how about from some of us who are trying to dismantle the "fence" ?
Since you are in SoCal, you have the distinguished capability to do what other people in this nation only dream about--vote your conscious without negative repurcussions.
One of Ralph Nader's positions is to stop government waste. I believe he argues the same as I do: that military spending is one huge boondoggle for the military industrial complex to the detriment of our nation's fiscal sanity. Only by reducing expenditure can your tax burden be reduced.
Bush has been pumping the economy up with money he doesn't have. Our debt stretches into the horizon. You and I will have to pay that debt down while simultaneously servicing it. We, as well as our children, will have to pay the principal and the interest someday.
Kerry has a lot of plans, but I haven't seen how he plans on balancing the budget in detail. He has joined forces to do it before, however, and I don't doubt he will team up with the Congress and do it again. But I don't see him cutting the hugely wasteful expenditures that persistently hang around the Capitol--like a raunchy fart.
So vote Nader if you value your fiscal sanity, environment, and anti-corporatism (being small business, this may interest you immensly).
Someone else hopefully will step in and speal you on Badnarik, because I suspect he purports to end government waste, too. But I don't know enough about his platform to give you a fair synopsis of it.