Of course the govt should not be slashing public sector, however the idea that everyone who is unemployed can get hired by the govt is ridiculous.

The idea of the govt boosting through the economy is Keynesian economic theory and frankly it does not apply to the current situation.

Yeah, it's Rassmussen. They're always skewed toward Republicans. Real Clear Politics does an average of the polls, and shows Obama ahead: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls ... -1171.html

I think Obama will likely not surpass his 2008 vote total ( a record 70 million Votes) and the GOP will guarantee stay above 60 million (2008) and beat Bush's last record of 62 million votes.


So in the end I think Obama will get like 65-66 million votes and Romney around 62 million or so at the least.

I think Obama will lose votes simply on the fact that he got so many first time votes.


However Obamas support is an ebb and flow..

In Aug, he had one of the worst months for a President in a while....

I think the biggest factor will be job growth data during the months around the election.
I think it will be interesting to see.

I think if Obama can score a big victory his popularity will increase and have a good 2nd terms like Clinton or Reagan (minus Iran Contra).




However I have to ask is anyone really looking forward to four more year of Obama?

Maybe you should have thought of that when you were planning your career. Not sure how you would be screwed out of a job since you have no right to a job in the first place.

Yeah Jedi, way to not be psychic and an asshole! Good people like Cauis and whatever he does is where this country needs to be.

where do you get off telling me how to plan my career? I picked museums because it is what I enjoy. I was never strong in math or science in high school my strengthens were in history and English so I was forced to go into that direction. My choices are a public service industry like museums, parks, or historic sites, teaching, or go to law school. I never wanted to be a lawyer and I wanted to do something I love. I am not owed a job but I believe the government should continue to fund the parks and museums because they are important to our society and educating the public.

My job is at risk due to defense cutbacks, but in no way am I or the company I work for entitled to shit.

Sorry. Didn't realize your profession was sacrosanct and that it was above criticism. If a museum is needed, why can't private people pay for it? I can understand parks since the government is a major land holder.

I don't consider museums sacred but it is important. So, the Smithsonian should be private? It wouldn't survive or it would cost 25-30 bucks and it would then become only for the elite. To me that is why government (Federal, state, and local) fund these places. And sure there is still private money, but if you pull the govt. funds the costs skyrockets and average people can't visit them because they would be priced like Williamsburg or something. Museums would struggle to survive as private entities because they don't make a profit. That is why concerned because museum budgets have been slashed because of they have cut them everywhere. There are few museum jobs out there. I can find jobs in the Park Service for now but it is only seasonal work. It takes a while to before any of them will hire you full time.

The benefits of having museums are difficult to tie into a profitable enterprise. You could say the same about entertainment, although for whatever it's worth it has enough basic pull to support itself, even if it's almost certainly misappropriated within capitalism. As to museums, I don't see what else it is but a public utility, but that doesn't say anything of the system running it and how that's done.

Well the govt should fund museums as they are in the National interest...


However to be fair, if you choose a field and have not got a job in it, its not the govts fault.

If you truly thinks its the govt responsibility to give you a job, your living in the wrong country.


At most the govt can do is to create some stimulus and try to boost the economy, that has not worked in creating any jobs. It just saved some jobs.

The most important thing a govt can do is to create a stable business environment or a positive one.
There is far more stability in America when it comes to business, and this has made some in the private sector comfortable to hire again.

Any real economic growth arises only when the Private sector wishes to expand. All the govt can do is to help facilitate that expansion.

I never said the government owed me a job. I was more concerned with the government cutting funding to the Park Service which would cut jobs that would prevent me from finding employment. I am not saying they should add more jobs but don't cut the ones that are there now.

The US needs a real austerity program.

No country has gone out of a hole this deep without cutting spending.

I highly doubt it will be able to grow out of this deficit. We all point to Post Ww2, saying that we can.

However....

1. That level of economic growth (post ww2 boom) is not possible and it continued for decades.
2. The high level of spending was caused by the biggest military conflict in History WW2.

Completely different from the situation today.

The idea to massively increase taxes on business, when the entire world is going the opposite direction, is just plain stupid. I support increasing taxes on the rich, however we need to realize that the world is a different place. These days jobs and capital can move around as easy as ever and frankly its the private sector that is going to create jobs not the govt.

The US thinks its a fiscally conservative country, but I would argue many countries like Canada, Australia and Northern European countries are far more fiscally Conservative.

I think in the US we assume fiscal conservatism = Reaganomics.
It does not, Fiscal conservatism more has to do with Fiscal responsibility. Meaning make sure people pay taxes (everyone), not wasting money by giving it to anyone (corporations) and etc.

The problem is medicare and social security. Cutting the Park Service or other programs won't fix the problem. But the old people in this country don't like it being even mentioned. They need to find ways to reform both and that will help with the debt.

Back to the race Santorum won both Alabama and Mississippi. Not sure why Gingrich doesn't drop out can't see what else he has to gain. This race continues to march on. I don't see it wrapping up until June.

Gingrich has a sugar daddy who is single-handedly financing the campaign thanks to Citizens United.

That is why it is so hard to predict this election. We can't use past examples to figure out what will happen; the huge influx of money may change everything.

LOLGOP

His sugar daddy doesn't seem to be helping much in terms of voter support and I think we can all predict that Gingrich will not win shit.

Gingrich is going nowhere, obviously. But who would have predicted months ago that he'd still be here? He was written off long ago. The only reason he still sticks around is because of the Super PAC and Citizens United. Without that, he would not have the money to continue.

And that's why our normal predictions are kind of useless this year.

Take the last election cycle. In a number of House races, the Democrats were ahead in the polls. Then, in the last few weeks, some Super PACs funded by a handful of billionaires poured money into Republican races and changed the results in time for the election.

The same thing could happen to Obama.

I think using the Pastor Videos could have hurt Obama a lot in the last election...


I would like to believe negative attack ads do not work, but in reality they are super duper effective.

In Canada, negative attack ads were decisive for the Conservative victories.

Well McCain went decent pretty much except towards the end, allowing Palin to talk about Bill Ayers. I think he regretted that a lot afterwards.

648 away. I see Romney getting to within at least 60. Technically it will go on for a while, and there's a chance he might be short, but that will probably diminish.

Now Santorum is having a war on men with his anti-porn stance. The man would put our society back hundreds of years if elected.

He is not getting elected however it is true that many women are exploited to create pornography.

I am not saying anything to change current laws, but it is a moral point we should all think about.


I do no know, I have actually grown less religious since my teenage years but my moral stance towards many things has changed.

Before I was like Euthanasia, why not?, Proposition, why not?, Abortion, why not?

Now I appose the first two and I think Abortions should be banned after a few months.

Yeah I think I am not a Libertarian expect when it comes to property rights.

Proposition? Do you mean prostitution? I am not really sure how big the exploration is. I am sure overseas it is very bad, but the industry in the U.S. is a little different at least the adult film side of it. A lot of the stuff on the internet these days is drunk college kids doing things they later regret lol.