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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
President Barack Obama wipes perspiration from his face as he speaks Saturday in a sweltering gym during a campaign stop at Windham High School in Windham, N.H.
WINDHAM, N.H. – Speaking in a hot, crowded gymnasium here, President Barack Obama kicked off a day of campaigning in this key battleground state where he is running neck-and-neck with his challenger, Mitt Romney.
“They’re coming here on Monday,” Obama said as he wiped his brow to deal with the low air conditioning, as the 2,300 in the packed gym booed at the mention of Romney and Ryan.
“Ask them how they’re going to strengthen the middle class,” he said after accusing Romney of wanting to “wants to give another tax cut to folks like him,” i.e., wealthy Americans.
He also accused Romney's running mate Paul Ryan of putting forward "a plan that would let Governor Romney pay less than 1 percent in taxes each year. And here's the kicker - he expects you to pick up the tab."
Romney campaign spokesman Ryan Williams pushed back on that claim, saying in a statement that "it's not surprising the president is launching yet another false attack. The fact is President Obama wants to raise taxes on private investment and job creators, which will lead to higher unemployment and fewer jobs."
While Obama won New Hampshire in 2008, polls here reveal a contentious race between Romney and him, with an August University of New Hampshire/WMUR poll showing 49 percent of likely voters would pick Obama while 46 percent would go for Romney.
One of the reasons Romney is playing to win in New Hampshire is because so many people were familiar with his term as Massachusetts governor; Boston is only 45 minutes away from the southeastern town of Windham.
That familiarity with Romney was evident Saturday morning at the Chatterbox Café, around the corner from where the president spoke, where late-morning brunchers shared a variety of views on the 2012 race.
Robert Scaccia, 41, who owns a physical therapy business with branches in Windham and Boston, said he’s supported Romney since he ran against Ted Kennedy for Senate in 1994.
Unlike many conservative voters elsewhere in the country, Scaccia said he favored the idea of Mass-Care, the statewide healthcare mandate Romney instituted as governor.
Noting that he treats Boston patients who are on Mass-Care, Scaccia said Romney should treat his healthcare plan as “a crowning achievement,” not only for getting so many people on health care but also as an example of bipartisanship.
“He did it with a Democratic [legislature] in a fully Democratic state; they worked together to get it done. So I think he should be championing that,” Scaccia said.
Ray Ennis, a Romney supporter who recently retired from the printing business, shared that view. While he said he was voting for Romney because “the economy’s the most important thing in the country,” he added that the former governor’s healthcare plan had some positive features.
“I think Romneycare, he’s got some great ideas,” Ennis said. “I think he learned a lot from what he didn’t like in Massachusetts. I think he tweaked it.”
But demonstrating the diversity of views in this town, whose county, Rockingham, handed Obama a slim 1,571-vote victory, Saccia’s, wife Stacey, a homemaker and former teacher, said she would vote for Obama as she did in 2008.
But, she said she had hoped Obama would focus more on some of the issues she said are most important to her.
“He did promise a lot for education and for ending the war and for environmentally friendly practices. And you don’t hear any of that once [politicians are] in office. They’re moving on to bigger and better things,” she said.
Later Saturday, Obama moved on to Rochester, N.H., where he was slated to make remarks outside at the Rochester Commons.
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So Mitt will kill the middle class. He's already been accuse of killing a woman. The turth is dumabama will kill us all. We have lost over 80,000 jobs in Louisiana alone due to to the dumbell shuting down the oilfield. Not to mention the thousands of coal miners out of work or the tens of thousand jobs that could be created by the keystone pipeline. He told Russia to wait until he was re-elected and his hands would be untied. He talks about sharing the wealth. Who the hell is going to have anything to share if he gets his way? Maybe if he gets elected again he can do like before and travel the globe telling all the leaders that hate us Americans are arrogant. If he does get elected again maybe he's right. Hope you obama fans like paying $10.00 a gallon for gas. Looks like after billions of wasted tax dollars that green thing is just not working..
glenn, your full of dancing horse patoots, the wells stopped producing enough for profit, we just moved from Covington, La., 80,000 liar. Ask Nebraska about the pipeline, remember something its Canadian Oil that would be transported in a pipeline, destined for our refineries and exported to the far east, not for American market. Get your head together. Russia, the statement was "more flexibility" regarding SALT Treaty, Russia has plenty of oil. Coal miners out of work, sure automation is the key on that one, not enough profit to be made in deep mining, try mountain top mining going great guns in West Virgina. Oil is big in the Rockies and Dakotas, looking for workers. Your whole argument is nothing but anger and rage and very little knowledge.
