[Hoot Gibson]

I strongly disagree with this statement. Democrats love for welfare programs and redistribution of wealth is what got us into the economic mess in which we find ourselves. Welfare programs, including all sorts of wealth redistribution schemes in which liberal Democrats and Republicans have engaged since FDR's time is not the same as looking after our general welfare, as the founders of this country addressed in the Constitution.

Welfare programs are bankrupting this country and have robbed this generation and at least a few future generations of their right to pursue happiness and prosperity. The rate at which our federal government is compiling debt is unsustainable and eventually the young, working age people will be hit with the bill for their ancestors' greed.

Neither party has done a good job looking after the general welfare of Americans and we are barreling toward and economic collapse as a direct result.

Electing Romney may slow the inevitable depression that is lurking around the corner but far too few conservatives will be elected to Congress to make much of a difference. Furthermore, the American people are too stupid and too impatient to allow either party time to fix our broken government systems until there is no other choice.

In the next few years, there will be riots, but those riots will not be for the petty excuses of the recent past, they will be triggered by the hopelessness of a high unemployment rate, an extremely high inflation rate, and by food and gas shortages. Eventually, historians will place the blame for the coming collapse where it belongs - on an out of control federal government intent on spending far beyond its means, but human beings have shown time and again that they do not learn much from the mistakes of those who came before them. Liberals will eventually arise again and the destructive cycle will begin anew.

Obama is just a symptom of what is wrong with this country. Defeating him in November will be a step in the right direction, but it will be a baby step at best.


it just not welfare that's going to break us it's a lot of thing's

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1258

on defense we spend more than the next 20 country's total

that's why hoot also bring's up welfare all the time because

he know's if obama get's elected for a second term everything

will be on the table even military spending which could cause

him to lose his job

If you fancy yourself a mind reader, then you are delusional. I assume that my job will be in jeopardy no matter what the outcome of the election. If Obama wins, he will take it as a mandate to continue cutting our military capability. If he loses, I expect that he will do as much damage to the military as he can possibly do before he leaves office out of spite.

If you still work in the coal industry, you must be counting on drawing a government check after the election because Obama is just as much at war with the coal industry as he is with his own DoD. Probably more so. The government cupboard is just about bare, so I am not counting on a welfare check myself.

I don't support or oppose candidates based on what I think that they will do for me and I never have. If Obama is reelected, being out of work for a couple of extra months won't matter much anyway. I don't see an upside for anybody supporting a failure like Obama.