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I am so depressed. I hate Romney. He’s a flip-flopping hypocrit with no soul and a total Wall Street boy.

I really like Cain, but I hate his 9-9-9 plan. See http://taxpolicycenter.org/numbers/displayatab.cfm?Docid=3220&DocTypeID=2 . The tax policy center, which is not partisan, says it will increase everyone’s taxes except the top 20%. So people in the lowest quartile, whose average income is $14,000/year, end up paying $1659 more in taxes, while those in the top 20%, pay $23,522 less. The top 0.1% pays $1,690,000 less.

This is the hard truth that no Republican will deal with. The top 1% have such a large share of income and wealth, that this nation is collapsing under them. That just sounds so socialist and hippy and 99%er that we can’t deal with it. But not dealing with it will lead to America’s collapse into latin-America like failure.

We America’s conservatives have to address this, otherwise one of two things will happen. The Dems will win in 2012 on the backs of rich-envy, and we will see some real socialist wealth distribution; or we will win in 2012, and we will create more rich-envy as we further impoverish the middle class with more tax breaks for the top 1%.

We need a conservative solution to the weakening of America’s working people. And no, the solution is not just to blame Obama or cut taxes or cut spending to the poor or cut spending to retirees while give, give, giving to the rich and letting them run roughshod over us (including outsourcing all jobs and cancelling all pensions).

We need to go back to our roots of fiscal responsibility, and Eisenhower-like realism. We need an Eisenhower. We need someone willing to stand up against the military-industrial complex. We need someone to stand up against Wall Street and bankers. We need to return to the Bible that tells us greed is a sin. We need to recover our souls from Mammon. We need to get back to single-worker families with kids who get to be raised by moms.

This is the hard truth that no Republican will deal with. The top 1% have such a large share of income and wealth, that this nation is collapsing under them.

The top one percent? TTOP!. So, the top one percent have most of the bucks. Well, that is why they are the top one percent. If they were the top 10 percent, they would even have more of the bucks.

Your basic premise, that the US is collapsing under their weight has no basis or foundation. It is simply not factual.

I think I agree with what you said. Well, most of it. I’m not convinced the top 1% are causing problems. Maybe if the gov’t stopped wasting so much of our money, we could actually stimulate the economy ourselves. As it is now, I’m not buying anything major. I just won’t. And I likely won’t under 9-9-9. I’m not buying used crap either. Come to think of it, what does that do to new home sales? Is it better to buy a “used” home? That will kill off new construction worse than it’s already suffering, because home buyers will go right for the pre-existing homes.

I really like Herman Cain. I’m very close to volunteering for him. But I do not like 9-9-9, and Mr Cain does little to dispel the myths and problems. Like someone said, 15-15-0 would be better or even 14-14-0. Whoever said 9-9-9 started out as a great catchy phrase was spot on.

Cain’s clean (so far, no skeletons have come out). He’s great on his feet (though the negotiating with terrorists thing was a major faux pas). He’s strong. His business experience is exactly what we need. The fact that he’s black is an added bonus, because it knocks the “GOP hates Obama because they’re racist” thing right off the table (not with the kooks, but who cares about them). But like it or not, this national sales tax thing could cost him the election. Maybe it makes sense mathematically, but average voters do not like homework. That’s why these guys love to talk in sound bytes.

I don’t think Mr Cain did enough explaining last night when he had the floor. I think he was losing ground until Romney & Perry started pulling each other’s pig tails. At that point, they looked silly.