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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've only scanned this thread because what each candidate promises is really a bunch of hot air, both ability to deliver and the typical questionable assumptions used to make the numbers work.

I believe the right answer depends on your definition of family.  If yourselves, who knows?  If your kids or your grandkids, then you need to think about our staggering deficits.

A B.U. economist recently presented data at an assembly of public finance experts.  His conclusion, when adding state/local to federal deficits, gets us already to 12% of GDP.

Our problems may already be worse than that of any other developed country.

So--if you're scared for future generations you may have to swallow hard, overlook their (imho) grotesque social agenda, and vote Republican.  That's what I'm wrestling with now.

Anyway, that's my viewfinder, and I find the rest to be just noise.[/quote]

OP here, I'm still trying to digest all of the responses.  Honestly, I find much of it to be over my head.  My definition of family, though, or actually who I should have referred to in my original question, is "people like me".  People in my income bracket, my extended family members and community, my adult children and their future families.  Not to say I don't give a damn about anyone else, either better or worse off than me, but I'm definitely not in that group of business owners, giant HHI or large capital gains earners.

Thank you all for the responses so far, I hope I'm able to discern some valuable info.  This is the second election I feel like I'm finally "grown up" enough to not vote strictly on ballot side or only on moral issues. [/quote]

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