What is your top election concern?

For me it is all about the economy and the natinal debt. There is no way that this country can function with such a deficit. You can't run a business like that nor a country. The second big issue for me is re-establishing our image in the world. We need to be respected again and need to earn that respect back. What political capital we once had as a country across the world has been spent. Those two reasons are why I am voting for Barack Obama. It is time for change, and not a continuation of failed policies.

Government corruption. The boys and girls in DC played a huge role in bringing on the current financial crisis with their PC mortgage schemes embodied by Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.

Heads should be rolling.

For too few, it should be the blatant corruption of the democrats who rode fannie mae and fannie mac into oblivion, taking money all the while. Chris dodd, barney frank and schumer all need to be investigated! but of course, since the democrats are the majority party, you will hear nothing of congressional inquiry placing these crooks under oath!

However, if these were republicans investigations would be ongoing as we speak! Where is the outrage?

What concerns me most is one of these professional politicians will be elected president and there will be nothing good to come from that. Nothing we can do about it. Save your votes for local and state elections where you have a voice.

My concerns are that someone running for President of this country has the power to stop the truth about his past. We are already losing our freedoms and most Americans have no ideal. It concerns me that the media is standing for this. It concerns me if the wrong person wins freedom of speech will be the least of our problems. It concerns me that the media knows how bad this could be and won't do everything possible to stop it. It concerns me that I took the time to type this, when I know you won't print it .

the telegram will never post my comments
but I will send them anyway...
the election is not about us...it is about a corrupt organization of very few elite rich men...
they have to have control, they are controlling the whole world...
it's ok you don't have to listen...think I'm quaked...zeitgeist it..the truth is told

Please read complete to understand the top election concerns

Here is a quick look into 3 former Fannie Mae executives who have brought down Wall Street.

Franklin Raines was a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fannie Mae. Raines was forced to retire from his position with Fannie Mae when auditing discovered severe irregularities in Fannie Mae's accounting activities. At the time of his departure The Wall Street Journal noted, " Raines, who long defended the company's accounting despite mounting evidence that it wasn't pro per, issued a statement late Tuesday conceding that "mistakes were made" and saying he would assume responsibility as he had earlier promised. News reports indicate the company was under growing pressure from regulators to shake up its management in the wake of findings that the company's books ran afoul of generally accepted accounting principles for four yea rs." Fannie Mae had to reduce its surplus by $9 billion.
Raines left with a "golden parachute valued at $240 Million in benefits. The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth of the accounting scandal became clear. http://housingdoom.com/2006/12/18/fannie-charges/ . The Government noted, "The 101 charges reveal how the individuals improperly manipulated earnings to maximize their bonuses, while knowingly neglecting accounting systems and internal controls, misapplying over twenty accounting principles and misleading the regulator and the public. The Notice explains how they submitted six years of misleading and inaccurate accounting statements and inaccurate capital reports that enabled th em to grow Fannie Mae in an unsafe and unsound manner." These charges were made in 2006. The Court ordered Raines to return $50 Million Dollars he received in bonuses based on the miss-stated Fannie Mae profits.

Tim Howard - Was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae. Howard "was a strong internal proponent of using accounting strategies that would ensure a "stable pattern of earnings" at Fannie. In everyday English - he was cooking the books. The Government Investigation determined that, "Chief Financial Officer, Tim Howard, failed to provide adequate oversight to key control and reporting functions within Fannie Mae,"
On June 16, 2006, Rep. Richard Baker, R-La., asked the Justice Department to investigate his allegations that two former Fannie Mae executives lied to Congress in October 2004 when they denied manipulating the mortgage-finance giant's income statement to achieve management pay bonuses. Investigations by federal regulators and the company's board of directors since concluded that management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. Raines and Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004.
Howard's Golden Parachute was estimated at $20 Million!

Jim Johnson - A former executive at Lehman Brothers and who was later forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO. A look at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's May 2006 report on mismanagement and corruption inside Fannie Mae, and you'll see some interesting things about Johnson. Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount of Johnson's 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was between $6 million and $7 million when it fact it was $21 million." Johnson is currently under investigation for taking illegal loans from Countrywide while serving as CEO of Fannie Mae.
Johnson's Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
FRAN KLIN RAINES? Raines works for the Obama Campaign as Chief Economic Advisor
TIM HOWARD? Howard is also a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama
JIM JOHNSON? Johnson hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was selected to run Obama's Vice Presidential Search Committee

IF OBAMA PLANS ON CLEANING UP THE MESS - HIS ADVISORS HAVE THE EXPERTISE - THEY MADE THE MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE. Would you trust the men who tore Wall Street down to build the New Wall Street ?

Gee Been Searching, I think I got that concern of yours last week in a e-mail. Hey, just for fun, why don't you google search Prescott Bush? Now thats scary!

My top election concern is that the media will be following the election results all night and I'm going to miss CSI.

My number one concern is our standing in the world. I feel it makes us a target for terrorism. My second concern is the decline of the economy. I am a firm believer that it takes the middle class to make someone else rich. You don't become rich if people can't buy your product because they can't afford it. By taxing the rich, forcing them to keep jobs in America instead of outsourcing and taxing them more for off shore accounts. This is nothing more then tax evasion, but worse, a huge blow to our workforce. As for Liberals wanting to take your gun away, that's total "boogey man" hogwash propaganda. Tell that to the guy who runs the gun range... I hear he's a hardline Democrat. I doubt he fears such things, and I am 100% certain he is proud of his gun ownership rights. I saw recently the NRA tried spewing propaganda about Obama taking gun rights away.. you know what it got them... a ton of Unionized mine workers who walked off the job in protest.. How many of THEM do you suppose were gun owners themselves? If the GOP had any sense left in them (which is doubtful), they would get off the boogey man scare tactics about the Democrat candidate, and focus on solutions to real world problems that concerned voters have.

Kitty:
If you aren't going to vote for a president make sure you don't crab about the one who gets elected. Everyone who votes has a voice!!!!

We are slowly becoming a full-fledged socialist society. That was the fall of the Roman empire and it will be the fall of the United States. Maybe not tomorrow, but it will happen.

We are becoming a lazy, complacent nation and it concerns me greatly. Can any politician fix this attitude of "me" that has gripped our country.

I know what it is not... that 3am phone call. Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but if Palin was ever in that position, and she got that 3am call, she would probably already be up and feeding the baby!

My top election concern is that Obama will be elected president and then we will have "change" but not the kind everyone who voted for him expected.

Amy--Sorry. I will complain now and after the election since this is America, and nobody will show up to arrest me. I intend to vote, just not for any of the above. You on the other hand obviously have a favorite, so by all means vote for him. Just don't expect much. Good luck.