[RFEngineer]

“You might get zero direct support like food stamps or welfare but I would guess that 99.99% of us on FR are the same. “

I didn’t ask this. I also included medicare, social security, federal retirement, federal employment - anything from the government - even on military retirement, you are invested in the status quo, like it or not, and it may taint your outlook in the way yours has been tainted.

Depending on our gov’t spending (and it may not matter who is president) we have a fair chance of experiencing a significant financial shock that could cut or drastically curtail federal payments and drastically increase taxes.

I think Romney may be able to obtain some level of economic growth that may stave this off for at least some period of time, rather than encourage it as Obama does.

We’ll see.

[conservaterian]

I didn’t ask this. I also included medicare, social security, federal retirement, federal employment - anything from the government - even on military retirement, you are invested in the status quo, like it or not, and it may taint your outlook in the way yours has been tainted.>>>>>>>>You can't actually believe that Mitt is going to do ANYTHING about any of the above? If so, you have been on Ambien a bit too long and need to wake up.