IPAD or Kindle

Here is the question of the day. Ipad or Kinndle. As you may know, these are a couple of the most popular electronic book readers on the market today, but before you answer, remember, this is a political forum. Read on before you choose.
Lets talk about political labels. There are alot of political labels out there and it can get confusing, but it is really not all that complicated. Most of us are familiar with the traditional Democrat and Republican labels. While these are the most common they are actually part of a larger group label. Then there are the Conservatives and Liberals. Some would say these are the larger political groups that Democrat and Republican fall under, but they are not. Other labels are Blue or Red, the symbols Donkey and Elephant, and also libritarian and Independant. A new comer to the field is the Tea Party and also the Green party from a few years ago.
In reality, these labels are labels which fall under the larger group of Right or Left politics. Known in short as, you guessed it, the Right and the Left. With the possible exception if Independent, all of the titles above fall under the Right or the Left. Independents say the are independent of these Right and Left groups, but they do tend to have tendencies to one side or the other.
If I am asked where I fall I answer with "I am a part of the American group and I votes the "issues" not the "Party". This is code for Independant.
The Right wing party consists of the Republicans, the Conservatives, The Tea party, the Red color and the Elephant as a mascot. Libritarians also fall under this group.
The Left wing party consists of the Democrats, the Liberals, the Blue color, and the mascot Donkey. The Green party is also a part of the Left.

SIDE BAR: Who picked the Donkey and Elephant as the mascots. This has to be a bad joke centuries ago, that went from bad to worse. This person also had to really dislike politics. Cant we do something to change these mascots. Lets get some new mascot suggestions together and vote in a future blog.

Now that we have the two main groups, Right and Left, we should discuss where each of the labels falls within the right and left.
If you are called a part of the Conservative Right wing, or Liberal Left wing, you are as far from the center (Independent) as you can be. You may also be called fringe or radical, but it really means you are completely for the two basic concepts of each party. The Right believes in less Federal government and primarily States decide for themselves. Of course, this belief also tricles down to States leaving it to the counties, the counties leaving it to the cities, and the cities collecting all taxes to run all operations including schools and all programs for helping those less fortunate. Concervative right wingers at the city level and also other higher levels, Including the Tea Party believe government should not be running schools. They believe in privatization of all community needs. This means, the churches and private donations help the needy and schools are 100% privately owned. Think about your current tax bill. $2000 to $4000 if you are an average middle class person. Private schools in my area are $10000 or more each year, and thats just school. You have to pay for it somewhere and thats just schools. What about roads. Do you want to pay a toll to use the roads from the moment you leave your drivewayto the moment you return home. Some things have to be paid for no matter what. Does the local level really look like the right place to pay for these.
If you are called part of the Liberal Left wing, you believe the Federal Government should collect taxes from all individual tax payers, and the country as a whole should fund public schools and social programs such as Medicare, Medicade, the newly passed medical insurance for all individuals, unemployment benefits, and also pay monies to the states for things like Highways or other programs they decide the country as a whole should be doing for the greater good of the country. There is another name for this I have not yet discussed. It is socialisum. Socializum also means the government supplies what the country needs and funds it through taxes. Where socialisum fails is that especially in the United States people have a right to vote there leaders in and out. many people would like all the benefits of socialisum, but balk at the cost through taxes. (and toll booths incidentally) As a result many well intended social programs fall short of there expectations, because political oponants cannot win on a platform of collecting enough taxes to do it right, which fuels the fire for the conservatives.
Conservatives claim the government cannot do things right but not because they are the government. They want you to believe that a socialist government equals Communisum (Old Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, or Nazi Germany). This is complete nonsense. Anyone who uses labels like communisum or Nazi, or calls political people who believe in socialisum as "Hitler" are playing an emotional label card to try to shock you into believing in what they believe. They have run out of honest ways to convince you there way is better, or there way cannot convince you on its merits, and it usually comes from the Consevative Right or Tea Party members. They want to shock you into thinking this great country of ours will be come a Dictator run country just because of socialisum, which is an insult to the great american way of doing things. One Conservative political person in Wisconsin called The USA a 234 year experiment, and this description explains why The US could NEVER fall into the type of dictorial government some other countries have fallen prey to, because as AMERICANS we are a special breed of FREE Spirits who believe that each persons vote counts and each person contributes to this countries destination. I believe in the American Spirit and I believe that the american voters will always exercise there vote to keep this country the free independent country it is even if we are functioning in a socialist manner. You see, Communisum and dictatorship and socialisum are NOT mutually inclusive. The Right knows this, but they cant tell you this. Because they need to shock you and scare you into believing a Lie, instead of convincing you on the merits of their way of thinking. Shock Jockeying is the easier lazier way of converting people.
Quite frankly, I do not see anything wrong with either view as a whole. It is good for government not to become so big that it cannot function and it is good for the government to develop programs for the good of the country as a whole. Most people fall in this group and they differ in other areas like gun rights and abortion, and it is these arterial beliefs that decide a persons vote. Some are so strong on abortion that they could never vote Democrate because the "party" view is that abortion is a womans choice. I agree that a woman has the right to choose, I just think the choice is more appropriatly placed before a life is concieved and any choice to terminate a pregnancy is murder. As far as gun rights, I also believe that people should have the right to bear arms, and our constitution does currently give us that right. However I do not believe we all need to own M16's or other automatic firearms. I believe anyone who has not been convicted of a violent felony should be able to purchase register and keep fire arms. In addition, I thing those arms should be registered and people should undergo periodic training in order to have a gun. For all of the NRA members out there that just cried fowl to my views, if you really think about it most gun owners already belong to local gun clubs where they go to practice shooting already. Your local gun club could run the programs to validate training to its existing members, and all of the additional people who would need a place to go get training. The local gun club could make alot of money on new memberships and running these training programs and issuing permits for the local government.
Now, back the the book readers. The Ipad is a book reader with lots of other benefits at a higher price, much like the Left. The Kinndle is a bare bones reader and not much more at a lower price.

So which is it? Ipad or Kinndle?