Romney Promises 'Real Change'
Gov. Mitt Romney expounded on his 5-point plan during a speech in Tampa Wednesday. Notables in the crowd included former Tampa Mayor Dick Greco, a Democrat.
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Gov. Mitt Romney Romney took the stage to a roar of applause just before 11 a.m. Wednesday in front of a crowd of thousands who waited in a chilly airplane hangar for the presidential candidate’s arrival in Tampa.
Wearing a black-and-white striped tie and his sleeves rolled up, Romney looked more informal than in previous appearances.
“My view is straight forward, I believe this is the time for America to take a different course,” Romney told the crowd. “With 23 million Americans struggling to find a good job, this is something that requires a different path than we've been on.
“I will bring real change,” Romney said. “Real reform."
Wednesday’s Tampa stop is among a trifecta of Florida visits for the presidential candidate who will be making stops in Coral Gables and Jacksonville later today.
Called a “Victory Rally,” Romney used Wednesday’s visit to explain his 5-point plan to stimulate the economy. The plan includes tapping domestic oil reserves, promoting trade with Latin America, better education, balancing the budget and lowering taxes for small and large businesses.
“For those things to happen, it’s going to require something that Washington talks about that hasn’t happened in a long, long time,” Romney said. “Reaching across the aisle.”
Romney said he had experience doing just that as governor of Massachusetts working with a majority Democrat senate.
“We worked together, we had a multi-billion budget gap,” Romney said. “Instead of fighting each other, each party took some responsibility for the deficit. We cut spending in our state and then we cut taxes as well.
“This can happen; it has to happen in Washington,” Romney said. “We’ve got to come together.”
Romney’s message resonated with Steve Brady of Plant City.
“Romney is going to get America back to work,” said Brady, 48.
“It’s not that I think (President Barack) Obama is a bad person,” said Brady, an associate pastor at Harmony Baptist Church. “His policies have failed.”
Wednesday’s visit took place at Landmark Aviation on Westshore Boulevard where Romney’s private plane served as the backdrop. The plane painted red, white and blue had Romney’s logo on the back wing and “Believe In America” painted on the side.
A Who’s Who of the Republican party took the stage prior to Romney, including Sen. Marco Rubio, former Gov. Jeb Bush, Congressman Connie Mack, Attorney General Pam Bondi and State Rep. Dana Young.
Their messages were unified in promoting Romney’s past experience as what makes him a right fit for the job of president.
A notable non-Republican also showed up in support of Romney.
Tampa’s former mayor Dick Greco addressed the audience before Romney took the stage.
“I’m a registered Democrat. So what,” Greco told the crowd. “This is the most important election in my lifetime by far.”
Greco touted Romney’s family life and business acumen as reasons to elect him.
“We’re blessed to have a man like Gov. Mitt Romney running,” he said. “Look at his record as a person, a family man … everything he’s undertaken he’s excelled at.”
State Rep. Dana Young called Wednesday’s rally a “celebration for the election of Mitt Romney as president of the United States of America.”
“Mitt Romney is a problem solver, a uniter and together those make a great leader for America,” Young said. “If you believe in people who want real work, not just a pat on the back and a government check the answer is Mitt Romney."
Romney said parts of his 5-point plan would stimulate the job market, including his interest in exploring domestic oil and lowering taxes for businesses.
“It creates a lot of jobs in states that use energy,” he said. “When energy is low-cost and abundant it will bring manufacturing back.”
Another particularly popular point with the crowd was Romney talking about helping small businesses and lowering taxes.
“We’ve got to help small business,” he said to a round of applause. “We want to make it easier for small businesses to open their doors and keep business going.”
That was a message that spoke to Carrollwood resident Robert Penaranda. The 58-year-old immigrated to the United States from Cuba when he was 8. He's owned his own landscaping business for 30 years, but has been struggling recently.
"He's a businessman and the United States is a business and you need a business mind to run it," Penaranda said.
Romney also used his speech to pay homage to the veterans in the crowd asking all vets to raise their hand and receive applause.
“It’s a part of the American character that we live for something bigger than ourselves,” he said. “I think of the men and women who serve in the military who put themselves in harms way for our prosperity and future.”
Romney closed his brief speech by expounding on the song “America The Beautiful.” He said the song starts off describing the physical characteristics of America, but then describes the characteristics of the American heart.
