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ORLANDO -- Mitt Romney tied President Obama's signature health reform law to the anemic hiring situation among small businesses on Tuesday, calling the 2010 law the "poster child" for harmful policies enacted during this administration.
"Obamacare," Romney said near the close of his remarks on a factory floor here in a crucial swing state, "is the poster child for a piece of policy that’s made it harder for businesses to hire people, so we’ve got to get rid of it, among other good reasons."
Aides said that Romney's renewed focus on "ObamaCare" anticipates a Supreme Court ruling on that very law this month. Romney has long been haunted by the strong resemblances between the law he signed as governor of Massachusetts (including an individual mandate), but has long since vowed to repeal the president's law should he be elected.
Today's events -- and ones like it in the coming weeks -- allows Romney to get out in front of the Supreme Court ruling, and outline his alternative plans for reforming health care.
To that end, Romney described some of his preferred solutions, such as block-granting Medicaid money to states and allowing consumers to buy insurance across state lines were specific. Others, such as Romney's desire to see health care act more like a market, and allowing states to experiment with their own reforms lacked specificity.
Any effort to replace the law, Romney said, must come after its repeal, a process he said again today he would begin on the first day of his administration -- a line that always gets cheers in Romney's stump speech, and today led to a standing ovation.
Romney also used an answer about the law that Obama gave on Monday to further his case that the president is "out of touch."
The president told a reporter from NBC affiliate KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa that it would be "hard to explain" why a business might have had to move from one state to another due to the health care law, because the law didn't govern that type of business. Republicans, including Romney today, pounced on the comment.
"Just yesterday, the president said something else that shows just how out of touch he is," Romney said. "He said he didn’t understand that Obamacare was hurting small business, he doesn’t understand that Obamacare impacts small business, and you have to scratch your head about that because about a year ago the Chamber of Commerce did a survey of some 1,500 small businesses and of those small businesses, three-quarters, 75 percent, said Obamacare made it less likely for them to hire people."
Romney recast his criticism of President Obama as "out of touch," last Friday after the president told reporters that the private sector was "doing fine," and today he continued to work that line of attack today.
"The president, as you know, said last week that the private sector is doing fine. He is so out of touch with what's happening across America, to say something like that. He went on, of course, this was not just one line taken out of context. He went on to describe why he believes that therefore we should provide another stimulus to hire government workers," Romney said, going on to describe how his own interactions with Americans as he travels the country have made him, not the president, more in touch with the concerns of average folks.
But the Romney campaign has also been forced to defend Romney's own response from last Friday, when he appeared to suggest that the message of the Wisconsin recall was not to hire more teachers, firefighters or police.
"He wants another stimulus, he wants to hire more government workers. He says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people," Romney said in that interview
Today, Romney told Fox News that Democratic accusations he would want to cut firefighters or teachers were "very strange."
“That's a very strange accusation. Of course, teachers and firemen and policemen are hired at the local level and also by states. The federal government doesn't pay for teachers, firefighters or policemen. So obviously that's completely absurd," Romney said. “[President Obama]'s got a new idea, though, and that is to have another stimulus and to have the federal government send money to try and bail out cities and states. It didn't work the first time. It certainly wouldn't work the second time.”
Romney had no more to say on the matter when asked by a reporter at his event today today if he thought Democrats had taken his remarks out of context.
"I'm not going to talk about that," Romney said, moving along the rope line.
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Huh?
Does Willard really want to go there?
ObamaCare was after all modeled from WillardCare.
Hell, Willard even praised the President in the past for following his prototype in an op-ed!
Willard is not just out of touch - he's out of his freakin MIND!
I see even carrot top's confused about obamacare! She's pissed there's no co-pay for boiler maker purchases.. or even a generic version of the same! lol!
I'm not going to talk about anything.......but what I want to talk/lie about!
carrot top shouldn't presume that just because the citizens of Mass. choose Romney's health care plan that the rest of the country wants it too! As a frequent 'cut and paste' queen of FR, the old gal should know that over 66% of the country thinks obamacare stinks! Barry's version of health care is a bloated mess!
Romney isn't going to talk about his gaffes, he isn't going to talk about his tax returns, he isn't going to talk about how he will pay to further cut the tax rates on the 1%, but he wants to talk about President Obama being out of touch? Really---to me, out of touch is income of $57,000 per day (or $20 million per year) and building an elevator for your cars.
The father of affordable care is "haunted" by "strong resemblances" between what he created and what was created in his image?
LoLoLoL
Could you possibly have found a sneakier way to avoid saying that Romney INVENTED affordable care?
What's that? It wasn't Romney, it was the Heritage Foundation?
It was really Newt Gingrich and the Republicans in Congress?
LoLoLoL
N, Mitt's Health care Bill was at the State level with some differences as to the mandate.
I do want to go there even with 2 boys one starting college and the other with autism. Nothing that has been implemented has helped neither one of them.
