I’ve tried to preach exactly this, but folks won’t listen. They prefer simplistic bromides to actual analysis.
As a coincidence, many people voting for Romney/Ryan thought Ryan had an actual plan to balance the budget. He doesn’t. Never did.
The most ironic thing in all of this are the people who continue to think that taking down the banks for fraud is somehow an attack on “the free market,” when in fact the TBTF banks are the primary reason why we no longer have anything remotely resembling a free market.
Preach if you like, you will notice that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not included in the list of perpetrator banks Obama targets. Well, they are not technically banks, are they? So, and because they are creatures of the Democrat Party, they get a pass, and more bailouts.
Not only does Obama not have a “balanced” plan to tackle the fiscal cliff, he continues to promote exactly the policies that led to the credit/banking meltdown of 2008.
Dodd/Frank enshrine the TBTF banks, and yet talk of “forgiving” student loans and even home mortgages has been floated before. Imagine the result of these “visionary” initiatives. What will be left of the free market after that?
You have one person that listens. I did a little buying when you were buying with both fists last fall :~)