“You don’t have to be larger than life to be a hero,” he said. “Just larger than yourself.”
Michael Weatherby
1:53 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
and for all us Floridians who have suffered through disastrous hurricanes, you can bet that Cheney's Halliburton will step up to the plate to help us when Romney disables FEMA and allows the for profit companies to take over disaster relief. When we put ourselves in their hands you will feel the crush.
Colter95
9:44 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
FEMA will not be disabled... Romney only wants to find ways to get aid at the local level more quickly and efficiently... It can save lives!! All avenues in this effort should be discussed in a bipartisan manner... The status quo is not always the best answer...
Lynda
2:55 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Gov. Romney's memory of his time working with elected Democrats in Massachusetts is seriously flawed. He frequently vetoed legislation; the Democrats then overrode his vetoes. Check with someone who lived through the one term Gov. Romney served as governor of Massachusetts. There were good reasons he didn't run for a second term; the reasons didn't include his being so successful as governor!
Franklin Anderson
3:38 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
I am an extremely limited government person. I will criticize the right for big spending. My only wish is that the left would do the same. Even if you believe in abortion, funding for public school, welfare, etc.. the fact of the matter is our country is BROKE! Florida needs to get a grip and vote out Bill Nelson because he has been a large part of the problem. He has voted for every debt increase and ignored balancing the budget. We wont be able to afford anything soon, and China will own us.
Lynda
8:21 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
There is a significant difference between panic about being "BROKE" and a real plan to reduce the long term deficit. One only needs to look at the countries which took drastic measures to cut spending to see the bad results of that policy: limited GDP growth and increased unemployment. Right now interest rates are at historic lows. Governments could invest in all the infrastructure updating this country desperately needs at very low interest costs. Although Sen. Nelson did not oppose the unfunded Iraq war, the unfunded Medicare Drug benefit or running the Afghanistan war off budget, (the three larges components of the current debt), he has generally been a consistent vote for sensible long-term solutions to debt while voting for needed investment. Sen. Nelson has certainly earned another term., especially considering the character and qualifications of his opponent. Mr. Anderson, you have been sold a bill of "stuff" about the need to panic over debt.
Grace
9:09 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
I agree with what you say. I criticize big spending but if without it, we would have gone under, it was necessary. Would you prefer that people die in the streets, we close schools and tell the rich, it's ok, keep your money offshore (like Mitt does) and pay 14% in taxes while the rest of us pay more. FL needs to get a grip big time and kick out the GOP. Scott has been a mess for FL. The GOP has been avoiding him like the plague. Connie Mack, if those commercials is true, is irresponsible and just a spoiled rich kid. And if you want to blame somebody for China owning us, then I suggest you ask W why he borrowed so much from them, selling them our bonds, and STOP SHOPPING AT WALMART! And don't do like Romney does, invest in Chinese companies.
Truth teller
3:43 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a day. Put Obama in charge of the Sahara, and there will be a shortage of sand in less than two years.
Grace
9:06 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Hmmm from what Obama and FEMA are doing with all that sand in NJ, I am sure the Sahara would be improved big time. And hey wouldn't a shortage of sand be a good thing in the Sahara? Your comment backfired....
Harborite
6:48 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
“I will bring real change,” Romney said today in sunny Tampa, FL while Pres. Obama was in New Jersey bringing real change helping out the victims of Hurricane Sandy.
RD
7:48 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Love seeing Chris Christie with the President today. What's he gonna do when Mitt gets rid of FEMA? Would have loved to be a fly on the wall for some of those conversations. Republicans are all for smaller government except when they need it.
Chely Hernández-Miller
2:30 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Mitt Romney’s Plan for a Stronger Middle Class is a five-part proposal:
Part one is to achieve energy independence on this continent by 2020. America is blessed with extraordinary natural resources, and developing them will create millions of good jobs – not only in the energy industry, but also in industries like manufacturing that will benefit from more energy at lower prices.
Part two of the plan is trade that works for America. Mitt believes that trade can offer enormous opportunities for American businesses and workers, but only if they are given a level playing field on which they can compete and win.
Part three is to provide Americans with the skills to succeed through better public schools, better access to higher education, and better retraining programs that help to match unemployed workers with real-world job opportunities.
