Goodbye 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008As we say goodbye to 2008, what do you think the future holds? I, for one, am very concerned about where this president and congress are going to take us in the economic arena. Whenever one party holds dominance over the House, Senate, and Presidency, bad things happen for the people, look at what the republicans did. They were supposed to be the party of small government, and they grew government more than at any other time in history. I worry that the democratic agenda is going to push us into a deep recession. Hopefully they will aggrevate enough people that in two years they will lose majority in either the house or senate. I’m also not looking forward to what they might do to education, as dems tend to throw even more money at that than reps do. I think we need to encourage more private/home schooling but still have government funded schools available. I don’t think more funding to an already broken education system is the answer, as has been documented in a number of places. (Those are by far not the only 3, do a google search on school funding vs. performance). Combine all this with the abysmal performance of all third party or independant candidates in the presidential election (not one received more than a million votes) and I don’t look back on 2008 fondly from a political perspective. On a less depressing note, I am going to make it my new years resolution to post at least one op/ed piece to the blog a week, in addition to any informative cross-linking I can find. I just have to catch up on all my political feeds on google now. *Sigh*
