The economy.. what a nightmare!

With more banks closing their doors and businesses going under things are looking pretty grim. No wonder the LDS church leaders have been telling us for years(and by years I mean decades)to get out of debt and have a food storage. Now, we are by no means debt free but we are working on it and the last year or so have started building a food storage with things I know my kids will eat(because let's be honest, what is the point in storing foods that you can't rotate through). Still, the news is a daily grim reminder of how bad things are getting and groceries are more expensive than they have been in a long time. My sis in law Diane posted an interesting idea on her blog. WHO will be our next president? I truly don't know who I will vote for but hope to get people talking about it because I do think that it is important to vote. In my eyes, John McCain is a war hero and at least has similar views in foreign policy and more experience than other candidates but is too soft when it comes to sealing our borders and drilling for oil. He is not a true conservative or capitalist. Still, Obama scares the crap out of me. He is a very persuasive speaker and is a very intelligent man but it is what he insinuates that resembles socialism, talking about mandatory volunteer service in our schools and community responsibility. Don't get me wrong, I am all for volunteering in the community but I think that people should do it because they want to not because they have to. What ever happened to personal responsibility and freedom and independence? I am not obviously for big government. I really wish the Mitt Romney had been elected as the GOP candidate purely for his experience in economics because let's face it, our economy sucks! I will probably vote McCain, lesser of two evils.