The Republican and Democratic debates on how to handle our national debt and the debt ceiling increase is being played out like re-runs of Tom & Jerry cartoons I watched as a kid; the fighting scenes are predictable and in the end both parties get hurt. What this feels like is utter frustration wrapped in uncertainty served with a side of fear. Yes, I’m finally old enough to care enough about politics and mature enough to comprehend that I won’t live forever, but my future kids will really have a different world than in which I lived in. Yup, I even sound like a parent or grandparent. What to do then? Revolt.

Now, for full disclosure, I am not partisan. Being an Asian American in California makes me neither Red nor Blue, but a shade of Purple. I may be part of the new silent revolutionaries, the Repub-libertarian-ocrats. I am fiscally conservative, socially liberal, with a growing libertarian streak. So while I am not a staunch, card carrying party supporter, Ron Paul now kinda sounds more and more rational to me. BTW, I voted for Obama. Read More >