Who can resist a good Monty Python reference? I know I can not. The biggest problem I see in participation in the coming elections is that the choice I will have is to vote for the clueless candidate or the truthless candidate. Of course, I do not want to leave out the possibility of a truthless/clueless candidate.
I just saw a debate on the Faux News Program "Cashin' In." Bloomberg had correctly porposed that the entire Bush tax cuts be allowed to expire. Our situation is so dire that we have little alternative. The talking heads did point out that there needed to be spending cuts. Even with the expiration of the cuts, we still need to cut 10 trillion from our budget over 10 years. Our leaders either do not understand this, or they are lying to get votes. The 80% of the populace that says they oppose cuts in Medicare and Social Security need better leaders to tell them the truth.
While we are not dead yet, we only have a few short years until we are forced to undertake great austerity. I think that a little austerity now is better than great austerity and possible societal colapse later.
