Red Leader,
I agree with most everything in your comment, but I don't think we should blame our TVs for telling people to vote for one of the main two parties. The major culprit is not the media, but the plurality voting system we use to elect politicians. Due to the lack of true conservatism in the Republican party, there's a lot of talk recently about third parties. If we want a third party movement to more effectively enforce accountability of our president and representatives, we need to replace plurality, the worst of all voting systems available. A version of approval voting, range voting, sometimes called score voting, appears to be the best alternative, all things considered. With range voting, splitting the conservative vote is not an issue.

Two Websites that describe range voting are:

http://www.rangevote.net/

http://rangevoting.org/


Also, here is an interview of William Poundstone, a voting systems expert who recommends range voting, by a Mother Jones reporter at the following address:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/01/verdict-our-voting-system-loser

...then you also voted for dramatic government growth. Sorry to break it to you, but its the truth. We need private sector growth and govt shrinkage and we can start with ending military presence in the 150 countries around the planet where people should be taking responsibility for themselves(ie conservative foreign policy). People had conservative choices available in Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin in 2008, but allowed their tv's to convince them that they couldn't win, so therefore got them to abandon their conservative principles and accept the fundamentals of socialism and widespread amnesty for criminals in the form of Amnesty Mccain. Mccain voters also split the conservative vote by voting for someone who obviously wasn't conservative, putting Obama in power. A new party needs to be formed to get these neo-con scum out of the GOP. Maybe call it the Imperial Party or the Imperial Theocracy or something.

Why do the banks keeping adding fees? Maybe because their shareholders, people like you and I with stocks in our 401k and IRA expect these stocks to make money. At shareholder meetings the CEO's are beaten up for not making more profits, so they start adding more fees... it's an ongoing cycle.

Who's fault is it? Look in the mirror.

The reason that this is so scary is because with this money crisis will turn into a literal disaster in short order. We have already seen a good amount of people lose their homes. What happens when the commercial collapse begins? Do we want these liberals REALLY taking advantage of this crisis and starting to move us toward a fundamentally new system of government? They would be in charge of the change over. We have much to worry about. What they are doing right now is exactly why states are flirting with the notion of secession. With 16 of the top 19 banks in this country completely insolvent (and I do mean COMPLETELY) I think we have a REAL problem here...and unfortunately there seems no way to solve it. If just 1 or 2 of those banks go under the FDIC will run out of money to cover deposits. Any bank that fails after would have NONE of its deposits covered. The only way they could is if they printed more money...only problem is that by that time the dollar will be worth less than the paper it is printed on and then we have a new problem...government issued vouchers for the necessities. Fun times huh?