Two weeks from today is election day in the United States.

If you're from other countries in the world that listen to me.

Oh, thank you so much.

You don't know how much your listening means to me.

It really, really, really warms my heart to see people from Russia and Austria, Great Britain, all over the world listening to me.

And I hope to increase those numbers by doing a little bit of advertising soon, or as they say, marketing.

But, you know, we'll get to that.

Like I was saying, it's two weeks away from the, from the election.

And here's, here's what I really, really want to rant about today.

This is what it's going to be about, okay.

These, these cut, these politicians that they call themselves, and they are really, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna say that they're not politicians, okay?

They're not what I would have called a politician 30 years ago or 40 years ago, but they're politicians and they, I believe they have good intentions for the most part.

Do all of them have great intentions?

I don't believe so.

I believe some of them want to go for the gig.

Okay.

If you're going to the house of the Senate, you're making over three, you know, you're making six figures and, you know, you've got a little bit more power and all this and all that.

I mentioned this in a previous recording that I did today that I'm not going to use that there was a time that I had thought about running for public office.

Now I thought about it for all about a day or two.

I really did thought about what I'd want to talk about, what I'd want to be, what I'd want to, what I'd want to do for people, because I believe that being a politician is doing for people.

You're running the government or you're running a portion of the government.

Are you involved in running into government?

Why in the world would all you worry about is what's in it for me when in reality it should be what's in it for you, the people of your community?

Why wouldn't you be doing it for your community, your state or your country if you're from the US?

And the more I thought about it, the more I thought and thought and thought.

And I looked at it and I went, man, I don't know that I want to go through the scrutiny that they put people through now.

People right now that are running for office are somewhat disgusting.

Not all of them.

There's one who's running for senator Congress, because I don't really care.

I saw her first commercial.

I went, oh, my God, she's running against an incumbent and what does she do now?

This is not her personally doing this, but her staff or whoever is doing her videos.

Put it out there and put the incumbent's head on a snake like he slithers around.

He's that slimy.

Well, that person ain't getting my vote.

I don't care what, I don't care what her policies are, what she wants to do for us.

All I know is she is as limey as that commercial.

Yet she went on that commercial and said, and I approved this ad.

I'm sorry.

No, I don't, I don't, I don't get that.

You know, I understand it's got to go negative at some point.

And, and I didn't want to go through that.

I don't, I don't want to put my family through that.

I don't want to put my friends through that.

The people I love, I didn't want to put them through it, so I, I didn't.

Now the big one here in the US is the presidential race.

Now I am sick and tired of the one.

Every time she's asked a question, all she does, well, Donald Trump this and Donald Trump answer the question.

She doesn't answer the question.

Donald answers the question.

Donald Trump answers the question.

But it takes him too long to do it.

He goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.

I don't like that Donald Trump is that way.

She's that way.

Which tells me she's going to do nothing but blame somebody else.

She blamed him for things that happened five or six years ago.

It's got nothing to do with what's going on today, especially when she's asked a question about jobs.

How's she going to help create jobs?

Well, Donald Trump didn't do this.

And down Donald Trump, he's on engines like, can we throw any more mud?

It's, it's disgusting is what it is.

And it's, it's, it's gone down to the point where these people are spending millions and millions and millions of dollars on advertising, okay?

And now the state races are spending millions and millions and millions on advertising.

And it's negative.

It's all this one lady has been negative against the incumbent senator here since day one.

It wasn't, here's what my policies are.

Here's what I want to help you do, or here's what I can do for you.

It's all about what he hasn't done or what he's, how do you ever expect to get elected when you're doing that?

I don't understand.

Now, there are those people out here in the world who don't think like I do, who don't say, well, you know, he, she's, you know, it's just mudslinging.

They think that she's right or that that person's right or that guy's right because they're telling you all the trash.

And, okay, I get that.

I understand that.

That's, that's how small you want to believe.

I want to know what they're going to do for me, for, for Dave, for gray hair Dave, what's going to happen?

How's it, how are you going to help gray hair Dave?

I'm a firm believer that if I was asked a question and I was one of the candidates for president, and they said to me, Dave, you know, what's your economic policy going to be?

I want to create more jobs.

Well, how are you going to create more jobs?

I'm going to help small business.

I want to find a way.

My team is going to find a way to help small businesses grow and grow locally and grow regionally and grow nationally, even worldwide.

And as soon as they start growing into a mid sized company, they promote business ownership to their cat, to their employees, and maybe help one of their employees start their own small business.

And it grows because the more a company grows, the more people they have to hire.

It's just, it's inevitable.

And I believe that that will help bring the economy back because we'll have more people working who want to work and people who work where they want to work and enjoy the work, stay at the work.

That will reduce the welfare rolls, all kinds of things.

And that's, that's my policy.

That would be mine.

But I can't do that because I don't want to.

I don't want to go through the bologna that goes with it.

But, uh, anyways, that's, uh, what I wanted to talk about today.

Uh, sorry for ranting and raving about it, but that's, that's my show and that's what I want to do today.

Now, there's a lot of podcasters out there, too, who are doing, they're joining in, and I'm not one of those.

Okay?

I'm telling you right now, I am not an independent, but I'm not going to tell you whether I'm a Democrat or a Republican.

That's none of your business.

That's my business.

I will tell you that I'm not an independent.

I have nothing against independence.

We need them.

But do yourselves a favor, especially if you live in the US and anywhere else you get a chance to vote, because it's a privilege that can be taken away.

Think about it.

If you go to jail, especially on a federal crime, you lose your voting privileges.

Sorry, you committed a crime, you're done.

Or a federal crime, you're done.

No, you don't deserve it.

But there are some countries you don't get to vote.

Look at the dictatorships around the world.

They don't get to vote.

You know, all they get is beat up anyway.

So if you're in the US, do me a favor.

Vote early if you can.

If you want to vote by mail, vote in person on time, on, you know, two weeks from today on this, because I'm recording this on Tuesday, Tuesday the 22nd.

It'll be the first Tuesday in November.

It'd be time to vote, but vote, please.

You know what?

If you don't vote, you can't complain.

That's my theory, too.

If you don't vote about vote for something or vote on on the issues or on the people running, you don't get a chance.

It's not your right to complain about them.

It's not hard don't, it's not hard to go vote, folks.

So that's my rant for today.

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It will make their day and it'll make your day.

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You all have a great day.

Bye.