[TheRealThing]

No, I am just stating an informed opinion. You can check the stats yourself from IRS, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Congressional Budget Office, and draw your own conclusions. Some people honestly believe that there is nothing wrong with borrowing more than a trillion dollars a year and passing the bill for current entitlement spending to future generations. I disagree.

In a few years, the interest alone on our national debt will exceed our entire defense budget. In the not so distant future, some president will be unable to continue funding current entitlements, even if he or she wants to do so - and it will not matter whether he is a Democrat or a Republican. If you see nothing wrong with that picture, then by all means cast another vote for Obama.

I think that it is morally wrong to spend the money of our grandchildren for government benefits and security that they will not have.

As George W was leaving office the projected date for Social Security running out of funds was the year 2060. After nearly one full Obama term, that date has been adjusted backward to 2036, is now the last year full benefits will be paid to retirees. He slashed the projected timeline nearly in half in less than one full term. There isn't one guy on this board that won't affect. Folks, for most of you, it will mean eating regularly or not eating regularly. And believe me, retirement time will come around much sooner than you think. Four more years of the destructive practices of present day will assure the 'death knell' for SS between the years 2037-2040, is set in stone.

The time for the naive politics of the past, when the dems generally represented the blue collar population has past. They are not your grandfather's party anymore, the voting base has mutated from basically labor to special interests. Cutting our own throat by pushing ahead with the absurdly non-existant green energy programs, is nationally destructive, especially in light of the fact that we have hundreds of years of fossile fuels left. Dividing the country into the haves and the havenots is equally suicidal because up until the Obama administration redefined the American middle class, over 90% of America considered themselves to be in the middle class. Now, thinkers of the progressive/liberal agenda propaganda machine are saying that it's 99% poor and 1% rich. Sadly the ruse has begun to take solid root, and the resulting divide has produced waves of contempt between the free peoples of the United States.

I don't care if Obama thinks he's the savior of American civilization or not, he's wrong and misguided IMO. His policies have all been tried in the past, largely during the Roosevelt era and have proven to be inappropriate for a free society. The debt and rising prices of food and generally the cost of living have exploded in the past 4 years and all are threatening to go much higher. America is the place where a man can get a job and succeed in having his own place in the American Dream, complete with house, car and the whole deal. We're not about giving people a life ala "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition", and we sure can't give away a dream home to 115 million households. When you think about it, government can only give the treasury away once, and it will be gone. With 40 cents of every dollar spent now being borrowed in this country, it is truly time for a reality check. All it will take is your vote being cast for a the candidate who wants to slow things down a bit, cut spending a bit, and do what is best for the country. Obama has already said he's not about to stop the national headlong plunge and the choice is clear. Romney deserves a chance to pull the riens back.