Before I begin, it is imperative that we are all on the same page.

This election is not a social election. In all facets, it is purely economic.

While I understand that issues like gay marriage and abortion are important, please understand that I’m not asking you to change your stance.  This election is about something larger than social concerns. This election is about the continuing survival of the United States of America.

Don’t get me wrong; I would be the first person to support these social issues, and I often identify myself as a moderate, but I realized about this time last fall that this election was a pivotal point for our country. We could either turn and embrace the future with a renewed economic policy, or continue our descent into the darkness our current president has made the norm. So, as I said before, this is entirely an economic election.

In August we watched a documentary titled “I.O.U.S.A.: One Nation. Under Stress. In debt.,” and for the first time in my life, I felt a legitimate concern for my own future as well as the future of the United States. You see, the national debt of the United States currently sits above $16.5 trillion, and it is our generation that will have to deal with the growing black hole in the future.

Four years ago, the current administration observed a similar problem, and as any leadership team would, it tried to fix the problem. In fact, it promised the American people that it would fix the problem. So, through a series of economic stimulus plans such as “cash for clunkers,” the current administration played its hand at fixing the economy, and it failed.

Proponents of the stimulus packages argue that they prevented a second Great Depression, and I agree. Without any action there is no doubt the nation would have continued its downward spiral of hardship and decay. But here’s the catch: the current administration didn’t do enough. It reneged on its promise to the American people to “jolt our economy back to life.”

Ironically we now find ourselves in a position where the supreme commander of change himself needs to be changed. In fact, it’s just common sense. When something doesn’t work, when someone doesn’t do his job, you bring in the next, most qualified person to take over the position. And that person is Governor Mitt Romney.

The way I see it, Americans have a very simple choice: we can either continue our period of mediocrity and leave it to the future to fix, or we can go with the alternative and play a new hand on an old and tiresome problem.

The way I see it, this is a pivotal opportunity for America to recover and to reclaim the title of world economic leader.

The way I see it, it is time for change. Again.