simon_says wrote:
No matter how pro-wall street you think the Obama administration is there is no question that they want Romney-Ryan way more. The Wall Street Superpac money is very one sided. Because Romney wants major tax cuts in an era of low taxes and high deficits. That's why the Ryan plan, for all of it's cuts, can't even balance the budget for many decades. Because it greatly reduces revenue.
They are offering free ponies and the bigger your ranch the more you'll get.
What does it matter tho? Obama is obviously a lackey to Wall Street and the corporate interests too.
The Ryan plan has no cuts, it has reductions in the growth of long term spending going forward. I don't think it actually cuts or ends one government program. He's still increasing spending just not as
fast except in defense spending off course...
I've heard someone describe it as "Obama will send us over the cliff at 100mph and Ryan will send us over it at 95mph".
Something I find really annoying about the Obama campaign is just how ridiculously disingenuous they are, pretending to be some sort of ultra-liberal class warrior now. Where were you when you had supermajorities in both houses of congress? Now he can play up his opposition as obstructionists even tho he probably was the most powerful president since LBJ maybe even FDR. Look what he actually did with this nearly unfettered power: bailouts, a bogus stimulus, more bailouts, a healthcare plan that ended up being little more than a massive handout to the insurance companies, what else? Cash for clunkers? lol, I guess people liked that. He extended the Bush tax cuts to that he was supposedly so against. Oh, Obama had a change of heart about gay marriage and immigration reform in an election year how convenient. All the while the Bush policies on the 'War on Terror' have continued and have actually been expanded, Guantanamo is still open, and the rest of our civil liberties are eroding even faster. The man is the quintessential politician, a sociopathic liar. I can understand people not wanting to support Ron Paul or Gary Johnson but I can't understand how somebody can in good faith support Barack Obama that isn't dangerously ignorant.
Honestly, I kind of hope Obama does win because there will be 4 more years of deadlock and he'll own this mess. Maybe the country will be ready for real change come 2016.