Last night at this time, the counter in the right hand column of this blog had not yet reached half a trillion dollars. Today it has gone beyond that -- amazing how fast a billion dollars can be spent by our insane governmental "leaders." This is what I had written before the power went off:
Not talking about the election returns this evening, but the numbers of dollars spent on the useless War in Iraq. You can see them ticking away to the right of this post. We are fast approaching 500 billion dollars. That's half a trillion not spent on health care, education, low-income housing, science research, developing green technologies and so on.Woke up this morning to find that Hillary had taken 3 out of 4 states, doing extremely well in Ohio. I wasn't surprised. Most people I had talked to were voting for her, although they also expressed admiration for Barack Obama. Many folks continue to want both of them on the ticket.
Soon after I began this blog, I found the counter you see embedded here and at that time it was around 350 billion. But dollars wasted isn't the worst aspect of this war. It's the loss of life and not only soldier lives. Every Iraqi death creates more potential terrorists among the survivors. No wonder McCain feels the need to stay there for 100 years.
In local news, we are thrilled that Issue 8 passed and that public transportation will not be diminished in Akron.
Saddest election story is the defeat of Louise Heydorn for county council. Full disclosure -- Louise is a colleague of mine. I can attest that she is an outstanding leader: bright, collaborative, science-minded and a diligent worker. She has been the only Republican on Summit County's council for many years and had been working to develop green initiatives for our county.
She was defeated by John Widowfield, a conservative endorsed by the local Republican party. I wonder if Heydorn was hurt by Independents and Republicans crossing over to vote in the Democratic presidential primary. I hope she picks herself up and runs again in the future -- come join the Democrats, Louise! We need women of your character and intelligence to represent us.
2 comments:
"...Hillary had taken 3 out of 4 states, doing extremely well in Ohio. I wasn't surprised. Most people I had talked to were voting for her,"
Both of the Ohio Reps that I interact with on [another blog] crossed over to vote for Hildy. They definitely think she'll be more beatable in the General Election.
And as you know, several weeks ago, in my own state's (open) primary, I took the chance to vote against her, out of sheer loathing.
So yesterday I had an unseemly guffaw moment, when I heard an NPR commentator bloviating about how the Reps needed to start worrying, based on the high turnout in the (contested) Dem primary compared to the low turnout in the (uncontested) Rep primary. Somebody needs to alert these geniuses to the porousness of the boundaries between their "two" parties. Lots of Hildy's Ohio votes came from evil Reps, and the rest came from evil Dems.
Lots of invective here, but little in terms of why you hate Hillary. As far as the evil Dems in Ohio who voted for Hillary, I must tell you that most people I interact with on a daily basis were Hillary supporters. I tend not to see them as evil people.
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