[speaker001:] all right what do you think about it like well you can go first
[speaker002:] well uh I guess uh I hadn't hadn't had a lot of time to think about voters but uh
[speaker001:] wow I dropped the phone that was loud sorry
[speaker002:] uh I I guess I voter apathy of course I is uh is a universal thing uh not just I don't think just United States really I think other places have
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] the same problem and it's basically because the voters don't really feel like that their vote really has any influence on the outcome not just of the election but of the results of the election the uh the congressman and the senators and you know the legislators don't really do
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh most of the time what the what the their constituents uh really want them to do
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh they do what they think is either best for the you know the the uh economy or whatever's best for the people that are the lobbyists that are paying you know part of their way
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and and and I think it's you know the voters don't feel like they really have as much say so in the government as uh they would like to have so they they kind of drift away because of that
[speaker001:] uh-huh really I think that that's a big part of it I think that's probably the root and then also that added with all the pressures on the American family today it's a real it's a real pain for us to go vote I mean
[speaker002:] huh yeah
[speaker001:] I remember the last time that we had to go vote it was like man just to get up there and do it was major effort you know
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and we ran in there it was like right at seven and my husband had worked late and I was going to go we wanted to go together to do it and take our son but it was like we ran in and whew we were the last people in there and I thought you know Kyle gets off usually about oh by five but we live in Tarrant County and he drives from Dallas so you know it's a drive but he still had a lot more cushion to be able to go vote a lot easier than most people you know what I mean
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and because he doesn't hit the North Dallas traffic and all then he might have worked an hour late it was just like ah we had so many things to do and we just couldn't get them done and I I remember thinking that man it I'm a Christian and I really feel like we have a responsibility to vote but I tell you what if I wasn't a Christian I would there's no way I would have gone to vote just because of the pressures
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] the you know just the time factor and just the anyway and I felt like I was listening to Dobson this morning and I I guess I even thought that then this morning so it's funny I got this topic because there were talking about how the Congress it pays the Congress to make you know legislation that encourages women to work outside the home because then you have two people you can tax and you you put both of those people in a higher bracket
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and that it's probably not going to end anytime soon the pressure you know to work and just the pressure it puts on the American family and um I I thought about that and I said yeah that's funny you hardly have time to go vote for this Congressman because you know women are expected to do so much now and I just kind of laughed and I thought God I never thought of it like that you know
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] so anyway I think that's the other side that
[speaker002:] yeah I think that's that's a good observation and and true yes uh
[speaker001:] yeah but I agree too with what everything you said but I think the two go and then you put those two things together and you're going to have you know no one going to vote but then um I don't know disillusion what's the solution
[speaker002:] yeah oh what's the solution huh start over again you know that's we've the people have talked you know about having about redoing the Constitution completely or changing the government a little you know to some extent
[speaker001:] I know now come on  uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I think that's a you know we really ought to take a long hard look at at the system and and see if there's a way to improve it not just say that's the way it is or it's been that way for two hundred years let's you know see if there are some some improvements uh not a not a change but some improvements I think the system itself basic system is
[speaker001:] but I think that
[speaker002:] is uh appropriate but I think there are some some modifications even that could be made uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] limitations on Congress and restrictions you know restrictions that could be put on on the government itself
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] to get them out of our everyday life
[speaker001:] yeah there's yeah I know they're I know you can't even spank your children these days without
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] you know with this you know I don't know
[speaker002:] you
[speaker001:] we don't have we don't have a little child but I know that when you go in a restaurant we had some foster twins and it was last year and it wasn't through the state but boy howdy man these kids needed a whipping sometimes not to be beaten not to be abused but to firmly be told you are not going to do that and you are not going to spit in my face I said no
[speaker002:] yeah he uh-huh
