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Will it sway your vote to one party or another to know where to lay the blame? Unlikely, as bad economic decisions (both Democrat and Republican) throughout the last 45 years are to blame.

Look to Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat; President from 1963-1968) - for the end of silver coinage and removal of the silver cover for much of the currency. Surprisingly, also a fast-rising Democrat (much like Obama), who also created such future headaches with his domestic program (termed “the Great Society”, with Congress passing the Medicare program, which provided health services to the elderly, approving federal aid to elementary and secondary education, supplementing the War on Poverty, and creating the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It also passed another important civil rights law–the Voting Rights Act of 1965…and yet during his term, we had racial riots and he escalated the Vietnam War.

Look to Republican Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974) for the breaking of the final link between the dollar and gold. Also responsible for secret bombings of Cambodia, the end of the Vietnam War with discraceful treatment of Vietnam Veterans, as well as the widespread array of illegal and secret activities undertaken by Nixon or his aides which culminated in came to be termed the Watergate Scandal.

Gold acted as a brake on monetary expansion. Loose monetaryexpansion policy by the federal government intesified starting in 1971.

As you can see, both parties contributed to this mess - and it was not just the recent flamboyancy of the lax home-lending policies encouraged by the federal policy (sub-prime mortagage situation), but poor decisions by BOTH lenders AND borrowers and no little deceipt dealt out by all.

Question: So who is to blame? Answer: The loose federal policies, those who enacted and supported them, as well as borrowers, lenders, realtors, and investors buying prime and sub-prime investment packages to turn a buck.

So what to do? Exercise prudence my friends by knowing what you are signing, knowing what your representatives and senators are supporting, and by knowing why and how you are voting. Investigate the candidates, what they stand for, and use common-sense. Is what is being promised something that can be delivered? Vote for the more realistic candidate, not the one who is promising the world, and will be able to deliver next-to-nothing. Voter - review the voter’s creed @ http://presidential-race.net/the-voters-creed/.

We need correct fundamentals before the country can build and expand to levels of prosperity. If you build on what is broke with fancy plans, you will continue to create more and larger problems. Change? Quick fix? No - correct what is broken by going back to the basics.

Untraceable donations via prepaid credit cards - one candidate has found a loop-hole that may be used to evade limits on how much an individual is allowed to give.

Who is it? Take a guess then check out the Washington Post link; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/28/AR2008102803413_pf.html.

I’m just surprised this hasn’t been revealed by the mainstream news organizations (again!).

(CNN) – A senior John McCain campaign official told CNN that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palinwill be McCain’s running mate.Palin, 44, is a first-term governor who unseated incumbent Gov. Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary in 2006 and went on to defeat former Gov. Tony Knowles, a Democrat, in the general election. An advocate of drilling [...]

Well all you brothers and sisters of these United States.  I’ve heard the call of Governmental violation as broadcast on National Public Radio (Story: "Slumping Gasoline Use Cuts Into Highway Funds"), and can’t believe it.

Higher priced barrels of oil, less driving (7th month decline in a row, with a monthly decrease of 3.7% - the third-highest decrease since the U.S. started driving), and less gas consumption to off-set personal, limited budgets…and as a result, the tax revenue that pay for roads,  bridges, and transit project has suffered and faces a $3.1B shortfall.

What is big-bro considering doing?  Not raise taxes (thank goodness).  Why, throw technology at it - of course!  And at your expense of FREEDOM!

How and Why:

How:  Add a "black-box" to every new vehicle that will track your driving habits, how much you drive, when you drive, where you drive, and how often.  Then you get a billing every month from the Fed. for your "transportation services", which you will pay the government.  Sounds like lock-and-chain GPS doesn’t it?

Why: On the surface, to sustain funds (albeit another form of taxes) through a recurring monthly basis (this is what businesses do).  The unstated reason - to be able to track anybody, anywhere, at any time if and when THEY deem it necessary.  I’m sure it is being reported as MERELY another tool in the toolbox of security monitoring.  We’ve seen similar instances throughout history, then the track/check system was readily abused for personal or political reasons.

SCREAM!! and make sure your presidential candidate choice DOESN’T support this proposal that will ROB YOU of YOUR FREEDOM.  YELL!! to make sure your Senate representative does not support this measure!!  INUNDATE your House of Representative with calls, letters, emails to STOP THIS planned tracking.  What’s next - tax your iPOD, iPhone, Wii, or Playstation 3 as a media service?

Wow - quite a bit of information and news pouring out of the various news avenues. Let’s give you some of the more interesting news-dives, pics, and a video.

Both candidates are claiming the other candidates universal health care plan is flawed, but in a 21-April article written by Brooks Jackson and Lori Robertson of factcheck.org, said both camps have "twisted facts unmercifully" to differentiate and make their plan look much superior than the other…but in reality, they are relatively similar, with the biggest difference is Clinton’s plan would "impose a requirement on everybody to obtain coverage", where Obama’s would make it mandatory for children and optional for adults.

Pic of Hillary and Obama with party-friendly, backing colleagues. Hillary’s pic kind of looks like a wedding pic (husband posed behind wife - but where in the heck is Bill?), and Obama, who’s looking quite gay with a hug coming his way (yeowch).

Clinton’s campaign is in the red (by $10.3m, with $9m cash), and Obama’s is in the black (no pun intended, at $42m), as reported by the Associated Press reporter Jim Kuhnhenn. Barack has the most cash-rich campaign going out of all 3 candidates (don’t forget John McCain), and is outspending Clinton approximately 3-to-1 in efforts to win Pennsylvania. Not bad odds if this were Las Vegas.

But while all this is starting to come to a head with vicious advertisements and counter-ads, Mr "Hands-off" Democrat Party Chief Howard Dean has finally spoke up with a call for uncommitted Super-Delegates (SD) to take a stand by 29-June. Anyone else notice this lacks Oomph? Com’on H.D., get some drive. SDs have already had months…why give ‘em 2 more? I think Howie should be making a stand.

However, Obama is struggling to win over the "white-vote" in Pennsylvania. Think they are bitter about his pompousness? You look at that pic and tell me he doesn’t have an supremacy attitude (picture from Bloomberg).

Interestingly enough, Obama stated (this is as reported by Yahoo! News article from today, written by Liz Sidoti) that Republican presidential-candidate John McCain would be a better President than George W. Bush. Praise for John McCain from Barack Obama - who would’ve thunk-it? Certainly not Hillary who went in with both barrels blasting, picking up on it like a drunk going for shots in a bar.

Who will win 22-April? Does it really matter?? Well, yes and no. It won’t matter unless Hillary comes in with both a staggering victory of 75% or above in Pennsylvania ALONG WITH a similar percentage of SDs! If she can do that, then YES. If not, she would need to hang-up the broom and exit stage left. She may be touch, but the numbers need to crunch.

Oh yes, one additional tidbit of data…In a Quinnipiac poll (hey, I don’t make these names up, it’s the University) released last week, 26% of Clinton supporters in PA stated that if she failed to win the nomination, they would vote for McCain!

Enjoy the video on this last push for votes, and analysis of the polls.