Part four is to cut the deficit, reducing the size of government and getting the national debt under control so that America remains a place where businesses want to open up shop and hire.
Part five is to champion small business. Small businesses are the engine of job creation in this country, but they will struggle to succeed if taxes and regulations are too burdensome or if a government in Washington does its best to stifle them.
Harborite
6:23 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Chely, The problem with Romney's five point plan that you describe is that it lacks any specifics on how to achieve these goals. They are just general goals that all politicians support. Romney's plan will not achieve 12 million jobs like he claims. Romney still supports tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas. With Bain Capital, Romney closed many of America's factories down and sent America's high paying manufacturing jobs to China. Romney just threatens things like declaring China a currency manipulator. Experts agree that this will result in a long dangerous trade war with China. As for better schools, this is mainly a state and local issue. Romney in the past has stated his desire to cut school funding and even wants to eliminate PBS funding that educates our children with programs like Sesame Street. As for cutting the deficit, all experts agree that his plan won't work. The reason Romney won't give details is that you can't balance the budget by cutting taxes for millionaires, eliminating capital gains taxes, and increasing military spending by 2 trillion dollars. Finally, our country already champions small businesses with many tax breaks and incentives. Romney's five point plan lacks any specific details on how he would achieve any of these goals. It is just the empty talk of an opportunistic politician.
JaaaaaaayBeeeeeeeeee
5:53 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Mitt Rob-me's five part plan .... translated into plain english
Part One .... drill baby drill ... suck those wells dry, clear cut the forest. It doesn't matter because the Rapture is soon anyway. Keep refined gasoline in its position as our NUMBER ONE export ... keep sending it overseas.... keep the health detriments here at home.
Part Two ... encourage trade, especially with the companies that Bain sent to China that I still gets residuals from. Overseas bank accounts are soooooo handy.
Part Three .... better schools .... notice I don't mention the bit about increased privatization? Ssssssshhhhh .... we'll let that cat out of the bag later. Got buddies that want to be in the school business.
Part Four ... I have a 10 year plan to cut the deficit ...that means I would be out of office for two whole years when it fails ... in the meantime, I will keep hammering Obama for not getting us out of a much worse economic mess in just 4 years .... yay, me ... brilliant!
Part Five ... sorry ... I was sleeping in Economics 101 the day that they were telling us that Consumer Demand was the engine of job creation ....( if people don't want or can't afford a product, it doesn't matter what that business is doing. Cash in pocket is the fuel for the engine ...)
Gene "Doc" Webb
7:20 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Mitt Romney is the right choice.
In four years Obama has not figured out how to work with a divided Congress or a Congress his party controls. He wants to push Congress around and like most bullies he gets very little accomplished.
Obama has moved steadily toward a welfare state. There are now more people dependent on the government for their subsistence that ever before. It's not the economy, it's the government.
Obama's policies of tax and spend, get the people dependent on the government are leading us toward the same end Europe is facing right now. When the welfare bubble breaks, and it will, then where will be? Bankrupt.
I voted for Obama 4 years ago. Like many I have been disappointed with his rapid run to the left.
We need common sense leadership that knows how to develop a budget, will be compassionate with those who really need help and will work to improve our country's position in the world economy.
We need someone who will protect Social Security and prepare it for the future.
We need someone who will work to make sure our children and grandchildren's future is not ruled by overwhelming government debt and taxes.
That person is Mitt Romney, the right choice for the future.
Harborite
8:07 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Blaming Pres. Obama for gridlock in Congress is ridiculous. The Republicans are responsible for our divided Congress. Only Republicans have signed pledges stating that they will not compromise. Nearly every Republican has signed the Grover Norquist tax pledge refusing to compromise on raising taxes as part of a balanced approach to balance the budget. There is no equivalent in the Democratic Party. No Democrat has signed a pledge refusing to compromise on anything. During a Republican Primary debate earlier this year, all the Republican candidates (including Romney) were asked if they would compromise and agree to one dollar of tax increases for every ten dollars of budget cuts in order to balance the budget. Every one of them said "No" that they would not compromise on that issue. Blaming Pres. Obama for the gridlock in Congress has been the Karl Rove strategy that “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
Steve
9:09 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
It pains me to see a seemingly-educated parrot the propaganda being fed to us by the Right. Since when is Obama, "Tax and spend?" He promised to cut taxes for the middle class, and he did. He wants to cut the taxes more, but the Republicans are holding the middle class "hostage": won't let him continue taxes breaks for the middle class unless he caves in and gives extensions to the Bush tax cuts to the rich. As for the people "dependent on the welfare," who are you talking about? The veterans who can't get jobs? the elderly? the folks who lost their jobs when the Bush era shipped the jobs overseas? And, as for the "government debt and taxes," the major part of the debt has gone to Bush's two unbudgeted wars (and the after-costs, in terms of veterans' care, etc,),the unfunded (and unbudgeted) prescription drugs program--all of which were Bush/Republican, not Obama, projects. You look to be about my age, Doc, and I'm worried about the future of Social Security and kids too; both of us will probably be ok. But the mess we're facing right now hit the country just before Obama took office--and it will pick up speed, once again, if he gets forced out of office. Romney will simply pick up where Bush left off. Listen to his views during the debates: he told us as much.
