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.”
“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.”
That’s the problem. It doesn’t list line by line what he will cut. It gives a few examples, but nothing adding up to anything he is promising, and even what he does talk about tends to be only half the story, since other public statements contradict the website.
This stuff looks good to some random mook reading it without any analysis. But there is a reason why nobody can actually quote anything about Mittens plan without having to go to his website first... and even then, it doesn’t really express what he wants to do.
His campaign is built on Obama and catch phrases, not on plans. Ergo, he still does not have a legitimate plan for solving the main problems facing the country. He has no legitimate plan that acknowledges or tackles the biggest expenditures, and what little he does offer is suspect since just last year he was support the stimulus, TARP, and so on and so forth, and the RINOs are even saying on the sly that they plan to keep the “good parts of ObamaCare,” which makes one wonder how much we’re really going to save when everything is said and done? On top of that, I read about him answering a question about “how will you pay for this?” by responding with “we’re going to cut deductions on property taxes for the rich.” And, apparently, not just the rich.
He’s going to run us the same way he ran Massachusetts, which in that state consisted of him breaking all his promises, doing everything he said he wouldn’t do, and covering it all up with one gimmick after another.
“States will be free from Washington micromanagement, allowing them to develop innovative approaches that improve quality and reduce cost.””
Pam Bondi wants the states to consider RomneyCare as the solution to their woes. Since they plan to keep the “best parts” of ObamCare, they’ll likely pressure the states to do the enforcement, otherwise what they keep will destroy the healthcare system entirely.
Reading his website is like the last thing you’d want to do to know what Romney is doing. Listen to his speeches, his surrogates and what the GOPe says.