I live in the greatest country in the world! Land of the free! (dial up warning, pics! Graphic!)

[mbperrin]

131. All revenue bills must start in the House. That's in the Constitution.

Now let's see, who controls the House? Think, think, think. Why, I do believe it's the Orange John gang and his sidekick "Turtle Mouth" McConnell!

The US spends 50% of all the money spent on military on the globe! We have bases in all but 10 countries in the world. Yes, we're the crazy neighbor nobody wants to tick off. What's the only country in the world to ever use nuclear weapons on another? Yes, us. Why did we drop two? That's all we had.

Canada is in danger by living next door to an armed camp, and we are in danger by killing and murdering all over the planet for the dollars we perceive we make or lose, depending on what day it is.

The budget needs redirected. We have infrastructure, health, retirement, education, and other human needs. But as long as corporations pay 10% of all the taxes, and people pay 90%, and as long as 1% of those people own 70% of all the wealth and pay only half the taxes, nothing will change.

And no, I do not trust any politician and never have (yes, all my grandparents are immigrants with a long history of abuse by various governments), but someone has to be chosen from the grab-bag we're handed every election, and some are better than others. Obama is certainly preferable by galaxies to Mittens, and to McCain as well, but could it be better? Yep.