Mac
7:40 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
i know his plan. Give to the rich and take away from the poor. Nice plan!
Gene "Doc" Webb
8:36 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Obama's plan is to take away from the successful, redistribute all wealth to the poor and dependent and create an over taxed, deeply indebted society. Sounds a lot like Greece or Spain and the results will be the same.
Steve
9:13 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Once again, you're mistaken, Doc. Read about Greece (anywhere you wish to check me out). The biggest problem in Greece is that the rich are NOT paying their fair share of taxes--the very practice which Romney seeks to extend here. And taking money from the "successful" is not the same thing as taking it from the greedy and the tax-dodgers. (Did you read yesterday in TBT about how Romney has used the Mormon Church as a "front" for one of his own, personal tax dodges? Check it out.)
Lynda
11:31 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
"Doc", I usually respect your views, but the tax plan submitted by President Obama does in no way "take away from the successful and redistribute all wealth". Those of us fortunate enough to be in the tax brackets affected will simply be paying what we have paid in past years when our success was even greater than it is now under the low "Bush II" tax rates. My wealth, and I assume, your wealth grew when taxes for the fortunate were much higher than now. At this time our country needs our help to pay for the debt incurred by two unfunded wars and unneeded tax reductions. I am appalled that people who consider themselves patriots would turn their backs on our country in her time of need. We can afford to pay; we should be paying to help our country.
Grace
9:04 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Mitt Romney and his party are not the right choice. From the moment Obama won the GOP said they would do whatever it took to make him a one term President. They have tried to block every bill, including job creation programs for vets, equal pay for women in the workplace and heaven forbid, make the rich pay a couple more bucks in taxes! Romney is Mr. Flipflop. His plan changes depending on public opinion and how the wind blows. And NOBODY has said a word about what Romney believes in. Nothing about the magic underwear, the secret masonic rituals in temples, baptising dead Jews, believing that Adam is God, and that the Mormon Church is the ONLY true church on earth. The rest are false and their members are going to hell, and a ton of other things that would even make a Scientologist preferable as a candidate! A friend of mine who lives overseas made a valid comment to me. She said, for a country that believes so much in liberty, the Republicans want to get into a woman's body, tell adults who they can and can't marry and tell kids that they have to learn creationism in school. They want to take away people's freedoms.
Michael D.
12:00 pm on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Clara,
If the economy is the real issue, we need to look past both of these candidates, because as an executive office holder in our political system, both have failed.
Colter95
9:46 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
@Grace - Read on:
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/06/obamas-outsourcer-overreach/
Colter95
9:47 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
@Grace - Obama won the GOP, eh? Good grief - And to think you're a voter... Brutal...
Colter95
9:48 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Every voter needs to read this excellent article... Very well worth your time...
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/11/01/benghazi-obamas-core-deceit/
Michael D.
10:07 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
It is also an article lacking all the facts, by a very conservatively partisan company. So fair and unbias reporting isn't something that news source is known for. It takes a very conservative lean and is currently moving from old-school conservative to neoconservative. It was established by Altantist/Conservative movement in England in the earlier 1900s.
David Conkle
10:07 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
i have e-mailed the author of this story regarding her reporting Dick Greco as a registered Democrat. Dick Greco is a Democrat in name only and his last unsucessful bid to be Mayor of Tampa again was supported by many influencial Republican donors and his campaign manager was a died in the wool Republican. Is Dick Greco really a Democrat, well to quote Robert Frost, "we dance round a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows."
