Oh, PUH-lease!! You are preaching to the choir, Dallas. I am so disgusted with our government (again, I LOVE my country and support her for all I'm worth, but can't stand the morons that seem to run it) it's absolutely frightening!!
Our current incumbent senator (who shall remain nameless) is currently stumping on gas prices and foreclosures -- saying HE'S going to "convince the president to tap the reserves" and HE will have the gas prices here in FL lowered. Uh ... 'scuse me?? Since when did a single, lonely senator have that kind of power???
On foreclosures, HE'S going to "force local banks" to work with those facing foreclosure AND make it easier for first-time buyers to buy NOW. He's also a BIG backer of the condo developers that helped put my area into the crapper, loan-wise and property value-wise in the FIRST place!! We have TWENTY, count'em TWENTY, condo hi-rises that aren't even at 1% occupation. Literally HUNDREDS of condos sitting there, empty and becoming eyesores!!
(The condo situation has gotten to the point that locals call them the "Great Wall of Panama City Beach" since they do, quite effectively, bear the entire brunt of the hurricanes we get.)
But while I don't blame people for hoping, or politicians from stumping issues they think will get them re-elected, it's just SO annoying to think that some voters will actually think this boob can do what he's promising!!
Our housing situation is TOO dire and dismal for his to walk back in and magically fix everything. Same, too, for gas prices.
I am just so sick of these politicians. I just wish some normal guy with normal intelligence and normal values would run. I really, really, do. :/