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Okay.. so am I the only one who looks at these posts and asks why we're ever happy with one party because it put us less in debt than the other, or that one screwed the pooch less than the other rather than asking: Why can't we cut taxes AND spending at the same time? Why can't we, from this moment on, never spend a dime more than we take in in a given year? After all, if we can't pay for it today, why doesn't anyone assume we can pay for it all PLUS what we're short today, later on? That's the crux of this problem.

The government isn't happy with just wasting the money we give them, they want to waste more than we give them.. and BOTH parties do it and we let them.. hell, we PAY them to do it...

What rational sane person wouldn't want a balanced budget amendment? There are states that have it.. and guess what? It WORKS. Why would we EVER bailout a private company? They exist to make a profit.. not to support the TAX payers. So why would they EVER get our taxes?

BOTH parties grow government.. and BOTH parties waste our money. And they are so good at faking all of you out with this partisan bullshit that they themselves don't even really believe, that we let them keep doing it while we fight over things that have nothing to do with what the government is REALLY going to do. Listen to these discussions.. it's all a head fake. Both parties are corrupt. I don't care if one is 51% of the problem and the other is only 49%. That's a LOT of problem on both sides. And we've been taken hostage by this two party system that is KILLING us from inside.

So, stuck with that, some try to make the best of it. But extremists on both sides won't let that happen either. Both sides demonize the other and then within each side, the various parts demonize themselves.

I think both McCain and Obama are good people. But the parties they lead and hungry, angry monsters that won't let EITHER of them fix anything... both will be forced to satisfy the partisan interests of their party masters and if they don't, that party will through them unprotected to the monsters on the other side to be devoured and replaced by the next drone.

So then the last hope is to find something we all agree on, or to take one issue at a time. But that's not allowed either. Instead, we MUST align with one side or the other and if we can't then we must drown the baby in the bathwater and then look to kill it's parents, friends and relatives as well. It's a vicious angry 2 mob mentality that lets the real bad guys and gals get away with murder and worse.

People.... please start opening your mind. No one is always right or always wrong. Sometimes we can BOTH be right and sometimes we can BOTH be wrong. But arguing over who is MORE right or MORE wrong is the least productive thing we can do. Anyone who "thinks" straight ticket philosophy on anything isn't actually "thinking" at all. And while we get angry at each other the people who should really FEEL our anger mutter along doing more damage.

The entire country can win or lose with either McCain or Obama. If we simply supported doing the right thing with either of them, we'd all be better off. Sometimes we might not get our away, other times we'll get exactly what we want while someone else suffers. That's the reality of life. And the fixes for our ills are so simple. Don't spend more than you have. Don't steal other people's money or things. Don't do the wrong thing. Why is that so hard to figure out? Little kids can usually figure that out.. but not the adults.

Brian