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Forums - General Discussion - Obama loses in the November 2012 election, now what? Hypothetically speaking....

I don't know. I honestly and truthfully do not know and that scares me.

I'm trying to get to know Ron Paul and his policies. He looks like a very solid candidate and if I had to vote right now, it would go to him.

However, I cannot vote and from the looks of things, I will never get to vote.



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We're screwed no matter who's in office.



 

 

 

The thing about Obama winning this time, its so different from 2008.

In 2008 he was elected based on the hype that he would be a history altering President.

Now in 2012, few are excited to see four more years of Obama but are more worried about the other side.

For the American people, picking Obama in 2012 will be an example of picking the best of the bad.



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lordmandeep said:
The thing about Obama winning this time, its so different from 2008.

In 2008 he was elected based on the hype that he would be a history altering President.

Now in 2012, few are excited to see four more years of Obama but are more worried about the other side.

For the American people, picking Obama in 2012 will be an example of picking the best of the bad.

Ron Paul actually looks like he would be a good president. At the very least he is the only anti-war republican, wants to fix the US debt problem (one of his proposals is basically to phase out the US Federal Reserve which would immediately cut $1.6 Trillion from the US debt and save Billions in interest payments each year), he wants to reduce the size of goverment and he believes that winning allies via trade and talking is a better strategy than using sactions, military power and threats. 

All this is ignoring that he predicted the dot com burst and was called insane, he predicted the housing market burst and massive bail-outs and was called crazy, he predicted that the US would fund the bombing of the Gaza strip and would pay for its re-contruction and more.

Ofcourse no one is perfect, and politicians are worse than most and Ron Paul wants to get rid of federal income tax, shutdown the CIA (moving there important work to other government bodies), shutdown the department of education (handing control of education over to the states) and a few other idea's that seem foolish to me.  Not to mention that he actually needs to get this stuff through the US congress which looks to be extremely difficult (though he could veto a bunch of stupid legislation).



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Ron freakin' Paul.



Not much. 2012 is going to be a contentious, narrow election, and whoever emerges is going to have a clear mandate (fix the economy) but in an environment that's incredibly confused about how to do it, which will lack any sort of consensus on the direction economic adjustments should take



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Ron Paul isn't going to win.

If he does, great.

I'm not a huge fan of obama... nor am I huge fan of anyone really. Though I'd probably vote Romney or Paul over him.
I can say I don't like Bachman, Gingrich, or Perry.

But they're not magically going to make things better, they're going to make mistakes. The U.S. Is in a big mess. And there is no magic fix. And any fix could have other consequences. The best way to avoid this mess, is to use logic and not get in it in the first place. However, We've spent 8 years getting into this mess. I'd say at best it's going to take that long to get us out.
 Economically both Bush, and Obama, with the help of our senate and house, have ran the deficit into the ground.



In the end China will become the #1 Economic Power in the world; and we will have to learn Chinese WTF!!?!?! -_-   ( I wonder how the chinese will call their Astronauts/Cosmonauts.......Universenautas lol XD)



Politics and democracy are evil, I never voted and will never, French democracy is f...ing corrupted, and the American one is the worst in the world ! Go get a real life and stop wasting your time with this strange idea of "democracy"...