Lynda
11:39 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Unfortunately under the party registration allowed in Florida, Dick Greco can register --as he said in the article-- as a Democrat. He can vote in the Democratic primary; he can call himself a "Democrat". I think it is a pretty low class move to tell the world he supports the Romney/Ryan ticket as a "registered Democrat" however. The platform of the Democratic party opposes the positions taken in the GOP primary by Gov. Romney and the votes of Rep Ryan. Since Gov. Romney's positions change so much, perhaps by now he is supporting more of the Democratic Party platform--at least today.
Cisco
10:16 am on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Pew on Early Voters: Romney Leads Obama
http://nation.foxnews.com/pew-poll/2012/10/31/pew-early-voters-romney-leads-obama-running-far-ahead-mccain-08
Watts
12:39 pm on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Funny that if you were on the Fox website, that you found this little blurb that actually states about this Pew Poll: "because of the small sample, this lead is not statistically significant."
When right on the front page of the Fox website, there is a massive and very detailed article stating that Early voting is favoring Democrats, with a state by state breakdown...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/01/roughly-1m-have-already-voted-dems-taking-likely-lead-in-battlegrounds/
Watts
12:41 pm on Thursday, November 1, 2012
...with Obama up by 2 in Florida's early voting.
-Ed Harris-
1:55 pm on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Clara Kiplinger????????? Funny but I don't see anyone registered in the entire county by the name of Clara Kiplinger. Isn't that odd. But Clara sure talks a lot lol For not being real!
carolo
9:25 pm on Thursday, November 1, 2012
UAW to file Ethic Violations on Romney
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/01/mitt-romney-ethics-complaint-uaw-auto-bailout_n_2056941.html?utm_hp_ref=business
carolo
9:27 pm on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Romney won't answer questions about FEMA but maybe he will have to answer some questions when the UAW lawyers get ahold of him.
Lynda
12:02 am on Friday, November 2, 2012
Those UAW lawyers are tough. Maybe they will get copies of Gov. Romney's tax returns for the seven years he has been running for President. LOL.
Cisco
4:40 am on Friday, November 2, 2012
The Coming Romney Boom-Mitt can jump-start the economy even before tackling tax reform.
If Mitt Romney is elected and secures Republican control of both houses of Congress, the U.S. could be poised for a vertiginous economic snap back.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/330059/coming-romney-boom-mona-charen#
Michael D.
8:47 am on Friday, November 2, 2012
They could, just like Bush Jr. did. Just hopefully it will not be based on Credit like the Job Boom created in 2002.
Gene "Doc" Webb
7:33 am on Friday, November 2, 2012
Obama economics just won't work. The idea of asking the wealthy to pay a "little more" is the economic equivalent of the camel's nose under the tent. Once Obama is reelected he will push tax increases to help fund the growing welfare state.
As the demands on government increase, these taxes on wealth creators will necessarily have to increase. When the wealth creators no longer see the advantage of creating their wealth through investment in this country, they will either stop creating jobs or move their entrepreneurship to other countries.
The welfare state will continue to grow and the only way to fund it will be to borrow massive amounts of money running up an unmanageable national debt.
Ultimately everything crashes. Four more years of an Obama presidency will likely put so far into the social/welfare, wealth redistribution model that it will be almost impossible to return to a market based economy.
Throughout history we have always had the poor, the middle class and the wealthy. Every society that has taxed the wealthy out of existence has failed.
Mitt Romney has the answers, he the right person to get us back on track.
Harborite
8:15 am on Friday, November 2, 2012
When you refer to the "welfare state", are you referring to our federal government programs that send seniors monthly social security checks and provides them Medicare health coverage when they're elderly? Or are you referring to our government programs like FEMA that is providing assistance to the victims of Hurricane Sandy? Or are you referring to the corporate welfare that large corporations receive like tax breaks for big oil and farm supports for large agri-businesses? What won't work is Romney economics where the wealthy receive more tax cuts, military spending greatly increases, capital gains taxes that benefit the wealthy are eliminated, Medicare turns into a voucher system, and the middle class safety net disappears in order to pay for additional tax cuts for the wealthy.
Michael D.
