Yep, Scott’s good for the Democratic Party.

AND
“The same as the Obama/Pelosi combination got Rick Scott elected”

Yep, Pelosi’s good for the Republican Party.

AND
“The first thing we need to do is outlaw lobbyist and make it illegal to accept campaign contributions.”

Nope, outlawing lobbyists is illegal under the First Amendment. They are a way people petition the government for redress of wrongs and speak for the needs of their constituents.

The Supreme Court has ruled that money is speech and thus, making it illegal to spend money to further ideas one favors is also a violation of the First Amendment.

Publishing how much who gave whom, though, is okay. The only reason it isn’t done is that our elected officials voted otherwise. Can’t imagine why.

AND
“Rick Scott spent 73 million dollars to buy the Governors office. Am I the only one that thinks that he seen it as an investment?”

Investment in ego. He often seems clueless, but at least his mother assures us he’s a good boy. Please note, though, he didn’t buy the office, his election still required the support of a majority of the voters and the voters didn‘t get the money he spent.

David for good results

I will vote for Romney. I feel that Mr Obama will be remembered as an anomolie, that
came about only as a result of the Cheney/Bush tragedy.

One would expect as much just as women favor rules which make life better for women, Latinos — for Latinos, animal rights activists for animals, farmers for farmers, et cetera. We’re a nation of many wanting many different things.

Bankers want banks to be able to make money.
Investors want banks to not go bankrupt.

Both are presumed rich but do not have the same intermediate goals even if the goal of each one is wealth.

Furthermore, many people have money in retirement funds and are part of the investors so the vast majority of Americans are in the investors group whether we know it or not.

(The State of Florida retirement funds had much invested in BP prior to the recent blowout, probably still does. Florida didn’t want the environmental damage but did want the profits to pay retirees. So even if we don’t have personal retirement accounts, we’re invested through our governments and companies.)

We’re all in this together.

“I feel neither party has done much to prove themselves worthy in the upcoming election”

And yet we must select.
We can vote for third parties which are numerous, nutty and self interested and which would be ineffective at best.
We can sit out the vote and let extremists rule the selection process.
We can join or remain in some political party and try to improve it.
We can go independent and only get to select from among the parties’ offerings.

We’re all in the same canoe. It’s silly to think we can just sink the front or the back of the canoe.

David up the creek

The goal of the rich is to make other rich people richer? I thought those who think all rich people are even more greedy than themselves would expect them to want to take it away from others expecially those with much to lose.

Maybe Romney HAS a secret plan to destroy the foundation of the nation, but it’s hard to see how that would make anyone richer.

David considering paranoia and greed

debt: the total owed
deficit: the difference between income and outgo

This year’s deficit adds to the debt but is attributable solely to this year’s spending and taxing difference.

Further, spending decisions this year are not because of a belief the path the former president took MUST be followed, rather because the current president believes this spending is desirable. President Obama is a wonderful human being but at some point he must take responsibility for his own decisions lest he seem petty.

David for manning up