The Chief Choice

November's Presential Election is one for the decade, if not the century. Sit on the sidelines and you'll find your future impacted in grave ways. Here's a peek at the candidates & where they stand, based on introduced bills and/or campaign speeches:

Obama (Dem)

• Signed the Affordable Care Act (banning preexisting condition denials, allowing healthcare age extension for children, etc.)
• Saved the US Auto industry
• Improve Social Security
• End special trade laws with China
• Diplomatic sanctions against Syria
• Paid taxes and released many years of copies
• Slight tax increase to those making over $250,000/yr and up
• Maintain senior prescription drug benefit in Medicare
• Promotes infrastructure jobs (roads, bridges, etc.)
• Supports clean air/water
• Pro-choice and women's rights
• Pro same-sex marriage
• Supports current gun laws
• Has saved/extended Medicare by eliminating gross costs to insurance companies
• Supports reforming the tax code
• Promotes voter access to polls
• Would appoint less extreme Supreme Court judges

Romney (Rep)

• Would abolish the ACA in his first 100 days if elected; $8,000 vouchers for those under 55.
• Editorialized to let the US Auto industry fail
• Privatize Social Security to banking/financial industry (Wall St)
• Voted against trade laws with China
• Invade/bomb Syria
• Released 1.5 yrs of taxes and refuses to release more
• Tax decrease to those making over $1 million a year and up; tax burden increase on all those under this
• Bring back prescription drug "donut hole" in Medicare (costing seniors $$)
• No jobs plan
• Supports eliminating the EPA
• Federal Ban on most forms of contraception and bans ALL abortions (including from rape & incent)
• Federal Ban on same-sex marriage
• Supports no background checks on gun purchases
• Would end Medicare as we know it
• Would reduce taxes on top 1%
• Promotes voter restrictions at the polls (requiring photo ids, passports, SS cards, etc.)
• Would appoint extreme/activist Supreme Court Justices

Don't see a difference between the candidates? Get your vision checked and read again.