THE ISSUE: Which presidential candidate is better suited to handle the economic crisis.
If you like welfare and living off of hard-working people; if you think health benefits are your right, even if you don’t deserve them, and if you like running your company into the ground and having the government bail you out, then vote for Barack Obama (“An Obama Panic?” Charles Gasparino, PostOpinion, Oct. 13).
Obama is going to force big businesses to take their money somewhere else, and we will become a country of bums.
Paul Panepinto
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After listening to the candidates offer their solutions to the financial mess, I conclude that both are inept and incapable of handling the situation.
The one most qualified to deal with this was cast to the side to nominate a smiling face who offers no answers.
I propose a referendum to draft Hillary Clinton, on the grounds that the nominees have not shown leadership in addressing our nation’s situation.
James League
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I understand the appeal of Obama: He’s glib, calm, hip, cool and nothing rattles him – not a teetering economy, head-sawing terrorists, America’s dependence on foreign oil or close relationships to bombers, felons and hate-filled preachers.
With Obama, all challenges faced by Americans can be eased with stronger dependence on a benevolent government whose source of income is citizen taxes.
We forget that anytime a politician says government will provide something, it means the taxpayers will provide it.
Under an Obama presidency, those who earn the most will pay a disproportionately higher share of the tax burden.
Obama supporters like the whole concept of a modern-day Robin Hood; the “theft” part doesn’t even register.
Robert Szypulski
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If a Fortune 500 company is looking for someone to run it, would it hire a Harvard graduate or a fighter-bomber pilot who almost drowned when his plane was shot down?
Virgilio Carballo
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For an individual who has relied upon multi-thousand-dollar-a-plate fund-raising dinners, how does Obama have the nerve to say that Americans are living beyond their means?
I don’t see him losing his mansion as a result of taking out a home-equity loan to fund his quest for the White House.
T. King
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Charles Gasparino insinuates that the market is casting a vote of “no confidence” in Obama.
Was Monday’s nearly 1,000-point rally a vote of no confidence?
A down market in the quarter prior to an election typically signals that the party in the White House is going to change.
I find it hard to believe that Obama will raise taxes on Day One, but he is being very honest regarding his intentions for the eight years of his presidency.
Taylor Gray
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The Dow’s roller-coaster ride proves that there have been buyers along the way – a sign that many people still have confidence in the market and the United States.
The quickest way to sour that confidence would be the huge increases in taxes and spending sought by Obama and the Democrats.
An Obama presidency, along with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Harry Reid, would be the final piece of a trifecta of economic calamity.
Anthony Varriano
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Maybe now the nation will realize that this economic crisis was not caused by, nor is it the sole responsibility of, the Republicans.
It is a systemic problem throughout the world, and we need a leader who can talk to the other leaders of the the world to solve it.
That person can only be McCain.
Robert McKenna
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If Obama is elected, people are bound to lose their last dollar and will be left with just a bit of change.
Yossi Herczeg