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“Apparently you are not well informed on this subject. You might go to his website and look at his plan before you say he doesn’t have one. He even lists how much $ each plan saves. This is just a portion of a page just on cutting back spending. Beats the heck out of Obama’s plan of totally bankrupting America. Two choices and one of them will destroy America, ABO.”

Actually, I have read his plan. I seriously doubt you have though, since it’s about as interesting as watching paint dry. You gotta be determined. You have to read roughly 20-30 percent in just to get to some specifics. If you could explain to me what it is he plans to cut to cut 500 billion a year, without significantly touching social security, etc, (which is something he never discusses) while still increasing defense spending, keeping the “good parts” of ObamaCare, and so forth, I would be very interested. He’s big on promises, but he’s very low on specific plans and real explanations. Mitt Romney honestly has no credibility on this subject when he won’t even touch the biggest expenditures, and when his public statements and statements from his surrogates so often contradict the “plan(s)” on his website.

The point I was making was that you said he had no plan, he has a plan, it is thoroughly outlined on his website which I had never visited until tonight and no I haven’t read it all (it’s about as exciting as paint drying) but it does list line by line where he will make the cuts and how many dollars it will save.

Here’s what he says about Medicare and on that I strongly agree, medicare and all government programs are best handled as far down the chain as possible. The federal government needs to let states be innovative and do what they can to cut costs. The lower the level (city, county and state), the less corruption there is. Anytime the feds get involved , it turns out to be a cluster.

“Empower States To Innovate — Savings: >$100 billion
Block grants have huge potential to generate both superior results and cost savings by establishing local control and promoting innovation in areas such as Medicaid and Worker Retraining. Medicaid spending should be capped and increased each year by CPI + 1%. Department of Labor retraining spending should be capped and will increase in future years. These funds should then be given to the states to spend on their own residents. States will be free from Washington micromanagement, allowing them to develop innovative approaches that improve quality and reduce cost.”