I have one question to the experts like Feisty, Sanity, Ginger, Jody, etc. What are the sites that you approve and can be use as research? I know of MSN, has Progressive as the link, New York times, I think someone mention Politifact and of course HufPost. Need your approval.
Nothing that has been implemented has helped neither one of them.
Your sons can stay on your insurance policy until they are 26, thanks to Obama's Healthcare reform bill. that's nothing?
Mitt doesn't have enough sense to stay off this topic since he never knew what was in the MA healthcare bill. Get real, he didn't read it, draft it, have a hand in it. He just presented what was presented to him. So, he can easily come out against Obama's Healthcare reform because - as usual - Mitt doesn't have a clue!
Obama/Biden 2012
Where does Romney get his heath insurance for his family?
Do ex governors from MA get heath insurance as a benefit?
Concern Citizen. Your son with autism can never be discriminated against because he has a pre-existing condition and you say that is "nothing" done for them; your other son can remain on your insurance until age 26 and that is "nothing" done for them; you can have annual physical exams without co-pay and that is nothing done for you; there is no longer a life-time cap on insurance; insurance companies cannot cancel your insurance if you get sick yet that is nothing done for you. Educate yourself, Concern Citizen. Stop listening to what the right claims about health care, read the truth about it. If it was such a horrible thing, why did Mitt Romney believe RomneyCare should be the model for the nation? The only reason Romney flip flopped is because the GOP has convinced people that what is good for them is bad for them and the only reason they did that was because ACA was a victory for President Obama. It's as simple as that...1, 2, 3.
P.S. Find your own research sites and approve them yourself like the rest of us have done. Hint, I don't use HuffPost, Politifact as anything except sources for interesting articles.
Don't know...
What I DO know is Senator Scott Brown is taking full advantage of ObamaCare by signing up his unemployed daughter!
With an income of $57,000 per day I'm not worried about Mitt's health insurance situation. His 2010 return showed medical expenses of $14,176.
Where does Romney get his heath insurance for his family?
MN - Mitten's doesn't need insurance. If he gets sick, he can just buy the hospital.....
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Jody, Iowa
Jody, I try to remain civil, but now you touch a nerve and have asked me to get educated.
One. I had a girl that was born with a heart disorder and was covered by the company I used to work for years ago. I was let go and started my own business with two employee and took the Cobra coverage from the company.
I worked for one year as a contractor and 2 other companies offer fme employement and would take the pre-existing condition of my Daugther, long before Barry thought of being president.
My daughter passed away after ther second open heart surgery.
Four years later I had my son who has autism. I have him on the Insurance of the company I work for now. I do not expect to have my sons on my Insurance until 26 because they would have a job way before that with Insurance of their own.
You my dear, do not know what the hell you are talking about. I work with insurance and have had lots of experience in life.
Oh, yes I forgot. They can not give my son any extra help, because I use my employer insurance and not Medicaid. So to your rant, I get nothing from the Government and want nothing.
If anyone is out of touch it is the millionaire Mitt Romney. No worries for him about health insurance or anything else. I want him to go away to build his garage and multi-million dollar new home.
Obama/Biden 2012
Feisty, get with the program.
Mitt Romney is not the same guy who did Willardcare.
Not only that he has a transferable brain.
Plus, a disability - where his mouth is disconnected from the other three brain cells.
Those wee cells contain a Compulsive Lie Component that has degenerated beyond repair.
Really?
Gee, in 2009 Romney thought it would be a great idea to adopt his grand plan for Massachusetts on a nationwide level. He even said so himself in this USA Today OpEd...
www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090730/column30_st.art.htm
Oh no he didn't! Romney combined Romneycare with being the out-of-touch 1%er? Bam, a double-down "I'm rubber you're glue" outrageous lie. The sad thing is there are plenty of low-information voters who will fall for it.
conservative justices will try judicial activism again...
Judicial Conservatism means - deference to people's will - reflected by laws made by a majority in congress which represents people.
The worst Judicial Activism by conservative judges? Bush V. Gore 2000, and Citizen United (2010 lawmaking instead of mere judgment)
BTW - this time - judicial activism is targeting Obamacare - (I forgot to mention this in my last post above)
Da Noid,
I'd suggest you read the article you post. You likely wouldn't have posted the link if you had actually read it.
but of course Libs don't read, they just post
The daily stain on our flag put there by this phony new republican party continues to grow, we need to stop these unhonorable people asap. Obama and congress 2012. We have never in modern times seen these levels of dishonor in politics. All brought by the Kochs and mitch mcconnell, the most shameful people to have ever walked american soil. BAR NONE
Obama is certainly 'in touch' with the liberal Hollywood crowd - in fact, he's put the big time 'touch' on them for campaign contributions.
rockymtnroustabout
You may as well face facts - Obama has been a huge FAILURE, and the voters now realize it.
Shades of Jimmy Carter in 1980.
