Well, its in my opinion thus far, and I'm still keeping my mind open...That 8 yrs and no action is what I've seen from Gore. My taxes have increased, I pay more for social security. My gasoline costs more because I personally think the Clinton admin. doesn't have much on foreign policy and hasn't dealt with OPEC nations very well. My property taxes have GONE WAY UP! The Economy as much as you think its gotten any better, you better take a look to see if its gone up at all and really give credit where credit is due, a.k.a. The Microsofts, Cisco, Boeing, etc. and not Billy-Bob. People run this country, not presidents. Its obsurd to think that Clinton/Gore single-handedly have taken credit for todays rising economy. When in all actuallity its pretty much been both a bear and bull market. Not because of an administration. So far all I see is Democrats TAX,TAX,TAX...SPEND,SPEND,SPEND.
Where'd all the surplus go??? it disappeared.

Atleast we know if Bush comes to office there will be a chance alot of those things that directly effect you and me get changed for the better. Better meaning if your the average Joe in the middle to lower class your going to get more tax refunded right back to your pocket. Eh, who cares if the rich are getting richer, its always been that way, nothings gonna change that. Your going to see lower gasoline prices because of Cheney's foreign policy, he's great with the saudi's and Kuwaitti's, and had a very well rounded reputation with middle-east countries during the past Bush admin. And When there's a budget surplus, atleast theres a hope that bush will try to get it back into your pockets. You earned that money didn't you? Then you deserve it. Alot of us work for companies that hold on to our money for two weeks just so its easier to pay us, and also they collect some interest from banks based on that money. Well with republicans at the healm, I think they realize where the money should be. And that's with the people that earned it in the 1st place. Not stashed away never to be seen by democrats.

Today on Public access they had a bunch of folks from Seattle parks and rec. They were at the seattle aquarium talking about how well they've done with what little budget Locke has given them to deal with. They made it clear that if there was a different administration, more federal money would have been free'd up back to the aquarium to continue their expansion and continue further developing Chinook,Coho, and Chum runs into Elliot bay. The tribes and WDFW were also represented there very well and they also agreed that alot of funds that are available get shuffled out of existence by the current administration. There are alot of great plans they presented and for once I was actually impressed with several ideas including indian tribal netting in elliot bay/duwamish head every other year instead of every time the open it up. The idea based upon federal dollars given directly to the WDFW to supervise the expansion of indian ran hatcheries. Meaning they would stay off the water and raise fish for the taking by sportsfishermen every other year.

Another idea they had that they had been working with snohomish county was to boost federal support for runs that are currently working intead of cutting funding to them like Skykomish river summer/winter steelhead. Summer/Fall run Kings on the Sky, Stilly,Green. Also they had been working with Tacoma city light to help reogranize an effort to turn things around on the Cowlitz/Skamania systems. These are positive ideas that are being limmited because they said, " This administration currently in office, is limmiting and having an impact on commons goals of several agencies around the Northwest. And Without allocated funding that is getting set aside into a budget surplus only to vanish later on, these projects sadly enough cannot expand, instead they will close."

Anyways, I don't wanna go on anymore, my main point is, IF the money was there, those programs would be greatly boosted. BUT with things the way they currently are, according to the puget sound environmental commission, things are looking pretty bad for alot of fisheries in this state. Mainly the Cowlitz. Bummer.

Time for a federal shot in the arm. And Gore ain't going to make it happen.