I can tell who has anger and rage. But that is just a trait of a democrat along with tunnel vision. I have been in the oilfield business over 22 years. So I no damn well what I'm talking about. Speaking of anger and rage who called who a dancing horse patoots and liar. Facts always bring out the worst in democrats..
One thing about President Obama, he's learned not to set any goals or make any promises this time around. He knows that it is one thing to fall short of goals, break promises, but it is another to have a vision. A man can never really be faulted for having a vision. And with a vision, there is hope...
... must I go on?
So we let Mitt and Ryan kill Medicare, right?
Joe
Just how will they do that??
JoePhilly
You do realize that President Obama claimed to extend Medicare for 12 years?
I thought the Mayan calendar ended this year? What happens 12 years from now; other than Medicare becoming insolvent?
You may not like Mr. Romney's plan, nor may I, but it is a plan. And at least that is a starting point towards dealing with the problem.
President Obama will not get my vote this time around, though I think he is a smart man. He is smart enough to not be making promises or setting goals this time. His whole campaign is based on visions and attacks. I'm not saying it's not bad strategy politically, but I'm not interested in winning the battle for the White House; I greatly care about winning the battle for our country's future.
mj. yup had a vision, but with friends like Boehner, Cantor, McConnell and the entire republican senate and house the do nothing party has done nothing but filibuster and block.
Obama 2012
slodon ... the GOP has wanted to kill medicare since the day it was started. Mitt and Romney's plan is to fix it is so great, the "improvements" they make don't kick in for anyone 55 or older. Why not?
And then, let's say you are 50. You've been working since you were 20. You've paid in for 30 years already. You'll pay in more for the next 15 years.
Now you're 65. Let's say you have a heart condition. You'll get a voucher so that you can try to find an insurance plan that will cover the pace-maker you need. But you'll need to shop around. Because when you are 65 with a heart condition, shopping around for cheap pace-makers is a leisure time activity.
The GOP goal for Medicare is to take the money we've all paid in, and cover fewer people for less. Basically TAKE the money. And why? So Romney and Ryan can give the money as tax breaks to the super rich.
Again, if the GOP could kill Medicare tomorrow, it would be gone. Ask Grover Norquist or Dick Armey.
Yup and the cons are idiots.
Please don't. We know what Obama's vision is. To destroy America.
This election is more like a high school popularity contest. The constant bashing back and forth between Democrats and Republicans is like being back on the playground. There is way to much generalization about Republicans vs Democrats. It would be so refreshing to stop seeing all the hateful comments and see some intelligent factual insight. I am a proud Republican. I don't feel the need to demean any Democrat or Liberal. I also am not impressed with how the two men running for office are setting the tone of this election. What I do care about is facts and respectful view points. So, now that I got that out of the way, here is what is important to me as far as the election goes. I do not have a problem with people having money. I don't have much, but if you are able to build wealth for yourself, more power to you. Being prosperous in not a shameful thing. Our government is not in place to take care of everyone. That is up to each of us. If we need assistance at some point in our life, great. But no one should be forced to support people who are not willing to put the effort in to taking care of themselves. There are a lot of hard working people in need of assistance right now, I'm glad to help. There are also a huge amount of people who have made a living off of the government a way of life. I'm in a line of work where I see it every day. I think a lot of Americans would be in shock to see how their hard earned money is being so easily given away. Check out some of the blogs that government workers post on. You will be in for quite an eye opener. I do believe that work for welfare is desperately needed. I also know that our national debt in the last four years is more than the debt that was accumulated by the last 43 presidents. I really do not want to live through a depression like my grandparents did. I also do not believe that it is okay for non citizens to break the laws our government has put in place, yet citizens are held accountable to follow all our laws. So there are a few of my views, and I don't feel I had to degrade anyone, Hopefully I didn't. We are still the government of the people, by the people and for the the people, right? Proud American.
