Hey Bub....we weren’t ready to go over a CLIFF then, now WERE we???? Foolish people look at bright shiny objects when the BOMB is ready to hit us!!
Besides that you are forgetting what it was like 40 years back living constantly in the shadow of the Soviet Threat to rain nuclear missiles down all of us.
Even then the candidates were revealing their taxes.
Now, final hit on your thesis ~ Geithner ~ he fessed up, and we found out what a bunch of dunderheads Obama had recruited. We need to have some idea that Romney is better at this ~ no sense going from a President with gold brickers to a gold bricking President!