There's another debate tonight, but here's something that's been sticking in my head since the last debate. A questioner challenged Kerry to talk straight to the camera and say he wouldn't raise taxes on households making over $200,000/year, and Kerry did so. Later on he talked about raised the level of health care for everyone in this country dramatically. I'm wondering how he's going to do this without raising taxes?

One thing from tonight's debate...in talking about the outsourcing of jobs overseas, Bush stressed further education as the solution. That is, further funding for Pell grants and other assistance to allow people to go to community college if their jobs are lost. I'm thinking...does he consider *white collar* job loss? I don't know many people at work that would want to go back to school if their job was outsourced...especially those that have multiple degrees already or have gone to graduate school. Kerry's answer was that he couldn't promise outsourcing wouldn't happen (no one could) but he'd try to level the playing field by eliminating the tax breaks that are given to US companies that can defer their taxes by off-shoring workers. I liked that answer.