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Be careful of campaign finance reform. I know this issue was most vigorously pursued by the "republican" John McCain, but it is truly a Liberal concept. Firstly, it uses verbage that would suggest any opposition is simply evil. Who wouldn't want "reform" for the debacle known as a political campaign? Massachusetts recently passed a bill known as the "Clean Elections" law. Quite a name, isn't it? Who wouldn't want a Clean Election? Look deeper, and it creates a situation where a potential candidate can surp public money to support his/her fund in order to "fairly compete" with a strong incumbant. It has quickly come to fruition here in the Bay State. A democratic hopefull for governor has applied for and received $2.3 Million to fund his campaign. All this while Massachusetts is in deep deficit, and has an overwhelmingly unbalanced budget for this fiscal year. Public funding, or forced donation through taxation, simply is NOT even remotely close to the answer. And you can't even blame the voters on this one. It was a misleading name which resulted in passing the bill, but the legistature didn't have to put it into effect. Afterall, we voted FOR capital punishment on at least three seperate occassions, and it is still not law in Massachusetts. Seems like our strong democratic leadership has forgotten who they are supposed to serve.

'Gater ... true, true, true ... the idea of a chicken in every pot sounds good, particularly to those without chickens. The thought of who's PAYING for the chickens occurs to no one among the voters, the majority of whom have a rather blurred view of where government gets the money it spends.

Of course, the "little guy" laps up the liberal notion of "socking it to big corporations and the rich" ... it doesn't occur to the "little guy" that doing so might mean the corporations do less hiring, which might just bite him in the a**.

Everyone among us bemoans April 15 ... as well we should. The law forbidding an Income Tax, was successfully knocked down on the strength of the idea it'd be the rich who bore the brunt of the tax ... of course, the tables were created at a time when the average person made less than $5K per year ... those rich b*stards who make $15, $20 and those who actually made the Midas-like sum of say $50K were the ones who'd be paying .... true enough ... we are.

The absolute fact of the matter is, that the federal government has become enormous, dwarfing any sensible proportion, attempting far more than it should, but able to deliver less ... it's out of control and has a life of its own and the all-too appealing lables put on bullsh*t ideas put forward by the self-serving politicians of both parties, not just the liberals who created the monster, are designed to give the monster continued life.

I would like to win lottery, but have not done so to date! Election reform is a damn pipedream that politicians beat drums over and thump their chests about, and they really don't mean it---either side or the Jim Jefferies independents! Charlie