Absent from your response is what would spure the econnomy. I'll give you a hint. I have fielded 5 job offers after getting laid off two years ago. All five were "if we get this contract ore enough of these contracts, I will need you. I even had word a year ago that my old firm was looking good to bring enough on to bring me back.

All but the last one never got the contracts. I was talking to my new employer this morning, he talked to some others in the business, they are bigger, and all slowing down.

The Washington DC culture is like a bad proctologist. It tells you you need a check-up, gives you a very uncomfortable exam, gives you an unfavorable diagnosis, the treatment doesn't really cure the diagnosed problem, and you have to pay all the medical bills forcing you into bankruptcy.

BTW the status quo Washington DC is tax and spend, never go without, never cut a nickel for real.

Wrong, they all know what they want, GET RID OF OBAMA. After that none of them have a clue about the U.S.

I have lived in Texas all of my life, and Rick Perry is NOT the person that you are really seeing. He is a career politician seeking more power and fame. He campaigned to solve the border problems in Texas and has done absolutely nothing. He is a liar and a cheat Perry was George W. Bush understudy, full of corruption as is the entire Bush family. Look it up on Google.

Sandtrich - wake up. Millionaires have declined 18% over the last 2 years; the unemployment rolls continue to climb slowly (the unemployment rate is only held in check by those running out of benefits/giving up on finding work), and people without health insurance up 1 million.

Attacking those with the means to invest only means they will be less inclined to take risks. Hence, out situtation to day, no break on the distant horizon.

I feel so sad for the people with only 800,000 or 900,000 thousand saved up. How will they ever make ends meet?

Food for the non-millionaires!

DB Akron

Sandtrich - wake up. Millionaires have declined 18% over the last 2 years; the unemployment rolls continue to climb slowly (the unemployment rate is only held in check by those running out of benefits/giving up on finding work), and people without health insurance up 1 million.

Attacking those with the means to invest only means they will be less inclined to take risks. Hence, out situtation to day, no break on the distant horizon.

Don't know where that's going. The concentration of wealth has never been so disproportionate. Newsweek, Time, and plenty of other sources say the wealthy had a record setting year--as did oil companies, etc. Bill Gates is semi-retired and his net wealth grew a couple billion last year.

Exactly, what are they investing that benefits the American worker? Not the workers in India, China, Malaysia, etc...American workers. My Calvin Klein & RL shirts were made in Vietnam and Thailand.

DB, the rich have gotten steadily richer over the last 10 years and the taxes on the rich have gotten lower and lower to the point they are now at the lowest ever. According to the crap the public continues to be fed by the republicans we should be absolutely SWIMMING in jobs by now. Get deprogrammed already or are you working an agenda here...?

You don't know what you're talking about. The economy is almost all Ron Paul talks about. His message has been the same for the past three decades, END THE FED! Who do you plan on voting for, Obama?

Isn't it amazing that every news agency skims over or ignores Ron Paul altogether.. This tells me that they are running scared of him; and they think if they don't mention him the people will forget.. Well not this time.. we are sick and tired of being sick and tired.. We are coming after everyone we can in this election that has gotten fat off of the people of America.. stripped of us our rights or sold our country overseas for big business.. They are no longer the elite we are.. We have the power and the people.. We can win this election for the people.. we are stronger then the 3 hundred or so sitting in Washington playing house without impunity.. They can be voted down with our votes.. there are rats, vermin and polecats running amok sucking us dry while they live off our taxes.. It is time to take the trash out.. get rid of the Fed and bring the gold and silver standard back.

I voted for Obama last time, but I'm voting for Ron Paul THIS TIME.

Accountant - I know a number of accountants who worked for one of the Big four and some smaller very solid firms. They sing a much different tune than you.

The recession is caused some sector of business or investment needs to reset. A mildly incorrect government policy can also cause a recession. A depression is caused by poorly considered government reaction and interventionist polices.

What regurgitated idea of Bush's is Ron Paul suggesting?

I agree with you about all of them except Ron Paul. The recession/depression was caused by the Bush tax cuts, the Bush failure to prosecute banking fraud, and the Bush expansion of the Federal Government through the creation of 2 wars, the Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Defense. Ron Paul was not for any of those things, even though yes, all the rest of those idiots were.

Get your facts straight.

Ron Paul stands for individual liberty and following the Constitution. This is now seen as radical in this nation that has grown used to the status quo statist governmenl. Freeing us from the nanny state oligarchy will not be easy, and it will NOT be televised.

R3volution.

Sad day for the Republican party if these folks are their best and brightest.

It's a sad day for America if these are the only candidates, either party, for President. Neither party can claim the best and the brightest candidate for the office of President including the incumnent himself. Iqu simply can't imagine that there isn't an individual in this country who is qualified, sans political party, who could take this country out of the economic quandry that it's in. Or isn't there that person. Are business leaders that greedy not to be that civic minded to offer their talents of running a business and apply it to running this country? Are there not business leaders who would take a cut in pay to turn our country back into a mega-power in the industrialization of goods and services. Instead we get politicians which have been the bane of our government for decades. Gone are the statesmen who use to accomplish great things in government. Now all we have are the politicians. We reap what we sow.

Although economically Ron Paul is solid, his foreign policy would be worse than PBO's or Joe Biden. The Republicans need to pick someone who handles the economy well and foreign policy above average. Foreign policy is one of the biggest factors in keeping Ron Paul from taking the nomination.

Ron Paul is not an isolationist. He believes in Non-Intervention. There is a HUGE different. I can't believe how many people don't understand this simple difference. When Goerge Bush ran for president in 2000 he ran under the same exact foreign policy as Ron Paul is now, a NON-INTERVENTION foreign policy. Isolationist don't trade and have friendly relations with other nations. I can't believe so many republicans can't even remember the traditional republican foreign policy of non-intervention.

Is that how you interpret Ron Paul's comments. I saw him as a rambling old senile stoner who just likes to hear himself talk like a broken record.

Ron Paul is sharp as a tack. He may be old, but I'd put him up against any of you or the teleprompter any day. There's a reason he wins every debate.

all of them showed that they are infinitely better than the community organizer who pretends to be a president.

The democrats are the ones keeping any confidence from being created with all their talk about tax increases.

They all say the same thing. I am sorry I was a Rebublican.