When "businessmen" run for the presidency, we should run away from them.
A country is NOT a business.
Successful businessmen are usually comfortable with cutting losses.
They think in terms of quarterly gains, profit-loss accounting.
The common-good is not of much concern to most successful businessmen.
Money,the pursuit of it, and the retention of it, is their goal..Their ONLY goal.
What WOULD Romney do to for the impoverished states?...Sell them?..Lay off the inhabitants? Self-deportation help for them to go back to their ancestral homelands of their great-grandparents?
Do the poor folks in those states really think that a republican businessman will have their best interests at heart.Think back to what the last Republican president did for them.
Successful businessmen do not "throw good money after bad". They cut their losses and let the chips fall where they may, without much (if any) thoughts of the futures of the people who get whacked in the process.
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...Mass Transit.
"It doesn't make a profit"
Me: It's not necessarily suppose to make a profit. It's suppose to allow people who want to, to
have a means to get to work, get to stores, and also pleasurable activities. It saves money for those that use it, it saves POLLUTION problems, TRAFFIC problems, PARKING problems and a host of other problem things that detract from the quality of life. I mean, Damn...roads don't make a profit, Traffic lights don't make a profit (for a city)...can't you see that all this is for the common good??
They can't...because they're dumb-ass Republicans. 
is a concept that Republicans and right-wingers clearly don't understand. It has to affect them personally before it means something to them and sometimes they are even oblivious to the concept that other people might need help with the same thing too and that they may not have all the same resources and/or advantages they do.
We need a massive campaign to remind people where things like roads, police, fire departments, schools, etc. come from and how they are provided for. Most people think it's great to continually have their taxes cut until their utility bills go up, school fees go up, potholes don't get repaired, etc.
involves ripping up and selling off companies. That may be all well and fine out there in the business world but I wouldn't want to see that kind of "experience" brought into our government.
