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Klukie

(2,237 posts)
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 01:45 PM Jul 2012

Romney Adviser Stumped On How Romney Would Reduce The Debt

Mitt Romney’s campaign has fired back at questions about his tenure at Bain Capital and his failure to release tax returns by blaming President Obama’s campaign for not wanting to talk about the economy. Given a chance to talk about the economy this morning, though, a Romney adviser failed to deliver specifics about how his plan would boost economic growth while also balancing the budget, as Romney claims he will do.
As ThinkProgress has noted, Romney’s plan to provide a massive tax cut to the rich would blow a hole in the federal budget Romney promises to balance by 2020. When MSNBC’s Luke Russert asked Romney adviser Tara Wall how Romney would offset the lost revenue, she failed to offer any specifics, telling Americans they could instead “research” his plan to find them. When Russert returned to the subject, Wall again failed to deliver an answer, saying Romney’s business experience is the reason he would balance the budget:

RUSSERT: What are the offsets? What are we specifically going to do to balance the budget?
WALL: Well, I believe Americans will hear a lot more about Governor Romney’s plan, and if you want to see in depth what his plan is, you can certainly research that and look at that more in depth. But overall, there have been a number of new regulations, over-zealous regulations, on small businesses enacted by this administration, and we have to look at those things. [...]

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07/19/547281/romney-adviser-cant-specify-how-romneys-plan-would-reduce-the-debt-because

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Romney Adviser Stumped On How Romney Would Reduce The Debt (Original Post) Klukie Jul 2012 OP
Translation: ProSense Jul 2012 #1
Or in other words, "I got nothing." Scuba Jul 2012 #2
You have to be pretty inept to make Luke Russert look like a hard-hitting journalist. Lucy Goosey Jul 2012 #3
Yeah, but he'll probably get spanked, lose his X-box for a month and have to mow his bosses lawn... DCKit Jul 2012 #4

ProSense

(116,464 posts)
1. Translation:
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 01:49 PM
Jul 2012
WALL: Well, I believe Americans will hear a lot more about Governor Romney’s plan, and if you want to see in depth what his plan is, you can certainly research that and look at that more in depth. But overall, there have been a number of new regulations, over-zealous regulations, on small businesses enacted by this administration, and we have to look at those things.


...I actually don't know Myth's plan. You can do some research. If you find out, let me know. Until then, Obama smoked pot.





Lucy Goosey

(2,940 posts)
3. You have to be pretty inept to make Luke Russert look like a hard-hitting journalist.
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 01:54 PM
Jul 2012

...and this spokeswoman did just that.

 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
4. Yeah, but he'll probably get spanked, lose his X-box for a month and have to mow his bosses lawn...
Thu Jul 19, 2012, 11:46 PM
Jul 2012

for the rest of the summer.

You've got to remember who he's working for, and it ain't the 99%.

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