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Mitt Romney attacked Barack Obama over a weak jobs report on Friday, but when asked about steps to improve the economy, Romney was opposed to them.
“The president’s policies have simply not worked,” said Romney, in an interview on Fox News. “We seem to be slowing down, not speeding up. This is not progress.”
When asked on CNBC about the Federal Reserve injecting money into the economy — something that could spur growth — Romney was opposed to it.
“I don’t think were looking for more, a QE3, if you will,” he said, referring to the Fed’s quantitative easing program. “I don’t think that will have any more impact than QE2 did.”
Indeed, aside from the usual GOP boilerplate — lowering taxes, reducing regulation and cutting programs — Romney has yet to advance a plan to strengthen growth.
President Obama, for his part, responded to the jobs numbers with a call for further action.
“My message to Congress is going to be just saying no to ideas that will create new jobs is not an option,” he said. “There’s too much at stake for us not to all be rowing in the same direction.”
Of course, Romney and Republicans have good reasons to oppose Obama on jobs programs, and that comes down to jobs — the ones they hope to keep or gain in November. As long as the economy is sputtering, the right can blame Obama for it, and keep pretending that this isn’t the result of the disastrous banking sector failure of 2008.
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+ add your ownJames, I agree w/some of what you're saying & everyone here knows I'm not a democrat (I'm not a republican but few here believe that), but... I have to ask- how do we have the highest corporate taxes in the world? I thought we didn't have corporate taxes & right now, I'm too lazy to look this up. Obama's done nothing to gain my vote, but I hardly think of Romney as presidential material either. GW was a control-freak & he definitely put our economy in some hot water. Obama didn't help (even w/democratic congress for first 2yr) & I am sick of people blaming everything on GW as if Obama's squeaky clean. But, IF Romney really believes we need to ignore the economy to make Obama look worse (& I'm not convinced of this) then he dosn't have our best interests at heart- only his own.
But I see a big prob w/our two party system. Both overspend- democrats seem to do it a little worse, but republicans too- just on things that are more important to THEM. BOTH parties want to control. Democrats lean more towards gun control, but then MA is one of the strictest states in the nation on guns. Where's Romney from again? Both parties are involved in scandals up their eyeballs from insider trading, to adultry, to Fast & Furious. And that's just he tip of the ideberg b/c BOTH parties want complete CONTROL! Our complacency has cost us bigtime. We need to change some laws & fire some people on BOTH sides!
And James, you are full of it about the corporations. These powerful corporations got taxpayer bailouts only to then award HUGE bonuses to CEO's, as well as ship more job overseas. Many of these corporations don't pay one freakin dime in taxes. Oil Companies have made record breaking profits since Bush was in office.
Romney was a corporate raider, ruining people lives by selling off 401k and pensions off in the form of business assets. Work all your life believing you will have something to retire on only to find that a skank like Romney came along, fired all the employees and sold of all the assets, making millions for himself in the process and you would have that bastard run the country. Sorry James, Elaine, Georgia, Rose. It isn't going to happen this November, nor anytime after that either. People are starting to want to know more than he's willing to show and his back is against the wall. My guess is he will NOT under any circumstances show those tax records unless he has an expert team of lawyers working on 'splanin his debacle to the American people in a way that makes his look legit. I don't think there is any way that's going to happen, no mater how clever they are.
James is a shill, nothing less. He doesn't seem to understand that Congress controls the purse and yes, this is the Bush mess that Obama stepped into. The housing market had already slumped, 800,000 jobs per month toward the end of Bush's 'last term' were being lost, we were embroiled in two wars (one of which was entirely Bogus), no bid contracts, appointment of two activist judges which has created another Conservative monster with Citizens United (buying elections), 720 billion WSB (no Conservative ever mentions that one), Mitch McConnell stating they were going to do everything within their control to ensure Obama was a one term president so they've done NOTHING BUT OBSTRUCT, and I could go on; but why post what you should already know. You simply cannot continue to blame a president for being unable to undo what it took GWB 8 years to accomplish and that is to drive America into a deep recession, lose credibility and honor with all leading nations (which btw, has taken Obama to bring that back). So stop with the bull-crap James.
So James it is obvious you are going to every story that mentions President Obama and posting the exact same bullshit right wing talking points. Tell me are they paying you by the post or by the hour to say this garbage?
Obama is simply out to distract us from the real issues and his own record
as President. The real issues we face - a faltering poor economy, very few
jobs, housing prices down 35%, heavy handed regs that keep piling on the
cost of business simply staying in business, the highest corporate taxes in
the world, the growing cost of entitlements and the unwillingness to rein in
record spending - are not being addressed. And when one takes a quick
look at the man's record, it helps to explain why he tries to distract us from
his 3 1/2 yrs in office - the record spending, record debt, record food stamp
outlays, record foreclosures, record bankruptcies, a new record of 40
consecutive months of unemployment above 8%, the nation's first ever
credit rating downgrade, his personal record of 100 plus rounds of golf
and more campaign stops than the last 5 Presidents combined, This is
Obama's record. It doesn't belong to Bush and it certainly isn't Romney's.
Do we want a President who has lapse of memory?------it seems like Bush is the one who was the president when the turn down happened. Romney needs to get a grip or maybe be examined
by a doctor to see what is wrong with his brains---maybe he doesn't have one?
Wouldn't that be lovely and it scares me also to know who would be the vice president under him. I hope Americans remember these things on what happened in the turndown and other things such a the war which put things in worse shape than ever,
Lee W., did you ever happen to look into NPD?
You can argue economic points all you want. It takes more than one person to run the economy, so I'm really not basing my vote for President on economic values. What I am basing my vote on and why I will not vote Republican is because they can't keep out of a woman's health and civil liberties, and they support radical religious freaks values to obstruct our government!
John McCain’s Entire 2008 Opposition Research File on Mitt Romney
ECONOMIC ISSUES
State spending increased at well over rate of inflation under Romney’s watch, estimated at 24% – more than$5 billion – over Romney’s final three years.
Under Romney, Massachusetts dramatically underperformed the rest of the nation in terms of job growth.
Romney has been criticized by experts for failing to deliver on issues of business development and economic growth after selling himself as the “CEO governor.”
2006 report issued by quasi-public Massachusetts Technology Collaborative warned the state was losing its grip as leader in “innovation economy” and that tech job was alarmingly slow.
More:
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2012/06/03/john-mccains-entire-2008-opposition-research-file-on-mitt-romney/
Entire file here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/78582788
Someone here said, "To republicans, ideology trumps reality."
Republicans? Really? I thought that was the Grecian formula?
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