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Romney: How does six percent unemployment by the end of my first term sound? (Promises, promises)
Hotair ^ | 05/24/2012 | AllahPundit

Posted on 05/24/2012 6:59:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 05/24/2012 6:59:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It shows that Romney knows where his bread is buttered, “It’s the Economy, Stupid.”


2 posted on 05/24/2012 7:00:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

sounds like bullshit... smells like it too


3 posted on 05/24/2012 7:02:19 AM PDT by Breto (The Establishment party is killing our country)
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To: Breto

Agreed. It can be done but Romney isn’t bold enough to do what it takes to make it happen.

Instead, we’ll get numbers manipulation.


4 posted on 05/24/2012 7:06:00 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: SeekAndFind

This guy is more of an idiot than I even thought. What have we done to deserve this jerk as the nominee....Please people get on board with one of the conservatives that are running. He is making a fool of himself.


5 posted on 05/24/2012 7:06:00 AM PDT by napscoordinator (VOTE FOR NEWT!!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

If Obama is re-elected, it will be at 20%.


6 posted on 05/24/2012 7:09:22 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: napscoordinator
Please people get on board with one of the conservatives that are running.

Such as?

7 posted on 05/24/2012 7:11:17 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: cripplecreek
Agreed. It can be done but Romney isn’t bold enough to do what it takes to make it happen.

Instead, we’ll get numbers manipulation.

What he should do is qualify it by saying "If I get to calculate unemployment the way Obama has.", and turn the discussion to how phoney the figures we've been getting really are.

8 posted on 05/24/2012 7:11:59 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: cripplecreek
Agreed. It can be done but Romney isn’t bold enough to do what it takes to make it happen.

Instead, we’ll get numbers manipulation.

What he should do is qualify it by saying "If I get to calculate unemployment the way Obama has.", and turn the discussion to how phoney the figures we've been getting really are.

9 posted on 05/24/2012 7:12:20 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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No mention of whether he’d accomplish this though private or public sector jobs.

I don’t think it is beyond Mitt Romney to increase the size of government to meet a campaign promise.

Don’t misunderstand, Obama’s goal IS to increase the size of government.

Romney => socialism is the result
Obama => socialism is the goal


10 posted on 05/24/2012 7:12:48 AM PDT by kidd
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To: SeekAndFind

It sounds impossible to achieve unless you count on even more millions dropping out of the work force.


11 posted on 05/24/2012 7:14:55 AM PDT by Ingtar ("As the light begins to fade in the city on the hill")
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To: Breto
sounds like bullshit... smells like it too

I don't know. Consider, a lot of American companies are making a profit; but are afraid of hiring due to the unknown business climate. How much will the taxes be next year? What about the rising healthcare costs? What are my manditory expenses in hiring people? With Obamacare on the way, we have already seen healthcare grow before it's even released. The New York Daily News reports today that the cost of healtcare will exceed $20,000 per employee, with the companies paying upwards of $8,500 of that. Now, what will the costs be 'next year'? What about the deficit? How will the business be affected with the goverment meddling with the auto, banking, medical and drug industries?

Would you hire anyone more than absolutely demanded? I wouldn't. Now, with Mitt and his "claims" to abolish Obamacare, to stop the deficit spending, to cut taxes - a lot of these fears go away. I suspect that companies will start hiring again. Will it drop to 6%? Well, if Ronald Reagan was able to make a recovery as significant as he did by following conservative principles; and if Romeny can be depended on following similar Reagan principles , then he may indeed have a point.

Unlike most eveyrone in Congress (RINO and DEM), Romney has actually ran a business and generated both jobs, and a profit.

12 posted on 05/24/2012 7:26:21 AM PDT by Hodar (Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.- A. Schopenhauer)
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To: napscoordinator
Please people get on board with one of the conservatives that are running.

