I'd Like To Have A nickel For Every Lie.

I can't believe it. Sixteen million dollars was spent on the Republican campaign for the Iowa
Caucuses. Sixteen million! Dollars! That's enough to repair 300 structurally deficient bridges in Iowa. Of course if you live in Iowa, I'm pretty sure you won't be surprised. In fact if you live there, you may think all the money in the world was spent on that campaign. Now remember that Iowa is a somewhat small state and this is only the primary season. We haven't gotten to the actual general election campaign. I can't even begin to guess what they're going to spend on that. What gets me is probably 75% of that money was spent on negative advertising. So it wasn't and won't be about what it is that a candidate will or won't do, it was and will be about how to make the other guy look like he's the wrong guy for the job. And much of it, if not all will be untrue. See how kind I was? That's right, there will be so many lies told that nobody, not even the candidates being attacked, will know for sure if it was them being attacked or if they actually did such dastardly things. Now these ads won't actually lie, they'll just bend the truth until the truth squeals. Then they'll take words from this speech and insert them in that speech and change the meaning of what was actually said so that it sounds like they actually did say those dastardly thing. Is that a good use of all that money? Way, way over a Billion dollars before this election is done. Should we be spending that much money on electing somebody who isn't willing to say what needs to be said or do what needs to be done? And if you throw in congress, it's even more money and more lies. Where do you suppose all this money comes from? I can tell you this much it isn't all coming from poor people or even the middle class. I can tell you that much. So if it isn't coming from poor or middle class people, then it must be coming from Job Creator. My question is this. If they have all this money to spend on elections, how come they didn't spend it on creating jobs? I think the answer is, it's cheaper to buy a president or congressman than it is to create a job. And not as risky.