Is The Obama Youth Brigade "The Lost Generation"?

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This was an inevitabl consequence of the recession. What type of magic will Romney employ to remedy this situation?

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This was an inevitabl consequence of the recession. What type of magic will Romney employ to remedy this situation?

Stop prolonging the recession and stop causing a new one. "Obama is the biggest wet blanket on the economy, ever."  Romney may even succeed in encouraging growth via policy, certainty, and confidence improvements. 

What exactly will he do? Is his plan to raise military spending a part of it?

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Obama has not shown any sign that he knows how to handle the economy, so we may as well give Mittens a try. I understand the "well he might not do any better!" argument, but we know what Obama can do and as part of this generation, I want to give someone else a chance. If Romney fails we will try it again in 4 years with Hillary and Bill.

Just giving someone a chance is not a good enough argument in my book, especially if they are promising to do irresponsible things like increasing military spending while the budget deficits are so high. I also don't think you can blame the gridlock in Washington solely on Obama, can you? Not with those tea party Republicans hanging around. I think Boehner is a good guy, and if Cantor and those tea party Republicans weren't in the equation, we likely could have got a deal back in 2011. And just the general populist "the economy ain't good so im'a throw out the incumbent" argument most certainly will not fly with me. I think the lack of a budget deal is the right place to attack Obama, but in my opinion he isn't solely to blame and he has shown willingness to compromise on entitlement reform, but similar willingness to compromise on taxes is rarely seen in Republicans.

Also any deal that happens needs to be bipartisan. It really does. If it isn't, it could just be overturned by the other party when they get in power, which creates uncertainty, and that is what we really need to avoid. Also Europe needs to get it's act together and all that good stuff.

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This is kind of misleading. Young graduates who majored in engineering or physics or chemistry or math are employed as engineers, physicists, chemists and mathematicians. Young graduates who majored in Medieval French Literature or Biracial Transgender Studies are employed at Starbucks.

I think this is true. Although at the height of the recession even those with science and engineering degrees weren't finding jobs, things are slowly turning around there and most can if they bother to get a little experience while in college. But if you have a degree in the humanities...good luck. And I'm not saying that everyone in the humanities is doomed...but you should figure what exactly you want to do in the real world.

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The recession happens under a Republican president and this is all the Democrats fault? Wow, that is ridiculous.

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Schumer is just a puppet who says whatever the lawyers and public unions tell him to say. I will give him this: Nobody in the game is better at sticking to his talking points.

Washington needs to put partisanship aside and find a way to separate investment banking from commercial banking, preferably on a global scale somehow. In the long-run, it is even better for bankers because the next financial crisis could be the big one that ends it all if we continue exposing the money supply like this. Perhaps Republicans would agree to this if Democrats would agree to killing Dodd-Frank and every part of Obamacare except the prohibition against discriminating based upon pre-existing conditions and the requirement for college coverage. That seems like a fair compromise that will do more good than harm for the nation. This is the type of wheeling and dealing we will see with the Romney Administration, unlike a continuation of the past four years.

So Romney would also keep the mandate to purchase insurance?