Three more nights and the 17th German Federal Election is here. On September 27, 2009, the voters are going to elect the members of the Bundestag or the so-called Federal Parliament of Germany. On that day the election will start on 8:00 am until 6:00 pm.

Last month, we received the so-called Amtliche Wahlbenachrichtigung, the Official Entitlement to vote. This will be my first time to exercise the so-called Freedom of Suffrage in Bundestag level. I am quite skeptic about this. The past days me and HB had been discussing whether to go voting or not. As usual, you always hear candidates making promises. There are a lot of things we heard about different parties making promises like giving more employment to people, lowering of taxes, health politics betterment, more income to people, etcetera. I always hear about these common promises from politicians. I don't know how many promises really came true. That is the business of politics. Just this week, I guess it was CDU/CSU parties , if I am not mistaken, are telling people of lowering Merhwertsteuer, Value Added tax (VAT) or the so-called Goods and Services Tax. As far as I can remember, Germany's Merhwertsteuer was only 16%. During the time of Angela Merkel it was increased to 19% until now.

Being a citizen of this country now and since I have the right to vote, I guess I will go this coming election on Sunday. It is for free and I just hope and pray that Germany will be given leaders who will truly help the common people just like me. Peace! God bless Germany and the whole world!