RandomGuy
09-19-2012, 11:36 AM
I'll deliver recovery, not dependency
By Mitt Romney
Since our founding, America has promoted personal responsibility, the dignity of work and the value of education. Those values made our nation the hope of the earth and our economy the envy of the world.
Efforts that promote hard work and personal responsibility over government dependency make America strong. When the economy is growing and Americans are working, everyone involved has a shared sense of achievement, not to mention the basic sense of pride that comes with the paycheck they earn.
However, over the past four years, those kinds of opportunities have been in short supply. We're experiencing the worst recovery since the Great Depression. Unemployment has been above 8% for 43 straight months; 47 million Americans are on food stamps. Nearly one in six Americans now live in poverty.
Under President Obama, we have a stagnant economy that fosters government dependency. My policies will create a growing economy that fosters upward mobility.
Government has a role to play here. Right now, our nation's citizens do need help from government. But it is a very different kind of help than what President Obama wants to provide.
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My experience has taught me that government works best when it creates the space for individuals and families to pursue success and achieve great things. Economic freedom is the only force that has consistently succeeded in creating sustained prosperity and lifting people out of poverty. It is why our economy rose to rival those of the world's leading powers -- and has long since surpassed them all.
The dreamers and the entrepreneurs, not government, built this economy, and they can once again make it strong.
My course for the American economy will encourage private investment and personal freedom. Instead of creating a web of dependency, I will pursue policies that grow our economy and lift Americans out of poverty.
My five-point plan will deliver the economic recovery we've all been waiting for and the jobs millions of Americans still need. This can be more than our hope; it can be our future. And it can start this November with your vote.
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is the Republican candidate for president.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/story/2012-09-18/Romney-47-recovery-dependency/57804214/1
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Meh. Empty rhetoric, and pretty language.
The Republicans had a chance to do better, but this is the stuffed shirt that got the nod.
All the criticisms leveled at Obama in '08 are on full display here in Romney '12.
Pretty rhetoric, inexperienced and ignorant foreign policy cred, no specifics.
Quite frankly the best case for not voting for him would be that the last thing we need is another new administration looking to get re-elected, and floundering for two years while the country drifts. Ain't shit gonna get done, IMO.
I dunno. Even were I not concerned about a Romney administration having to fill posts with tea party zealots/idiots, this guy would not be much of an alternative to Obama.
Pretty hair will only get you so far, and this lame attempt at weaseling out of calling most of the country lazy, irresponsible layabouts is almost as bad as the remarks themselves.
By Mitt Romney
Since our founding, America has promoted personal responsibility, the dignity of work and the value of education. Those values made our nation the hope of the earth and our economy the envy of the world.
Efforts that promote hard work and personal responsibility over government dependency make America strong. When the economy is growing and Americans are working, everyone involved has a shared sense of achievement, not to mention the basic sense of pride that comes with the paycheck they earn.
However, over the past four years, those kinds of opportunities have been in short supply. We're experiencing the worst recovery since the Great Depression. Unemployment has been above 8% for 43 straight months; 47 million Americans are on food stamps. Nearly one in six Americans now live in poverty.
Under President Obama, we have a stagnant economy that fosters government dependency. My policies will create a growing economy that fosters upward mobility.
Government has a role to play here. Right now, our nation's citizens do need help from government. But it is a very different kind of help than what President Obama wants to provide.
Rate the debate
My experience has taught me that government works best when it creates the space for individuals and families to pursue success and achieve great things. Economic freedom is the only force that has consistently succeeded in creating sustained prosperity and lifting people out of poverty. It is why our economy rose to rival those of the world's leading powers -- and has long since surpassed them all.
The dreamers and the entrepreneurs, not government, built this economy, and they can once again make it strong.
My course for the American economy will encourage private investment and personal freedom. Instead of creating a web of dependency, I will pursue policies that grow our economy and lift Americans out of poverty.
My five-point plan will deliver the economic recovery we've all been waiting for and the jobs millions of Americans still need. This can be more than our hope; it can be our future. And it can start this November with your vote.
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is the Republican candidate for president.
USATODAY OPINION
About Editorials/Debate
Opinions expressed in USA TODAY's editorials are decided by its Editorial Board, a demographically and ideologically diverse group that is separate from USA TODAY's news staff.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/story/2012-09-18/Romney-47-recovery-dependency/57804214/1
-------------(end op-ed)
Meh. Empty rhetoric, and pretty language.
The Republicans had a chance to do better, but this is the stuffed shirt that got the nod.
All the criticisms leveled at Obama in '08 are on full display here in Romney '12.
Pretty rhetoric, inexperienced and ignorant foreign policy cred, no specifics.
Quite frankly the best case for not voting for him would be that the last thing we need is another new administration looking to get re-elected, and floundering for two years while the country drifts. Ain't shit gonna get done, IMO.
I dunno. Even were I not concerned about a Romney administration having to fill posts with tea party zealots/idiots, this guy would not be much of an alternative to Obama.
Pretty hair will only get you so far, and this lame attempt at weaseling out of calling most of the country lazy, irresponsible layabouts is almost as bad as the remarks themselves.