[speaker001:] and if you do that this is going to be the consequence but it you couldn't do that even through the state even the mother it wasn't through the state but even though um the mother really would given approval but because of the situation we just didn't think it was wisdom you know you go in a restaurant and they start spitting their food out at the table now come on but you know you couldn't do really a lot because of the state's control so that's that's a good idea there too I like that but
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] anyway you know have you ever had a two year olds twins start spitting their food at you at Luby's you know I mean you're like going I mean yes
[speaker002:] uh yeah I I remember our our our daughter's twenty five
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I remember when she was at you know at that age and and how she was and that that's exactly of course there was only one of her it wasn't twins
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but that's exactly the you know the way it was and of course twenty five years ago you could you could uh you could
[speaker001:] you could go in the bathroom at Luby's and take care of it
[speaker002:] yeah yeah you could could uh
[speaker001:] yeah I did I stood there and I did take care of it it took forever though and I think God just had some grace there because I don't think if it had been my child I don't think that would have worked what I did in order to get them to eat that food you know
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but it took like twenty five minutes but it was the whole thing was the state but I don't want to rewrite the Constitution I just wish people I wish it would be interpreted like the founding fathers wrote it to be interpreted by
[speaker002:] uh-huh right
[speaker001:] and that they would begin to teach it in the
[speaker002:] yeah I guess the the Constitution is not the part that needs to be changed it's the
[speaker001:] right our society is so messed up though it's like no wonder they interpret it wrong we were in Dallas last night and we ate dinner at Meadow Road and seventy five at a restaurant there
[speaker002:] it's the rest of it huh you know the uh-huh
[speaker001:] and I couldn't believe it it was like this kid was like Saturday Night Live we were the only normal seeming human people in the whole place almost and I'm not kidding and it's like these it's this it this I told Kyle I said if this is reflective of our society no wonder we are in such a mess and
[speaker002:] yeah well I t's there are some some strange things
[speaker001:] you know these were the rich people these were the you know these were I mean just the things that happened we had a bulimic in front of us and she just looked crazy but yet she had money
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and um she was just so friendly and I asked the manager as we checked out I said is that lady a ballerina or what and he goes he said no she's a bulimic
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] because she was so skinny and then all these other people are coming up around us and
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh this one man they went to check on their ticket and the other man at their table started taking their plates and and in fear just piling their food on his plate and shoving it in his mouth I mean this was in one night and I was just sitting there thinking now
[speaker002:] you're yeah you're kidding
[speaker001:] I he did it's like said they
[speaker002:] you mean it's that at a like a stranger a total stranger
[speaker001:] uh no he was sitting at the table with um another couple
[speaker002:] oh he was sitting at the table with them
[speaker001:] right but he took their plates up and made sure they didn't see him and I think he was the one I heard him mention about the tickets were messed up so they went to take care of the tickets he took their plates and began eating his eating their food I'm not kidding my husband was like totally freaking out he said I can't believe it look at that but and I you know what I mean I they were right next to us and it was obvious that they didn't know and so and he ate it all before they got back and everything and so
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I just thought no I don't know if there's an answer to the people not going to vote when they when our society is falling apart like it is I don't know if people
[speaker002:] yes yeah maybe we don't want those people voting
[speaker001:] I know yeah I know and they you know these are probably some of the lobbyists in Washington I can't help but think that either
[speaker002:] yeah yes yeah that's that's
[speaker001:] is it no seriously because these were this was a nice North Dallas this was not we weren't over on Cedar Springs or Harry Hines or anything you know
[speaker002:] yeah yeah that's uh
[speaker001:] so anyway I think our society is just worse off than I realized that's what I thought
[speaker002:] that's I'm going to have to start going out to eat more often I'd I guess I would like to see some things like that
[speaker001:] we live in Euless now we don't see that in Euless too much but you know that's what it I mean it was just absolutely maybe it was just that night right
[speaker002:] yeah a a full moon last night or something
[speaker001:] but I don't think so I I have a feeling that's more reflective of our government and everything then
[speaker002:] yeah well that's our time
[speaker001:] well there's your another call well I think we had a good call and so okay have a good day bye
[speaker002:] okay yeah I enjoyed it thank you uh-huh okay bye-bye