Left Turn on Bird Street

New Hampshire next - does it really matter?

Now that Iowa is done for another four years and New Hampshire is just around the corner, we should know in the next 11 or days who will be the nominees to run for the privilege of heading our country.

The two candidates who represent real change, Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich, don't have a chance of winning. It should be noted though that Paul has assembled an interesting assortment of supporters who could influence, at least in the short-term, the rhetoric of the campaign.

In the end though, money will trump all else.

In the major media, second place winner John Edwards has already been declared dead-in-the-water in New Hampshire.

Why?

Not because of the ideology of his campaign. No it is because he has much less money than Clinton and Obama.

As I have said before, nothing is going to substantially change in this country until there is a catostrophic economic collapse. Perhaps millions getting their food from the dumpsters outside the gated communities of the rich.

Let them eat our table scraps!

So it goes. Money in politics, mostly from multi-national corporations, will continue to shape all aspects of our life.

So for all you people out there who think a new administration is going to 'change' things, don't be to disappointed a couple years from now when the only 'change' you is the continued steady decline of your economic lot in life.