We won't have to worry about this too much longer.... SCOTUS will do the right thing and declare obamacare unconstitutional... we already know it's too expensive!
My insurance has just gone up 20% and my carrier is only setting this price for 6 months as they fear it may go up higher once we learn more about the damn bill!
Thanks a hell of a lot Harry, Barry, & Nancy.... the 3 stooges of faux health care reform! What a joke!
Obama and the cult will never understand why the majority rejected, and still rejects, this disaster. Obama does not even understand the ramifications this mess had-and is still having- on businesses
http://www.ktiv.com/story/18761897/president-defends-healthcare-reform-despite-companys-blame-for
So, it caused a company to close up shop and killed 111 jobs. So what? It's Bush's fault. Or the Japanese tsunami. Or Europe.
My insurance has just gone up 20% and my carrier is only setting this price for 6 months as they fear it may go up higher once we learn more about the damn bill!
Snead - What's that got to do with Harry, Barry, and Nancy? Just more teabag talking points.
My rates with Blue Cross/Anthem went down 40 percent - I guess I could make the same connection and conclude the law is wonderful. Because you are so much against the ACA, explain what parts (other than the mandate) that you oppose. And as to the mandate, explain your solution to the "free rider" problem of people purchasing insurance only after they need it. And with Romney and his small business pitch - explain why a small business owner wouldn't rather have a public option or single payer system as opposed to enduring the headache of deciding whether to provide insurance as a benefit and at what cost? In short should the US move away from a system where health insurance is primarily provided by one's employer? And if so, how?
Wm - Good post.
The Repubes don't care if its good or bad, the fact that Obama introduced the plan is what they don't like. The fact that the plan was first implemented by their candidate (Mitten's) means nothing to them. There motto is "Obstruct, OBstruct, Obstruct" no matter what the cost....
Obama/Biden 2012
My insurance went up every year UNTIL the ACA was enacted; in 2011, the premium stayed the same and for the first time this year, the premium declined slightly. Amazing how gullible conservatives are, the GOP tells them something is bad for them (even though it is good for them) and they swallow it hook, line and sinker. Whether it is health care reform, tax cuts only for the rich, government is evil and pitting one segment of the working class against another--GOP says it, it must be so. No, I do not believe every word democrats say and I check the facts for myself so do not say I'm a liberal sheep, that doesn't cut it
no joe, no bo, nj
Obama and the cult will never understand why the majority rejected, and still rejects, this disaster. Obama does not even understand the ramifications this mess had-and is still having- on businesses
http://www.ktiv.com/story/18761897/president-defends-healthcare-reform-despite-companys-blame-for
So, it caused a company to close up shop and killed 111 jobs. So what? It's Bush's fault. Or the Japanese tsunami. Or Europe.
Have you jumped in boston harbor yet,
i did not think so, the place has not flooded out yet!!!!
Obama Care is Romney care, you blow hole old lady!!!!
this is not a personal attack this is the truth, she is very old and every time she opens her mouth a warm front moves through!!!!
I read the link above and I'm dumbfounded. I think I'm more dumbfounded by the reporter who even asked the question. How exactly does a company claiming to be impacted by the ACA simply move to Wisconsin to avoid it? The ACA applies there too - they are part of the US. Next some farmer will be saying his crops failed because of Obama. Actually, they probably already have. They ignore the fact that BS makes good fertilizer.
Many people don't know the Affordable HealthCare Act reduces the national debt in the long term. Repealing it will add to our debt; isn't that what Republicans keep yelling about, the debt?
To:
You really stretched that one. You most of changed your coverage and selected HMO instead of PPO.
I work with Health Insurances and I Have BB and there is no way that it went 40% down.
That is b#@D# S^%$.
Wm, ditto GT, well said.
Concern Citizen, just how the heck to you know what Wm's insurance did or did not? Oh, that's right, you don't. BTW, I have Wellmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield and my premium declined.
uhh Gt, you still got a little dementia, doncha? Go back and read the article and reread bensnead's worries about his health insurance costs and maybe that little lightbulb will snap on in your little mind... My God are all the libbies as clueless as GT(2.5) and as confused as Wm (2.8)?
Memphis - no, GT is not clueless but clearly you are!
Jody, did you not read my Post, I have worked with Insurance for many years and I have insurance also. GT is not telling the you the entire picture here. It is impossible. And without insulting anyone he had to had change his coverage.
Jody, you have insurance too, I hope. See if you can apply what he did.
Memphis,
How does bensnead know what the motives are as to why his insurance went up. Wm.-375815 says his insurance went down. Why? Who knows! I do know one thing, the insurance companies I've dealt with are not inclined to give out info as to why they make the policy decisions they do.
