Financial Shakeup this weekend

[Wellardmac]

I'm with you on this Aaron - the money we have spent on Iraq could have been better spent elsewhere... the problem is that if we were not in Iraq I can pretty much guarantee that that it would not have been spent on the things that you listed, so it was a lose-lose situation.

Think back to the Clinton Years... the worst thing we had to worry about was whether the President lied about getting a blowjob from an intern. Wow, if that was the worst thing going on, then we were a very lucky nation (I'd love to be in that sitation!). During those years the nation was in balance.

The best situation is to have the Executive branch and congress controlled by different parties and they each hold back the excesses of the other. Whenever both branches of government are controlled by one ideology then the nation suffers from an excess of extremes. Think about it - right now we have all three branches of government controlled by the same ideology. That's going to take a very long time to fix.