Romney should be elected over Obama

Obama's CharacterPresident Obama is a success. But his story is not one that reflects the classic concept of the American Dream. According to Obama's own account he spent high school and the start of college in a drug haze. He went to elite schools. He received his ideological and political tutelage from a from a far left radical. [12.http://www.forbes.com...] He spent a very short time in a private law firm, and called his time supporting private enterprise as "behind enemy lines." [13. http://washingtonexaminer.com...] His career was built as a community organizer, charged with the task of getting benefits from government for constituents.President Obama does not understanding the world of success by achieved by building something. Obama achieved as an agent for government redistribution of wealth. It defines his character. He achieved success through political skills, not through conventional hard work at a business.Con claims that "unlike the many presidents who preceded him, he cares about what is best for the greater good." No, recent presidents each cared about the good of the people. The difference is whether the good of the people is best served by the redistribution of wealth of by the creation of wealth. As an extreme example, I don't doubt that Chairman Mao cared about the well-being of the people of China, just as the government of Hong Kong cared about the well being of the people Hong Kong. Since Hong Kong was under British rule, even though the British are civilized and caring, in all probability the Hong Kong governors cared less. Yet the people of Hong Kong did immeasurably better with a little less caring and a whole lot more freedom. Obama wants a coalition of just large enough to elect him. To support that goal he has championed class warfare, pretending that "the rich" will pay for all the freebies he dispenses to his supporters. Romney will serve all the people, Obama serves his constituency.Romney's CharacterObama's vision of helping people is to take money from taxpayers and have the government do good things at the pace and efficiency with which government always does things. Romney believes in personal commitment. One of the partners in Bain Capital had his 14-year old daughter go missing in New York City. "As the days went by and her parents, Robert and Lynette Gay, grew more and more frantic, they finally told Mr. Gay's partners at the private equity-investment firm Bain Capital. A few hours later, executives of the Boston-based firm were on the shuttle to New York for a huge volunteer effort, harnessing corporate manpower throughout the city and immersing professional baby boomers in a youth party culture many knew nothing about. ... "Bain Capital's partners closed down the firm and drew on friendships and connections to find volunteers for the search. R.R. Donnelly, the firm's printer, printed more than 300,000 fliers bearing Ms. Gay's picture and last known whereabouts. Duane Reade, a drugstore chain in which Bain Capital is an investor, had clerks at 52 stores insert fliers in shopping bags. ..." [13. http://jacksonville.com...]The girl was found.In 2007, fires damaged a large area near San Diego, where Romney lived. Matt Romney, Mitt's son called a neighbor, Mr. Fisher to offer help. "We would like to come help. We would like to come do something. Fisher said, '...There is a big tree stump in my front yard. They took the tree down, the tree was torched in the fire. But the stump was still there.' So Matt insisted, he said, 'We would like to bring a couple of guys and do some service at your house.'"On that day, Fisher said he ran out to get some breakfast for the volunteers. Fisher said, "As I drove down to my house, there are four men working in the hole there, ... and one of them is running for President of the United States of America." "...[Mitt Romney] was the first one down the hole. He's the first one with the power saw. He's doing the hardest work of any of us." And as Fisher made clear, not a single reporter was in sight. "This wasn't a publicity event," Fisher said. "In fact, when they grew up as boys there was occasions where their dad...would get them up and they would go do a service project for someone." Obama doesn't know how to fix the economy Con contends that Obama knows how to fix the economy. I provided a list of the failures of Obama's economic policies, notably the average income shrinking $4200. It seems Con grants my points, except for Obama promising to reduce unemployment to 5.4% by now. The left-leaning Politifact claims that no such promise was made. Con's link to Politifact is broken, but a web search reveals that the Politifact said the unemployment projections were not an Obama promise because the report produced by Obama's economic advisers to sell the Stimulus bill had caveats that there were uncertainties. [14. http://www.politifact.com... ] So, we are to believe that the Stimulus legislation was sold to Congress and the public on the basis that it might do nothing? The report by Obama's economic team quantified the uncertainties. [15. http://www.ampo.org... ] The report claimed that by the end of of the 2010 fiscal year 3.67 million jobs would be created. “In light of the substantial quarter-to-quarter variation in the estimates of job creation, we believe a reasonable range for 2010Q4 is 3.3 to 4.1 million jobs created.”\The actual result was 2,105,000 jobs lost. The bottom line effect on employment is shown in the graph below. The policy failed. [16. http://waysandmeans.house.gov... Con quotes the President supporting free enterprise. Obama only provides lip service. I cited the vast bureaucracy that has foiled business growth, ranging from Dodd-Frank to the ADA to Obamacare. Con argues that since government subsidizes food production, they ought to control health care. In fact, there is very little subsidy of food. Each consumer unit (2.5 persons) spent an average of $6,458 on food in 2011. [17. http://www.bls.gov...] The population was about 311 million. So the total amount spent on food was 311*6458/2.5 million = $803 billion. The subsidy in 2009 was $12.3 billion. Food costs under free enterprise have dropped from by half in the past three decades. the government has heavily subsidized medical care through Medicare, Medicaid, and the military health system. Health care costs have skyrocketed. Subsidies cannot make anything genuinely cheaper. At most they transfer wealth. Obamacare increases the demand for health care while decreasing supply. No physicians are added to the system, and 83% say they are considering quitting. Medical school admissions are down 6%. [18. http://www.forbes.com... ] Integrity Con's video apparently dates back to 2007 when Romney was struggling to master national issues. It's fair to say he changed positions. A national candidate has to expand his horizons to the national level, and in 2007 Romney had not arrived. He lost the Republican nomination as a result. Romney has now arrived at consistent positions on national issues. One could cite videos of Hillary Clinton tearing into Obama in the race for the 2008 nomination, one of the most vicious campaigns on record. Better to ask what happened to Obama's promises of transparency, bipartisanship, and fiscal responsibility. Those were promises to the voters. Romney is a sober guy. Obama is a politician.