Concern: it's a fact, I didn't change coverages, and I like everyone else in our small group plan are a year older. Of course our rates had gone up 20 and 20 the previous years, so we are back to 2009 rates. And don't get me started on the small group plans. Why does a small business owner want to balance hiring an older worker with a health history, or choose between a young male (who is very cheap to insure and actually doesn't even care about the benefit) compared to a female of child bearing age? It's not like there are dozens of companies offering dozens of price competitive plans.
I honestly don't understand why the Republicans have such a big problem with requiring those that can afford to purchase health insurance to purchase it. As it stands, some people with the ability to go to clinics, hospitals etc., obtain service and then let those of us that have been responsible to pay their bill through higher premiums or taxes. Could someone explain why it is ok to be irresponsible when it comes to paying for the healthcare you have asked for and received?
Would someone also explain to us "libbies" why bringing more people into a health insurance program forces premiums to go up? The right makes this argument all the time, how about some supportive evidence as to why having more people in the insurance pool will increase and not decrease costs.
I understand that some say the law is unconstitutional. If it is or isn't remains to be determined by the SCOTUS. But even if it is determined to be unconstitutional it doesn't mean the concept is flawed. Constitutional amendments are nothing new, if the concept of requiring people to take responsibility for their own lives is sound then amend the Constitution to enable the practice.
What does Mitt Romney have against able adults being responsible?
Concern Citizen. I did read your post and FYI, I worked with insurance for years as well; you were speculating about what you think based on your particular experience. You do not know what Wm's insurance or mine did or did not do. If Wm went from a private, single insurance purchaser to a cooperative group insurance purchaser and still have the same level of coverage, his premium costs could easily have declined by 40%. There are many other scenarios in which that drop could occur. Also, apparently you didn't read my post #2.6.
What do all republicans have against it? They don't seem to understand that all of us are already paying for those how have no insurance, and they want it to continue. WE ARE PAYING FOR IT NOW. You think you deserve a free ride? Republicans also forget that the mandate is THEIR OWN IDEA. Take away that mandate and they will have NO way to lower costs, unless they wise up and support single payer.
NJNB-
Same old tired rhetoric. Polls have consistently shown that if asked about specific portions of the ACA people support it. Some of those "opposed" are only opposed because they feel it does not go far enough!
The new CNN poll on Health Care Reform:
Favor ACA ...................................... 43%
Oppose ACA (it's too liberal) ............. 34%
Oppose ACA (it's not liberal enough) - 13%
No opinion ..................................... 10%
Polls also show only a third of respondents understood the ACA - about the same percentage of those that oppose it for being too liberal. Coincidence? I think not..
Priceless - blame Obama-care (yes, folks, that is all the right does is blame, bash, blame) for a company relocating jobs to another state. So what is the real reason this company is closing shop - could it be the recalls on faulty equipment? Bad management? Perhaps it is due to a reduction in orders. How the company can say that a reduction in orders is due to Obama-care is beyond me. But then we get to the end of the lame reasons put forth by this company, and management finally ponies up with this statement:
Sounds like this company closing its doors loves to blame everyone (especially Obama), when in fact, they cannot simply manage through changing markets.
http://www.ksfy.com/story/18681283/sioux-centers-nemschoff-chairs-to-close
http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/RecallsCorrectionsRemovals/ListofRecalls/ucm293211.htm
out of touch because of healthcare reform?
then Romney is as guilty or more guilty, because his healthcare reform is the blueprint for Obamacare.
Actually, sending money to the states to keep firefighters, cops and teachers on the payroll did work, it kept us from sliding into a Depression. That isn't just my opinion, that's what econimists who have studied the recession and the administration's policies to combat it have concluded.
Once again, Mitt Romney shows himself to be a liar.
that is to have another stimulus and to have the federal government send money to try and bail out cities and states. It didn't work the first time.
Your problem, Amy,mis that you do not understand the concept of a one time infusion, versus a lifetime commitment of taxpayer cash.
If it was going to work, it would have worked.
It didn't- and no amount of whining that we "could have gone into a Depression" will change that fact.
Amy - If it worked, then why should it be repeated? It didn't work and did nothing but increase federal spending that could have been better used to reduce the deficit or national debt.
Teachers, firefighters and cops are the responsibility of the states and local communities. It is basically up to the residents of the states and local cities and school districts to raise their taxes if they feel they need more public employees.
Why does the left keep talking about teachers, firefighters and police, could it be because they are 3 of the largest unions and donate heavily to the democrats?
You're problem, NJ, is that you're just not that smart.
Otherwise you wouldn't be trying to argue a negative :)
Prove that it didn't work.
boy joe you are an idiot if you think that the stimulus did not stop the depression. do your reseach and then say that. are better yet ask a real economist and he will tell you idiot
Amy, so true. Actually sending money to states is what every president and congress has always done during a recession especially since the Great Depression--that is until the GOP was taken over by the bunch of rabid, anti-American, far right extremists they invited to drag them down the rabbit hole for tea.
