I'm one of the few remaining undecideds in the country.
Cannot stand some of Obama's cabinet picks, i.e. Holder (maybe the worst AG in history) and Sibelius (know her personally and cannot abide her self-righteous liberalism). Always fearful of a second term president (remember Bush II?) who doesn't have to worry about another election. Scary policy initiatives.
Cannot abide the R-R team's promise of a return to deregulation, supply-side economics and neo-con muscular foreign policy that gave us two unfunded wars (over a trillion combined), two unfunded tax cuts (over a trillion combined), unfunded Medicare Part-D, TARP, and the biggest financial collapse since 1929-1939.
I haven't yet figured out who IS the lesser of two evils.
Thought about not voting but this thread has convinced me I should do SOMETHING. Just unsure what.
I will vote to throw out my in bent congressman because NO one in this congress deserves to be re-elected.
Crackers for Cain proves our non-racism
Return implies that we left those policies. Did we?
Dodd-Frank is a miserable excuse for effective regulation of the Wall Street traders, but it was at least lip service. The fact that the Jamie Dimon's of the world are still out there threatening another financial collapse is proof of how watered down the deregulation is, but it will only get worse under the R-R team because they have made it a plank of their platform (saying it will be a part of their platform) to remove Dodd-Frank and other financial reform efforts of the last few years.
this reminds of this dumb tea party on TV who was holding a sign that said, "KEEP YOUR GOVERNMENT HANDS OFF MY MEDICARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY!!!"
Or when a McCain supporter was on TV screaming, "IF THAT SOCIALIST GETS ELECTED, I'M MOVING TO CANADA!!!"
tbqh, I wouldn't worry too much about this. Barry will propose some , then proceed to cave into whatever the right wants, then ultimately pass some nuanced probably close to what R-R would try to pass too or not pass anything at all.
I disagree. The current redistribution of income is pushing the middle class into poverty and adding people to the unemployment and welfare rolls.
Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, two of the worst economic presidents of all time.
Didn't he originally run for his Congressional seat as a Republican?
Gecko: ‘No One Is Talking About Deregulating Wall Street’
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...e-wall-street/
So I wonder why Wall st is contributing to Gecko at 10x their contribs to Barry?
Lol @ Baseline bum and clipper nation having mental breakdowns in this thread
Penance for putting President Goldman-Sachs in office 4 years ago.Gecko: ‘No One Is Talking About Deregulating Wall Street’
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...e-wall-street/
So I wonder why Wall st is contributing to Gecko at 10x their contribs to Barry?
Just quoting Santorum, son.
Just another area where red = blue
i live in Texas my vote doesn't matter, however I vote anyway cause you only have the right to if you voted. May write in "These two assholes suck" but it's the same as voting obama anyway.
I might do a write in vote for Gabriel Santorum.
For the Arizona governor elections in 2010, I did a write in vote for Sarah Palin's re ed offspring, Trig.
Another difference...
Yes, Romney-Ryan would help Wall Street — and Main Street, too
Romney/Ryan would be good for Wall Street, sure. But we shouldn't ignore how good a Romney/Ryan administration would be for Main Street too. Let's consider the anti-prosperity effects of one of the President's major legislative achievements, the Dodd-Frank banking bill.
Dodd-Frank was supposed to clean up Wall Street and prevent a recurrence of the Great Recession, in part by curtailing the "too big to fail" phenomena and completely overhauling the federal regulations that govern financial ins utions. It was billed by the President as enacting "the strongest consumer financial protections in history."
How'd that work out? Not that well, actually. It turns out, predictably, that the big banks are most capable of adapting to the new regulatory burdens of Dodd-Frank, while the smaller banks are getting squashed by compliance costs. The result is that the existing "too big to fail" banks are getting a lot bigger, and the smaller banks are struggling to survive.
For Middle America, this is a disaster. Smaller banks, the community banks, were the backbone of American prosperity for decades. They were where you went for mortgages, loans and basic checking. But not for long. In no small part because of Dodd-Frank, the days of free checking and no-fee debit cards are drawing to a close. Incoming Dodd-Frank lending rules are about to make mortgages and home loans more difficult to get from community banks, putting Main Street at the mercy of the big banks that got us into this mess.
So Obama's banking bill, for all its good intentions, has made things worse. That's one of the reasons why Gov. Romney and Rep. Ryan are proposing to repeal Dodd-Frank and replace it. By reducing the cost of regulation to banks (while, of course, keeping necessary protections in place), we can reduce the costs to Main Street for the things they need to get the economy back on track. That's the true purpose of government — not to punish banks, but to get out of the way of the American consumer.
Karen Santorum = class
What's Gabriel's platform website, tbh? Sounds he's pretty different from the rest.
No cooperation whatsoever with congress appears to be the main theme.
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