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I have no expectations that the winner of the 2008 Presidential election will work in the best interests of the United States. Whoever wins the White House will continue pussy-footing around Mexico and the illegal immigration problem. It's a situation no American politician really wants to tackle. What needs to happen is we need to bring half our troops home from Iraq, and mount a serious attack on the belligerent and hostile government of our southern neighbor.

The Mexican military has crossed into the United States, supporting drug running and alien smuggling, hundreds of times over the past ten years or so. If you don't believe it, you just aren't paying attention to the news. It is well documented by our Border Patrol and it needs to stop. Each occurrence is an act of war, and if that's what they want, that's what we should give them, but it isn't going to happen. For political reasons, Mexico will continue to be handled with kid gloves, and the American people will be forced to endure all the crime, disrespect, and any other crap Mexico wants to dump on us. Another Uncle Sam "success story"! It's disgusting.

Likewise with tax reform: Huckabee, as he bows out of the Presidential race, yells "Let's enact the Fair Tax!", to great applause, knowing full well it doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell. If he had won the White House, he'd have made some tepid attempt to introduce legislation to repeal the Internal Revenue Code and enact the Fair Tax, then backed away from it in the face of whithering opposition from Congress. Tax reform will only happen as the result of a popular revolt. It's guaranteed that no politician will actually work to make tax reform a reality.

One of the few real things G. W. Bush did during his tenure was to propose Social Security reform. He was dead right about it but our idiot Congress drowned him out, and to his discredit, he gave up the fight. I mean, just who the hell needs this Congress we have, anyway? They certainly aren't doing us any good; maybe we should ship the lot of them to Iraq and see what they can do over there. At least they wouldn't be screwing up over here.

The economy? Sure, the government relies on a strong economy, so we peons have jobs to go to, so Uncle Sam can take his cut of what we earn off the top, and then blow hundreds of billions of dollars on foreign aid, the UN, farm subsidies, the uncontrolled growth of our Federal government; the list is endless. The next President isn't going to have much clout when it comes to trying to control spending, but, you gotta wonder if the next President is even going to want to control spending. Even though shrinking the Federal government, paying down the national debt, ensuring Federal spending doesn't exceed Federal revenue, and ending wasteful subsidies and foreign aid would greatly benefit the American economy, I'm guessing probably not.

If you see any of the three main 2008 Presidential candidates as agents of real, beneficial change in America, you are kidding yourself. A president can basically only do what Congress allows, and our Congress is clearly an obstructionist Congress, the main obstacle to change in our country. But none of the candidates have fresh new approaches to any issue, so when you combine that reality with the reality of a bitterly divided, stuck-in-the-mud Congress, the future of America looks bleak.

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