Quote Originally Posted by Mississippi Steve
My vote is very private and very personal.

I will only say this.... Common sense has been lost in the political community, as well as honesty and integrety.

The democratic party has suckered an awfull lot of people into believing that the government will take care of all their needs, without *ANY* consideration of where the money is going to come from.

The republicans can no longer block the kind of legislation that spends trillions of dollars to throw good money after bad.

FWIW, had I need the one running the show, *NO* bailouts would have occured, and the corporate entities that got themselves into financial trouble because of their bad business practices would have been sent packing. They made their bed, they can sleep in it. There is no such thing as "too big to fail". There is only bad management.

As a small business owner, I can only say that the biggest problems facing the small cities and rural communities are directly related to the price of gasoline and fuel. When the price of gas and fuel go down, money flows, when the price goes up, it stops.

sign me as "Redneck Hippy"
Finally, somebody with the same view that I have held all along.:thumbsup: The price of gas is what caused this whole crisis. When gas went up, people could not pay their other bills which caused the housing crisis after the gov't forced banks to lend to unqualified slugs.