Monday morning political rant

Was talking to this guy this past weekend. He's leaning comfortable against the wall. He's easy-going and slow-talking. He brought up the election. He said he'd like to vote Democrat, but Obama doesn't have the experience and Clinton...well, Clinton can be waved aside with a wave of a hand that can mean so much. But McCain is for the war...

More of the same. It's always just more of the same. And as much as I'd love to vote for Obama, I may be voting for him just to vote against someone else. But I sure as hell ain't voting for Clinton. Just more of the same, and as C has pointed out more than once, we don't want to go back there. We don't want to take the country back to that time ever again because we know where that road leads. It lead us to where we are today, to the country saying we don't want any more of this stuff and they voted for a change and look at the change we got.

This country is bankrupt. In a war that is just bleeding us. Bleeding us.

More and more I have yet to see a candidate that represents me.

I value a small government. Our government is a joke right now. Why the hell is Congress investigating Major League Baseball and the needle marks on Roger Clemens' ass while letting the banking industry hand out all those loans that eventually started rotting the worldwide economy? Go home, Congress. Go home if that's all you got to do so we can turn off the lights and turn down the heat on Capitol Hill and save some money. They have nothing better to do so they just make more problems. Idle hands. Shouldn't Congress basically take a look at the budget, allocate it, then go home? Really, what the hell else do they have to do?

I value the preservation of the environment. Freedom to the states and less federal influence. Washington has no idea what's going on in my life. I want someone who can make real jobs, not greeters at Wal-Mart, but someone who can make enough jobs where you can feed a family and you're not locked into a boring job just because there's no where else to go. That means someone who understands business and the economy. And we need someone who's tough of crime, and I don't mean some damn petty drug dealer, I mean the high-level corporate greed that's splitting this country wide open, making the rich so much richer and the making more poor, sending jobs out of the country. I want to see someone reform taxes. That someone like me pays the amount of taxes I pay is just plain robbery. And we just let government take and take and take. We have to make education more accessible. The cost of a college education is way off the map, and people just keep ponying up, borrowing and mortgaging and double and triple mortgaging their homes, jeopardizing their own future. You can't even take off the interest on a school loan on your taxes in this country. Education used to be the one of the cornerstones of this country.

And that's probably such a tall order, to do all that with less government. And I'm sure every candidate says they can do that, and would smile and say they agree with me, until they moved on to the next person to see what he or she had to say.