"It seems to me that the federal government just doesn't want to know who is here illegally and who's not," Roberts said.

Verrilli seemed to struggle to convince even the court's more liberal justices that the federal government has exclusive authority over immigration matters. Some noted that the checks required by SB1070 are checks that police routinely make already.

"You can see it's not selling very well," Justice Sonia Sotomayor said to Verrilli. "Why don't you try to come up with something else?"

Verrilli argued the Constitution gives the federal government exclusive authority over immigration because it can affect foreign relations, but the justices appeared skeptical of that reasoning, too.

"What does sovereignty mean if it does not include the ability to defend your borders?" Justice Antonin Scalia asked.

"What's wrong about the states enforcing federal law?" Scalia asked. "There is a federal law against robbing federal banks. Can it be made a state crime to rob those banks? I think it is."

Pearce, the Mesa Republican whose support of SB1070 sparked his recall last year, said that "even the liberals thought their arguments were weak."

He declared it "a great day for Arizona and a great day for America," and reiterated his belief that SB1070 is only doing the job the federal government has failed to do itself.

"We will not apologize for demanding our border is secure and our laws are enforced," he said.

Obama who made promises that he never intended to keep is now on his way out.  Heavy duty fat cutting will be coming to a Congress and Senate near you as the economy has  been driven to the edge of the cliff ( January 2013) and we as passengers on the bus can only hang on for dear life and pray that the next driver will be able to back it up and get us on a  successful road  home.

Many, including myself,  made the fatal mistake of listening to this pied piper and believing he was another LBJ, or Truman and  believe that anyone would have done a better job than this fellow. He missed the mark so many times, and backed off when he should have  put the pedal to the metal.

Promises were made, yet the actions never came about. Even with a  Democratic Senate and House in the pocket to provide an easy two first years.... Success never materialized.

We knew coming into this economy in 2008 that America was headed in the wrong direction, no fault of the Pied Piper. But President Obama, did nothing to help the people...he did help the banks and lobbyists.

Those promises of change, hopes of a better economy and dreams of an accountable administration were bashed against the rocks of  inability of Democrats to actually find a voice beyond the campaign.  Leadership also  escaped Harry Reid in the Senate and Nancy Pelosi in the House , not just Barack Obama in the White House.

 The open door policy was  quickly slammed in  shut on the public and opened wide to the Lobbyists.  We went from a (Bush)  Goldman Sachs administration to another Goldman Sachs - Citi Bank Administration with Banks being Bailed out while American Families moved to the streets.....

Not what we were promised by TEAM OBAMA.

   President Obama moved forward with the agenda....Not the American Peoples.....His.

By bringing the Cash for clunkers rebate program under the guise of stimulus, the Government (With Salesman Obama ) was able to take thousands of older, NON-COMPUTER CHIPPED  vehicles off the Highway.. And replace them with Computer chipped ....easy to follow, easy to find and track models, that now let all sources in government know where you have been and how long it took you to get there.

Pretty soon we won't need Police.... The tracking system will just flatten your tires when it wants you to stop.

007?  Big Brother? Gold Finger? Socialistic?  Who the hell knows.. But it's on all the new Vehicles.

Just drive from San Diego  to  New Mexico.. And watch what the border patrol does with their new hand held devices..

  Damn.. Bet they didn't think we would notice...

So as we bail this bank out for that reason, and we watch the Homeless multiply in the streets of our large cities....

The workers, or those that can afford to travel are being watched.. the same as our trucks... the same as our phones, that new game on the I phone...pretty controlling.... and all in the works since..Mr Amazing got into the White House.

   It's time for a Change.... I for one am not going to fall for the CHANGE IDEA again...

I would love to have my neighbors back, I would love to have a REAL person that can lead and listen.

Get us out of the IMF, NATO, and  close our southern border. Allow us to stay SOVEREIGN and not owned by the U.N.

Our Laws are in place to protect OUR people.  If the rest of the world wants to live under the eye of Big Brother... Let Them.                 But don't finance them to over throw our ideals and way of life.

Cut the FAT.

Stop Funding The IMF...The U.N. .... Policing the world.... Develop Our Resources... Bring back OUR jobs in Manufacturing..... Forget what North Korea is going to do.. let the Chinese worry about them.. Let Afghanistan rot! We don't need to waste one more AMERICAN LIFE in the Middle east.

Force the Congress to Up or down votes and cut their pay by half.

If they want to work part time... pay them part time.

Legalize Marijuana... We have thrown Billions of dollars away...Why?

Build a Border that can be controlled, send the Illegals home, make them take their kids with them. I can't afford to put my 14 year old through College, and I sure as hell won't be paying to send  some Illegals kid to school.

WAKE the HELL America.

In his first year in office, President Obama increased the federal government’s share of GDP from twenty to twenty five percent! If we add in state and local spending, government approached a forty percent share of the economy. His Obama Care and proposals for more stimulus spending and massive infrastructure investments were designed to keep the federal government at a quarter or more of the economy as a new normal.

The 2012 election will be a battle by the Republicans to roll back federal spending to its historical rate of twenty percent or below. An Obama victory would enshrine the quarter-of-the-economy federal share as a new baseline. The United States would then be on its way to European welfare state spending levels and would have to find ways of raising revenues to European taxation levels.

It is this scary scenario that gave birth to the Tea Party. The mainstream press has repeatedly tried to write the Tea Party’s obituary as out-of-touch, ineffective, and having lost its steam. That the Tea Party has already saved taxpayers between $300 and $500 billion shows its striking impact on the American fiscal scene. This insight should invigorate its members for the 2012 election.

Fortunately, for every person that still thinks that it makes sense for this plant to be illegal, there seems to be at least one who is aware that that very notion is absurd. And further, there are a lot of people who are very inspired to remedy the situation that are working tirelessly to at least make sure that sick people can use the plant to help them feel better. Lots of those people are coming together on February 19th for the 14th Annual Medical Marijuana Benefit Concert at Revolution in Fort Lauderdale, which will be hosted by Ploppy Palace Productions and NORML of Florida.

The event is set to be an informative, entertaining, and productive gathering of folks from various realms of the pro-pot movement. Over twenty bands from a variety of genres -- including Cyril Neville, Spam Allstars, Crazy Fingers, and Nag Champayons--poets, dancers, and visual artists will entertain, experts on relevant topics will give presentations, and heady vendors will sell their wares.

"The governor did balance the budget … he did reduce the structural deficit significantly; he did put a lid on property tax increases; he did give schools and municipalities more control over their budgets than they've had in years."

What's more, the reforms pushed by Walker are themselves already having a beneficial effect. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was Walker's opponent in the 2010 election and later attacked his proposals to reform collective bargaining. But with the reforms on the books, Barrett used some of the bill's provisions to help reduce the city's health care bill, saying that the alternative was to cut 300 to 400 city jobs.

Paul, the 76-year-old libertarian-leaning Texan, drew about 500 people at the Iowa State fairgrounds in Ames late Wednesday. A group of Occupy activists tried to interrupt the rally, but that wasn't the main surprise.

State Sen. Kent Sorenson, who had campaigned a few hours earlier with Bachmann as a state chairman of her bid, announced he would support Paul instead.

Paul's anti-government appeal appears to tap into the desire of a frustrated electorate for profound change in an era of high unemployment and an economy that has only slowly recovered from the recession.

"In the last couple of weeks I fell into Ron Paul's camp," said Bob Colby, of Newton, who spent 21 years in the military and is a former employee of a now-shuttered Maytag plant in town.

Paul, who is airing TV ads hitting Romney and Gingrich, planned a town hall meeting Thursday in Perry, Iowa, plus stops in Atlantic and Council Bluffs.

Illegals get benefits from various generous welfare programs, free medical care, free schools for their kids, including meals, and of course, instate tuition rates and scholarships too. Governor Perry​, California has a heart. Nothing's too good for our guests.

To erase even a hint of criticism of illegal immigration, the California Legislature is considering a unilateral state amnesty. Democrat State Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes has proposed an initiative that would bar deportation of illegals from California.

Interesting dilemma for Obama there. If immigration is exclusively a federal matter, and Obama has sued four states for trying to enforce federal immigration laws he won't enforce, what will the President do to a California law that exempts California from federal immigration law?

California is also near fulfilling the environmentalist dream of deindustrialization.

