As I See It: Looking forward; looking back

I’d like to say something about the election results, but since I wrote this column a week before the election, that would be foolish. In a positive vein, we are going to be spared the avalanche of distasteful campaign ads for a while. I’ve often wondered if the people who come up with such novel ways to twist, misquote or spin what candidates write, say and do stay awake at night congratulating themselves on their cleverness or somehow look in the mirror and ask themselves if this is a moral way to make a living. However, we can rest easy knowing an army of analysts, commentators and just plain political hacks will be hard at work telling us what happened, what we should believe and why. In thinking about the outcome of the elections, I have a few observations. First, at the national and individual state levels, we cannot continue electing politicians who spend more than we take in from taxes and the other revenue sources.

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