Mitt Romney's Five-Point Plan

[phrodeau]

I went to http://www.mittromney.com/JobsPlan in search of the Five Points. There are links to "Introduction", "Full Plan" and One Pager". The One Pager is a picture of twenty items in five categories:

I clicked on "Full Plan". A document appeared, eight pages long. After removing the blather, this is all that remained:

The Romney Program for Economic Recovery,Growth, and Jobs
R. Glenn Hubbard (Columbia University), N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard University),John B. Taylor (Stanford University), and Kevin A. Hassett (AEI)

• Stop Runaway Federal Spending And Debt.
  Reduce federal spending as a share of GDP to 20 percent by 2016.
  In so doing, reduce policy uncertainty over the need for future tax increases.
  
• Reform The Nation’s Tax Code To Increase Growth And Job Creation.
  Reduce individual marginal income tax rates across-the-board by 20 percent, while keeping current low tax rates on dividends and capital gains.
  Reduce the corporate income tax rate to 25 percent.
  Broaden the tax base to ensure that tax reform is revenue-neutral.
  
• Reform Entitlement Programs To Ensure Their Viability.
  Gradually reduce growth in Social Security and Medicare benefits for more affluent seniors.
  Give more choice in Medicare to improve value in health care spending.
  Block grant the Medicaid program to states.
  
• Make Growth And Cost-Benefit Analysis Important Features Of Regulation.
  Remove regulatory impediments to energy production and innovation that raise costs to consumers and limit job creation.
  Repeal and replace the Dodd-Frank Act and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The one-pager is like a wish list. The full plan has very little to do with it. They only have a few points in common, which are:

1. Cap federal spending below 20% of the economy.
2. Reduce taxes.
3. Streamline permitting for exploration and development.
4. Eliminate regulations destroying the coal industry.
5. Replace Obamacare

Where's the rest of it? How does he plan to "give every family access to a great school and quality teachers"? Where in the world will he "open new markets for American goods and services"?

And especially, what does the Keystone XL pipeline have to do with energy independence, when it's meant to deliver oil from Canada?

 

[XdOu™]

*shots himself*

 

[RobDownSouth]

I like how Mittens lays the blame for the decline of the coal industry on meddlesome gummint regulations.

Totally oblivious to the fact that the current price of Natural Gas makes coal-fired plants uneconomically unsupportable.

Derp.

 

[adventrkupl]

Where's the rest of it? How does he plan to "give every family access to a great school and quality teachers"? Where in the world will he "open new markets for American goods and services"?

And especially, what does the Keystone XL pipeline have to do with energy independence, when it's meant to deliver oil from Canada?[/QUOTE]

Wow, nice post but the answers are escaping you. Families get access to great schools by providing vouchers so they can chose the school to send their children rather than be stuck with the local crap public school. Ask any inner city Chicago parent if they would prefer that system and the answer will astound you. Just don't ask the unions who the current administration is bound to.

We buy oil from the Middle east now. Wouldn't you rather from Canada? Why force them to sell to China when they are delighted to sell it to us? Doesn't shipping across an ocean increase the cost and expend untold amounts of evil carbon in the process?

Keystone is more green than shipping oil in tankers over the long haul, and we get immediate jobs out of it. Agreed?

 

[hogjack]

I clicked on the Romney link.

I was re-directed to some German porn site and I've spent two hours figuring out how to contact some hot, mature fräulein who shares one of my fetishes.

That's the Hogjack One-Point Plan.

 

[phrodeau]

Wow, nice post but the answers are escaping you. Families get access to great schools by providing vouchers so they can chose the school to send their children rather than be stuck with the local crap public school. Ask any inner city Chicago parent if they would prefer that system and the answer will astound you. Just don't ask the unions who the current administration is bound to.

We buy oil from the Middle east now. Wouldn't you rather from Canada? Why force them to sell to China when they are delighted to sell it to us? Doesn't shipping across an ocean increase the cost and expend untold amounts of evil carbon in the process?

Keystone is more green than shipping oil in tankers over the long haul, and we get immediate jobs out of it. Agreed?

How does buying oil from Canada instead of Saudi Arabia make the US more energy independent?

