In general, I liked Mitt’s campaign, and I hate to pile on now, but these are the issues I REALLY wish he would have focused on.
When Paul Ryan was brought on board, I was hoping we would have a serious discussion about entitlement reform and spending cuts. Never really materialized though.
They decided to play it safe, and now not only did we lose the election, we didn’t move that debate forward either.
Entitlement reform and spending cuts on social programs are
the absolute “third rail” of politics. Reality and math don’t matter
to those getting $$$$ from ANY .gov source. If you even hint
that you believe spending on these programs must diminish in
any way and you have committed political suicide. Greed doesn’t even
understand that math is real let alone that it dooms us all by it’s
inexorable truths.