PROLIFERATION OF POVERTY...Fran's Friday Forum...!!!

Wealth always trickles down, despite what fun ignorant people try to make of the concept.

And poverty always trickes up, despite what fun ignorant people make poverty try to seem.

Fran, I detest this tone. Name calling solves nothing. What if President Obama is God's answer to our prayers? That is a question I ask all the time. Maybe it's God's plan to apply the heat to us to see what comes out of us. I wonder if we all suddenly woke up tomorrow morning and all we had left was everything we had thanked God for in the last year? How many of us would be left with very little to nothing. Yes, we are much worse off financially than we were 4 years ago. But conversely, many are not. Although I agree with most of your points, our problems will not be solved by polititians, it's way to far gone for that. The only hope we have is returning to the values that made us great to begin with. It must be a movement of purity and the first step is not doing what everybody else is doing... pointing fingers. Have you ever heard of the National Monument to the Forefathers in Plymouth, MA? It is a blueprint of how we got to be such a great and prosperous nation. Yet nobody except locals really know much about it. It holds the key to how we return to being the prosperous nation we were created to be. I will vote for who I feel the Spirit has me vote for and right now... I'm still not sure who it will be. My history shows, it's always the most conservative candidate but as I just told the lady calling us to get involved, we are involved but at a much higher level than they want us to be... at the throne of the King, making our petitions known.

Fran, you need to fact check your information. For example, that 47% number includes people like me, who get a return on my taxes. I do not get food stamps or have any government assistance.

Also, I do not see how Obama's policies are different than Bush's, nor do I see how Romney will be different. They all three subscribe to the same economic policies that are killing our nation.

So, people like me, will not vote for Romney because I am not going to vote for the lesser of the two evils if the end result is a vote for evil.

"Romney is a proven job creator."

Presidents don't create jobs. Governments do not create jobs. Government can only get out of the way. So even if that was a true statement, it is a moot point.

Also, it is important to note that both Romney and Obama support corporatism.

"Romney will be a cost cutter, not an incessant spender with no accountability...!!!"

We take in 2.2 trillion in revenue and spend 3.6 trillion. Romney's budget doesn't cut spending. Even Ryan's budget adds 5 trillion to the debt and eventually balances the budget in 30 years! That's assuming congress follows that path, which it won't.

"If you don't see Obama any different than Bush, you need to do some real intensive research on your own...!!!"

Please tell me how they differ.

"Romney respects our Constitution which guarantees freedom for you and me...Obama thumbs his nose at our Constitution and our rule of law...!!!"

Guess who supports the NDAA and Patriot Act.

Like I said, I am going to vote for the person that I believe has the correct foreign, economic and government policy that will help our country, if for anything, to send a message.

Check out Gary Johnson and what he did when he was governor.

Fran, our country desperately needs to have a different president.

Fran, Obama is making us all equal as in equally poor. I cannot imagine what makes people vote for Obama, no one can name one thing he has done for Real Estate let alone any other profession,

Satar -

You need to reconsider - voting for Johnson, or anybody else but Romney, just puts Obama one vote closer to the finish line.

You might as well write yourself in, since you agree 100% with how you would run the country - and you've got the same chance of winning as Johnson does.

If for no other reason, we need your vote for Romney due to the expected vacancies next term in the Supreme Court (and other courts).  If the Supreme Court swings Left just one more Justice, we're likely to see a very different America -  an end to gun ownership rights, imposition of the Fairness Doctrine (or something very similar), etc.  Who knows, Obama might even mandate that we all buy Chevy Volts, and that we all plant gardens and eat broccoli and arugula, to please Michelle.

Tantrums and protest votes are fine for little league, but this is the big league, and we're playing for keeps!

Fran - You are more optimistic than I am about the differences between Romney and Obama.

Jeff - I understand what you are saying, but I will start with an ideological revolution before I throw my vote away for another Obama. what we have here is a big government dictatorship. No matter it be Romney or Obama as president, the big government policies will stay the same. Plus, I am in California so it will go to Obama anyway!

"Romney is a businessman, not a career politician, why not give him a chance to straighten out our mess...!!!"

Because he cannot give answers to hard questions or to the easy ones.

"Last time we gave someone who understood business concepts a shot he transformed our failing Country...one problem at a time...!!! President Reagan was not about 'lip service'...he was a doer not a sayer...!!!"

Reagan was a great candidate, but not a great president. He grew both government and debt. When you listen to his speech in 1964 and what he said during his campaign, it was a great disappointment to see how he was as a president.

Yeah, I was born in 1974, so I wasn't politically active till the 90's and wasn't awake till I read a book called "None dare call it a conspiracy" by Gary Allen in 2002.

Based on my research, I would have voted for Reagan both times as well. However, candidate Reagan and president Reagan were two different people, like Obama. For example, Reagan promised to get rid of the department of education in his campaign, yet he did not do so. He claimed that government is not the answer, yet he grew government in all possible ways.