Why support Romney?

Lots of people have told me how they want a business man to run Washington… well…

Let’s understand the differences between what a businessman needs to be successful and what a politician needs to be successful in a classical liberal sense (The same sense as the founding fathers).

A business man needs to be able to see the future trend of individual interest in order to invest an optimal amount into capital goods verses consumer goods. This takes quite a lot of time to compare interest rates, forecasting market preference and monitoring market share changes. All of this is used in the sole purpose to grow the corporation and to increase wages.
In the classical liberal sense, this approach is quite at odds with the scope and sense of government leadership, as most politicians seek to cure an economy by using the government to increase its own spending, preferably through deficits, thereby adding to the nation’s aggregate spending stream. The founding fathers fought to minimize, even eliminate government interference to the free market not use it as a corporation in order to employ as many individuals as possible.

I think this here is the clincher in the strange dichotomy of people who claim to be strong conservatives voting for Romney, Romney is not a conservative, he believes in the use of force through government to coerce independent individuals to follow his rule, particularly how he setup his own "healthcare reform" in his state, which was practically the blue print for "Obamacare". Not to mention Romney’s stance on the second amendment is dismal (I’m a fierce proponent of the 2nd amendment). Romney also agrees with controlling interest rates and dictating control over the money supply, Ideas that would make Karl Marx a happy man – this use to be called "Socialism".

You can be a good businessman and have no understanding of what the rightful place of government is in the lives of free people and I fear that is what the right has chosen to the chagrin of the founding fathers – if they were alive.

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