Legalizing marijuana is not my #1 concern at this time. Do you think Romney would deliver what you wish, more than Obama?
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Legalizing marijuana isn't my #1 concern either, but all of these issues are interconnected with the top issue we are constantly being told by the media is the only concern of the electorate, and determinant of the outcome of the election (the economy).
FWIW, I don't partake, but others who do can't "get their weed", as you put it, without the risk of running afoul of the law and resulting in everything from incarceration to fines, all costly. The cost to me as a citizen (diverted law enforcement from real crimes, violent and other, court resourses, prison costs) is huge.
Neither Obama nor Romney will deliver on any issue important to the 99%. This is just one of many issues where Obama's hypocrisy and deceitfulness is apparent for all to see.
How Obama has handled the massive problems is
EXACTLY how Republicans would've handled them (and how BushCheney was handling them). Obama's not governing as he had promised or as a
real Democrat would have.
The real shame, the real tragedy for all of us is that Obama could have been a transcendent president, good for both business AND the People. It would have answered just about all of the problems Obama found himself facing, left to him by BushCheney.
On the domestic front, the job creation possibilities were lost when the real reform proposed by single payer universal healthcare advocates was eliminated from even getting a seat at the table, and Obama chose to preserve an anachronistic, expensive and failed insurance industry and employer-provided system for medical care, which is government-sanctioned racketeering.
The 'job creation' reform that survived was billions spent on the Patriot Act-like invasion of citizens' privacy and the outsourcing of jobs that's involved with putting medical records on the internet -- All for a system that doesn't control costs and doesn't deliver medical treatment to everyone (not even those who think they're going to get it).
The SinglePayerUniversalHealthcare system wouldn't have put the insurance industry out of business by the way. It would've been a two-tiered system: Basic coverage for everyone and boutique coverage for those willing to pay for it. So nobody had to worry about poor Big Insurance and Pharma -- There would have been work for all. Big Insurance and Pharma would just had to have made smarter gambles, with no taxpayer bailouts.
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