None of these incompetent candidates base their comments on Credible Researched Named Sources and no Alleged Journalist today questions any of these "... I saw..." with the previously standard "Oh yeah? Who said it? What reporter? When was this? Where was it? How are you going to fix this problem?" So much for a journalism degree!

Now that Fairness in Broadcasting was eliminated by Ray-Gun in the '80s, equal time for all candidates is gone only to be replaced with Corporate Propaganda that completely avoids all issues. If one tells a lie often enough, it becomes the truth!

Corporations fund what used to be Institutions for Higher Learning, but were replaced by business oriented facilities teaching Flat Earth Economics where the Bottom Line is given and No Stupid Answer is wrong, rewarding incompetence in the name of the Almighty Profit D'Allah!

Severe cuts to education and all other Emergency Public Services leads to our present Constitutionally Ignorant Society of Good Little Consumers whose only choice for jobs will be poverty level slave wages at WalMart, whose attitude towards their employees is not only blatantly non-union, but less than human. They audaciously collect millions more on Dead Peasant Insurance policies unbeknownst to families who collect nothing!

Here is a Credible Researched Named Source: Texas attorney Mike Meyers, whose partnership handles these cases and one may access a list of corporations who utilize these policies at his website via search engines, using that same Not-So-Christian moniker "Dead Peasant Insurance".

No doubt that all Good Little Christian RepubliKKKans will write these poor people off as more "Sob Stories"! The Constitution argues against the use of titles or the ascendency to a priviledged class in Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:

"No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

Even those European Royal Families whose massive fortunes were obtained using Less Than Christian Means via the slave labor of serfs that our AmeriKKKan Corporate Crime Families are trying so hard to emulate have something called "Noblesse Obligue"!

You pampered little girly man.

"California consistently raises taxes"? What Calif is he talking about? Thanks to Prop 13 (66% needed for approval of any tax) and the intransigent Repugnant minority, "No tax increases", spending is cut. And you know what goes first- eduction, healthcare, senior programs etc. The only reason the budget is getting passed on time this year is because we voted out the 2/3 majority and the minority can't hold it up anymore.

Romney’s Trickle Down rains jobs and money from the 1% down to the 99%. Wish someone told when/where the next Great Giveaway’ll take place? Bush’s Tax Cuts have handed trillions to the ultra rich and corporations so far. Their coffers are bursting. Rumors run neighborhood billionaires will hand out to all folks jobs and $1000-bills. Just curios, when’s the jobs? Where’s the money? Can someone reveal when/where?

To this guys credit, he made a valid point abut reinstating Glass-Steagall, and I'll get back to you on the issue of an open market for credit default swaps. But his fixation on debt and taxation demonstrates the clear disconnect that is innate to republican philosophy. The "sob" stories are the ones that are the indicator of whether or not the economy is what it's advertised to be, or working at all for that matter.

I must say I also appreciate Mr. Hovde's beseeching people to read more and I would respond by imploring him to read more starting with Marx and Engels. Whatever one's opinion of Marx or his presumed intellectual descendants, one cannot escape his critique of capitalism.

Life spans at the writing of the Constitution were shorter than they are today. I propose the qualifying age for federal office be raised: age 50 for the House, age 55 for the Senate, age 60 for President. Let this fellow run for some local office and gain more experience. Let him show Wisconsinites he can improve a city or county before considering him for the U.S. Senate or even the State legislature. We need wisdom now more than ever.

Does anyone doubt that GOP and its sponsors live in a different America than the 99% of live in? The strange part is that they are still able to talk nonsense and media gives it coverage. Would anyone ask them what is their plan for fixing the economy and how will it work? They just seem to think the rest of us are as blinded by their insanity as their corporate employees who cannot or will not think straight from fear of losing their slave jobs (wage slaves bought and sold at will like medieval serfs but with no responsibility for their care from the lord of the manor)!