Not where I wish he was.
Our country, while never perhaps loved around the world, was at least grudgingly respected. By the time our current president leaves office there will be a LOT of work to be done both at home and abroad for the reputation of our gov't to be restored to some marginally acceptable level.
Healthcare is being botched.
International safety is being botched.
International relations are being botched.
Budgeting has been botched.
The current office has been found to have lied or misrepresented data on multiple occasions (I know this is true for any regime to some extent).
Yet STILL there is love for the democratic party and their fearless leader. I don't get it. Then again I don't get why people reject the free gift of eternal life either when there really are more reasons to believe than not. But back to politics...
We REALLY need a Mitt Romney now. A person with business savvy, experience with large corporations, someone who really understands them (and let's face it, Mitt had to based on the role his company played) because a) we need corporate / industry support if there is to be health care reform (among other reforms) and b) our gov't IS a large corporation. We need someone who will be fiscally conservative or fiscally moderate at best, someone who will be more careful of regulations and policies, someone who will be less likely to over commit our military and far less likely to allow things to be run loosely.
Certainly Mitt would not be a perfect president, has there EVER been such a person? I am not trying to say that a Republican president will automatically solve all our issues but certainly conservatives stand a better chance at solving many of our current issues (if they truly are conservative and truly understand the issues at hand).
Finally, we should not loose track that we live in a republic that is dependent on our capitalist way of life. Without allowing capitalism to flourish (that means being in bed with large and small for-profit entities to the extent that we should at the very least listen to what they have to say and understand that they live in that world and while they might be self-serving, some of their concerns are legitimate) WE won't flourish. I feel like I am about to start ranting and raving about supply and demand, taxation and other issues related to businesses versus gov't spending so I will stop here.
Sorry for my rare political rant. And yes I know I am simply raising questions and not providing answers.
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Perhaps If you all stop voting for Republicans and Democrats some sense of repair can be made, but those 2 parties have driven the debt so high it can never be paid .Which ultimately means that land will be forfeited in lieu of payment,
which in turn means USA will be broken up.
Just now saw this, David, sorry!
Well, in truth I tend to vote Libertarian whenever I am able... state gov't I will almost always choose a Libertarian over Pub or Dem unless the candidate sounds completely off base.
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