Bill Roper's Journal

I don't remember why I voted for Blago the first time around - probably because the republican alternative was worse in my opinion. I didn't vote for him the second time - I voted for the Green candidate.

I find myself voting against people rather than for people. That makes me sad because that's not the way it's supposed to work. What is worse is the increasing level of nastiness and insanity that the public seems willing to tolerate.

I tend to vote democrat but am usually to the left of them in my opinions. I have been happy to see the media starting to pin the national Republicans down on specifics of how they're going to reduce the deficit. Can't remember which one was trying to get Eric Cantor to say what he'd cut to that end. He said he'd do an across the board discretionary spending cut of 10%. When the interviewer pointed out that entitlements (medicare, medicaid, SS) and military spending were included in the "discretionary" part of the budget, he ruled out the military for cuts and woulnd't say what he'd do with the rest. I'm no accountant but if you give anybody a tax cut, that means less money coming in. And you don't offset it by spending less somewhere else, you're going to add to the deficit. Why don't more people get that?