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You got that right. Health care=15%, gasoline=???, natural gas (supposedly, we have a lot of that...)=???, housing=???

People vote with their pocketbook. Between the outsourcing/lack of actual decent employment, health care crisis (and it IS a crisis), gas skyrocketing this summer, rising deficits, the falling dollar, etc, I don't think that even a combined John Kerry bimbo eruption/Osama Bin Laden head on a platter produced in October is going to save Bush's job. No matter how many times we hear "the economy is on an upswing".

Senior prescrpition bill? = drug company subsidy (prices have already gone up this year noticeably)

Republicans keep blaming "the lawsuit crisis" for the health care increases - but they never seem to say exactly how much my health care costs will decrease for me and my employer once the problem is solved (=we have less rights for redress).

I'm amazed at how many things are going wrong, and how little Reupublicans in Washington seems to give a sh...

It's hard to beleive that 3.5 years ago, Republicans were thinking that the middle class was in their pocket and that this was going to be "the Republican era..."

NOT.

First off, don't confuse needs and desires. What would we desire? Honesty in public officials .. a whole hearted honesty combined with a good strong backbone to support it.

Such true integrity would never allow the insane calculations and permutational rat's nests of explanations thereof. It would produce an honest inflation number more representative of the excessive rises in recent years in the BASIC costs of living in America.

Yet, had we such men and women of integrity in the civil service, we'd also likely not have the inflatation we see, for our own standards would be higher as well and that of those we elect. The great and incredibly dangerours -- not to mention outright thievery under official color -- creation of fiat money and beyond massive quantities of national debt, and exotic, extremely poisonous, derivative schemes based on that debt would not have occurred.

We wouldn't be hearing of "gay" mariage, nor of "free-trade", much less any significant inflation. We'd have economic cyclces -- biennial, seven years, twenty years and sixty years or so. But people would remember and relearn the old wisdoms of dealing with them: a constant mix of savings, turnover-stock and learning (aka R&D at every level). Build up your mattress in fat years, take the straw out to feed the animals during the leans.

So what do we NEED?

Today's list: To stay out of jail. To stay healthy and help keep those around us healthy. To avoid debt like the plaque. To develop some alternate household businesses (that is not to solely rely on one job or business). To elect officials we know, and who we know ave integrity. If we don't know that, or have questions: don't vote in that position. And don't vote for "feeling", friendship or party loyalty. Make integrity -- honesty, the sole reason.

We NEED to operate independently of the government, to starve it down. Not only to operate independently, but to do so with self-integrity and a committment to Constitutional and honest princibles government has forgotten. (That's what I meant when I said "stay out of jail", btw.) And not only to operate such enterprises, but succeed -- SUCCEED -- at them. That means quitting or government jobs, unless they are DIRECTLY related to national security. Don't kid yourself about what "directly" means, please either.

A business. Will someone buy an inflation index you or I put together? For we could. And a more consistent and reputable one. Yet who would buy it?

A union? Probably a civil servant union, to argue for more burdens and theivery from the rest of us.

I won't do it, I can not see how such a thing can be used for good right now.