"If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare voters.
If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from."
Barack Obama - Denver, CO - 2008
barry's chickens are coming home to roost!
and those chickens are: Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, entire republican senate and house members, there's chicken sh t all over the capitol. The do nothing, filibuster coop.
They just won't be able to get their POLL numbers UP by election day.
This election is a choice between two visions for the future of America: One vision is for continuation of the progressive vision of a balance between equality and freedom as the moral foundation of justice, and a more recent conservative vision of an entitlement due the wealthy and the equivalence of corporations to the rights and protections of natural persons under the Constitution.
A progressive future is one in which government is a custodian of the public trust and advocates for justice; where justice is a balance between equality and freedom. Government as a custodian of the public trust means that everyone plays by the same rules and that everyone is equal before the law. Public trust means the rights of the people to preserve and protect the common property of the United States is not severable to the interests of privatization. Public trust means that a corporation has no rights except those given to it by law and does not have equal standing with a natural born person under the Constitution.
The conservative future is one of a hostile corporate takeover with privatization of government functions. The corporate takeover means that having wealth is an effective barrier to others participating in the process of government. It means that government would no longer serve the interests of the community but collaborate with the wealthy corporate owners to establish a separate set of laws that entitle them to preferential treatment while creating barriers to competition by eliminating opportunities for others.
The free market is a myth: if it isn't regulated by government to prevent fraud, it is regulated by the corporate oligarchy to prevent competition. Free means not having to go to jail for fraud and theft.
Freedom of speech for corporations is a political myth: the right to free speech is a right of the natural born person, not an artifact of legal convention.
The conservative options for health care are no birth control, no abortion and no health insurance unapproved by a corporate CEO. The progressive option is universal health care and the right of women to make their own health decisions.
This election is about protecting the American value of living according to one's conscience, as opposed to having a religious elite create intrusive bureaucratic regulations supporting their sectarian religious doctrine.
This election is about education for citizenship, not choice for a privileged elite who don't want to associate with the classes below them.
This election is about living in fear, or finding a means to reducing the violence that haunts personal security.
This election is about who gets to rewrite the tax laws: a privileged elite who personally benefits from tax entitlements to the wealthy, or one who advocates for tax fairness.
This election is about who gets to nominate justices to the Supreme Court: pack a court with conservative judicial activists who want to roll back human rights, or one who advocates for judicial competence.
This election is a moral choice between affiliation or aggression, empathy or egotism, service or selfishness, cooperation or competitiveness.
The tale of two visions is the difference between a government of the people, by the people and for the people, and a government run by a plutocracy of wealth and corporate power.
Your comments are well received, well thought out and to the point. My hat goes off to you as you have swept aside all the trimmings and stated the heart of the matter.
So in short. More goverment intrusion in our private lives by a democrat party the has risen the nationl debt another 6 trillon dollars in just 3 years and will take more control over business that will either leave the country or raise the price of their products due to the extra goverment regulations. And the conservatives will let the big CEO get away with fruad. Need to do a fact check. It was the conservatives that wanted to persecute Bernard Madoff but the obama team dropped the charges and let him walk.
Glenn1954 ... Bernie Madoff is now serving a sentence of 150 years. You might want to turn off Fox News from time to time. Try google ... "Bernie Madoff Sentence" ... lots of articles reporting on this fact.
Why isn't Corzine in the cell with Madoff??
I have it on good authority that Corzine and Obama are GOOD BUDDIES! So show us an INDICTMENT OBAMA!!
glenn, more government intrusion, please. Women's health issues,ryan and his proposed legislation to intrude in my body, deem what I can do and not do with my uterus, too interested in bedroom matters, the equal work for equal work issues, controlling what goes on between my Physician and me. I'd say romney ryan have a way more intrusive agenda than the President, have a private insurance entity determine my financials for health care worthy vouchers system. Might as well just micro-chip each one of us so the private corps. can keep track of us 99'ers. No comparison.
