What republican candidate are you pulling for.

[AUTaxMan]

If Obama wins the USA will become GREECE very very Fast. Our economy will Fail like no one has ever seen. He is a Socialist and his policy will KILL the USA as we now know it. Thanks GOD i made some really good money in the early 2000's and SAVED it. I just feel sorry for the younger ones trying to make a living in the future.

The sad thing is that many people are ignoring this very important issue, something each of the republicans seem determined to make the #1 priority, while obama is not even paying it lip service, which i guess is difficult to do when he is making the problem exponentially worse.

[mrveggieman]

I am republican but switching parties and yes I am starting to believe Obama is actually doing a pretty decent job!

CHURCH!!

Also people for the record I people am neither registered a republican nor democrat. That being said if the election were today I would be voting for President Obama. However if my only choices were the forementioned republican canidates I would vote for Ron Paul.

[pghin08]

If Obama wins the USA will become GREECE very very Fast. Our economy will Fail like no one has ever seen. He is a Socialist and his policy will KILL the USA as we now know it. Thanks GOD i made some really good money in the early 2000's and SAVED it. I just feel sorry for the younger ones trying to make a living in the future.

My generation isn't blaming Obama for our soon-to-be financial troubles. It's been the whole system that's been in place for the past century. Our problem really hasn't been with overspending (yet), but with over-promising. For decades now, we've promised retirees the world, at the expense of the younger generation. Now my generation has to pay for the unreal amount of baby boomers who will retire at 65 and live 30-40 more years while collecting a SS check and having Medicare foot the bill for their hip replacements when they're 80 and knee replacements when they're ninety.

If/when we have a debt to GDP ratio akin to Greece (or worse, Japan), it won't be because "Obama is a Socialist", it will be because for the past 100 years, we've been promising stuff that we won't have the financial ability to supply.

[AUTaxMan]

My generation isn't blaming Obama for our soon-to-be financial troubles. It's been the whole system that's been in place for the past century. Our problem really hasn't been with overspending (yet), but with over-promising. For decades now, we've promised retirees the world, at the expense of the younger generation. Now my generation has to pay for the unreal amount of baby boomers who will retire at 65 and live 30-40 more years while collecting a SS check and having Medicare foot the bill for their hip replacements when they're 80 and knee replacements when they're ninety.

If/when we have a debt to GDP ratio akin to Greece (or worse, Japan), it won't be because "Obama is a Socialist", it will be because for the past 100 years, we've been promising stuff that we won't have the financial ability to supply.

The debt under Obama has gone from 10 trillion to 15 trillion, and he has taken absolutely no steps to get serious about entitlement spending. How can you say that he has nothing to do with the problem. He is doubling down on the problem with his Obamacare spending and his failure to address social security and medicare.

[pghin08]

The debt under Obama has gone from 10 trillion to 15 trillion, and he has taken absolutely no steps to get serious about entitlement spending. How can you say that he has nothing to do with the problem. He is doubling down on the problem with his Obamacare spending and his failure to address social security and medicare.

Given the depth and breadth of the financial crisis that he took office into, I don't blame him. If John McCain would've won that election, I highly doubt we'd be in a different place.

I agree with you, Social Security and Medicare need to be addressed, in a big way at some point in the near future. However, how can we get our lawmakers to address a long-term problem when addressing issues that pop up 10, 20 or 100 years down the road simply doesn't matter to them?

Like I said, if we end up in a financial situation like Greece (plausible), it won't be because we elected Barack Obama, and he screwed everything up. It will be because we've spent the past 100 years developing a totally unsustainable system.

[AUTaxMan]

Given the depth and breadth of the financial crisis that he took office into, I don't blame him. If John McCain would've won that election, I highly doubt we'd be in a different place.

I agree with you, Social Security and Medicare need to be addressed, in a big way at some point in the near future. However, how can we get our lawmakers to address a long-term problem when addressing issues that pop up 10, 20 or 100 years down the road simply doesn't matter to them?

Like I said, if we end up in a financial situation like Greece (plausible), it won't be because we elected Barack Obama, and he screwed everything up. It will be because we've spent the past 100 years developing a totally unsustainable system.

Yes, but you have to admit that Obama is at best sitting on his hands, and at worst making the problem worse. We need someone who is proactive on the issue, and Obama CLEARLY is not the man for the job.

[andrewhoya]

I find it scary that I hate Obama a ton, yet I feel like everyone but Paul would do a worse job than him.

[AUTaxMan]

I find it scary that I hate Obama a ton, yet I feel like everyone but Paul would do a worse job than him.

WHY do you believe that? I hear a lot of this, but nobody seems to be able to articulate the reason for this belief.

[pghin08]

WHY do you believe that? I hear a lot of this, but nobody seems to be able to articulate the reason for this belief.

Probably because outside of Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan, no Republican candidate has uttered anything of significance on economic policy. Nothing but a bunch of washed-up old applause lines. They've spent their time either attacking Obama, or each other. Fairly commonplace for this point in an election cycle.

[mrveggieman]

Kind of ironic that good ole newt isn't getting any love on here.