Maybe the non-stop politics of today's life, or the non-stop pollution in the air, caused my sinus filters to finally snap, and filled my head with the unending fluid sack of misery. We come upon the ides of March in 2007, and witness a full blown 2008 Presidential campaign underway. We have been forced to live a life of unending political campaigns based solely on money while ignoring responsible public debate to find solutions to our growing economic crisis.

There will be no substantive campaign finance reform, ever. There will be no addressing the nation's tottering infrastructure where health care costs rob the citizens of life savings. There will be no progress on affordable alternative energy sources for consumers and real public transportation alternatives. Will a defense budget ever be lowered in the name of sanity? There was a recent warning regarding China spending $90 billion on defense for this past year, while failing to note that we in the land of liberty are on pace to spend two thirds of a trillion dollars on defense projects for year 2008. We committed $575 billion for our defense this year. We obviously prefer to build bombs over everything else with maybe one exception, prisons.

We are the most frightened nation on earth without a doubt. Our schools are now built to keep people out, or lock the kids down, much like ancient fortresses. Our open borders, a shining example to the rest of the world for so long, are now being fenced off. We are afraid of most of our own citizens today, which is why we incarcerate as a percentage more people than any other nation in the world. The other industrial nations of the world treat drug addiction as a health issue, we declare war and round up the usual suspects creating castles of power for drug distributors. Prisons are now simply the office complex for illegal drug distribution in America. At some point in the last century we gave up on rehabilitation, and are now creating the most angry and violent sub-culture imaginable with their own fortresses.

We're about as bankrupt a nation as a nation can get. Our apparent idea of democracy involves really rich people picking who they want to represent really rich people who can never honestly answer any simple question and refuse to solve any issue. In ancient Rome the plebes could vote down the patrician laws. There is no recourse for the plebes of today. This is not a liberal point of view. This is not a conservative point of view. The fact of the matter is that no political party matters much today for people without means. What keeps these parties alive is the dreamstate most people live in regarding their own circumstances, afterall everyone is only a lottery scratch away from being admitted to the country club.

It is already so boring to read about the current candidates raising piles of campaign money to get elected to do nothing but sustain the folks that hosted these fundraising dinners. We have become a very closed society with fading prospects and very little inclination to pay as we go. We are on borrowed time.