...so now what?

The elections are over...HURRAH!!!!!  However, no one, but NO ONE whom I voted for, was elected.  I'm very sad.  (Did I mention I'm mostly a Democrat?)

So now what?

I was thinking that the Republicans have two years to put their money where their mouths were.  That is to say, they were going to "turn things around."   Then I listened to the politcal pundits on NPR this afternoon and heard them say that in two years the Republicans will say they were hogtied because they could not get legislature past the Democratic president, and/or the democratically controlled senate.   So even more should be elected and/or reelected.

Already an excuse for getting NOTHING accomplished!  On this Day 64!

...debt forever???

I'm SOOOOOOOO confused!  The big spin on politics is that we're saddling our grandchildren with debt loads (the government debts loads) that we will have for years and years.  Now it seems to me that before Clinton, we ALWAYS had government debt.  He was the first president, that I remember, who actually balanced the budget!  And we know that George Bush thought we had WAY too much money sitting around, and so after enacting the tax breaks, that conveniently expire this coming year (more on that later), he started a money hungry war!  

As for the tax breaks that expire...I figure that he knew (or his cronies knew) if the Democrats were in power, if they stopped the tax breaks, they'd be vilified.  If the Republicans were in office, well, they'd never stop the tax breaks because they knew it made them look like heros, regardless the fact that our debt was and is increasing.  They'd find some way to blame the Democrats.  As far as the tax breaks, I can't say as an extra $10/month made all that much difference in my lifestyle.

Okay, much of this is going to be decided tomorrow, November 2nd, Election Day, as to what path we'll take, or rather who to blame in the next two years for everything that isn't going well.

All I can do is shrug this Day 63!