Obama 2012
Sorry about that. I meant Goldman..Thanks
I agree with you that a woman should be able to make decisions for herself what she wants to do. 100 percent.. But that does not mean we will have less intrusion in our lives under obama. Their are some things I don't agree on with the Republicans. But at the same time I am not making a decision on just one issue. At the same time I know Womens rights is a big issue. I apologize if I offended you..
Has anyone noticed how intolerant, how crude some right wing posters are? Name-calling like little kids who have no discipline at all in their lives. The scary thing is, they vote.
Ryan Williams must be insane. The wealthy are not the job creators, not one bit. If they were in as Ryan claims, then explain to me why they have not created all the jobs we need for unemployment to virtually disappear as they have enjoyed having the lowest taxes and are making record breaking profits??? The reason is simple, they are avaricious thieves using the political system for their personal enrichment, they have declared open war on the middle class and are doing their utmost to create an oligarchy in America. You can vote as you see fit, that is your right, but don't try to lie to me because you have been deceived by their lies. Some people believe that a lie is not a lie if you find enough fools to believe you, but I maintain that the truth is the truth and there is no gray zone, strictly one way or the other. President Obama can count on my vote and also on my political and financial support.
Or, it could be simple economics...... No one is buying their products or services, so there is no need to hire anyone.
Businesses aren't in business to provide jobs, they're in business to provide products or services.
Explain to me why a company would hire anyone without knowing how much it would cost to pay them and supply Health Insurance. Why would a Company make a capital outlay without knowing the cost of that outlay? Why would a Company spend money without knowing what new regulations are coming? Why would a Company spend without knowing the TOTAL COST OF THAT EXPENDITURE?? You do realize that there are consequences for any action that a Company or a PERSON takes don't you??
slodon ... you could solve the problem you raise with a single payer plan. Companies would no longer be expected to work healthcare costs into their financial planning efforts.
But your issue here still makes no sense. Companies have always had the unpredictable nature of the health insurance companies to deal with. For the last 30 years, the insurance companies have worked together and then companies have had no predictability in what the companies would offer. No predictability of the rates for the next year. Little known about the coverage levels. For at least the last 10 years, insurance companies often did not detail which drugs they covered until AFTER a company agreed to offer their plans.
The entire "predictability" argument is nonsense.
champagne, not so, my 16 year old just got a part time job for after school and wal-mart is full, keep those Chinese happy, Sunday paper full of ads, more than before, so somebody must be buying, go figure, still driving, Disney jammed packed, Sea World advertising when they can get past dirty republican ads, so things are perking up here in Florida despite Rick Scott and his republican minions. Whoo Hoo.
I'm glad someone is woking. Obama destoryed over 80,000 jobs here in louisiana when he all but shut down the oilfield. These were man and woman that had familys/kids to take care of.
To voiceinmyhead.I will explain why the welthy are not creating jos. Obama has not had a budget since he got elected. More goverment regulations. 6 trillion dollars in goverment spending in just the last 3 years. The threat of obamacare that will increase cost to companies. A threat of highr taxes from obama. Unlimted power from the EPA. And more goverment regulations. If you want to blame someone then blame obama. Didn't he just say in his own words that if you own a business you didn't build that. The goverment did. And who is in charge of the goverment now but obama himself. Bush wanted to make the tax cuts permanent but the democrats voted him down. Now they are using it as a political football. And who owned the house and senate 2 years before Bush left office and the first 2 years of the obama adminastration.Well I be darn. It was the democrats.
Glenn: I'm sorry about the oilfields in Louisiana, but, you do understand that many people have lost their jobs due to downsizing, outsourcing, and being replaced by robots. Part of the problem I believe, is that jobs are becoming more specialized and technical; and American workers are learning that you have to learn new skills. The traditional worker staying in a factory for 30 years is gone....many people are having to choose new careers, and change course throughout their working years. Many people need to go back to school to learn those skills, and the government and corporations are giving people incentives and help to learn those skills.
