As I looked at the CNN website today, I see a great deal of space being delegated to videos of the political candidates, both Democrat and Republican. It is amazing how much information is going to be available in this election cycle, that was not there even in 2004.

The space taken for all of this must become useful, and not simply there for entertainment value, as comedians have the ability to refer to the gaffes that the candidates make, but the meat of what is being said must become a tool to hold the winner’s hands to the fire.

Today, the candidates are being featured giving opinions of the tax system, why it needs to be changed, or abolished, and what they will do to bring the changes. Here is where everyone should bookmark these speeches. This should then be replayed to each and every incumbent who has the chutzpah to dare run in the next election, if substantial change is not implemented during the next 2-4 years.

Each candidate gives the lip service to change, and yet knows that the landscape is going to change radically when the winners take over the country in 2009. Nationally, ‘W’ has put his brand on every screw up committed during the last 7 years. Something is going to have to be done, as the deficit will be at levels that make any prior amount pale. The first thing that a Democrat will want to do is raise taxes, the first thing a Republican will want to do is ignore the problem. They will both want to keep spending.

This is the time when those old video clips of each politician talking about reducing deficits, curbing waste (because strangely, no one is for waste, but both sides do it so well!), and keeping spending within the needed limits. The clips should be played each time the elected person speaks, on a screen behind them, with the volume brought up for needed emphasis at the appropriate times.

This is how that space will not end up being just a waste of so many hard drives.

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