Two Questions to Help the Undecided Voter

While there are many complex and nuanced issues to consider in this election, I think there are two simple questions that can assist voters in selecting a Presidential candidate on Election Day.

1. Is money the most important thing in your life?
2. Do you make more than $200,000 per year?

If you answered "yes" to both of these questions, then Mitt Romney is your man.  Feel good about casting that ballot for him and enjoying lower taxes for the next 4 years, while the rest of the country continues to descend in to despair.  If you didn't answer "yes" to both questions, but are leaning toward Mr. Romney, then you are in all likelihood voting against your own interests.  Romney's policies only benefit people who answer "yes" to the above questions.

One caveat on the above - an Obama victory in November will very likely result in a "Grand Bargain" on Social Security and Medicate in 2013.  This is disturbing.  Ironically, a Romney victory might actually save Social Security and Medicare from cuts since Democrats would likely not cooperate with the Republicans effort to cut these earned benefits programs.

Geniuses

Jack Welch thinks the latest jobs report was cooked, and Donald Trump agrees with him.  Trump also thinks that the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez needs drugs to play better.  Why do we care what these people think?

Making money is a skill and there is no doubt that men like Welch and Trump are geniuses at it.  Their financial intelligence far exceeds that of the average person.  Intelligence in everything else?  Perhaps not so much.  Yet because our society worships money to such an extreme degree, people like Welch and Trump are sought after to provide their thoughts on a whole host of topics of which they know nothing.  We somehow equate financial genius with just pure genius.

To make my point, let's take the case of another skilled genius - Alex Rodriguez.  In baseball, A-Rod is one of the best players ever.  His baseball IQ is way above the average person's.  He has many adoring fans (as well as detractors).  Why aren't we asking him what he thinks of the jobs report?  Or the recent Presidential debate?  Is it that we recognize that baseball genius doesn't qualify him as an expert on everything else going on in the world?

Bottom line - I don't give a shit what Jack Welch and Donald Trump think.