After driving out the old industrial base (auto and airplane assembly, for example), air and water regulators and tax policies are now driving out the high-tech, biotech and even Internet-based companies that were supposed to be California's future.

The United States economy never really emerged from the recession that began in 2008 and is possibly headed for a more chronic depression, and the prognosis for recovery doesn't look good, especially in 2013, says international investor Jim Rogers.

President Barack Obama has tried to spend the economy back into recovery, which never helps, Rogers told Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview.

When an economy falls into a recession, which normally happens once every four to six years, it needs to run its course, which is painful but healthy in the long run.

Spending money via stimulus packages or through ultra-loose monetary policies resuscitates the economy but not for long and makes the day of reckoning even more painful when it arrives.

"We are talking about serious unemployment, we're talking about more losses, we're talking about more bankruptcies. Potentially a depression? Yes, of course, potentially a depression," Rogers says.

"In America we have had recessions every four to six years since the beginning of the Republic. So by 2012 or 2013, we're going to have another one, and it's going to be much, much worse. Whether that's a depression or not I don't know but be very careful because America is getting deeper and deeper into trouble," he said.

What can the government do? Reverse the spending policies of the Obama administration, he says.

"We cannot quadruple our debt every four or five years. We cannot print staggering amounts of money every four or five years. So there's going to come time when we've shot all of our bullets, and it's going to be a big mess."

On top of hundreds of billions of dollars in stimulus measures the administration has rolled out, the Federal Reserve has pumped $2.3 trillion into the economy via quantitative easing, which are asset purchase from banks that critics describe as printed money with little backing that in the end threatens to push up inflation rates.

Government intervention won't work here as it hasn't elsewhere.

Men give Cain his first-place showing: 26 percent prefer him; Mitt Romney gets 18 percent. (For women, it is almost an exact flip; they prefer Romney 27 percent to Cain’s 17 percent.)

The furthest-right voters are under Cain’s thumb. Of those who say they’re “very” conservative, 24 percent go to Cain. Michele Bachmann ranks at 12 percent, then Newt Gingrich at 11 percent.

Cain also has upside potential with secondary votes. Nineteen percent pick him as their second choice, ahead of Gingrich (13 percent) and Romney (11 percent).

Add first or second choice together, and the race is less competitive: Cain claims 42 percent to Romney’s 33 percent.

Several poll participants interviewed said they regretted voting for Bachmann or others at the Iowa straw poll the instant they heard Cain speak. But he was the last to take the stage, and by then it was too late.

"There's one myth out there that I want to clarify. I am in it to win it, not to get a TV show," Cain told a crowd of about 200 people at the Bryant Conference Center.

The former pizza company executive's unorthodox campaign, which eschews some of the traditional strategies of modern presidential campaigns, has frequently had to defend itself against critics and naysayers who accuse Cain of harboring ulterior motives.

The attacks on Cain have increased as he climbed to the top tier of GOP contenders in several recent polls.

Cain has been campaigning in Southern states without early primaries, while other serious contenders have focused (as they traditionally have) on key early-voting states, like Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida. Although he did not have any book-selling events on his swing through Alabama, Cain frequently included them in his campaign schedule this month, leading his critics to suspect he was interested in boosting sales for his autobiography, "This Is Herman Cain! My Journey to the White House."

The Cain doctrine is peace through strength and clarity. We must clarify who are friends are and who are enemies are and stop giving money to our enemies," he said.

Cain also threw a few punches at the Obama administration, but the crowd seems to receive him well, even as he pointed out more than once that he's currently seeing a bump in the polls.

Now we learn, via the LA Times, that the healthcare reform that Governor Romney ushered in during his tenure in Massachusetts, colloquially referred to as RomneyCare, contained a provision that provided public aid to undocumented immigrants:

The Massachusetts healthcare law that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed in 2006 includes a program known as the Health Safety Net, which allows undocumented immigrants to get needed medical care along with others who lack insurance.

Uninsured, poor immigrants can walk into a health clinic or hospital in the state and get publicly subsidized care at virtually no cost to them, regardless of their immigration status.

His support base in Louisiana is very polarized by race," Faucheux said. "He is not likely to go below" the 35 percent to 40 percent range in Louisiana.