 

[phrodeau]

I clicked on the Romney link.

I was re-directed to some German porn site and I've spent two hours figuring out how to contact some hot, mature fräulein who shares one of my fetishes.

That's the Hogjack One-Point Plan.

That just shows where Mitt's priorities are.

 

[RobDownSouth]

We buy oil from the Middle east now. Wouldn't you rather from Canada? Why force them to sell to China when they are delighted to sell it to us? Doesn't shipping across an ocean increase the cost and expend untold amounts of evil carbon in the process?

Keystone is more green than shipping oil in tankers over the long haul, and we get immediate jobs out of it. Agreed?

We buy a whopping 13% of our oil from the Middle East

 

[hogjack]

That just shows where Mitt's priorities are.

So he has that hottie's number?

Doubt he'll give it to me. Bastard.

 

[CHNOPS]

German porn is well-known for its "trickle-down" fetish.

 

[Polarbear57]

Trust Mitt and you will lost in space
till the end of all days.

 

[pete]

I went to http://www.mittromney.com/JobsPlan in search of the Five Points. There are links to "Introduction", "Full Plan" and One Pager". The One Pager is a picture of twenty items in five categories:

I clicked on "Full Plan". A document appeared, eight pages long. After removing the blather, this is all that remained:

The Romney Program for Economic Recovery,Growth, and Jobs
R. Glenn Hubbard (Columbia University), N. Gregory Mankiw (Harvard University),John B. Taylor (Stanford University), and Kevin A. Hassett (AEI)

• Stop Runaway Federal Spending And Debt.
  Reduce federal spending as a share of GDP to 20 percent by 2016.
  In so doing, reduce policy uncertainty over the need for future tax increases.
  
• Reform The Nation’s Tax Code To Increase Growth And Job Creation.
  Reduce individual marginal income tax rates across-the-board by 20 percent, while keeping current low tax rates on dividends and capital gains.
  Reduce the corporate income tax rate to 25 percent.
  Broaden the tax base to ensure that tax reform is revenue-neutral.
  
• Reform Entitlement Programs To Ensure Their Viability.
  Gradually reduce growth in Social Security and Medicare benefits for more affluent seniors.
  Give more choice in Medicare to improve value in health care spending.
  Block grant the Medicaid program to states.
  
• Make Growth And Cost-Benefit Analysis Important Features Of Regulation.
  Remove regulatory impediments to energy production and innovation that raise costs to consumers and limit job creation.
  Repeal and replace the Dodd-Frank Act and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

The one-pager is like a wish list. The full plan has very little to do with it. They only have a few points in common, which are:

1. Cap federal spending below 20% of the economy.
2. Reduce taxes.
3. Streamline permitting for exploration and development.
4. Eliminate regulations destroying the coal industry.
5. Replace Obamacare

Where's the rest of it? How does he plan to "give every family access to a great school and quality teachers"? Where in the world will he "open new markets for American goods and services"?

And especially, what does the Keystone XL pipeline have to do with energy independence, when it's meant to deliver oil from Canada?

i'll read thru this post in a minute, gonna take a few minutes and go back to '08 to find your snarky disdain for obama's lack of details when he ran for president back then...

 

[RobDownSouth]

i'll read thru this post in a minute, gonna take a few minutes and go back to '08 to find your snarky disdain for obama's lack of details when he ran for president back then...

Petey's realllllly fixated on the "But MOM! the other side does it toooooooo" meme this morning.

 

[richard_daily]

Wow, nice post but the answers are escaping you. Families get access to great schools by providing vouchers so they can chose the school to send their children rather than be stuck with the local crap public school. Ask any inner city Chicago parent if they would prefer that system and the answer will astound you. Just don't ask the unions who the current administration is bound to.

We buy oil from the Middle east now. Wouldn't you rather from Canada? Why force them to sell to China when they are delighted to sell it to us? Doesn't shipping across an ocean increase the cost and expend untold amounts of evil carbon in the process?

Keystone is more green than shipping oil in tankers over the long haul, and we get immediate jobs out of it. Agreed?

