My Friend John Barnes…

…is worried that nobody, Left or Right, is serious about our massive debt. He’s right, of course. Which is one of the growing list of reasons I have so little respect for either party. I like former Republican John’s description of his predicament:

The growing realization that neither political party is truly capable of dealing with the U.S.’s fiscal cancer has been the major impetus in my drift from the “Republican” to “None of the above” category (when I grudgingly joined Facebook I listed my political views as “probably not yours.” It’s vague enough to describe my frustration with the whole sad game right now, and being a Hillsdale grad on the Left Coast, it seems to fit).