Amy--the Republicans faced a tricky problem in 2008 as they plotted on the night of President Obama's inauguration on how to bring him down. The economy had to limp along enough to avoid a total Depression but it couldn't recover sufficiently to allow President Obama to claim credit for it. So they obstructed against as complete a stimulus as the economists thought was necessary and today we see the results---we avoided a second Great Depression but have not recovered as much as we could have. The fact that millions of Americans have suffered means nothing to the Republicans.
The proof, trek, is that Obama is out there yelling about having to do it all over again. If it had worked, it would not be necessary to continue to flood localities with federal funds.
Now do you get it?
sfcret, EXACTLY! After Wisconsin, Barry is desperate to repair the damage done. Including his cowardice in avoiding a trip there in support of the union stooge Barrett!
Pretty telling when you demean working folks like teachers, police and firefighters, at the same time you go balls to the wall to protect the elite, who already have it all.
NJNB-
I thought we were talking about the stimulus, and here you bring up tax cuts for the wealthy!
You are correct, if "trickle down" was going to work it would have worked by now.
The "job creators" would have created a few jobs by now.
Why should we try it again with Romney?
Odd how the only people referring to President Obama and Wisconsin are conservatives who think they have found a talking point. Too bad, it won't work. My own opinion is this: if President Obama had gone to Wisconsin, the right would have gone crazy claiming he should stay out of state politics. If he had gone and Walker had lost, the right would have cried foul, it wasn't right for the President of the U.S. to interfere. Since Walker won, we know very good and well that the right would be claiming President Obama was weak. Pick your scenario, GOPers, because the truth is it would not have mattered what President Obama did about Wisconsin, you would have been whining in one form or another; and guess what, his going or not would not have played a role in the outcome.
Let's not forget, however, that while Walker retained his Governor's position, voters put democrats in charge of the Senate putting a big hitch in Walker's git-a-long. Walker's been neutered, republicans, so put that in your whining GOP pipe and smoke it.
"If it had worked"
It did work, it kept us from sliding into a Depression. That's the point of a stimulus.
We have been adding jobs every month for the last two years. The Fortune 500 companies are reaping record profits. Why aren't Republicans calling on corporate America to pick up the hiring?
Amy - If it worked then why do we have to repeat it? Can you or any of the other left wing nuts explain to me why it is the federal governments responsibility to provide the money to pay for teachers, firefighters, policemen and other state and public employees? Why is that not a state or local problem, why can't the states or local cities and counties figure out how to spend the revenue they have and if they need more then they can raise taxes. You lefties keep calling for tax increases for the federal level, how about for state and local levels.
Those who think the federal government knows better how to run state and local needs are sorely mistaking, hell they can't even run the federal government sufficiently. As for why corporate American is not hiring, I believe that has been explained numerous times. To much uncertainty in the ACA, taxes, and regulations. Once Obama is voted out in Nov you will see an increase in hiring and an increase in the economy.
Almost all economists agree, the stimulus was not robust enough. Bush Jr. spent $1.3T to stop his pee-wee recession. Congress only approved $800b to stimulate us out of this massive recession. What we need to really turn this economy around is 2-3 more stimulus injections. Of course, that will never happen. The conservatives are relishing a slide into a double dip recession, for some sick and odd reason.
Red, According to you and a bunch of economists it is the democrats fault that the stimulus bill was insufficient to do the job. If I remember right the stimulus bill was passed with only democrats in congress voting for it. Why didn't Obama and the democratic controlled congress pass more. According to you and the left the Democrats were not ready to lead and really didn't understand what they were doing.
If I remember right the stimulus bill was passed with only democrats in congress voting for it. Why didn't Obama and the democratic controlled congress pass more.
Well, how unusual. Relying upon your faulty memory and you have complete memory breakdown when it comes to filibusters.
Funny, that's what I say about the Bush policies.
Eight years of stagnant wages ending in a massive crisis, and yet, Republicans want to repeat what we did under Bush, deregulation, privatizing government services, and tax cuts for the wealthiest. It didn't work then, it won't work now.
The question is when will Romney do an interview? What is he afraid of?
The question is when will Romney do an interview? What is he afraid of?
Job 1 - Are you kidding? The Repubes aren't stupid. Remember the last time they let a candidate speak. After she made a complete ass of herself, and her party, she went rogue on them!! LOL
he willl not make a comment because just like the debates he will say something stupid and then the domo will run with it. it is best just to keep his stupid ass mouth shut
you know corporations are people too!!!!
They don't call Mitt "the Boy in The Bubble" for nothing!
Job1 - Mitt is much like Sarah Palin - they can't take him off script because he'll make a fool of himself. Wait, he'll make MORE of a fool of himself!
On the Az election, canditate Barber would not say if he would vote for Obama...
But the fact that a Democratic candidate would feel the need to distance himself from Obama in Arizona raises questions about the viability of the president’s effort to win that state this fall.
He, like many Democrats are a little annoyed with the cold shoulder treatment Obama gave concerning the Wisconsin recall!
