RomneyCARE = HillaryCARE is socialized medicine,
and it has rocked Massachusetts in a negative way.
Posted on 03/05/2009 5:23:07 AM PST by CASchack
and taxes.
Oh my, how you Romney supporters truly HATE women.
RomneyCARE = HillaryCARE is socialized medicine,
and it has rocked Massachusetts in a negative way.
“Anyone who says it is socialized medicine is either ignorant of the plan”
Anyone who advocates a healthcare *plan* and calls themselves a free marketer needs to check their premises.
When tested, ie. when Romney was actually Governor (a period in time when he should be EXAMINED)
Myth Romney did poorly. Romney got a "C" rating from CATO. And that was BEFORE
Romney's Socialized medicine and coverup of the BIGdig kicked in. So the RomneyBOTs try to "spin history".
Note that Romney also betrayed President Bush as Governor
(and as TeamROMNEY would do later in Election2008 to Gov. Palin, and then the GOP),
because Romney was also against the conservative tax cuts (note this also again proves the RomneyBOTs wrong. No surprise there)
Here are the facts from CATO.
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
Romney = Economic Loser always requiring a Federal Bailout
Endorsement are, by and large, merely kind words from friends, or support from those who stand to gain by the candidate’s election. In short, they’re worthless. If you’re a rational and thoughful person, you’d pay more attention to what he does, and not what others say about him.
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's past behavior. Use evasion - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's past behavior. Attack poster and all other GOP candidates - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's past abdication to Democrats - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's appointment of corrupt, liberal pro-criminal judges, overlooking GOP candidates - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's usurping Mass Constitution - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's wussiness to criticism using tears and fabricated 'religious persecution' - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney is the MSM's choice because they have files already prepared against him - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's coverup of the "Big Dig" for donations - check.
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's bankruptcy of Mass for his HillaryCARE=RomneyCARE - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's refusal to let citizens vote on his socialist plans - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's targetting of other GOP candidates - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's decimation of Mass GOP and that he couldn't win Mass to Hillary -check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's real impact on Massachusetts - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's federal bailout of the Olympics - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's begging for a federal bailout of RomneyCARE - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's use of fake law enforcement officers (caught in at least two states) - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore TeamROMNEY's attacks on Gov. Palin and her children - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Use "Hate" as RomneyBOT Codeword to stop criticism of Romney - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Use "Bigot" as RomneyBOT Codeword to stop criticism of Romney - check
Apparetnly, the WSJ didn’t think it was a “conspiracy theory”
The Wall Stree Journal had an article on that: White Horse in the White House Will a Mormon candidate fulfill Joseph Smith’s prophecy?
http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110009193
Well... it WAS revealed and, sure enough, he DIDN'T do well among Conservatives.
(Although them UTAHANS went for him BIG time - musta NOT been his record...)
And the THIRD type: those would got elected Governor; once.
As written it had potential, except for the mandate piece which alone should be enough, and is enough, for Conservatives to reject it, even if Reagan had written it himself. The boys and girls at Heritage should have known better, but even Hammerin’ Hank wiffed a ball or two.
But beyond that, anyone with their foot in reality knew that to even try and offer it up as actual real world legislation was to open the door to abuse and to give hold for socialized medicine
To be honest, for me, it was not really the legislation, (which was bad enough) that got me as much as the bad judgment on Romney's part to even try it in the current political environment.
Hey, Mitt has been a life long* hunter!
(*as long as that life is my buddies four year old son...)
LOL! You had him until then....
Since when are conservatives against mandating personal responsibility?
Are you opposed to mandatory auto insurance? Are you opposed to cumpulsory schooling?
Seems to me you are more of a libertarian and not a conservative. The two are not equivalent.
She certainly did and she was Mitt’s lapdog going after Palin. Mitt wanted McCain to lose ... hope he sleeps well at night as the country is going broke.
Since when do conservatives regard CATO to be the arbiter of all truth?
Romney deserved an "F" for what he did to Massachusetts.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
"Never send a monkey to do a man's job."
~ Captain Leo Davidson
Yes, I am opposed to the need for all mandates, as a conservative the idea of even needing to mandate responsibility is an anathema to us all.
However I am not ignorant of their need in a modern society in some cases since the failure of an individual to take responsibility can affect those who choose to do so. That is the case with auto insurance, but not necessarily health care which effects the irresponsible individual only.
A further point, the need in society to compensate for the irresponsible does not give license to embrace all mandates. Furhtermore reckless issuance of mandates can lead to reckless expenditure. That is one of the issues that happened with Romneycare.
You mention schooling though. You make my point. Compulsory schooling grew out of the same basic desire that this health care drive did. We see how that has turned out.
Now repeat that failure.
Thank you. Sometimes an editorial cartoon is worth a thousand
words exposing a fascist, chameleon like Mitt Romney.
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