Howdy, Scotty!!
One thing I know is true. Government is not the solution. At least not in its present form. Government is the problem. Obama is a Marxist. Romney is a Keynesian crony capitalist who approves of bailouts and stimulus spending and claims more will be necessary. Both think it’s the purpose of government to control the economy.
Pray for a return to constitutionally limited government.
The founders had it right in that regard.
Neither choice we have in November is going to do anything more than continue the debt/inflation cycle with as many different sorts of QE as can be imagined. And that is the best case scenario.
Events, domestic and foreign, that should have been managed from the Oval Office over the past three and a half years (some longer) weren't, and that is on the shoulders of the current occupant, who apparently doesn't have the good sense to run from a burning building and call the fire department. Those events are now out of control, and while additional QE will be attempted (if there's time), ultimately the next person to hold the office of President will have to deal with the debt repudiation cycle.
Like it or not, there's two reasons I will vote for the left mitten ...
... he is an American and he will have the good sense to leave a burning building, economically speaking.
There are other reasons too, of course.
I just can not think of them right now.
However within the context of my post, mittens has more of the personal characteristics and real-world experience needed now.
For instance, of the two, which one do you want managing the Middle East War, the collapse of the European political/financial system, civil unrest here in our inner cities for certain, and the Washington Correspondent's Dinner?
Sorry for the late reply, Jim. I don't normally post and run - begorrah, I don't normally post ... :)
Best to you and yours from a 20 square mile, easily defensible area of a state that might not be a state in a country that might not be a country, with water and gas wells, thriving game population, agriculture and a self-sufficient, small population base.
The anarchists will run out of fuel in the first few days and none of them are in shape to hike the miles they'd have to, should the ‘smartest guys in the room’ suddenly discover they're not and loose control.
:)