Two Days to Go

Two more days, and I already feel like a junkie looking for his next fix. Two more days and I'm wondering, will everyone go back to sleep after what might be the most important election of the twenty-first century.

What arrogance.

We really have no idea how important or unimportant this election is really going to shape up compared to the truly horrendous problems we will surely have to come to grips with in the very near future. Some of them are obvious, some of them are not.

• The immediate problems in our financial sector is, in my opinion, have no easy solutions, yet, everywhere you turn only the most bland of ideas are getting any attention. We have chosen to infuse banks with capital, while leaving those who failed to see the oncoming train in charge. We, the taxpayers, own banks, yet we cannot set policy. We will be the last to be paid for our investments and the first to lose.
• Eleven trillion dollar debt.
  
• Health care costs are driving many families to the brink. Deductibles are too high, care is less than adequate. As long as health care is 'market' driven, I doubt that there will be much relief on the horizon. Unless of course of you are a member of Congress, then, no worries.
• Loose nukes. need I say more.
• Global warming and energy independence. Obvious problems. Not so obvious solutions.

If this election is going to have any historical effect, then we will have to look beyond the obvious and lay the groundwork for true sensible solutions.

Oh...my Wednesday morning prediction...Obama\Biden...we pick up six Democratic Senate seats...and thirty-five in The House...

How's that for pulling out something out of ones' arse.