Let it slip away?
They pushed it away with mountains of regulations, piles of benefits and the heaviest corporate taxes in the known universe.
Absolutely. And that will be very hard to reverse. I'll probably take some flak for saying this, but Romney was the country's last hope in that regard.
I say that because as time goes on, there will be more and more takers and less and less makers. In other words, no more GOP presidents.