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The Coming Age of Austerity

loadstar Wrote: Nov 06, 2012 10:35 AM
There is empirical evidence of a Romney trend...the crowds are turning out in DROVES. Obama has NO positive trends to support their tired canards about "turning the corner/moving in the right direction." My gawd, they brayed about 2010 being the "summer of recovery," and that was over 2 years ago! Get out and vote, and encourage your friends to vote as well. I am 61; this is EASILY the most important election of my lifetime. America CANNOT AFFORD 4 more years of this slouching toward Big Guvment socialism, high unemployment, and fiscal irresponsibility, and loss of respect! The Hopey-Changey mirage now demands a REAL CHANGE! Take pride again in American Exceptionalism! Please vote ROMNEY/RYAN for America!
OneForFreedom Wrote: Nov 06, 2012 11:49 AM
Though I'll be voting for Romney, I don't have any illusions that he'll be much more a Constitutionalist than Obama. That guy was Ron Paul, but so many on this site (and presumably other sites) derided him and all of us "paulbots, paultards. paulistanians, paul..." well, you get the idea, that it wasn't worth our time to really post anything, after enough 6th grade jeers.

And Pat Buchanan points out the reality we'll be facing - the military along with everything else government will HAVE to be scaled back. Ron Paul wanted to do this in a pre-emptive way, the other guys want to just ignore the problem.
"Are the good times really over for good?" asked Merle Haggard in his 1982 lament.

Then, the good times weren't over. In fact, they were coming back, with the Reagan recovery, the renewal of the American spirit and the end of a Cold War that had consumed so much of our lives.

Yet whoever wins today, it is hard to be sanguine about the future.

The demographic and economic realities do not permit it.

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