Back to Romney's plan.

Romney's plan is the top five things that focus groups tell the pollsters they want. Cheap gas, jobs, cut the deficit and so on. That's it. And it's just five bullet points, there's no actual plan past the bullet points. On even casual examination the "plan" falls apart but it doesn't even get that from the media. The entire campaign on both sides is operating at fifth grade level, you didn't build that, Benghazi shows Obama is soft on terror and so on. The real issues never get discussed because neither side wants to address them.

The real issues are the massive debt overhang, the median wage not having gone up since Reagan and all the benefits of economic growth going to top earners and corporations. Without these issues being reversed America's economy isn't going to do very well in the long term.

Obama's real plan is to continue the system we have whereby US labour rates are being arbitraged down to Asian labour rates (currently a dollar a day to as much as a dollar an hour for unskilled labour, a couple of dollars an hour for skilled labour and six dollars and change an hour for college graduates) on an ongoing basis and US corporate profits are maximised while government programmes that hold America's middle class together, Medicare, social security etc have large cuts made to them.

Romney's real plan is to turn America into a giant Foxconn dormitory and take an axe to Medicare and social security, basically handing them over to the private sector. An express train to the third world in other words while Obama's train runs a lot slower and makes lots of stops along the way.