That pure GOP talking point baloney. Arizona is Arizona, 'nuff said.
Jody, did you not read my Post, I have worked with Insurance for many years and I have insurance also. GT is not telling the you the entire picture here. It is impossible. And without insulting anyone he had to had change his coverage.
Jody, you have insurance too, I hope. See if you can apply what he did. One thing I know about is Medical Insurance.
Concerned: Insurance premiums have been rising double digits for YEARS before the HCR's were put into place. More people could be covered, but the Republican's forced the bill to be watered down and we were left with this private insurance non-choice instead of having a public option. Be grateful we got what we did, but to wish it away is shooting yourself in the foot. Where or even what is the GOP alternative?
Memo to Mitt Romney: Stuff it, Willard, and for your information, "out of touch" is claiming we don't "need more firemen, more policemen and more teachers". "Out of touch" is saying when you passed RomneyCare that it should be a "model for the Nation" and now lying and saying you really didn't mean it. "Out of touch" is "corporations are people, my friend.....I'm not concerned about the poor....I like to fire people who work for me...."
"I would like to see health care act more like a market." Translation: if you have money, you get the service. "I'll block grant Medicaid." Translation: the states can use it to balance their budgets and determine for themselves the bare bones medical needs of its poor (oh, and they can drug test them too.). "I want to allow the cross border purchase of health insurance." Translation: if a fly by night operation wants to sell insurance from Arkansas, I don't want the state of New York interfering with that. Cross border insurance is an end run around minimum coverages mandated by some states. It's just a gift in a different form to the insurance companies to escape regulation.
On the Az election, canditate Barber would not say if he would vote for Obama...
Sirie - Like he's actually going to vote for Romney? Get real
Read it here on MSNBC... I think he is trying to distance himself right now, nothing more.
I think he is trying to distance himself right now, nothing more.
Sirie - You're right. I think what he's trying to do is grab some moderate GOP voters, and clinch the Bluedog vote.
Mitt Romney is saying that President Obama is out of touch with what is happening in America?
I'll bet you $10,000 that Romney is more out of touch.
1) Romney told out-of-work Floridians that he, too, was unemployed.
2) "Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs, actually"
3) Romney has a $55,000 elevator for his cars in his $12 million beachfront mansion (one of three homes he owns)
4) Romney said in Las Vegas: "don't try and stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom"
5) Romney told his lawn care company: "look, you can't have any illegals working on our property, I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, I can't have illegals."
6) Romney said he is middle-class: "My own view with regards to tax policy is that we ought to provide help to the people that have been hurt most by the Obama economy, and that's the middle class. It's not those at the low end and it's certainly not for those at the very high end. It's for the great middle class, the 80 to 90 percent of us in this country."
7) Romney said: “Even if you have a child 2 years of age, you need to go to work. And people said, "Well that's heartless." And I said, "No, no, I'm willing to spend more giving day care to allow those parents to go back to work. It'll cost the state more providing that day care, but I want the individuals to have the dignity of work."
8) Asked if he followed NASCAR, Romney replied not really, "but I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners."
9) Romney said: "We've always encouraged young people -- take a shot, go for it, take a risk and get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business." Romney then shared the story of sandwich magnate Jimmy John, who Romney said borrowed $20,000 from his parents to launch his first sandwich shop.
10) Ann Romney showed up to the CBS This Morning set with a rather distinctive shirt adorned with a large print of fish - the work of designer Reed Krakoff , reported retail price $990.
Romney didn't want to make a choice in the Super Bowl because he both teams' owners were friends of his.
He wanted the housing market to hit bottom so that the houses could be foreclosed upon, bought by investors at pennies on the dollar and turned into rental properties.
How did Romney survive his college years? Lived in a little apartment, worked hard, ate raman noodles and mac-n-cheese like the rest of us did, right? eh, not so much.....
TNSEVOL---Mitt violated that cardinal Republican rule---he sold principal!
Mitt's new campaign ad: "I was able to promote bipartisanship and reach across the aisles to get things done in Mass." That's pretty easy when Romney says that he was to the left of Ted Kennedy on some issues. Please ignore the man behind the curtain - he was a moderate who has "evolved" into a conservative that believes in "no compromise." Until he swears off that proposition, then he cannot be trusted to exercise bipartisanship.
Even the Democrat polling firm PPP now has Romney ahead in North Carolina.
Say "Bye bye" to North Carolina, Obama..you wont be wasting your time with ad buys any more...soon it will be totally out of reach...
By Convention time, the polls in North Carolina will be embarassing for you!
Bob,
I don't think Obama has to win North Carolina to win the election.
His victory in Virginia may secure it for him, though. How's the polling in VA? I think it shows Obama up by 5, with no improvement in Mitt's numbers.
Wouldn't Obama winning in VA be embarrassing for you?
