I did post ONE response to you and hope you will respond to that as that is what makes me what I am in regards to the current administration.

On the tax code, lets start small and simple and first of all allow me to correct myself. I said that Obama did not embrace any of those items in his blue ribbon committee and just read something from April 2011 where he said he was ready to do so, but he never did and thus my distrust of what he says totally !

But....two things they recommended which we can discuss without too much rankle, I think is as follows.

Raise the social security age

Eliminate the home deduction tax break

Also their report advocates a lot of things that will cut well into entitlements of all kinds.

If you need a link to the report, http://www.fiscalcommission.gov/site...h12_1_2010.pdf

But this is really tough to discuss in this format. I would say that I would really like to see open discussion and this time actually do it...on CSPAN if you will of the leaders of congress and the new President, talking through items that they see as insuring this country can grow and not get caught up in thier own shorts. It will not satisfy either party and both have to give, and again I sure hope you read my other post (POST # 21) and respond.

I think the tax code is screwed up....pretty sure there may have been a sound reason for many of the breaks and taxes applied within the code but once the situation is beyond, nobody corrects the code. This is not something that can be done in one year, or maybe even a term and will require a vast amount of leadership to get it done.

I hope your half full opinion works fine...this is where I get concerned. I am not at all confident that either party can come together and do any of this but I am convinced that without it we are traveling down a road that VERY SOON will spell bad things for us...everyone refers to GREECE and I think it could be even worse than that. We are spending ourselves crazy...

I just am not confident that Obama can become the leader he needs to be...he has shown even less attributes of that that I thought he had in 2008, but on the other hand, I cannot say with any great confidence that Romney is the answer either but I guess I know one and not the other is where I am ending up.

We are at a crossroads in this country...if you read the unemployment information...the stuff beneath the 8.6 percent, it is pretty dire and we continue down the road of the negative stuff instead of standing up and being americans instead of Rep or Dem. I hope your confidence is the correct read.....makes my worries needless but even though needless, the outcome would make me so happy !