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Romney - focus on the economy; cut taxes
Topic Started: Aug 19 2010, 12:28 AM (295 Views)
Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Mitt Romney's Op-Ed
18 August 2010
Grow jobs and shrink government

By Mitt Romney | August 18, 2010

IT'S NOT happening the way President Obama had planned. Unemployment blew past his 8 percent ceiling and hasn't looked back. Private sector investment in new jobs and capital has languished. Even the head of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer, has resigned.

Almost every action the president has taken has deepened and lengthened the downturn. The private sector has retreated, frightened by his agenda and paralyzed by the uncertainty, lack of predictability, and outright hostility he has engendered.

His policies are anti-investment, anti-jobs, and anti-growth. Raising taxes -- with a 15 percent hike on certain small business corporations, new taxes to pay for ObamaCare, and an increase on the dividend tax from 15 percent to nearly 40 percent -- depresses new investment throughout the economy. Promoting an open-ended cap-and-trade tax dissuades expansion by employers in the energy sector. Bowing to the demands of unions to tilt the table in their favor -- with proposals for card check and mandatory arbitration as well as the installation of a labor stooge at the National Labor Relations Board -- chills new hiring.

Hostility toward foreign trade -- by delaying agreements with Colombia and South Korea and by threatening punitive taxes on US businesses that compete abroad -- stalls opportunities for new jobs at home. The so-called stimulus that focused on government spending and bailing out states and unions has boosted GDP only modestly and temporarily; the latest stimulus reincarnation will likely do no better. All the while, the president's failure to address the looming deficits, national debt, unfunded entitlement liabilities, ballooning Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae liabilities, and incalculable government pension obligations causes employers and investors to ask whether the dollar will be worth very much in the future, and thus, they hold back. The policies of the president and congressional Democrats are job killers.

Thanks to the innovative, can-do spirit of the American people, the economy will recover, even with the burdens the president has put upon it. But to speed the recovery and to ensure its long-term ascent, it is time to adopt a bipartisan growth and jobs agenda. Republicans made mistakes when we were in charge, yes, but Democrats pointing that out doesn't absolve them for the mistakes they are making today. Job and income growth can only come from a growing, successful private sector. Of course, government can create innumerable public sector jobs, but in doing so, it supplants the private sector and ultimately depresses the prosperity of its citizens.

A pro-job, pro-prosperity government works to create the conditions that enable businesses of all sizes to grow and thrive. These should include aligning corporate taxes with those of other developed economies, eliminating special corporate tax breaks that lobbyists have inserted over the years, and preserving the Bush tax cuts -- especially for small business.

To give an immediate boost to jobs and investment, permit businesses to write off in 2010 and 2011 the capital investments made in those years rather than over time. Aggressively negotiate and sign trade agreements with other nations to promote American exports. Adopt an energy policy that will actually eliminate our dependence on OPEC and hostile states. Preserve our balanced labor-management rules and regulators. Rather than raising the tax on investment dividends, eliminate it and the tax on capital gains and interest for all households earning less than $250,000 a year.

Reshape government programs to ultimately put spending in balance with revenues. Restructure entitlements to make them fiscally sustainable, honoring our commitments to seniors. Rather than opening the door to ever-increasing demands from states for bail-outs, take action to enable the states to solve their unfunded pension obligations. And tame the growth of government by limiting the political power of public employee unions.

The president said last week that Republicans have no economic ideas other than lowering taxes on the wealthy. This brief agenda is not the only refutation: Republicans in Washington and in states like New Jersey and Texas are promoting and implementing economic policies that do what the president has not: grow jobs and shrink government. It's time for a growth and jobs agenda to replace the special interest political agendas that we have endured over the past decades. So much is at stake -- a strong economy provides for the strong defense which preserves our liberty and promotes peace.

Source: Boston Globe

Focus on the economy -- so much better than the other Republicans pissing over the NYC Cordoba House project.
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Axtremus
Aug 19 2010, 12:28 AM
Almost every action the president has taken has deepened and lengthened the downturn.
And the book of mormon was dictated by God to Joseph Smith.



Two statements his faiths require him to believe, neither in need of evidence or defense, rather they can be taken as axiomatic.
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He's another bloke who reminds me of the Old-Spice commercial.

'Look at my hair.....now look look at the economy.....now back at my hair!'

As his governorship of Massachusetts ends, camera pulls away and he says (with surprise) 'I'm pro-life!'
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After Obamacare, Romney ain't gonna make it...
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Even before Obamacare he wasn't going to make it. Too many changes in his positions from Gov to candidate, and then there's that whole Mormon thing....

