“Say what you want, but facts are facts, Romney is a man of great accomplishments in business. He did many great things in business and is a very pragmatic business person.”
That may be why he ran Massachusetts into the ground. Well, to be fair, it is perpetually running into the ground because of progressives like Mitt. It was third from the bottom in terms of business growth, and Mittens endorsed and created stuff like RomneyCare or cap and trade, which shows that whatever “success” he had in business didn’t translate to actual experience and knowledge.
He is no conservative, but Ryan certainly is and they are both knowledgeable about budgeting and business.
Obama and Romney are NOT the same. Romney has real accomplishments and has made something from nothing and employed hundreds of thousands of people along the way. Obama has flapped his blue lips and killed millions of jobs in the process with his incompetence.
Regardless of Romney's Leftist proclivities, which I acknowledge, the ONLY REAL issue in this election is the economy. Without a strong economic recovery and a REAL change to the structural deficit of the budgetary process, We are doomed to fall into a financial Armageddon and it will be impossible to dig our way out and will happen much much sooner than anyone expects. Romney is our only hope, and with Ryan as VP we just MAY stand a chance.
Well now, quoting stats put forth by David Axelrod are we? I'm only giving this a one post reply.
Did you know the 2005 unemployment rate in MA was 4.8%? 4% is essentially full employment. How much "business growth" can you have when the State is fully employed? Does that factor into your Axelrod "factoid" on MA's "business growth"?
Reported by PolitiFact:
"According to a spokesman, the Romney campaign calculated the yearly percentage increase or decrease in job growth for each of Romney’s four years in office. So from December 2002 to December 2003, the job growth in Massachusetts was 51st highest nationally out of 50 states plus the District of Columbia -- in other words, dead last. The following year, it was 46th, then 40th, then in Romney’s final year in office -- December 2005 to December 2006 -- it was 30th in the nation.
Looking at the statistics in this way advances the Romney camp’s argument that, while Massachusetts’ overall job growth under Romney was among the lowest of any state, the trendline over time puts his tenure in a more favorable light. A state that was a doormat in job growth at the beginning of his tenure rose into the broad middle of the rankings by the end of it.
We did our own math and found the exact same results as the Romney camp. So we agree that the numbers back up Fehrnstrom’s general argument that job growth rates in the state improved over the course of Romney’s governorship relative to other states."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jun/05/eric-fehrnstrom/mitt-romney-campaign-says-job-growth-massachusetts/