Male GOP voters prefer Perry 57 to 35 percentage points over Obama while Republican women favor him 47 to 38 over the president. Male Republicans favor Romney 56 to 36 percentage points while GOP women favor him 49 to 39 points.

he White House trade agenda suffered a new setback last week when the Senate rejected a bill to strengthen the president’s ability to conduct trade diplomacy with other countries.

Sounds like another sorry example of Washington’s partisan paralysis, doesn’t it?

Now consider this bizarre fact: Republicans offered the proposal and Democrats defeated it. Shouldn’t it have been the other way around?

So here’s a fresh reason to wonder whether President Obama is serious about creating jobs and encouraging economic growth by boosting exports.

We know he won’t strike any new trade deals soon, following last week’s embarrassing vote on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). It would have given the Obama administration the ability to negotiate trade agreements and submit them to Congress for up-or-down votes.

Bank of America Corp. is cutting 3,500 employees this quarter and working on restructuring plans that will ax several thousand more jobs, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported citing people familiar with the situation.

The reports today say that the job cuts at the biggest U.S. bank by assets might exceed 10,000 or about 3.5 percent of its current work force.

One Democratic aide said Obama and Sen. Jon Kyl, the second-ranking Republican leader in the Senate, exchanged some testy words after Obama objected to the way Republicans were negotiating.

A Democratic official familiar with the session said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., was especially adamant that any deficit reduction package could not contain tax increases and that any new tax revenue would have to be used to pay for other tax benefits.

Obama and the congressional leaders met in the Cabinet Room of the White House for the rare Sunday session. Most appeared in casual Sunday clothes, with open-collared shirts underneath blazers.

 Hey, We have all these millions of Mexicans that are chomping at the bit to get citizenship and have a free ride, either with the DREAM Act, or just getting the illegal Social Security Card, Medicare Card and State Drivers license.

 They want to vote in our Elections and become citizens... let them...

 We annex Mexico, develop the infra structure, the coast lines, Expand the research and development that they have never started for OIL and Gas.

Put it to a VOTE in Mexico, and the U.S.

They want to be American's..... Great....  The more the merrier, I am tired of fighting the B.S. in Washington and Mexico City.  We can't stop them so lets ask them to pony up to the bar and buy the next round. Make them understand our laws as American citizens.

Now you get to pay taxes, pay into the Social Security system, Medicare, Medicaid, and everybody wins.

Lets do this in November of 2012.

The U.S. would benefit by the smaller border we would control in the new Southern State.

There would be the building of infra structure along the coast, jobs, economic expansion and investment. A larger tax base and the jobs to support it. 

 We could use the returning Military to round up the corrupt Mexican Cartel and government supported regime, and enjoy some of the best food and margarita's available in the world.

   Come on....... This is the Answer...  

You have to ask yourself...

What would Jimmy Buffet Do?

First, in distinguishing themselves from their opponents, Republicans invoke “the conservative principles” for which they stand. These principles, they assure us, are also America’s “founding principles”: “limited government,” “liberty,” “individualism,” and the like. Thus, in the spirit of these eternal verities, Republicans — during election season, at any rate — incessantly call for reductions in the size and scope of government.

Now, Ron Paul’s vision for America is as close an approximation of that of the Founders as any on the scene today. For all of the criticism to which Paul’s Republican rivals have subjected him, not one of them dares to put into question his commitment to limited — dramatically limited — government.

So, when a Republican politician comes along who is passionately, unequivocally committed to restoring the Constitutional Republic that our Founders crafted for their posterity, a Republican who enthusiastically embraces the very “founding principles” that the GOP claims to affirm, and that Republican isn’t just criticized — this is bad enough — but resoundingly ridiculed as a "crackpot" by his fellow Republicans, it is hard for a Republican voter not to get more than a bit perturbed.

Why doesn't the American Public stand up and insist that the issues plaguing America for the last 40 years be put to a vote of the American People on the 2012 Ballot?

These are the laws that affect the  American people. These are social issues that have been denied a vote in past Congressional sessions, and they need to be put to a vote by the American People

So why not allow Voters to vote on issues that Congress refuses to bring to the table?

Should We close and secure the borders of the United States? Should Citizens be first before sending foreign aid to others?

It's our money...... And we need it now?

If Congress refuses to follow the Constitution in securing and making safe the ports and borders.............