Regulations are less than they were in the eighties. Manufacturing jobs have left, shipped overseas for cheaper labor; not to be returned. Technology has replaced workers, meaning less workers needed to make a product., Obama is not at fault for this, it's called a changing economy and global economies have been having a change on America's workforce.
Job growth has increased consecutively for the last 26 months. GDP has had a positive growth for the last year...not great growth, but in the positive side nonetheless. Can things be better, yes, but we are in a recovery, and indexes are going up.
My guess is that those 80,000 job losses will be getting unemployment benefits, something that republicans wanted to eliminate. Those same 80,000 will have incentives for job placement, learning a new trade or career, getting better and more technological skills. They need to pick themselves up and find a new job, and stop blaming Obama for their problems.
You know what, corporations should love Obamacare. It would be much cheaper for them to pay the penalty than to insure their workers. So Obamacare is a nonfactor in hiring.
5875 people show up to see Obama in NH..... on a Saturday.
Pathetic.
Oh don't you worry, champagne,
Plenty more will show up in November.
When you're winning, and winning big, what's there to see?
President Obama, now in New Hamsphire, campaigned hard for the .45% of that state's population. President Obama was hoping to make a case and raise funds from the 1%, but turnout was down. The DNC has suggested that many of the expected attendees were attracted to the vouchers for DQ apparently left by the Romney camp after their visit to New Hampshire. Some of folks in the long lines were quoted as saying; "I've heard what President Obama has said before, and DQ seemed to be more filling."
champagne, that's all the place would hold, what's wrong with you, at least he didn't have to bus them in like romney did for the NAACP pep talk.
Obama 2012
Ya,he was in a gym..5875 people ina high school gymnasium is a lot of people.I dont think the State Fire Marshal would allow any more than that
Racist much, tracy?
If you hired an investment firm to run a business for you, and they ran it like the 585 people that run the Federal Government (House, Senate, Supreme Court and President) and they continued to fail at every turn would you honestly give them more money? I don't think anyone should be paying more to this ship of clowns.
They have been very successful in pitting one group against another which causes us not to look at them and their failure to lead this nation. From the comments contained with this article they are still very successful at their strategy of divide and conquer.
Recognize that one party does not want the Government to be able to do anything. Those same people hate the government.
So we should not be surprised that when those people have lots of power in the government, the government does little, and what it does do, is not done well.
Bottom line: The GOP says the government can't do anything well, and when we put them in charge, they do everything they can to prove it.
JoePhilly
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. That's 40% of every budget dollar brought to you by Democrats. I know it's the thought that counts, but the caretaking of these programs has been a bipartisanship blunder. You may argue 20% of the budget is for the military, but at the end of the day, that's jobs and the comfort of knowing we've got "Snapple".
Tracy,
Kiss my leftist a$$, butt for brains.
Love, mom
Most thinking people KNOW that Mitt did not save the 2002 Olympics all by himself. The people of Salt Lake City and Utah and other cities and states actually did the heavy lifting ...
but did YOU know that ...
The federal government provided between approximately $400 million and $600 million of that budget, much of it a result of Romney's having aggressively lobbied Congress and federal agencies. It would prove to be a record level of federal funding for the staging of a U.S. Olympics. An additional $1.1 billion of indirect federal funding came in the form of highway and transit projects.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney#2002_Winter_Olympics
Hey! GUESS WHAT!
But, one thing we do know now, is that when Romney loses this election in November he can always go to work as a LOBBYIST!!!
Okay so Romney lobbied The Fed for and RECEIVED $1.5 to $1.7 BILLION in Federal BAIL OUT money to save the Olympics,
Then Romney supposedly gave back $100 million to the Fed.
THAT's NOT A VERY GOOD ROI! (Return On Investment)
If Romney had performed like that at Bain Capital he would NOT be a multi-millionaire today!!
I know I'm not a liberal because I believe in:
The Constitution
Freedom of speech
Freedom of religion
The right to bear arms
I know I'm a Democrat because I believe in:
Someone other than myself.
Brianb-999431
- The House passes bills along to the Senate.
Are These the jobs bills you are talking about Brianb?