TNSEVOL - Obama will take VA and NC (NC will be tight but he'll take it). As much as the conservatives don't like Obama they will not be able to hold their noses and vote for a Mormon. It just won't happen!
gremlins....
Romney reminds me of the kid in jr high that just wanted to be with the in crowd. He is a typical flake. Say and do anything to be accepted by the bullys. A total fake follower. He is not a leader. He is a push over, phoney idiot. He will lose. NO amount of money will buy America or Americans vote. Romney hangs with america's unethical terrorist, obstructionist and the worst of america.
Some of the posters are getting to this, but why exactly should the ACA cause rates to go up? The hospitals and doctors (those that like getting paid for services) are in favor of the ACA and it's information modernization mandates. I really don't hear the likes of Anthem or Kaiser advocating for repeal of the law. If hospitals and doctors are going to get paid, shouldn't that lower costs for the rest of us? If the insurance pool is enlarged, doesn't that lower costs? This fight has very little to do with costs. It has to do with who gets to exercise their autonomy (who gets to choose), whether there is a basic level of minimum coverage and services, and whether the cost of our sickest members of society (the unlucky) should be borne by them or more by the community at large.
to:
Jody, Iowa
Jody, I try to remain civil, but now you touch a nerve and have asked me to get educated. Why is it that you Libs think you know everything?
One. I had a girl that was born with a heart disorder and was covered by the company I used to work for years ago. I was let go and started my own business with two employee and took the Cobra coverage from the company.
I worked for one year as a contractor and 2 other companies offer fme employement and would take the pre-existing condition of my Daugther, long before Barry thought of being president.
My daughter passed away after ther second open heart surgery.
Four years later I had my son who has autism. I have him on the Insurance of the company I work for now. I do not expect to have my sons on my Insurance until 26 because they would have a job way before that with Insurance of their own.
You my dear, do not know what the hell you are talking about. I work with insurance and have had lots of experience in life.
Oh, yes I forgot. They can not give my son any extra help, because I use my employer insurance and not Medicaid. So to your rant, I get nothing from the Government and want nothing.
Concerned Citizen-
If that is truly the case then you are fortunate. Many families that had to change jobs could not get their new insurance to cover pre-exisiting conditions. If you work with insurance you would know that.
A boy at my son's school has had two brain tumors, and despite the fact that his father has a job and health insurance they have had to rely on fundraisers to cover the deductibles, out-of-pocket costs and co-pays.
It is you, "my dear", who doesn't know what the hell you are talking about!
Ohhh... so this week she works in insurance... *wink wink*
Wasn't last week or the week before she claimed to worked in payroll? lmao!
You have to love these internet resumes... they grow longer by the week!
And weaker the longer they get.
Concerned: I do not walk in your shoes, but please walk in someone else's sometimes. What the GOP is selling to you is autonomy, not community. The community is much larger than their narrow vision and requires more than private charity and the "kindness of strangers." People do fall through the cracks, and it's not their fault or Obama's.
To: Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL who writes,
She is baaaaaaaack! beisty Did you knot know that working with Payroll you have to include Medical Benefits which come from Insurances. I liked it better when you had your cronies defending you. I also work with computer application packages that do Financials, and Supply Chain.
To your lmao I would like to add and say " ybfa is to big to wink wink if you catch my drift." Beisty, for being such a liberal you have a Web page that makes about 2,000.00 a month? that is what it says.
Good for you girlfriend, You are a capitalist at heart.
Concern - working in payroll is NOT working in Insurance. Please! That's not just a BROAD stretch - it's a non-existent one! Let's see, so according to your loose interpretation, you work in Insurance, Finance and Supply?
You're a payroll clerk - plain and simple. Let's see, by your interpretation you're also a tax expert, right?
I gotta disagree with you on that one SS - I'm convinced she's the head copy writer for Team Willard!
No one can be that poor at spelling & grammer & earn over $7.50 an hour! ;o)
Beisty and SS, you are not worth it?
Not when it comes from those who think themselves smarter and better than those who do not have the Ideology that comes from being a Liberal.
I guarantee that I make more that what you think and I would not mind working for team Willard either.
Have a good night, Beisty, please don't choke on the POP CORN.
What kind of shoddy journalism is this? "Long since vowed" - was 2010 a long time ago?
In 2010 Romney said of Obamacare "I hope we're ultimately able to eliminate some of the differences, and repeal the bad and keep the good." He applauded the individual mandate, which he says "works."
Exlax ETCH-A-SKETCH saying our illustrious President is "OUT OF TOUCH"! He has a lot of nerve! He doesn't want to take care of the poor, he doesn't understand foreign policy, he thinks ALL THERE IS TO LIFE is businesses! Now who is "OUT OF TOUCH" with the American People? This jerk doesn't understand that if it wasn't for his corporates capitalistic greed, all working Americans would be on a 3 or 4 day work week @ 5 day pay and put the unemployed back to work! That would have fixed the economy! It's too late now, it's time for our 2nd Depression and all because of the corrupt Republican corporates' capitalistic greed!! So, exlax ETCH-A-SKETCH, go spread your bull$hit somewhere else! Try MEXICO!
