Upcoming election, what do i want? Seriously, what I would really like is for us to decide what our major philosophy is on how our government should be run, and actually let it run that way long enough to see what happens. I really don't understand this back and forth business and how we think that's going to work. 4 years ago America decided it didn't like the republican way of things and gave Congress back to Dems. Which was solidified and expanded 2 years ago with greater gains in congress and the election of Obama. And now it looks like we're swinging back right. Until 2 or 4 years from now when we decide we need to go left again.

As for me, I don't want to raise our debt ceiling again and again and again. 500 years from now will our debt ceiling be 5 quadrillion dollars? That's issue number 1 for me. Everything else is pretty much a sub issue that would sort itself if we ever just decided that we're sick of spending more than we make. What we do about healthcare, home mortgages, cash for clunkers, retirement, education, environmental controls, our intrusion, intervention, and yes even beneficial aid, to other countries, all of it would finally be cut down to size if we ever decided enough was enough and we weren't going to perpetually exist on fake wealth. It takes a bigger mind than mine to understand how we've lasted this long.