Are you kidding me?

I have heard that the presidential candidates are going to spend collectively about a billion dollars on the election process. Am I missing something? That is over three dollars per american!

HEY! JUST IN CASE YOU DIDN'T REALIZE THIS YOU BUNCH OF ARROGANT IDIOTS, A GREAT MANY MORE PEOPLE THAN JUST MYSELF THINK NEITHER CANDIDATE IS WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN MANURE! BELIEVE ME WE KNOW ABOUT POLITICIANS AND MANURE AROUND HERE!

I understand they are keeping the advertising agencies busy however don't they think that the big donations people need to give to a more worthy cause? With the US population in the avenue of 304 million people I would imagine that the money could be warranted to some much need help to those in need. Starting with our veterans and moving to education and housing?

Perhaps if they were kept in check on spending the debates would be worth watching because they would actually have to answer questions about their stance on an issue rather than skirt it and bombard us with more political retohric. If they were limitied to just the issues and none of the name calling. Vote for me I'm black and a minority and the underdog, vote for me I am a veteran and have values just like you.

I am insulted by this tactic.

How is it that Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae executives get to walk away with a 25 million dollar severance package? Aren't they going to be held responsible? Didn't they put the market in it's current decline to their deliberate acts such as were practiced at Enron?

Holy cow puckies, if I ever dreamed of keeping books like the government I would be in jail for life. I live in fear that the IRS will bang on my door because I forgot to inclued the 40.00 someone paid me for grain or the fair premimum that my children earned this summer. If the money belongs to a goat or a cow, do they have to pay taxes on it too?

I have been saying for he past three years that things were harder for the middle class and our economy was hurting. Now the market goes down a bit and the rich start to feel a pinch so now is the only time the econory is in turmoil?
Wake up and smell the coffee.

Our econony is at it's healthiest when the markets is around 10,000. It all boils down to greed. The rich want to be richer and the middle class would be happy with a little less stress thank you.