Tonight I watched the 2 hour long Presidential debate among the Republican candidates, debate number 6 I believe for an election still over a year away. This debate focused on the economy, farming was only mentioned once, that was a jibe from one of the questioners over the 26 billion spent this year on subsidies, she should have done her homework and said, 13 billion on subsidies, the rest for foodstamps etc. This question was asked of Mitt Romney from Massachusetts, hardly a farming stronghold, amazingly he said he supported farm subsidies as long as European farmers are being subsidised so should ours be. With regard to energy all seem to be genuine in their serious approach to making our country less dependant on the Persian Gulf for oil, it seems this is now more of a question of national security than anything else, this translated into their support for continued government support for biofuels, but I was also surprised the majority seemed in favor of more nuclear power. The most surprising question to me was asked of several, "Will London replace New York as the world financial center?". Of course everyone said "no", one even said, "will the UK replace the USA as the main world power, NO". I hadn't realized this even was a concern, but the banter back and forth made clear to me that London is controlling more and more world finance. China has taken center stage for countries that worry us economically, while we are quite concerned about Iran militarily, all but one seemed to agree Iran must never obtain a nuclear weapon. My final thoughts are that I still don't know who to vote for, and I am going to be mighty tired of all this by the time we get to November 2008.