11:21 am on Friday, November 2, 2012
Doc, I am asking the upper and lower class both to pay a little more. I feel there should be a flat tax without loopholes. I do not believe a family making $60,000 should pay 30% of their income in taxes when someone making 2,500,000 is only paying 14% of their income in taxes. That just seems a little unfair to me. As for your agrument that with less taxes become more jobs, that has never truly worked out for this country. Bush did that, and those tax cuts have been in place since 2002. Why is everyone looking for work? Obama's economics in that regard were the continuation of the Bush economics due to legislation by the Republican Congress. So your agrument on that front is flawed.
Joe C., there has been an increase of people using the system as a source of revenue. To say it is just in the examples you state is just inaccurate. People are abusing the system. There needs to be more enforcement are rules around it. The problem isn't the program, it is how the program is used. There needs to be checks and balances, and right now there are no true balances. As far as Corporation Tax cuts, a number of big companies are suggesting a flat corporate tax which would initially drop the rate, but remove the loopholes. There was a great article about it two months ago in Fortune.
Michael D.
8:50 am on Friday, November 2, 2012
I love the agrument, why are we asking the upper class to pay more. I'm asking both the upper and lower class to pay more. The Middle Class pays on average 30% of their income to taxes. Where as the Upper and Lower classes pay an average of 14% of their income to taxes. Doesn't seem a little unfair to anyone else? So yes, I'm asking that the upper class pay more, I'm asking they pay the same as people making in most cases 80%-90% less than them. There should be a flat percentage, with no loopholes.
Lynda
2:20 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Another interesting proposal would be to have each of the 50 states get back from the Federal Government only the dollar amount their citizens and businesses actually pay in Federal Taxes. Many (if not most) of the so-called "red" states receive considerably more money than their citizens and corporations pay. This would be sort of a "flat tax" on states and just as "fair". I just wonder how many elections it would take to turn "red" states "blue". While I generally find "Doc" a reasonable conservative person, his idea that a second term of President Obama would lead to a "Welfare State" in four years is nonsense. The Congress isn't able to write and pass the complicated legislation to turn this country into anything remotely like a welfare state in four years. Congress can hardly pass bills to name Post Offices. President Obama is a center-right pragmatist; his tax plan doesn't even return the taxes on the so-called "job creators" to the levels under President Clinton when we all prospered. "Doc" you may have your reasons for voting for Gov. Romney, but economic sanity can't be one of them. Check out the editorial from The Economist endorsing President Obama. And do you really think Mayor Bloomberg is endorsing an anti-business President?
Michael D.
2:40 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Linda,
I like the state proposal, I haven't heard that one before. Might do some research on that one to see the total revenues.
Harborite
3:07 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Doc's statements that Pres. Obama is going to turn our country into a 'Welfare State" and that Obama believes in "Wealth Distribution" are just classic Karl Rove lies. The Republican Party has become a party that only spreads fear and misinformation to confuse the voters. They receive money from billionaires like Sheldon Adelson and the Koch Brothers to spread their lies to the low information voters. The current Repubican Party mainly sells fear. Fear of socialism, minorities, immigrants, muslims, feminists, atheists, poor people, gays, and of having a black president. I see the younger people at Pres. Obama's rallies and mostly older people at Romney's rallies. If all the Republican party has to offer is fear, the future will clearly belong to the Democratic Party.
Who is WILLIAM BINNEY?
11:42 pm on Sunday, November 4, 2012
Joe C, the man said so himself:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0PUUpa5X4E
Also, have you ever taken a look at the extreme wealth of the many D's in DC and their billionaire connections?
Joseph Robert
3:42 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
LIke the Washington Post reports, Romney's campaign is an insult to voters
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romneys-election-campaign-insults-voters/2012/11/02/69fcc1fc-2428-11e2-9313-3c7f59038d93_story.html
Watts
3:46 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Is suggesting to change things back to the George W years, really a "change?"
Or is the change that he is talking about, really a world without FEMA? Don't you wish that in these last days, that he would actually answer questions in regards to FEMA, given that it is currently the most relevant issue for millions of Americans?
Beth Norquist
3:53 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
NO THANK YOU! I don’t want Romney’s version of change including:
A severely conservative Supreme Court.
Tax and jobs plan that doesn’t make mathematical sense as most experts say.
1% percent control of the nation
Leader who says “corporations are people”, and puts the needs of corporations before the people.