So how would the Congress, Senate and President feel if we decided to do it!

We could solve a lot of issues by voting on them.

We could save a lot of money by getting these issues out of the way. No more debate...  Add these to the national Presidential election , where everyone can vote their hearts...

CNN finished first between 8 and 10 p.m. with 3.162 million viewers, up almost 400 percent from its prime-time average the previous four Mondays — excluding Memorial Day — and more than enough to lift the network well above the usual cable news leader, Fox News, which had 1.959 million viewers for those two hours.

In a filing with a Phoenix court assistant regional inspector general, William Nixon, stated that  Bank of America “significantly hindered” its investigation in many instances including when BofA lawyers refused to “allow employees to answer questions about foreclosure procedures.

U.S. regulators and state attorneys general have been probing banks’ mortgage business one just about every front. Some are looking at the way banks packaged and sold securities that were backed by mortgages, others are looking at how defaulting homeowners were denied loan modifications and some regulators are investigating whether homeowners were forced out of the their homes improperly by so-called robo-signers.

President Barack Obama, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the U.S. Department of Justice knowingly distort figures to hide from federal lawmakers, state political leaders, and the American people the rampant corruption in this nation’s immigration court system, according to a Beltway watchdog group.

The suspected pervasive corruption allows deportable aliens to evade hearings without consequences and permits more than 1 million removal orders to be ignored by the Obama Administration, say officials with Judicial Watch, a public-interest group that investigates public and political corruption

WHERE IS THE BELOVED NATIONAL MEDIA on this.

In late May, property owners in Cedar Falls, Iowa had their city government vote (6 to 1) in the second of three votes (the third vote will be held on Monday) to force owners to place lock boxes on their property giving the Fire Department access.

The Vote is tonight..June 13,2011....

Million dollar online fundraisers are now a common feature of Ron Paul's presidential ambitions. This is the second million dollar day that Ron Paul has had in the last two months, and during his 2008 bid, he raised over four million in one day and another six million in a single day just a month later. What makes Ron Paul's most recent "money bomb" especially interesting is that his campaign styled it as a battle between Ron Paul's limited government conservatism and frontrunner Mitt Romney's record of growing the entitlement state. The official name for the fundraiser was "The Revolution vs. RomneyCare: Round One."

Mrs Clinton, the former First Lady, Senator for New York and rival to President Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary race, is said to be eager to become the first female president of the World Bank should the post become vacant next year.

"Hillary Clinton wants the job," a source close to Mrs Clinton told Reuters, which broke the news of the possible move.

Robert Zoellick, a former Bush administration official, is believed to be ready to step down as president at the end of his term in the middle of next year.

Mrs Clinton has made clear she does not want to remain US Secretary of State, a gruelling job demanding months of world travel each year, beyond Mr Obama's first term.

We all think it’s a panacea. If you don’t have enough money saved for retirement, you’ve got a few ways to close the gap between what you have and what you need in your nest egg: Save more, invest more aggressively, and/or work longer.

Well, it turns out that working longer is indeed an option, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute latest study. The only problem is that the latest research shows that you’ll have to work much longer than you anticipated. In fact, many Americans will have to keep on working well into their 70s and 80s to afford retirement, according to the study, titled “The Impact of Deferring Retirement Age on Retirement Income Adequacy.”

Texas Rep. Ron Paul has another endorsement from a key Iowa legislator.

Iowa state Rep. Kim Pearson says she will back Mr. Paul’s presidential campaign. It is the second Iowa legislative endorsement for Mr. Paul; Iowa state Rep. Glen Masssie endorsed Mr. Paul in late May.

"Even in the '80s, when our good friend, Ronald Reagan, had a tax increase, which a lot of people forget about, he said he wanted two dollars of cuts for every dollar. Nothing happened. The deficit exploded. So do you think the American people are going to believe that we're going to cut in the future?"

Paul said lawmakers will eventually come to a compromise on increasing the debt ceiling before the limit is reached on August 2.

"I do," Paul said when asked whether he thought a compromise would be reached. "And that was the type of prediction I made about the [continuing budget resolution]. Remember, it went up to the last minute. Nobody knows exactly what will happen, but I said, they'll probably do it at the last minute. And I think that's what'll happen. It'll go up to the last minute, and they will raise the debt ceiling."

