Romney or Obama and why

[Flanneryaug]

gergroy said:

Flanneryaug said:

Dark_Lord_2008 said:
Vote out incumbent governments. It is time to vote Obama out of government. Besides increasing the deficit from $5 trillion to $15 trillion in under four years. Obama has not done much to fix the American economy.
The majority of elections conducted since the 2007/08 global financial meltdown has resulted in the incumbent government being voted out. Now is time to boot out Obama and give Romney a go.

Wow, you are very misinformed. The national debt at the end of the Bush Presidency was about 10 trillion. Also, if you actually look at what has caused the debt in these past 4 years it has mainly been the Bush tax cuts and the wars, along with the effects from the recession. Almost all of the debt has been caused by Republican policies that the Republicans have refused to let go. If you really want a 3rd term for George W Bush, then vote for Romney.

you are equally misinformed.  Bush took 8 years to increase the national debt by 5 trillion, obama did it in 3.  Now, the Bush tax cuts are just a tiny portion of that debt, with the majority of it being increased spending (see solyndra).  Of course, the Bush tax actually help stimulate the economy too but increasing the amount of money being used for investment and what not, but evidently that isn't important.  I agree the wars need to go, and if you look at Obama's 2008 promises of ending the wars... oh yeah, he didn't do that.  Another interesting thing to look at with the debt is the times in which the debt spikes, which also coincides with the time the dems took control of the house and senate.

Now, that being said, I personally think each side has its baggage and each side just sits and finger points at the other as the source of the problem.  Guess what, they are both right, as both sides are the source of the problem.  Ignoring the problems on one side and blaming the other isn't going help the debt at all.  I don't think Romney or Obama are really prepared to do that, the only candidate that I think could have done that was Huntsman, but that didn't happen.  

Wow, first of all the Bush tax cuts have added trillions to the debt, solyndra added 500 million. Factually, the top 4 causes of the debt have been the Bush tax cuts, the wars, the economic downturn, and the recovery measures to get us out of that downturn.