Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

Do I believe Mitt Romney's business experience would serve him well were he elected POTUS? Yes, he knows how to read an income statement and a balance sheet. And the financial statements of the country show a near bankrupt business model headed towards total insolvency. Maybe more important, both the Congress and increasingly the country, because of either their lack of knowledge or political morality, or narrow ideology keep driving the country even further towards the financial cliff. All in their personal short-term interests or support of an incomplete ideology. They...we...are morally bankrupt. And Mitt Romney spends almost all his time telling the voters what Obama has done wrong, but almost no time on his plans for what will have to change--explaining and convincing us of the need for such changes.

I'm disappointed in Romney's unwillingness to campaign on what he knows is needed if this country is ever to achieve true fiscal reform. He knows how to do the arithmetic! He knows that fiscal responsibility can't be achieved with just tax decreases. He knows that some hurtful cuts to government spending, defense spending, entitlement benefits, and yes increased tax revenues will be needed. He only campaigns on half--or even a third--of what he knows is necessary. He campaigns on the ideas that attract the most voters, but doesn't tell the whole story on what really must be done. Like I said, he knows what steps the arithmetic of our government's taxing, spending and borrowing tells him is necessary. But he panders for votes with only part of the story. He and his handlers believe the people are too dumb to understand. I maintain we aren't, that the correct course of action can be explained, understood and embraced by the country. Romney needs to force the country into a "twelve step program" leading to complete fiscal reform.

I don't expect any different from President Obama. But he's given no indication in four years that he knows or is willing to support the needed changes. And he's shown no capacity to lead the Congress or the country towards the needed changes. But Mitt Romney? I know that he knows better, and I'm disappointed at his reluctance to speak out. If he really is the leader I think he might be, he knows what he will have to say, explain and lead the country towards sometime. He knows better!