When President Bush leaves office that is not the only thing he will leave. Bush will leave a budget deficit of over 490 billion dollars. This exorbitant amount is unprecedented in the history of the entire world. Perhaps you have heard the saying “do the math?” When you do the math, the statistics are staggering. The per-capita debt for every man, woman and child in America now stands at over $30,000! And this is based on 2007 stats. Another serious problem to consider during this presidential election year is; do we really want another Republican in office? Under Republican administrations the National Debt increased. During the last Republican controlled presidential administrations the increase is incomprehensible. Statistical figures tell a disconsolate story that can only portend doom for America financially. How can this astronomical debt ever be repaid? And do we really want more of the same from John McCain and the Republican Party? Hardly!

What have the Republicans’ brought to the table, exactly? Well, we have war! We have debt beyond belief! How many widows and orphans have the Republicans caused because of their wars? We have extortionate gas prices! Our jobs and resources are being outsourced to other countries to obtain a higher profit margin by GOP fueled Capitalism!  Our privacy rights are now brought into question by the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 which includes warrantless wiretapping supposedly to protect us from foreign enemies!   And, the Republicans have put us into severe bondage equated to the time of Moses and Egypt. The Republican Pharaohs have imposed upon us rigorous servitude as the nation is being offered for less than thirty pieces of silver to our enemies. When the debt comes due and the financial obligations are demanded in repayment, where will the money come from, the U.S. Treasury printing presses? Can we just create money and buy our way out of this financial disaster? Not likely!

The Republicans have been in power for twenty of the last twenty-eight years. Republicans have ruled via Reagan-Bush One eight years, Bush One four years, and now Bush 2 eight years. They leave a deplorable financial legacy. During Bush 2 alone the National Debt has almost doubled, and by some current estimates, it has! “On the day Bush 2 took office, the National Debt stood at this unfathomable number:

$5,727.776.738,304.64

In fiscal shorthand, that's $5.7 trillion dollars. Trillion with a "T."

Six and a half years later, the Bureau of Public Debt tells us the National Debt clocks in at a staggering:

$8,835,268,597,181.95

That's $8.8 trillion – an increase of $3.1 trillion dollars since January 20, 2001. And that amounts to a jump of 54% during Mr. Bush's watch.

If you wanted to pay it off, dividing it equally among the U.S. population (estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau to be 302,103,675), it would come to $29,245.82 for every man, woman and child” (CBSNews.Com)!

I have looked at a plethora of United States National Debt charts and they all tell the same story! They graphically depict a distressing financial picture of the debt under each president since pre and post WW 2. The Republicans are most likely to increase debt during their administrations when compared to the Democrats! This is particularly distressing for me as I have been a registered Republican throughout my voting life. My grandfather was an ardent Democrat and knew politics very well. As a college graduate he learned the political sciences and was current on political issues throughout his life. Undoubtedly this is where I obtained my political passions.   The one thing in this is; I thought for some reason that my grandfather was a Republican because he was always so conservative. Although he discussed politics fluently and frequently, I was somehow led to mistakenly believe that he was a Republican. So, I registered as a Republican to follow in his political footsteps and many years later I learned the truth from my mother, grandpa was a Democrat! Was I ever surprised, and so was my mother that I registered as a Republican! Well, now we have a dilemma! What should be done this electoral year? For my part, some of the things Obama and Biden are saying capture my attention. However, I have a problem with their abortion and same sex cohabitation stances. I cannot condone the murder of innocents, and I cannot condone same sex relationships or marriages. So, thus the quandary!   The Republican Party is offering stagnant candidates and more of the same. Their platform and execution of such will follow the Bush pattern, and as much as he tries to distance himself from Bush 2, McCain is still leftovers. And Palin can’t walk on water as some disillusioned Republicans believe. Between Palin and Hillary (and I can’t stand Hillary) I will give the academic and political edge to Hillary. Palin is politically livid by comparison. So now you can have war and debt with the Republican Party, or you can have the social doctrine with the Democratic Party. Personally, I think the obvious choice would be the one that leads to peace, and which party can supply this?