To quote the great Slim Pickens in "Blazing Saddles": I am depressed.
On one hand, we have a Social Democrat whose answer to government overspending is to increase it. This retard will raise taxes in an attempt to raise more money, ignorant of the knowledge gained in the last 30 years about taxing the productive into inactivity.
On the other hand, we have another reason-deficient Republican whose economics might be a little more correct, but whose social stances are strictly 1855.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9izhjnaLa3M
I am sick of voting for the lesser of two evils. It's still evil. Could Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party candidate be the right choice?
Here's one of his issue points:
"Government spending at all levels is out of control. Most Americans understand the problem of “earmarks,” commonly used by pork-minded congressmen to buy votes. But while earmarks are an outrageous abuse of the taxpayer’s money, they account for a very small percentage of federal spending. Over the past decade, total government spending (state, local and federal) has increased from $2.9 trillion to an astonishing $5.1 trillion in 2008. The $3.1 trillion federal budget submitted by President Bush for next year was greater than the combined 1998 spending of the federal government, all 50 states and over 87,000 local governments."
http://www.bobbarr2008.com/
Wasted vote? Perhaps perpetuating the poisonous Two Party System is the real poison. Everyone complains about the Two Party system, no one does anything about it, or at least hasn't since Ross Perot.
DF
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