Higher taxes for middle class and lower taxes for the rich.
Medicare taken bankrupt in 2016, as reports indicate
Overturn of Roe vs Wade and return women’s right to the 1950s
Leader who condemns 47 percent of Americans
Leader with hot and controlling temper who is eager to start war against Iran.
I’m very pleased to stay with reliable, proven Obama-Biden who are taking America FORWARD, not backward to the Bush years!
Linda
9:31 pm on Saturday, November 3, 2012
You make sense, that's why no Republican will listen to you.
Who is WILLIAM BINNEY?
11:52 pm on Sunday, November 4, 2012
Ask the "CONServatives" how they feel about Bush nominee Judge Roberts.
I do not want any more Bush! That family has been screwing Americans since Grandaddy Bush was indicted under the Trading With the Enemy Act.......love those Nazis!
And I definitely didn't want the "Hope & Change" and definitely want to avoid the FORWARD.......over the cliff.
Sucks for all of us, but especially those of us who do not reside in your manufactured Left/Right world. It's a sad display on here seeing neighbors fight as we are all screwed by the same people, yet ya'all play your part in their divide and conquer games.
Beth Norquist
4:06 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Learn about Mitt Romney’s ideas for leading America – from Mitt Romney!
More than 2 million views!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPgfzknYd20&feature=plcp
concerned
4:42 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Here's a very insightful, factfilled video of Obama's last four years from the POTUS himself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsa4uLmTw0M
News Flash
4:59 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Unemployment rate is higher now than Obama started with.
Michael D.
5:39 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
While you are correct, you are not adding that we are still in recovering from a credit bubble that bursted in April of 2008 (5.0%). When the dervative of the curve started rising at an also 1/1 rate creating massive unemployment. When Obama took office in January 2009 unemployment was 7.8% it continued climbing until August 2010. As been slowly moving back down through this month at 7.9%. So your statement is only telling half the story.
Michael D.
5:40 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Corrections for typos:
When the dervative of the curve started rising at an almost 1/1 rate creating massive unemployment.
When Obama took office in January 2009 unemployment was 7.8% it continued climbing until August 2010 (9.6%).
Harborite
5:27 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Romney recently approved a commercial that falsely claimed that General Motors and Chrysler, who both received federal bailout money, were moving autoworker jobs out of the U.S. and into China. Both corporations immediately denied that any such plan was being considered. A General Motors official stated clearly that the advertisement was "absolutely bereft of any fundamental understanding of the global automotive industry." In spite of the fact that this advertisement was patently false, Romney refused to pull the ad from Ohio and other midwestern swing states. When confronted with all of the false and misleading statements, Republican Pollster Neil Newhouse stated that the Romney team was ‘‘not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.” There appears to be no shame in the Romney campaign. Unfortunately, many lesser educated voters actually believe these commercials and fall for Romney's endless campaign lies.
Michael D.
5:34 pm on Friday, November 2, 2012
Joe C.,
Yes, the commerical is misleading. The Truth is that Jeep a division of GM is opening up a manufacturing plant in China to sell to Chinese customers. By the Goverment of China's rules you have to open a plant there partnering with one of their firms to move into the market place. Not that American autos will be made there.
Chrysler was sold a French firm. Because no one else offering the same amount of money to purchase the failed Division of GM. So far there is no plans to move any Chrysler plants anywhere.
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Has anyone, this week, been seeking out Mitt Romney’s views on the Gaza crisis? Have there been calls to put him on a plane and have him sit down with Benjamin Netanyahu or Mohamed Morsi, and sort things out? Hillary Clinton handled that instead, and we seem to have a ceasefire.
The urgent questions about Romney have been whether that was really him, photographed blurrily, pumping his own gas, or what he and Ann thought of Jacob imprinting on Renesmee in the new “Twilight” movie—which they saw over the weekend—and which vampire coven reminded them most of the Republican primary field.
Last month, Romney was talking about the near-psychic bond he had with Netanyahu; that may have been nice for them, but it hardly seems to matter anymore to anyone else. By the time there was a ceasefire deal, on Wednesday, the Romney radar was alive to reports of a trip to Disneyland with his wife and grandchildren.
There's lots to celebrate this Thanksgiving. At the TOP of my list is that THIS TURKEY was not elected...
Go Obama! Onward and upward!
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