In a way its a shame (just in a way), since he certainly had more proven executive ability than anyone in the field, either side.
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Watch out for Mitch Daniels....
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Not kooky enough, he'll never get through your primary.
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George K
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Why does everyone make an issue of Romney's religion?
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I dont think everyone does, but enough do to prevent him from being electable.
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jon-nyc
Aug 19 2010, 06:09 AM
I dont think everyone does, but enough do to prevent him from being electable.
You seemed to consider it.

It doesn't seem to be an issue for the Majority Leader of the Senate. Why do you think that is?
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Jolly
Aug 19 2010, 05:56 AM
Watch out for Mitch Daniels....
I hope.
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George K
Aug 19 2010, 06:11 AM
jon-nyc
Aug 19 2010, 06:09 AM
I dont think everyone does, but enough do to prevent him from being electable.
You seemed to consider it.

It doesn't seem to be an issue for the Majority Leader of the Senate. Why do you think that is?
I believe it an issue not speaking about personal preference but with my amateur political analyst hat on.

I think voters in Utah and neighboring states are probably more comfortable with it than voters in other areas.

Also there's a difference between senator and president. We had black senators in the 1870s and female senators a generation ago.
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jon-nyc
Aug 19 2010, 06:53 AM
... not speaking about personal preference but with my amateur political analyst hat on.

Likewise when I said Daniels wasn't kooky enough I meant for the GOP primary voter, not for me personally.
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Jolly
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I think Romney's religion is a non-issue.
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I disagree. I think it may be a non-issue now, but will become a major point if he won the nomination.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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And I think it would sink him.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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Romney is probably (and probably ought to be) unelectable based on his abortion flip-flop. Anybody willing to change their deep-seated convictions so readily in order to get elected doesn't have any.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Aug 19 2010, 08:45 AM
I disagree. I think it may be a non-issue now, but will become a major point if he won the nomination.
No way; if a candidate's religion is going to be an issue, it's going to be a larger issue in the GOP primary then any where else.
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Romney puts up a good front, but as I said during the debates, he got this terrified, deer-in-the-headlights look whenever his record's inconsistencies would be challenged - things he didn't want to talk about. If that is all it takes to spook the man I sure don't want him in the Oval Office.

Not to mention the fact that he signed into law must-purchase health insurance in Mass. No sale.
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Axtremus
Aug 19 2010, 08:53 AM
Luke's Dad
Aug 19 2010, 08:45 AM
I disagree. I think it may be a non-issue now, but will become a major point if he won the nomination.
No way; if a candidate's religion is going to be an issue, it's going to be a larger issue in the GOP primary then any where else.
Just because that's the way it goes in Democratic primaries doesn't mean it translates over to Republicans. The stuff about Obama's being educated in Indonesian Islamic schools came out during the Democratic Primaries, as did the Reverend Wright issues, his associations with Ayers, etc... Nary a word was spoken about Romney's religion during the Republican primaries last time, nor will it be in 2012. The Mormon contingent is too strong in some states for other candidates to make an issue of it. Plus, you have to remember the Beck contingent. An attack on Mormonism would also be an attack on Beck supporters and listeners.

Now, should Romney win the nomination, the left will have a field day. Not only to they get to try to discredit the GOP nominee, they also get to attack Beck, with little or no repercussions as the conservative Mormons tend to go Republican anyway. I can just see Jon Stewart going to town with this, not to mention all of the YouTube videos of supposed Mormon Ceremonies.
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Axtremus
Aug 19 2010, 08:53 AM
Luke's Dad
Aug 19 2010, 08:45 AM
I disagree. I think it may be a non-issue now, but will become a major point if he won the nomination.
No way; if a candidate's religion is going to be an issue, it's going to be a larger issue in the GOP primary then any where else.
Tell that to George W. Bush.
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Aug 19 2010, 08:45 AM
And I think it would sink him.

Mr. Obama got elected with a religion that was somewhere between God Damn America, Buddhism and Islam.

Voters can overlook/ignore religion.
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Luke's Dad
Aug 19 2010, 08:45 AM
I disagree. I think it may be a non-issue now, but will become a major point if he won the nomination.
I think its a serious, if generally unspoken, point in seeking the nomination as well.
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Looks like Daniels is a non-starter. No way he'll pass muster with the Teabaggers Tea Party people.

Too bad, considering the alternatives.
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