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Mitt Romney Goes Off Message in Speech

By HousingWatcher   Follow   Tue, 21 Feb 2012, 3:12pm   608 views   4 comments
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Mitt Romney goes off message in a speech, and accidentally admits that cutting spending destroys the economy:

"During an event in Michigan today, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney — in response to a question about the Simpson-Bowles fiscal commission — admitted that budget cuts slow down economic growth. “If you just cut, if all you’re thinking about doing is cutting spending, why as you cut spending you’ll slow down the economy,” he said."

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/02/21/429831/romney-admits-budget-cuts-slow-economy/

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1. TPB Follow Befriend (1) 65 threads 1,209 comments

   1   3:30pm Tue 21 Feb 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   I can't be the only guy smart enough to realize, that especially if that were so. Then there's something seriously wrong, if our economy is Uncle Sam writing you a check back for the taxes you pay. Or should I have said, writing someone else a check, from the taxes you pay. How about instead of just cutting we spend it somewhere or somehow else? If the gobs and gobs of free money to industries, tax breaks, bailouts, stimulus checks, and incentive rebates are doing dick all to get things going. Take it all and build Government ran free Medical and Law schools. I think it's time educated professionals get a taste of Monkey wages. See how they like it, when they are dependent on a biweekly unemployment check or a $500 food coupon booklet. Then the defenders of not cut spending will see that money in its current form, just perpetuates our predicament, than it does to actually create jobs.

2. APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich Follow Befriend (28) 171 threads 4,214 comments Premium

   2   9:03pm Tue 21 Feb 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike (1)   Protected   Romney's right. You need to completely eliminate spending . . . and send every last job to a slave labor camp called the PRC . . . and totally deregulate the financial crimes sector. Then America wins.

3. freak80 Follow Befriend (4) 52 threads 4,416 comments Corning, NY Premium

   3   8:09am Wed 22 Feb 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   Protected   Romney is right. Crony Capitalism requires enormous government spending. Look what happened to the stock market after the debt ceiling fiasco.

4. Huntington Moneyworth III, Esq Follow Befriend 53 threads 658 comments

   4   1:19pm Wed 22 Feb 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   My capitalism has no cronies. It has just me.