I mostly agree with donquixote.

Time-line-wise from what I saw: Ronald Reagan repealed the usury laws. Usury is where the rich can use their power of money to charge higher interest raise to the poor and (legally) helpless.

George Bush implemented most of Reagan's laws and took the country further in the same direction. He got tripped up in one of the re-election debates for not showing empathy for the country's pain. Slick Willy Clinton ran up points with the famous utterance of,"I feel your pain."

Bill Clinton, with the soul of a used car salesmen, sold the country further down the river and took his piece of the action. Then, after two terms of looting America, the present chowder head took over after promising no more of the same old economic looting.  SO George W Bush did a new and different looting of America and invaded a country to finish his daddy's unfinished business.

Well....Since Nixon, the paranoid pycho, got into office, the country's been on a down-ward slide. Almost every president since then either a bad joke, or as criminal as they can get away with. like part of a Mafia family. The so called political dynasties are one of the most dangerous things to come out of recent history,IMO because they lead to political inbreeding and more 'organized crime'-like activity. What I mean by that, is consistent limited points of focus on activities that are sometimes frivilous and treated like serious and more likely to harm innocents. Lack of transparency and consistent lying to hide motives and redirect oversight (if any! LOLOL) are symptoms of this political inbreeding.

Strangely--this election is a change to take America into a possible new direction ,IMO. McCain can  actually remember how the country ran, and experienced first hand, the failings of Nixon administration. Barak Obama isn't entrenched in the current political mire that Washington has become.  Unfortunately McCain hasn't been very successful to seperate himself from the workings of Washington. I don't think I would have voted for him after almost thirty years in Washington, IMO I believe he's a good, strong man, but not quite Presidential

If a really strong (and NOT crazy) third party candidate was running, I'd vote for him or her.  We NEED some de-entrenching of the present partisan Republican vs Democrat deadlocked "Mutual Assured Destruction" of both parties  Attitude that has held on for the past several administrations.

I'm an independant, and just wants the political system to work on level as directed by the original  founders more than "broken".:sad:

I cannot save the world. Only my little piece of it. If we all act together, we can save the world.--Nelson Mandela
An  inconsistent hobgoblin is the fool of little minds
Taking "Just do it" to a whole new level!