My musings for today.

I am  trying to stay off Facebook to give my friends a rest from hearing my excellent political commentary.  I don't want them to have to say "I wish I thought of that".  Anyway here are come comments for today.

1.  Clinton delegates: she still does not have enough earned delegates to win the nomination outright. If the super delegates don't stick with her, the convention would be wide open.  Some democracy we preach.  After a full season of primaries and caucus's the voice of the people is still going to take a back seat to the political establishment.  And we want to sell out system around the world?  A system where those who vote stick their finger in an ink well to indicate they voted might be better than the millions we spend to get a result that is highly suspect.

2.  Donald Trump is taking aim at NATO and questioning why we should be spending our money to defend places that don't spend their own.  It is dangerous to tell former republics of the Soviet Union we will come to their defense if Russia attacks.  How would we respond if Hawaii and Alaska decide to go it alone and Russia makes a defense treaty with them.  Going "ape shit" would be my guess. Trump is going to get a lot of people nodding their heads in agreement with his anti NATO spending plan.  I have been thinking for a long time that the US  should just pull its forces back from most of the areas in the world we have them and tend to business in this country.  Isolationism I know some will say, but we are spending billions on places in the world where the money would do more good here at home.  George McGovern use to say in 1972 "Come Home America".

3.  New Jersey legislature has come up a plan to fund the highway construction program in the state by raising a sales tax (gas tax) every gallon purchased and compromising with anti tax conservatives by ending the estate tax and giving back other tax breaks to select groups, like seniors and veterans.  So conservatives that want to re-distribute wealth.  Well this is exactly what this plan is.  It shifts the burden of paying for transportation needs from the very wealthy to the middle class and poor.