The time for this was a year ago, which was also the time for conservatives to quickly move behind one or two candidates and to move as one to quickly pull behind one. Instead some conservatives repeated 2008 and allowed the process to become balkanized with a lot of petty backbiting that served none of the real conservative candidates well and left the door open for our current, not so conservative, and presumptive candidate.

We may not like him and I still see him as mitt the twit, but what he proposes is doable, if he can take the steps to take an aggressive and sometimes dirty fight directly to the democrat party and our would-be dictator. He won't go anywhere or take any other than the wimpy approach unless ALL conservatives get behind him and put the pressure both on him and his machine as well as extreme pressure and gloves off confrontational politics directly at the democrat field.

If you're willing to drive what most probably is the final nail in the coffin of our Constitution and Republic by passively allowing der Fuehrer to have another term then you are on board for 20% unemployment as another poster noted and you are comfortable with allowing a democrat dictatorship to be established over all of us and our children.

Conservatives were balkanized in the process of selecting a good candidate and now too many are consolidated in doing nothing to help the candidate who could bring us back from the brink in favor of the dictator we have.

Too many acted like spoiled children the last time, taking their dollies and support and going home. There may be no going back this time if the POS kenyan wins again.

13 posted on 05/24/2012 7:32:47 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: cripplecreek

While I’m completely on board over the sentiment about Romney... frankly... even a RINO could probably do what he claimed if only departing from BHO2 policies. But a simple plan for economic recovery wouldn’t even be hard:

1. Kill Obamacare
2. Sign any budget proposal the House comes up with. If the Senate is still D-controlled, then just do it anyway... that’s the way they’ve been doing business the past four years.
3. Lower the capital gains tax.
4. Ease restrictions on energy exploration - fracking, the North Slope/ANWR, Gulf of Mexico.
5. Free the Keystone pipeline

Mix well, cook for 12 months: Instant economy boom.
Now will he do it?


14 posted on 05/24/2012 7:37:30 AM PDT by alancarp (Liberals are all for shared pain... until they're included in the pain group.)
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To: Hodar
Now, with Mitt and his "claims" to abolish Obamacare, to stop the deficit spending, to cut taxes - a lot of these fears go away

Amazing what crap some believe to make themselves feel better. RomneyCare, the blueprint for Obamacare, and you believe mitt will abolish obamacare.

15 posted on 05/24/2012 7:37:50 AM PDT by presently no screen name (God First!! VAB: Voting Against Both---> Romney and Obama.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Simple approach to 6%. Do nothing to create jobs. Let the unemployment benefits run out for another 5,000,000 people. Just like Idi Obama, don’t count as unemployed those whose bennies have run out. Voila - 6%.


16 posted on 05/24/2012 7:39:22 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds darn good.

Actually.

Mitt’s right about this. Stop qualifying things.

When he’s right, he’s 100% right. He’s right.


17 posted on 05/24/2012 7:39:43 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (America doesn't need any new laws. America needs freedom!)
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To: dfwgator
If Obama is re-elected, it will be at 20%.

Don't kid yourself; it is already at 20% if the numbers were actual.

18 posted on 05/24/2012 7:40:50 AM PDT by Bob Buchholz
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To: cripplecreek

Our Representative is up for re-election. His current mailing lists all the wonderful things he is going to do if re-elected. My question to him if you say you can do all that the next two years, why haven’t you done it the last two years in the Republican controlled house.

To think that things would change quickly and substantially under Romney with pretty much the same people in Congress is pure folly, IMO. Plus I do believe Romney is a proponent of global warming - a strong driver behind all the increased costs, regulations and growth of government.


19 posted on 05/24/2012 7:42:14 AM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If he can TRULY do this that would be great! It really wouldn’t take much—tax cuts, incentives and a few other business (capitalistic) friendly actions and we’d be good to go.

An aside: You know, some people really need to decide who they are for—Obama or Romney. It’s one or the other, ‘cause if you don’t vote for one you WILL GET “the other.” You may not like that outcome.


20 posted on 05/24/2012 7:46:45 AM PDT by madison10 (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. TJ)
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