Comments about ‘What did last week's election tell about the future?’

The Chaffetz plan will have seventy-year-old people clinging to their jobs, locking young people out. The only problem with Social Security is the baby boom, and that's a temporary cash-flow problem that will resolve itself in time.

As usual, a lot of good thinking here. Now how do we turn this into action?

Webb says that America is now a Center-right nation but my opinion is that it closer to Center-left. How could a Center-right nation of voters elect Barak Obama and, even after all he has done to bring us to the far left, still give him support of just under 50%?

Some of the things we saw in last week's election like Pearce's defeat and the pro-union votes are mostly due to massive amounts of money put into special type elections by knee-jerk liberal groups that can pull a certain percentage of middle of the road voters.

This nation has gradually gravitated to the left on many fronts from illegal immigration to large private sector bailouts and stimulus spending.