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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIowans will get 130,000 jobs should we win the Rmoney sweepstakes in November.
I heard on the news this morning that Colorado would get 200k+ jobs. Rmoney is handing out jobs in November. Now what was his record in Massachusetts? Makes you wonder what kind of deal making is going on in those dark money meetings.
Blue Meany
(1,947 posts)without any additional govt. intervention.
By coincidence <sarcasm>, Romney has a "plan" to create 12 million new jobs in 4 years. In other words, if elected, he will do nothing and take credit for the jobs.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)We seriously need an ad playing in these states on this issue, and pushback on the $716B Medicare lie.
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)Mitt Romney has launched a flurry of new TV ads explaining how hell protect and create jobs: more government spending.
The ads, available on Romneys YouTube channel, are tailored to eight swing states. The one running in Virginia, near me, says: Here in Virginia, were not better off under President Obama. His defense cuts threaten over 130,000 jobslowering home values, putting families at risk. Similar ads in other states complain that Obamas reductions in military spending threaten 20,000 jobs in Colorado, 20,000 in Ohio, and thousands more in Florida and North Carolina.
Romney promises to save these jobs by shielding the Pentagon budget. Heres his pitch in Virginia: Romneys plan? Reverse Obama defense cuts. Strengthen our military, and create over 340,000 new jobs for Virginia. The ad in North Carolina is identical, except that it adds 10,000 jobs to the offer. The ad in Colorado promises 200,000 jobs. The ad in Ohio promises 450,000. The ad in Florida promises 700,000.
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Romney wouldnt just protect the military budget. He would radically increase it. He explicitly vows to set core defense spending at a floor of 4 percent of GDP. This would require more government spending, regardless of need, just because the economy is growing. Its hard to imagine a more socialist policy. The cost to our country over the next decade has been estimated at up to $2 trillion.
Throwing $2 trillion at the Pentagon and its contractors certainly would create jobs. And setting GDP growth as a floor for future spending hikes would guarantee a perpetual boom in public-sector employment. But we already have a party that advocates that kind of stimulus. We dont need another.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/09/romney_s_ads_against_defense_cuts_treat_military_spending_as_a_jobs_program_.html
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Because Ryan's budget assumes that discretionary fed spending (which includes defense) will drop to 3% of GDP. That is a neat trick, getting -1% out of the rest of the budget!
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)to include a single word about our military or Afghanistan in his RNC speech. What a freaking jerk!
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)We only have a few weeks to pound the lying, cheating and backroom dealing into the voters' heads. I know Repugs that believe this crap, so they need to be deprogrammed.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Does anybody have the stats on how many jobs he's eliminated? Sorry, I'm not a very good researcher.