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/gops-claim-house-passed-30-jobs-bills-bogus
After reading this, we all might as well kill ourselves if these bills were to be passed. I was going to do more research on the other 11 JOBS BILLS( per DB Akron), but why bother if they are anything like the 30 that have been sent to the Senate.
You need to stop watching faux so much! Jobs bill has been laying in the dam dead beat CONGRESS for over a year! They will not help Obama or the american people. All of those no good tepees should be replaced asap,I'am not the only one who knows the truth,Congress has a 10% approval rating,That would be 90% of americans who hate them.I did the math for you in case you got confused.
Oh i forgot Ryan is part of that congress.
OMG is that what your saying tracy??
Are we a little angry!!! Pressure getting to you or what!
Hay this is saturday night Why don't you have a date????????? Is this the best you welfare righties can do!
I'am old whats your excuse?
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Party-line dems......
Tell me where Clintons Arkansas numbers were when he was elected.
All in the high 40's and even education was 51st in the US.
I would rather we convert to socialism and complete homo San Fran country than be a party-line democrat. It's the lowest form of intelligence in the WORLD.
Just look at their Savior...........the great divider, his record is SUPERB. He is a sham president EXPERIMENT gone bad.
And I voted for this IDIOT...............I, NOW, am a registered Independent...this guy will ruin our country
I wonder if the people in NH are asking Obama about the 20 shootings Friday night in Chicago - his city, the one with tough gun control laws that the courts try to shutdown but Democrats continue to create. Parents can't protect their children! So the Democrat Drug Gangs kill them! It may be time for the PEOPLE to request UN troops to protect the citizens of Chicago. Clearly, the Illinois and US Democrats aren't going to help protect their drug gangs. Drug money runs Illinois politics. Obama is the top Illinois Dem making him the leader of the Chicago Drug Gangs! He has never lifted a finger to stop drug traffic, to stop violence, to stop the shootings, to stop the killing of innocent children - AND MOST OF THE VICTIMS are BLACK! No one gets in the way of the Democrat Drug Gangs! And the Cartels are given free transport of their goods to Democrats.
For those who say that Obama has made things better: You people are too easily satisfied with so very, very little. Better as opposed to what? 14.8 million unemployed in January 2008 instead of the estimated 12.8 million unemployed in July? -1.8% growth in GDP in January 2008 instead of the measly 1.5% growth in GDP as of the last report. Your expectations as Americans are far too low. You want better while I want BETTER!
You gotta realize one thing CAS..this was/is a worldwide depression.Methinks when Obama was elected we Americans did not have scope of the scale of the issue at hand.You are not going to GET better if there is no DEMAND for better.Its as simple as that.Economics as you well know are based on demographics at points in time,and the demographic 'lump' that is the boomer generation is passing, mid life crises notwithstanding,into old age.Bush jump started this depression by jump starting gas prices in 08(BTW you can thank Cheney for that one,think it egged on his heart thing)That started the dominoes and he made an absolute killing on it all..lucky him..a wonder he is'nt shot at on his ranch the a-hole
Really Cas! Is that why repubs gave Bush 8 years.Obamas been slammed from day one & we all know it! Twitch your nose Mr.Obama for we all want a quick fix.
Cas: I would think that a positive trend, meaning growth is better than losing 700,000 jobs a month and a negative GDP (January 2009 to July 2012) Positive numbers are always better, and yet, I believe the numbers wouldn't change your mind. I find it amusing that republicans are complaining about growth and positive numbers...and comparing them to the negative growth and numbers that were happening at the beginning of this administration. Nothing is going to make republicans happy.,
Is there anyone out there stupid enough to believe that Romney and the other multimillionaire profit skimmers ever actually created jobs? If any ever did, it was an incidental accident. Their only interest is in skimming money off the top. They call it investment strategy. I call it hypocrisy. And, by the way, tithing to the Church of Later Day Saints does NOT constitute a charitable donation. The Mormon church is NO charity any more than EXXON Mobil is a charity.
Bitterhawk
'Obama inherited a difficult situation"...
C'mon, chilled. Why don't you finish the quote?
