Elections

Elections for the San Juan mayor were held yesterday, but I have no idea who won. Strange, right? As loud and full of parades and Sandanista flags and trucks as the streets were in the weeks leading up to the elections here, that's how quiet it seems now. Elections were yesterday; laws forbade alcohol sales from Saturday night to last night. Quite the opposite of the election traditions in the States!

I did not vote this year. Honestly, I don't know for whom I would've voted, anyway. Socially, I'm 100% behind Obama's policies protecting women's privacy, supporting gay rights, etc. but economically... From what I've been reading, I feel like the recovery is too slow, to put it simply. Yeah, jobs are cropping up, but the numbers are less than what economists predicted. And a lot of liberal economists talk about how government debt doesn't actually matter. It doesn't affect anything in real terms. I don't buy that.