Really? Vouchers provide access to "great schools" in Chicago? Can you give me a list of those "great schools" that parents in that city would be able to send their kids to under Romney's plan?

Also, buying oil from Canada isn't energy independence...

What you're failing to see, is that Romney's "plan" for america, is just privatizing everything, which makes money for his rich friends, but isnt actually good for this country in any way, shape or form.

 

[pete]

Petey's realllllly fixated on the "But MOM! the other side does it toooooooo" meme this morning.

oh sorry didn't mean to sprinkle some reality on your circle jerk fantasies.

obama's halo is still intact and biden is his ever-truthful sidekick. check.

 

[RobDownSouth]

oh sorry didn't mean to sprinkle some reality on your circle jerk fantasies.

*snicker* oh by all means, define "reality" for us.

 

[zipman]

Mitt Romney's 5-Point Plan

1) Don't provide any specifics to back up outlandish claims
2) Lie
3) Change positions
4) Tell story about meeting poor constituent
5) Rinse and repeat

 

[pete]

*snicker* oh by all means, define "reality" for us.

i'm still waiting on your acknowledgement that biden lied and mislead during the debate last night, tough guy.

so please, show me some reality.

 

[unregistered]

 

[hogjack]

Mitt Romney's 5-Point Plan

1) Don't provide any specifics to back up outlandish claims
2) Lie
3) Change positions
4) Tell story about meeting poor constituent
5) Rinse and repeat

On the MONEY! Romney SUCKS. Romney and Obama must be sharing the same snake-charming political consultants:

Obama's Plan for the Next Four Years
1. Don't provide any specifics. Release no budgets.
2. Appear on The View every six months
3. 200+ rounds of golf per Federal calendar year
4. Blame the "rich" but not mention own wealth. Ever. Ever!
5. Skype with French President François Hollande (Socialist Party)
6. Quadruple family trips to Hawaii.
7. Surpass Clinton's mark of sex sessions in Lincoln bedroom
8. Blame Bush Administration
9. Sell Solyndra coffee mugs on eBay
10. Spend more time on Youtube looking for anti-Muslim trailers!

 

[phrodeau]

i'm still waiting on your acknowledgement that biden lied and mislead during the debate last night, tough guy.

so please, show me some reality.

I did hear Joe Biden tell a lie during the debate. He said, "usually when there's a crisis, we pull together as a nation." How bogus.

 

[phrodeau]

On the MONEY! Romney SUCKS. Romney and Obama must be sharing the same snake-charming political consultants:

Obama's Plan for the Next Four Years
1. Don't provide any specifics. Release no budgets.
2. Appear on The View every six months
3. 200+ rounds of golf per Federal calendar year
4. Blame the "rich" but not mention own wealth. Ever. Ever!
5. Skype with French President François Hollande (Socialist Party)
6. Quadruple family trips to Hawaii.
7. Surpass Clinton's mark of sex sessions in Lincoln bedroom
8. Blame Bush Administration
9. Sell Solyndra coffee mugs on eBay
10. Spend more time on Youtube looking for anti-Muslim trailers!

Your posts are full of what I like to call "hyperbole", but you should know that Obama has talked about his wealth. He often mentions that he's included in the group of people who should be paying more in taxes.

 

[hogjack]

Your posts are full of what I like to call "hyperbole".

I doubt you can pronounce "hyperbole". Hyper Bowl? Put down the Guinness - just for a few minutes - and quit talking out of that old, saggy ass you call a body. Damn. And put on some fucking clothes!

 

[hogjack]

Obama's Plan for the Next Four Years, Part 2
1. Sign 400 more 'Obamacare' waivers.
2. Washington Wizards. Front row tickets!
3. Ask Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for specific names of who didn't Vote Obama in November.
4. Block Joe Biden's Twitter account.
5. Send list of hottest White House interns to Bill Clinton. Favor re-paid!
6. Watch entire season of "Weeds" on Netflix

 

[VegasBornWolf]

Just one comment

I'll just comment on one thing....

Aligning federal employee compensation with private sector counterparts...

If you include Military personnel as "federal employees", which they are, does that mean you're going to actually pay them what their lives are worth, since that's what they put on the line?