[TheRealThing]

What is happening to this country?

Well, you could write pages and pages and still not be finished!

Bottom line is, the direction of America is misguided, in my opinion. Government has been forced into areas where it had NO business being, and more important issues have been either ignored or used for personal agenda.

More and more deadbeats are using the "system" so that working Americans are taxed to the point of breaking and no relief is in sight. Instead of refuting some of those ridiculously federally funded programs, the older workers are being forced to work longer. No early retirement anymore, and if you're lucky, you won't have any medical problems!! Because if you DO, then you're DONE.
Few people have the work ethic and pride that was taught to me by my parents. Those characteristics are few and far between anymore, and they were the building blocks of adulthood way back when I was being raised!

I agree with you. Now explain to me how the majority of Americans being polled right now, say they trust Obama more than Romney when it comes to financial leadership. It's like nky said, you wake up one morning and find yourself living in bizarro world. How can anybody that actually works and, especially those who work and have medical insurance, say they aren't bleeding out of their ears as the direct result of Obamanomics? I know insurance premiums are up across the board. Energy rates are through the roof. (As promised) Food prices are up significantly, everything is up. When W left office a gallon of gasoline was about $1.67. Now it's $3.79. I mean, do people really believe it's all George W Bush's fault?

The story of Romney's fiscal wizardry while governor of Mass needs to be put out there more forcefully. He came in with a deficit of over 3 BILLION and left 4 years later with a $720 million dollar surplus in the general fund and over 2 billion in the state's 'rainy day' fund. Not to mention, he left behind an actual working model of state run health care. Obama has run through 6 trillion in the same period, and by all accounts we would owe something north of 22 triliion by the end of his second term and, his health care debacle doesn't work. Are folks really so naive they think America can survive 4 more years of the nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue?