·:[ Jason On A Shtick ]:·
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Tuesday is garbage day and I happened to notice that virtually every house with a McCain/Palin sign on our street did not have a recycle bin on the curb (seven or eight without, one with).  Coincidence?  Drill, baby, drill!

Nope, I’m not voting and you can spare me all of your “then you don’t get to complain” speeches.  The fact that you know in advance that you are going to have to complain should be a sign!  Not voting is an exercise in democracy, too.  It shows that I am not willing to just get in line behind one or the other.  My beliefs are not represented well by either of the two money parties, so why should I have to pick one?

I only require two commitments from a presidential candidate to win my vote – just two!  All I want is someone who will…

• End campaign financing altogether.  We don’t need campaign finance reform, we need campaign finance elimination.  All campaigns for federal office should be publicly financed with government money.  If you want to run for something, then you need to get enough signatures to earn the public financing.  And there won’t be very much of it, so you’ll have to spend it wisely.  We might actually get to hear some debate on real issues instead of having to watch stupid commercials about pointless drivel for two years before an election.  Oh, and maybe we can stop the whole “I owe this big company or rich person my allegiance since they gave me all that money” crap.  Hey, while we’re at it, why not limit a campaign to three or four months before an election?
• End congressional lobbying altogether.  Anyone holding a federal office may not accept money of any kind from anyone, period.  No “campaign funds”, “re-election funds”, “friends of so an so funds”, forget all of it.  Again, maybe it would be a good idea to not let anyone buy the shaping of our laws.

I figure if we can get enough officials elected that would actually make these two things happen, then everything else will just sort itself out.