Can America Survive 4 More Years of Obama, or 8 of Romney?

It is only human to want to believe that there is a way out of disaster.   At some point though, dedicating your efforts to escaping a disaster which is inevitable actually increases the magnitude of that disaster.  Our hope works against us.     Once it's clear that momentum is going to carry the Titanic into the ice berg, fighting over whether the red team or the blue team mans the wheel is only going to get you killed.   At that point, it is a far better use of your time to make sure that the lifeboats are well equipped and in good order.  This is especially so when red team and blue team are funded by the same entities and have taken turns steering us into the same fiscal iceberg.

I don't say quit fighting, that's not in me.  I say fight rationally.   At this point we need to focus on getting our state and local governments in order and quit tying up so much emotional energy into national politics. Those are the life boats in this analogy.   It does not matter which team is running Washington, they are in the process of crashing our ship of state.  Here are the numbers from Wikki's page on federal spending...

• 2013 United States federal budget - $3.8 trillion (submitted 2012 by President Obama)^[106]
• 2012 United States federal budget - $3.7 trillion (submitted 2011 by President Obama)
• 2011 United States federal budget - $3.8 trillion (submitted 2010 by President Obama)
• 2010 United States federal budget - $3.6 trillion (submitted 2009 by President Obama)
• 2009 United States federal budget - $3.1 trillion (submitted 2008 by President Bush)
• 2008 United States federal budget - $2.9 trillion (submitted 2007 by President Bush)
• 2007 United States federal budget - $2.8 trillion (submitted 2006 by President Bush)
• 2006 United States federal budget - $2.7 trillion (submitted 2005 by President Bush)
• 2005 United States federal budget - $2.4 trillion (submitted 2004 by President Bush)
• 2004 United States federal budget - $2.3 trillion (submitted 2003 by President Bush)
• 2003 United States federal budget - $2.2 trillion (submitted 2002 by President Bush)
• 2002 United States federal budget - $2.0 trillion (submitted 2001 by President Bush)
• 2001 United States federal budget - $1.9 trillion (submitted 2000 by President Clinton)
• 2000 United States federal budget - $1.8 trillion (submitted 1999 by President Clinton)
• 1999 United States federal budget - $1.7 trillion (submitted 1998 by President Clinton)
• 1998 United States federal budget - $1.7 trillion (submitted 1997 by President Clinton)
• 1997 United States federal budget - $1.6 trillion (submitted 1996 by President Clinton)
• 1996 United States federal budget - $1.6 trillion (submitted 1995 by President Clinton)

Romney only proposes $300 million in specific "cuts" vice Obama.   That's if he gets everything he wants.    Even if those were real cuts, and they are not but merely reductions in Obama's planned increases, will a reduction in the annual spending from $3.8 trillion to $3.5 trillion in spending make much difference?  Bush II was the last Red Team President and he took spending from $1.9 trillion to $3.1 trillion in eight years.   Although his publicist has done a terrific job of revising his image with warm shots using disabled veterans as props, at the time most conservatives were aghast at the amount of money that Bush II spent.   Romney, even if he gets everything he says he wants, will not even get us back to where Bush ended.

Conservatives tend to be passionate people, but our emotions do not change the math.  My first choice would be for all conservatives to pick their battles rationally.  Failing that, I would ask they at least quit the sniping at those of us who are.