Congressman Paul, who surprised supporters by raising a remarkable amount of donations and impressively passionate support, mostly through an online network of committed volunteers, has seen his limited-government/non-interventionism foreign policy message proliferate and take on a life of its own through the 2010 mid-terms that brought the GOP back into power in the House and narrowed the Democratic lead in the Senate.

When President Obama gave a speech about “comprehensive” immigration reform on May 11^th in El Paso, Texas, one thing was certain: he was in no hurry to close the border.  Instead, he seemed focused on playing politics by offering an emotional appeal to Hispanics and Latinos in a bid to keep their vote for 2012. This is why his so-called immigration reforms center around legalizing the 11 million-plus illegal immigrants “undocumented workers” who are already in this country, and it goes a long way in explaining why Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX) describes the president’s rhetoric as “purely political.”

 The long list of people lining up to take President Obama out in the General election had me wondering who some of these people were and if they were worthy of support, and my vote.

As an Independent Voter, I am today investingating Gary Johnson.

1. Because I do not know who the man is and who he is backed by.

This article is  about Gary Johnson, and I hope to learn along with you all.

Gary Earl Johnson (born January 1, 1953) is an American businessman, former Governor of New Mexico, and candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2012 election.^[1][2] He served as the 29th Governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003, and is well-known for his low-tax libertarian views and his regular participation in triathlons.

Founder of one of New Mexico's largest construction companies,^[3] Johnson entered politics for the first time by running for Governor of New Mexico in 1994 on a conservative, low-tax, anti-crime platform.^[4] He beat incumbent Democratic governor Bruce King by 50% to 40%. He cut the 10% annual growth in the budget by using his gubernatorial veto on half of bills in the first six months.^[3] His use of the veto over his two terms gained him the nickname "Governor Veto".^[5][6]

He sought re-election in 1998, winning by 55% to 45%. In his second term, he concentrated on the issue of school voucher reforms,^[7] as well as campaigning for marijuana decriminalization. During his tenure as governor, he adhered strictly to an anti-tax, anti-bureaucracy program, and set state and national records for his use of veto powers:^[3] more than the other 49 contemporary governors put together.^[8][9] Term-limited, Johnson retired from politics at the end of his second term. He "is highly regarded in the state for his outstanding leadership during two terms as governor. He slashed the size of state government during his term and left the state with a large budget surplus."^[10]

Johnson holds fiscally-conservative, socially-liberal libertarian views,^[56] and a philosophy of limited government.^[57]

Johnson is in favor of simplifying and reducing taxes.^[58] During his governorship, Johnson didn't increase taxes once and cut them fourteen times.^[59] Due to his stance on taxes, David Weigel described him as "the original Tea Party candidate".^[60]

Johnson supports balancing the federal budget immediately.^[61] He supports "slashing government spending", include Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security entitlements.^[58] His plans include cutting Medicare and Medicaid by 43% and turning them into block grant programs, with control of spending in the hands of the states to create "fifty laboratories of innovation".^[61] He advocates passing a law allowing for state bankruptcy and expressly ruling out a federal bailout of any states.^[57]

He is opposed to the United States' involvement in the War in Afghanistan and the Libyan Civil War.^[62] Having opposed the Iraq War from the start,^[57] he has called for the continued American presence in the country to end.^[63]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_E._Johnson

This article goes on to say that Johnson believes in SMALL government, is against the war in IRAQ and  Afghanistan. wants to legalize Marijuana and was a very good Governor in New Mexico.

He was Governor of New Mexico and when he left office the State had surplus money. Bill Richardson came in and squandered that and more during his terms. The State was prosperous, well run, with a minimum of polictical appointees and all costs were kept in line. He's much more qualified than any of the others contemplating the Presidency and they are more qualified than what is currently in office.        A New Mexico blogger.  Posted by: raven | Apr 22, 2011 3:40:55 PM

And this statement  below from Johnson at the same link as the blogger above. Video also at this site.

I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow,” Johnson said. “I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon, we can balance the federal budget. We can fix this…. We're not addressing the problems that we face, and that starts with Medicaid, Medicare, reforming Social Security and Defense. And I mean cutting those areas.”

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/04/gary-johnson-from-obscurity-to-prominence-in-new-hampshire.html