Going out to vote is now in defense of our country. Obama’s direction couldn’t be clearer. Our debt is currently over sixteen trillion. At his pace, it’s only a hop, skip and a jump to twenty plus! That alone should undress our self destructive clinging to party loyalty! These people are here and they are serious

Financial bubbles, inflated by hopes and dreams, burst when reality negates any possibility that those hopes and dreams will be realized. At that point, sky-high stock or bond or real estate prices come crashing down to earth. Can the same thing happen in politics? Can a skilled politician, who has become popular with soaring rhetoric and promises, deflate when it starts becoming clear that he is not going to deliver? Of course, I am thinking about our president.

Much has been made about Mitt Romney’s tax returns. Reviewing them clarifies both public policy and personal wealth management. After $18.6 million of productivity, they paid $10.8 million in taxes and gifts to charity, keeping just 42.1% of what they produced. Their generosity and tax burden is hardly the example of greed that advocates of greater government would have us believe.

People do tend to react to what they think they know… what they think they saw… what they think they heard… rather than what actually transpired. They just don’t always make it so obvious and they don’t always get called on it. Sometimes, it is a pack thing, with everyone responding to the same incorrect belief. It’s never right and it is never good.

When your opponents say they believe they lost you might as well claim it as a win. Romney may not have convinced conservatives that he is the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan, but at least he might have opened a window to defeat the Progressives’ fearless leader and at least slow down America’s bullet train to bankruptcy.

A race car driver, he served in France during World War I as chauffeur for General Pershing. With Germany’s Red Baron dominating the skies, he transferred to the 94th Aero Squadron and helped shoot down 69 enemy aircraft. Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, his name was “Eddie” Rickenbacker, born OCTOBER 8, 1890.