Quote: (11-09-2012 07:51 PM)Faust Wrote:
As somebody who's really, really depressed by the outcome of the election, I would love to hear about how there's still hope, and how everybody who says we're about to plunge off a fiscal cliff is wrong. I mean that, I'm not being sarcastic.
It depends on what exactly you're being depressed with.
Yeah, although I don't think so, it is possible we're about to plunge off a fiscal cliff. But the election results don't really matter here. We already had the Republican president very recently who was completely unable to keep the deficit under control, so assuming someone would control the budget better just because he's Republican would be wishful thinking at best.
Here you've got a bunch of people having solutions to the budget deficit problem. But they are completely useless, it is like a "what I'd do if I were a President" essay students write. It doesn't matter how good your ideas are, you're not the one implementing anything. In some way it is not different from the manosphere - all they do is bitching about the things happening not the way they'd like, while doing nothing to change the situation.
Now this may sound ridiculous to some of you, but I don't really care about budget deficit, this is so out of my control that worrying about it isn't different from worrying about the next earthquake. I'm more or less prepared for it, and that's it. Nor I'd believe for a single second Romney would handle it better than Obama.
And by all other means Romney is just worse. This guy is from a party which is anti-everything except guns. He's anti-abortion, anti-porn, anti-weed, anti-gay marriage (why would one fucking care if he's not gay is beyond my understanding), he is your typical example which would love to wake up back in 50s. And I have no desire to end up there.