Mr Khan said:
Kasz216 said:
Zappykins said:
I am kind of surprised by the polls. Seems like there are many vocal republicans on VGC.
My number once choice would be Jill Stein. I think she would be best for the country, with Obama second. She seems to stand for science, reason, fairness, etc.
Romney might be best for me in some ways (I own some business) but at the cost of people that have jobs and those that work for a living. And since they are my consumers I think I would lose in the long run and he would further damage the country and it's reputation. (Plus I think he is a major fail on basic civil rights, etc.)
I know my libertarian leaning friends love Johnson, but he seems think business and deregulation will solve everything and I just wonder where he has been living the last several years. Maybe there is something in him I don't see.
Here is a fun poll for anyone interested
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Reality...
deregulation won't solve everything, but it would solve a lot.
You just need to look at the economy and understand why a lot of stuff isn't working.
For example, most job growth in companies come after a company goes public with an IPO.
However, almost no companies go public anymore.
Most people founding companies don't want to go public anymore.
Why? Excessive regulation after the Dot.com bubble.
Now everyone instead wants to create an awesome product, and sell it to some microsoft or sony or whoever to replace whatever product they alerady have, leading to no job gains.
We've actually had a jobs growth problem long before the GFC... starting after the dot.com crash.
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The problem is that we tend to think of regulation in a "have it or don't" kind of way, and nobody really gives thought to fixing regulation because the side opposed to the current regulation usually just wants total deregulation, so we can't have an effective dialogue about what regulations are effective, or how we might fix them.
Part of the reason why you can't get anything done because of the Republicans. You can't have a dialogue with them.
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Did you watch the Presidential debate? I mean the exact opposite happened there.
Romney pointed out many issues with Dodd-Frank and mentioned that he'd keep a lot of it. While Obama claimed Romney wanted no regulations on anything.
Heck, most reporting on the "grand deal" tends to blame the Obama team as well.
While the republicans publically want to make themselves look like the one who won't budge on anything... actually, it mostly looks to be the opposite.
