General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: What is your biggest fear if Romney wins the election? [View all]He may have knowledge on how to run a private equity firm and the Olympics (with the government's added billions in that venture and of which he has no records to show accountability as to how he spent those government funds).
But he does not have knowledge or experience in the processes involved in managing public policy and a national economy -- its diverse nature cannot be run like a business venture in which a 'bottom line' that makes money for the firm is the whole goal. The government is not in the business of making money. Far from it. It is in the business of managing the people's business and I think for both Romney and Ryan that fact escapes them.
Romney would try to run the country as if it were a business and had a bottom line showing profits. Ryan is intent in seeing that his personal theology beliefs be adopted by the whole country. I saw this in the vice presidential debate when he was asked whether a pro-abortion woman had reason to fear his approach. Did he answer directly? No, he answered by stating what he and his cohorts BELIEVE -- that life begins and conception. In that, he was stating that he would expect the nation to adhere to his beliefs because that's what he would implement.