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It seems to me that for years, the Democrat leadership has pushed for big government in terms of both government spending, and government control over the people via welfare/entitlements/legal restrictions; and the Republican leadership has put the brakes on that just enough to get the votes of conservatives, and not a bit more. In effect, the leadership of both parties has been pro-big-government for decades.
Now that we're dealing with multi-trillion dollar national debt, the people seem to want a more sound national fiscal policy.
IBOPE Zogby National Debt Poll: Majority Prefer Cuts Over Revenue Increases
July 2011
UTICA, NY - Nine in 10 voters say it is important for Congress and President Barack Obama to reduce the nation’s long-term debt, and a majority prefer spending cuts over increased revenues as the means of accomplishing that goal, a new IBOPE Zogby Interactive poll finds
But with decades of big government spending supported by leadership of both parties, there appears to be no candidate with sufficient standing to run, who can be relied on to seek such a policy. It may take several election cycles to get such a candidate into office and to get party leadership in either party, who supports such a policy.
In the meantime, Romney has some advantages:
And we have got to get Obama out of office. His huge-spending, pro-sociialist, anti-capitialist policies, as well as his unending attacks on jobs and US industries, and his continuous support abroad for the most fundamentalist-Islamic side of a confrontation, have been massively disastrous with regard to the US economy, employment, US fiscal health, and world peace.
CONCLUSION
For decades the US public has not focused on US national debt. Political leaders of both parties have capitalized on this to borrow and spend massive amounts of money, endangering the fiscal health of the nation. This decades-long trend is unlikely to be eliminated within a single election cycle. As an initial movement to return the nation to fiscal health, it is reasonable to:
