@Jams said:
@pizzapotomus said:
A year plus of campaining did't give you enough of an idea on each candidates stances and opinion? No, I have seen enough the candidates I am considering to make my choice.
It's not hard to imagine some people still on the fence about who they want as President. Some people are stuck between economic policies and social ones. I read about one Latino lady from Nevada that liked Romney's economics but didn't like his stance on immigration. But she also didn't like what Obama was doing with everything. I'm kind of in the same boat. I'm for gay marriage, pro choice and pro evolution with immigration reform. But I'm for small federal government and bringing factories back, bringing jobs back, cutting all the government jobs down by a lot (we don't need 100 IRS employees working half-assed as opposed 25-50 working at a decent pace.) But I think the economy is the most important to fix right now, so I'm leaning Romney. I'd really rather have Ron Paul or Gary Johnson, but yeah that'll never happen. EDIT: I'm also for giving teachers all the funding they need because they're the most important people in the country. They can do pretty damn good on a shit budget, just imagine if they had near unlimited funds to teach with.
It might surprise you to know that Obama supported legislation that would offer more affordable loans to small businesses. People like to associate government jobs with lousy office jobs but a good bulk of it is scientists, teachers, police officers, hospitals, firemen, etc.
Furthermore, the whole expansion of the government thing isn't the biggest thing running down the deficit. It's simply the fact that all the baby boomers are now getting old and there's a huge disparity in who is paying for the social security. From what I recall, social security and medicare accounts for around 60-66% of our current debt problems.
Romney likes to say that he has solutions but has never said that he's willing to cut specific parts of social security or medicare only that he is for "reform". But this is a stance that both parties follow. Obama believes that investing in the health of Americans will ultimately make them healthier and more productive (better economy) but this belief hasn't been tested or supported by scientific evidence.
So to me, I'd much rather have a president who is more willing to invest on science and technology than a president who believes that the world is 6,000 years old and that the Garden of Eden was somewhere in Missouri.
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