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Thursday, November 04, 2004

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life  

# posted by wyldshaman @ 11/04/2004 09:17:00 AM

So i feel depressed, angered, and defeated. But lets mention a few possitives and look to the future.

Looking at the Vote
With New Hampshire going Blue the democrates have a strong voting block from Deleware all the way to Maine, which i think completely off sets the southern Red Block. (if Nader had not run 4 years ago in NH that state would have went Gore and he would have won the election)

Bush won Ohio by only 137,000 which is close for this big state, and if things keep going poorly over the next 4 years they could be easily pulled Blue, maybe...

Bush won Nevada by 21,000 votes, not much, the other 6 or so canidates got 14,000 votes so with fewer canidates on the ticket and a little more Vegas influence this state could go Blue.

And Florida even with the Hurricans, the other Bush and those damnded touch screen voting machines was still close.

Looking at the next 4 years
Social Security is a very large problem within this country and as time goes by it gets bigger and bigger, currently we have a 45 trillion dollar fiscal gap (that which is promised to the people and that which we can realisticly raise in tax revenue), if this is not dealt with soon we(young people) are really screwed. It would have been political suicide to even talk about this before his last term but now he can work on it.

Also Improving the Tax Code. That would be nice. Like really making things easier, and closing loop holes and just revamping the whole damned thing.

Kerry is still a Senator for the next 4 years so i really think he will still keep working on anti-war and social issues there. Plus Bush and others knows he had 48% of the people behind him so i would assume that gives him at least some influence.

Sadly the US body count will continue to rise in Iraq with no real end in sight. Eventually the media will start reporting how poor things are really going in the Afghanistan operation. This will look bad for the President and his Neocons. If the Democrates continue with the anti-war rhetoric it will surely take hold. It might even bring some of the Southern states to start thinking more about the Bush Doctorine of Perpetual War, as they see more and more of their young men coming home in body bags, and Grandfathers in the National Guard and Reserves called up.


Things dont look good, but maybe all is not lost.......

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