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Romney's proposed reforms will benefit nation

Today, Americans all over the country face a choice between one candidate who embodies the Washington, D.C. status quo and another who represents a new way of doing business. They face a choice between one candidate who proposes outdated policies and seems to only look backwards for guidance and another who proposes substantive policy reforms that will help modernize our economy for the 21st century. They face a choice between old and tired and hope and change. Sounds a lot like 2008, right? Except this time around, the roles are reversed. Barack Obama's campaign slogan may be "Forward," but when it comes to the most consequential issues facing our country, the president is stuck in the present at best and stuck in the past at worst. On the other hand, the Republican ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan has proposed serious, substantive reforms that will adapt our public policy to the new realities that our nation faces as we move into the future. A look at three of the most important issues in this election will illustrate our country's choice. First, let's take a look at health care.


Romney's proposed reforms will benefit nation

Today, Americans all over the country face a choice between one candidate who embodies the Washington, D.C. status quo and another who represents a new way of doing business. They face a choice between one candidate who proposes outdated policies and seems to only look backwards for guidance and another who proposes substantive policy reforms that will help modernize our economy for the 21st century. They face a choice between old and tired and hope and change. Sounds a lot like 2008, right? Except this time around, the roles are reversed. Barack Obama's campaign slogan may be "Forward," but when it comes to the most consequential issues facing our country, the president is stuck in the present at best and stuck in the past at worst. On the other hand, the Republican ticket of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan has proposed serious, substantive reforms that will adapt our public policy to the new realities that our nation faces as we move into the future. A look at three of the most important issues in this election will illustrate our country's choice. First, let's take a look at health care.


Online courses required trade-off

I am an anti-Luddite. For those of you who don't recall your 19th-century English history, the Luddites were a group of English textile artisans who opposed the development of the mechanized loom. This new technology meant that skilled textile producers could be replaced by less-skilled, low-wage workers, leaving the artisans out of work. In modern times, the term neo-Luddite has come to refer to one who opposes the kinds of innovative and disruptive technological change that often render old economic and social arrangements obsolete.


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