Forget your meds today ?
Attack Romney all you want, Obama has had almost 4 years to turn the economy upward and he has failed. He succeeded, however, in running up the national debt rapidly. He has also succeeded in filing a variety of lawsuits against states trying to secure their borders and those trying to secure the ballot box for registered voters.
When our country is $16 trillion in debt and rapidly rising, it would be wise to have someone with a track record of success leading this country .... someone who will get a budget passed, someone who will consolidate and streamline a bloated government, someone who will eliminate fraud and reduce waste. Obama has failed in so many areas of financial concern, and the U.S. is facing bankruptcy if his failed leadership continues in the same reckless direction.
Romney is just so blatantly full of it. I thought he didn't like Obamacare because a federal mandate was unconstitutional and he favored state mandates, like in Romneycare, instead? Now he's back to saying that Obamacare hurts businesses and the economy. If true, it must also be true that Romneycare has hurt businesses and the economy in Massachusetts, yes? But he denies that. His statements are not even internally consistent.
A metaphorical conversation, if you will:
Romney: I hate your car. I can't believe you drive a Mustang. They are so slow.
Mustang-driver: But, Governor Romney, don't you drive a Mustang, too? Is your car also slow?
Romney: No, my Mustang is fast. It's blue with racing stripes. Yours is green. I just think green Mustangs are slow.
Everybody else in world: Huh? That makes no sense.
Nathan - pure nonsense! The red ones are the fastest! :-)
to: TNSEVOL who writes,
Why would I lie about what my husban and I have lived. I do not know you TNSVOL but yet you think you know me. In two of the Companies before I got hired they offered to talk to the insurance and bypass the preexisting conditions. Both of he companies were self insured and they had that option. Yes in that case I was furtunately. The current company even included Therapy when my child was 3 years old. Again, why would I lie about such a delicate situation. I know alot about Autism too. Live with it for 13 years now.
I do not ask for anyones pitty, but it P__ses me off when others make fun of situations.
Romney could have pointed out the fact that small businesses are being stonewalled by lending institutions and that proposed legislation to guarantee such loans is in the 9/11 American Jobs Act, lost by Republicans in committee clutter. He might have mentioned that the Affordable Health care Act will save businesses big money, and the government 800 billion dollars in the first ten years.
Romney decided to tell the story of totally confused and frantic entrepreneurs trying to deal with conditions not in place until 2014. He must have eaten a Chinese fortune cookie with a note to lie in it.
Affinity GW - Romney doesn't read Chinese fortune cookies. Believes they're written in Chinese and he'll look foolish when he can't understand it.
Romney is out of touch, simply because he is offering the Voters more "trickle Up" economics as "solutions for our economic woes, caused by the same failed policies which caused our economic meltdown, and massive transfers of 36% of America's wealth to the very top 2% he is a part of. He has no solutions, only failed policies.
Strange how we have had 3 GOP Administrations implementing trickled down policies, along with deregulation, and those Administrations were at the bottom for job creation. Now Romny and the GOP want to cut Federal spending accross the board, and cut taxes again for the top 2%. All that will acomplish is a new meaner recession, and more transfers of wealth to the top 2%. Maybe the GOP belives that after that group attains over 50% ownership of all wealth of America, then, out of the goodness of their hearts, they will choose to spend some of their tax savings on jobs, this time.
So far, they have not. Why will it be different this time?
Mitt is about as real as a “Plastic Banana”.
Is it Mitt ______________Romney.
“Country Club”
“Profits Over People”
“Not To Much…Out of Touch”
“Corporations are People Too”.
“F” da Poor
"Let Detroit Go Bankrupt"
“Pray da Gay Away”
Mitt “Profit Over People” Romney Solution to all Problems…….Prayer and a Moment of Silence.
Isn’t it Amazing, you always hear the Republicans and TeaBilly Politicians Threatening to Reduce or Stop Payment on Unemployment, Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamps, Military Pay and Benefits , Etc. But have you ever heard of them Threatening to Reduce or Stop any of Their Pay, Healthcare and all the other Special Perks they receive (Paid for by our Tax $$$$$$$).
Lets break this down in simple terms. Republican TeaBilly Conservative = Self Righteous Hypocrite.
More crap from Romney. This guy makes me sick.
"Romney confirms he will deny insurance to millions with pre-existing conditions if Obamacare is struck down."
Google this quote and read this article for more reason to vote for Obama.
As soon as Obama sucked up to the gays and endorsed gay marriage, the election was over. Obama just gave up the South, and states like Oklahoma, Kansas, Indiana, and maybe Ohio too. What a complete dummy. We'll go through the campaign and election process for appearances sake, but Obama is finished.