After reading this article and then this article I have decided we have finally come down to buying a president.

With all the people in the world going without enough food and shelter, not enough medical care etc. we have two candidates who are spending between them one billion dollars to get to the Oval Office in the White House.

It has become a campaign of greed by two people who claim to be reformers but are going about getting elected in more expensive ways than anyone prior to them.

It should be mandatory that all candidates after this election take public funding from the federal government matching funds program.

We hear one side or the other accusing each other of special interests and I can’t help but wonder what special interests would invest so much money to get one man elected to a job that pays just a few hundred thousand dollars a year.

We’ve all heard people complain this year that we really have no decent choice in the election for president, but how hard would it be for an ordinary citizen to be a candidate in today’s climate? How many primary opponents dropped out for lack of funds?

A cap should be put on primary spending and on the general election spending, including what the national committees and 527 organizations can spend.

It’s time to take the White House off the auction block and get down to the basics of being able to elect anyone president, regardless of his or her fund-raising ability. Only then will we be able to clean up the mess we have in Washington.

This should go for the candidates for Congress too. I am ashamed that we put all this money into electing someone when the money could be better spent on our own citizens in need and on those across the world who need it more than two rich men need it.