Just a little digg on the Romney Privatize EVERYTHING Bull Shit…..
With a walkback included…..
You KNOW cover ALL the bases politics….
Thank Goodness Romney ain’t in charge…
I can see it now….
‘Save the RICH people FIRST!”
Let the poor people find their own!
As Hurricane Sandy looms and flooding begins, the Republican presidential candidate’s primary remarks are getting a second look.
Mitt Romney said America shouldn’t be in the business of providing federal disaster relief and that it would be better for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s functions to be handled by individual states or even the private sector.
Queried directly on the topic by CNN’s John King during the June 13, 2011 Republican presidential primary debate at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, Romney said the federal government “cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids.”
Here’s the exact Q & A:
KING: You’ve been a chief executive of a state. I was just in Joplin, Missouri. I’ve been in Mississippi and Louisiana and Tennessee and other communities dealing with whether it’s the tornadoes, the flooding, and worse. FEMA is about to run out of money, and there are some people who say do it on a case-by-case basis and some people who say, you know, maybe we’re learning a lesson here that the states should take on more of this role. How do you deal with something like that?
ROMNEY: Absolutely. Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better.
Instead of thinking in the federal budget, what we should cut — we should ask ourselves the opposite question. What should we keep? We should take all of what we’re doing at the federal level and say, what are the things we’re doing that we don’t have to do? And those things we’ve got to stop doing, because we’re borrowing $1.6 trillion more this year than we’re taking in. We cannot…
KING: Including disaster relief, though?
ROMNEY: We cannot — we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we’ll all be dead and gone before it’s paid off. It makes no sense at all. (emphasis added)
The Huffington Post reported that a Romney spokesperson Sunday night sought to clarify his present position: “Gov. Romney wants to ensure states, who are the first responders and are in the best position to aid impacted individuals and communities, have the resources and assistance they need to cope with natural disasters.”
That doesn’t sound like a walk-back.
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Gov etcha-sketch is now refusing to say what if any FEMA’s role should be. I assume he will eventually say he supports it – at least while we are in this crisis.
Shame on you Go Romney
gov Romney at his rally today asked people to bring canned goods for the Red Cross despite the fact that the Red Cross on its website asked for money instead. Made for a good photo op with him collecting canned goods, but he showed no real leadership.
Worst yet Zreebs he could have just written a check, or asked Trump to offer up that five million he wants of the President’s college transcripts.
Chrysler is after Willard now about his Jeep lies. Unheard of for an auto company to go after a son of Detroit. I would rather refer to him as a son-of-a-bitch, but I liked his mother.
She is rolling in her gave that she gave birth to this liar.
Wasn’t it Chrysler that sponsored the Clint Eastwood “Comeback” commercial at the end of the Super Bowl?
WJAR Providence now says that Prof. Warren and Sen. Brown have ** not ** found a mutually-agreeable date to reschedule the 4th & final debate that was to have been held tonight.
The Boston Globe’s web site shows no such rescheduling either, just the cancellation.
Maybe Romney feels that the American Red Cross is among the 47%: if you give them cash in place of canned goods, they’ll just spend it on liquor, drugs and gambling.
So seems like Senator Zero is chicken with to face the little squaw.
Romney is training poll watchers to tell people in Wisconsin that they cannot vote if they have a parking ticket. Really.
Norm Coleman is in Ohio saying that Mitt will never outlaw Roe vs Wade. Really.
And now he is running around saying that Chrysler is shipping jobs to China, and Chrysler says he is full of shit.
Quote of the Day
“We’ve clearly entered some parallel universe during these last few days. No amount of campaign politics at its cynical worst will diminish our record of creating jobs in the U.S. and repatriating profits back to this country.”
— GM spokesman Greg Martin, quoted by the Detroit Free Press, on Mitt Romney’s latest ad in Ohio.
Chrysler isn’t GM (yet); it’s owned by Fiat.
But it ain’t moving jobs to China, and everyone with a brain should be outraged about this lie.
A Romney administration would be so much more efficient at exporting jobs.
Romney supporters complain Obama is not telling the full truth about Libya (which is debatable), but Romney deliberately lies in his Detroit advertisement – which is undeniable. If his guy will lie about minor things, he will do everything he can to protect his butt politically on major things.
I wonder if people even listen to the news anymore, and if any of the commercials are getting through to voters. But, the lies coming from Romney on the auto bailout, in an obvious attempt to win votes in Ohio are disgusting.
NYTimes is very interesting and sad today. New York has a lot of work to do. Interesting that no one has referenced climate change here, or the rising seas (with one exception last night on CBS). I suspect just the shear magnitude of the disaster has kept the focus on recovery.
But, not to worry, Mitt Romney is collecting canned goods in Ohio.
I see Romney asked OTHER PEOPLE. To give but he isn ‘t going into
HIS POCKETS, eh?