November upon us, change imminent. Or is it?

I am a journalist, plain and simple. Well, I suppose it's not all that plain and simple. First and foremost, I am a writer. The journalism label sort of came out of random circumstances and stuck around despite my tendency to lean more toward the creative side of wordweaving. You'll probably catch bits and pieces of my story along the way, but that's not the point of this blog or this entry.
The point is that I am a journalist and therefore am sworn to be unbiased by trade. Or, at least that's the way I interpret the craft I've underaken, if you pick up various newspapers, magazines or switch on different news channels it becomes quite obvious who they're rooting for in the current presidential election, just as it was apparent for the past 8 years whether or not they prefered the current president or prime minister or whoever was in power in whatever country was the topic of debate. But, they train us to be properly unbiased, unless we're writing opinion pieces and I try to do things as properly as I possibly can.
Well, in this pursuit, I've managed to pick up tidbits here and there about the various presidential candidates but I was putting off choosing one. I think I actually chose one for awhile, but he has since removed himself from the race because of serious support issues.
Annyway, where I live, the other college kids are highly supportive of Ron Paul. I suppose he's an interesting candidate, who makes some solid suggestions and has some pretty great new ideas. But, my pragmatism settles in and I can't help but inform all of his supporters that the likelihood that he will win is not high.
At this point, really its almost clear who the president is going to be. It's the way our system works. Only the top two guys on either side at this point have a chance. And, on the Republicans side, everyone but McCain has pretty much given up (though I do have to give Ron Paul credit, he has really hung in there). And, of course, on the Democrats side, it's either going to be Obama or Clinton. It's even almost clear who it's going to be on that account at this point.

But, I didn't even write this blog really to talk about who was going to be our next president. I've been keeping up with that, because it's an important part of my job (I say job, when really I mean internship, but semantics really). Instead, I'm writing about the issues. See, I hadn't decided who I liked because I hadn't really looked into what any of them believed, except Ron Paul because so many people kept talking about him.

Well, really, Clinton and Obama's systems aren't all that different. The slight differences do make me prefer one over the other (my tendency toward neturality do make me want to keep my mouth shut about which at the moment) but, I have a very serious question.

They make a lot of promises, both of them. A lot of them, I really like. Such as the promises about making school more affordable for everyone and making taxes not so bad and making healthcare better. They both focus a lot on the poor and about making life better for the elderly, which are things close to my heart. But, my question is how? Where exactly do they plan on getting all that money?

From my understanding, they plan on making the world a heck of a lot better, but I don't quite understand how. Maybe, that was something I missed, but I don't know if numbers really would have helped. Because, I don't understand how they can take less of my money and give me more. It sounds ideal, too good to be true.

So, does that mean it is?

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