Quite candidly, I haven't even been sure I WOULD run, until more recently. Today is Tuesday, 10 April, 2012, and my slighly over 18,000 signatures to get on the ballot for the US Senate seat race as an Independent, 2012, have to be at the Supervisor of Elections' office on Tuesday, 26 June. 

 But as a 'late bloomer,' I've been around the world and done so many things and met so many people, poor, rich, accomplished and some not so accomplished, but just trying to 'eek out a living,' that in the wake of our disastrous financial affairs over the past 10 years or so, I'm not sure it would be wise for me NOT to run. 

We very much need the brightest, most experienced, highly motivated and ethically sound members of leadership possible, everwhere in our nation now, to hopefully begin to pull us back from the brink of ecomomic disaster.

Until more recently- perhaps through the Nixon-Ford Administrations - America was on an economic track of relative fairness to both the middle and upper classes, although during the Cold War years, some might have debated just how fairly WE treated the rest of the world while attempting to contain Communism. But under Ronald Reagain, circa 1980-88, and so-called 'Supply Side Ecomomics,' otherwise known as 'Laffer Economics' or 'Trickle DownTheory,' the economic balance in America began to shift strongly toward the wealthy, coming close to tripling the National Debt in the process thereof. The Reagan Administration excuse for much or all of this had to do with running the Russians back into a corner regarding their defense spending, toward the goal of breaking the now former Soviet Union, the federal $$$$ to be provided for this largely or entirely borne and/or padded by the huge ensuing deficits.

One might say that in order to break the Soviet economy, in the process of which accomodating our wealthier citizens and residents, we began to mortgage future generations to increasingly high levels. ln the process thereof, we also became the nation of the largest holder of prisoners in the Western Industrialized World.

This deficit-based 'free lunch' approach pretty much has continued through several subsequent administrations and two Middle East wars, with the notable exception of Bill Clinton, who ran three successive years of budget surpluses, and Barack Obama, who has struggled to a point against the build up of same, but tried to also couple that with achieving national healthcare, which may not have been the wisest decision, resulting in a present roughly $15.7T national debt. 

Finally, over the past 10 years or so we began to become familiar with the terms 'Subprime Mortage Industry,' 'Hedge Funds' and 'Derivatives,' the later either poorly or largely unregulated, and as Barack Obama and John McCain were warming up for the 2008 national election, the country approached the edge of financial disaster, tipped as it was by the subprime mortage industry entangled with Wall Street. Hedge fund trading and derivatives, little regulated at the time, further complicated matters, and beginning with Lehman Brothers, but followed closely by half of the large American banks in the country, the country's financial sector went substantially in the direction of full collapse. And now, over the past several days and in spite of a watered down Dodd-Frank Bill which has been passed, but in fairness, whose implementation is still being worked out by Congress, inclusive of a gutted '(Paul) Volcker Rule,' Jamie Dimon and JP Morgan-Chase has 'done it again,' losing $2-3 billions more doing some unadvised hedge fund trading. 

Europe has followed suit with huge, largely untenable deficits, albeit with the further complication of attempting to keep their new currency viable. After perhaps a half dozen efforts on the part of the EC to keep the budgets of Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Italy afloat, Europe still sits precairously at the edge of bankruptcy and a collapse of the EURO, and noone knows for sure how such a collapse will affect America and her world reserve currency, the USD. Finally, although China, with her huge surplus of both USD and EUROs, can keep US afloat for a time, and maybe even both us and Europe, China can't do this forever, and the prospects of worldwide recession, depression and possibly even financial collapse are beginning to be demonstrably real.

The time for political hacks and other 'careerists' is or must now be over, to hopefully be replaced by only the most honest- BRUTALLY honest- statesmen and women, to cross isles, cajort and cajole, meet in the Chambers, in bars, in restaurants and on airplanes to and fro 'The District-' and yes, even in restrooms. And we need an abundance of life experience in addition to so-called 'academic' and 'professional.' There are instances in which the janitor or the dishwasher know more about a given subject than so-called 'bright, educated people.' 

And these men and women shouldn't be afraid of losing their seat/s the next election, but are more afraid of losing their country, and possibly even the world for a period of time or longer. We must realize that world wide economic collapse may portend things we can no longer cope with.

Hopefully I've now shared with you some of the reasons I'm working to get on the ballot for the NM US Senate seat race, 2012, and I'll be enormously grateful to you for your contributions in both time, to help me gather the over 18,000 signatures I need to be on the ballot by 26 June, as well as enough money to allow me to be competitive in the race.

I genuinely believe I have both the academic as well as life experiential background to provide the open, honest and dynamic leadership that can help provide the substance and direction our nation, as well as the world, desperately needs. 

I look forward to hearing from you at your absolute earliest moment, allowing that I'm late getting this endeavor started, but it is still eminently 'doable.' I'm only now completing this web site, and the Paypal icon is there, but non-operable, although hopefully it will be soon. But cash donations are acceptable, in the meantime, and you can also send a check to me made out to 'Bob Liebman for US Senate' at PO Box 854, Edgewood, NM 87015. Any amount up to $5,000 works,for which you'll receive a receipt, in addition to your time to help us gather signatures for our Nomination Petitions to qualify me for the race. Please call or e-mail me with any questions or concerns you might have.