For as far back as I can remember, I have felt that the source of the United States strength originated in it's vast economic wealth. It's ability to influence emerging democracies, it's capacity to fight evil and tyranny, and it's charge to help lift up those at home that are unable to care for them selves. All these are made possible because we have the resources, the drive, and the desire to ever expand and improve our economic condition. The need for protections to the public have become apparent over generations, few people will contest this, but companies must be free to manage their wealth to survive the test of time. They must ever expand but never over-reach. And from time to time must be humbled by their own limitations.
For the U.S. Government, this is one of those times.
We are not living within our means, and the solution offered by this administration is to keep dulling out the help that people crave, while stonewalling and hand tying those that create the wealth we depend on. As with many companies, not every quarter or year can be successful, you cut where you can in order to take care of the things that are important in the short term. Making sure social security, medicare, defense, and some additional resources for unemployment to ensure they are funded enough. But, this president seems to think that he can single handily shape what our entire economy will look like in the next 10 years. Dumping billions in start ups in certain industries while regulating others to death. Taking credit with the backdrop of companies that ultimately fail. It isn't working, and it will never work. When you are only adding $300 Billion in growth at the cost of over $1 trillion dollars to your debt, you are light years away from truly recovering.Now we are left with an additional $6 trillion in debt, we where told that once the wars wind down we'd start saving money, once the stimulus was spent we'd save money, once the economy recovered we'd start saving money, these were lies. We ended one war, the other one got bloodier, the stimulus is spent and at best they can say that it prevented it from getting worse. The recession ended in the summer of '09, well before all the stimulus was spent, or even before the first fiscal year of trillion dollar deficits was on the books, so why haven't we recovered?
Now while we continue to spend a trillion dollars a year we don't have, we have no way to pay back the $2.7 trillion owed to Social Security and the trillions more in Medicare. These programs are now paying out more then they are taking in, and the only way to replay funds owed to them is to borrow more in our children's names. More so now then with the housing crisis, the tech bubble, or even the banking bust of '07 we are heading toward a Government credit bubble. It may be 5, 10 or maybe even 20 years, but our current path is taking us there, fast. Never in our history has a President been so committed to buying votes with new programs we can't afford.
This government is not being ran like a business, it's not even being ran like a responsible household, it's being ran like a college kid with their parents credit card, only the card is in the name of the next generation, because we have no plan to ever pay this money back.
Enter the business man.
There has been a deep desire on the right side of the aisle for generations to get an accomplished business man into the helm of this government and bring some aspects of private enterprise into Washington. To shed light on the lies that someone the post office is more efficient then a UPS warehouse, or that hospitals can run on medicare payments alone, or that the DMV is a shining example of efficiency. I assure you that George W. Bush was not that president, but Mitt Romney, who turned Bain Capital into a multi billion dollar success, saved the 2002 Olympics, and balanced a very progressive states budget, is exactly the type of businessman that we have been waiting for.
If things are so bad, why is this election so close?
Fear, when I hear of someone who is supporting Obama, and you ask why, they typically answer with fear of what a Romney Presidency will look like. There has been some sort of horrible rewriting of history that Planned Parenthoods closed all across Massachusetts under his watch, that homosexual athletes weren't allowed in to the ceremonies at Salt Lake, or that Bain Capital was notorious for firing employees when they got sick. A portrait of this great man has been made because he knows that the decision of funding planned parenthood versus medicare is only a few years off, or that funding big bird versus the US Army could follow shortly there after.
A man that has given more of his time, money, and himself to charity and others then Obama could ever even hope to, has been dragged through the mud this campaign. I know, I know, it's politics, Some untruths have gone the other way as well, but the level of frustration I feel when people think it's more important that Mitt Romney invests a portion of his considerable money in off shore accounts while this president spends our money on companies founded by his campaign bundle'ers or that when Mitt Romney says he is a pro life candidate, while never expecting to have to confront that issue during his term in Massachusetts, while Obama continues to dodge and duck questions about Fast and Furious operations, Benghazi, and Drone attacks.
This President is incompetent. Americans have died under his watch, the credit cards are maxed out, privacy rights are being tossed out the window, and all he can do is point his finger and tell you who's fault it is. Mitt Romney may not be as charismatic, or as cool as Obama, that's because his strengths are in management. He didn't get to be so successful because of how he delivered a speech, but rather how he executed a plan, he is not a man of charm, but a man of vision, and right now, this country is in dire need of a new vision.
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