"Obama inherited a difficult situation and he made it worse." "by being black while President"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0ccPh3YYH4&feature=share
REVEALED: THE GOP STRATEGY
I served eight years on a school board. During that eight year period, health care insurance for employees went up like a skyrocket. The best year we had it only went up 7%. A couple of years it went up 10% and 13%. While these costs were going through the roof, the quality of medical care did not improve, nor did the actual costs of medical care go up at the same rate. What did go up was the compensation packages for upper management and the ceos. I saw several multi-million bonus packages.
If we really want to rein in the cost of health care we need to cut the insurance companies out completely and go to a single payer nationwide system, which is what Obama proposed before the Republicans got hold of it and decided to copy Romney's Massachusetts plan. Then, after they messed around with it for several months, they refused to vote for it anyway.
At no time was it possible to anticipate the greed of the insurance companies. They always surprised us with the magnitude of their avarice.
This has been true for many years. It is doubtful that the rich and the corporations are choosing not to invest in business because of uncertainty about health care costs. That uncertainty has been with us for a long time.
Canada has a single pay health care plan. Over 46,000 of them came to the United States last year to get medical treatment. Not A good idea. Need to be able to buy insurance acroos state lines.
Glenn,
46,000 came across out of how many millions of Canadians...by that measure, why do many prominent Americans go to Europe for their transplants?? I think the Canadians are pretty happy with their health care, and don't complain about it.
If you want to see more jobs than tell your Tea Party representative to stop supporting the tax credit for companies taking their businesses and their jobs to China and India. Tell them to support giving that tax credit to the companies bringing their businesses and their jobs home to the US. They keep rejecting the legislation proposed by Obama and the Democrats that would do just that. Why do you think they want those jobs to stay in China? I call it treason.
ECONOMY:
(Obama and Romney: Where they stand on the issues, By CALVIN WOODWARD | Associated Press • Published August 01, 2012)
Same old broken record. ( he wants to give tax breaks to the rich) Thats all I hear! Tell us about your record and what you would do the next 4 years.
Do you really want to see the rich create jobs? Raise their taxes and then give them tax credits for creating jobs and businesses. Right now, there is no incentive to create jobs. Starting a business carries some risk. Putting your money in offshore accounts carries no risk. If you cut their taxes and there is no penalty for sitting on the money, that is exactly what they will do, what they have been doing. It's time to make them put up or shut up. Giving them another tax cut will not create jobs. Raising their taxes will create jobs. It won't increase the national debt, either.
Right now taxes on the rich and the corporations are lower than they have been since the 1930s. If low taxes created jobs we should be swimming in jobs. Guess what? It ain't happening.
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. Returning to the Bush economic model is to invite another crash, only this time it will be even bigger and this time, we probably won't be able to turn it around.
If you incentivize job creation you get more money from the rich and you get more taxes from the middle class. Both would reduce the debt and the misery. Why not try something that has worked in the past instead of going back to something that was a spectacular failure?
obamass you sweat more when you LIE
Romney & ryan do it without even blinking a eye let alone sweating.
just get that jackass out of the white house before he spends more money
A political parody song written by Bruce-1628250, to the tune of "If You're Happy And You Know It"
I'm clapping!
lets face it...The party formerly known as Republican...doesn't deal in facts....they deal in "Facts" as their TOLD to believe. Further...they will probably get this election, once again "appointed" to them..as opposed to winning it. Its 2000 all over again. Just hope the economy can hold up four 4 years of "tax cut" and spend...their main problem is ... a "Black Man"...their words..not mine....holds residence in the "White" house. They want that spot...can't wait to see Flipp Romney..and..Flopp Ryan...work under a Democratically controlled Senate and Congress.
In addition to the myriad of short-comings and baggage they have, Robme/Ryan don't inspire people, and they never will. Pres Obama is inspiring. Saw him giving a speech in NH today. Just awesome. Any tax hike on the wealthy will also affect Pres Obama, but then he's not running to protect his personal portfolio, the way Robme/Ryan are.
May the fleas of a thousand Michelle Obama's infest your Doo rag.
I bet Obama was there in NH, sweating, wiping his brow and looking out at the masses in that hot gymnasium. What was he thinking? The following, no doubt. So many fools, so little time.