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Would you catch a train to Montana if you were trying to go to Louisiana just because it's closer than Alaska? If everyone agrees gov't spending needs to decrease, isn't a vote for JM or BHO a vote in the wrong direction? Since JM and OHB want to go in the wrong direction, isn't a vote for either of the two major party candidates a vote in the wrong direction? Everyone knows the federal deficit has grown to unprecedented levels, and in years tax revenue doesn't cover the shortage, even more money is borrowed to pay for it. The borrowed money is created by the fed, so it inflates the currency making everybody's money worth less, so it's actually a hidden tax on old people on fixed social security incomes and poor people who don't get cost of living increases. Why even vote for "the lesser of two evils" when both want to go in the wrong direction? Wouldn't a vote for a 3rd party candidate be a vote in the right direction?

Aren't Dems in the process of wreaking havoc on state budgets?? States can't cover once federal funds run out? This reminds me of the healthcare bill. States will be federally mandated to expand medicaid, yet only two states get extra federal funding (Louisiana, Nebraska). This was because Landrieu (D-LA) and Nelson (D-OK) held out on voting for the bill until they were guaranteed federal money to cover the budget shortfall that would result in their state. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091222/ap_on_bi_ge/us_school_funding ALBANY, N.Y. – Using federal stimulus money to avoid layoffs at schools is going to create a shortfall even more difficult for states and schools to contend with when that money runs out, according to a first-of-its-kind study released Monday. New York alone will see a $2 billion shortfall after stimulus money ends in 2011-12, and that could drive up some of the nation's highest local property taxes another 8 percent, according to the analysis by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. "This isn't just a New York problem," DiNapoli said in an early and detailed analysis of school aid after federal stimulus funds run out in 2011-12. "Other states across the country will face a similar dilemma if they used stimulus money to plug budget holes instead of paying for one-time expenses. "Stimulus funding is not a recurring revenue; it shouldn't be used for recurring expenses." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091221/ap_on_re_us/us_health_overhaul_nelson;_ylt=AihhjqpUe3FVSMprGdAG_Imp_aF4;_ylu=X3oDMTNlbDVyaDZjBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMjIxL3VzX2hlYWx0aF9vdmVyaGF1bF9uZWxzb24EY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM2BHBvcwM2BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcmllcwRzbGsDbmVic25lbHNvbnNl OMAHA, Neb. – It was the concern of Nebraska's Republican governor over expanded Medicaid costs in the proposed Senate health care overhaul bill that led to a compromise to cover his state's estimated $45 million share over a decade, U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson said Sunday. Gov. Dave Heineman "contacted me and he said this is another unfunded federal mandate and it's going to stress the state budget, and I agreed with him," said the Nebraska Democrat, who was himself a Nebraska governor in the 1990s. "I said to the leader and others that this is something that has to be fixed. I didn't participate in the way it was fixed." bob............"I live in Louisiana and I do know Landrieu. I also know our republican governor ( Bobby Gindoll) agreed whole heartedly with the deal Mary Landrieu made." So what did you think of the Landrieu deal??