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Romney: Obama economic stimulus plan is a failure
AP via Breitbart ^ | NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Posted on 11/02/2009 4:53:42 AM PST by Jet Jaguar

Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney says the time has come to stop the economic stimulus program, contending that it has not worked as the Obama administration planned.

Three days after the Obama White House touted the program as creating or saving some 650,000 jobs, Romney said in a nationally broadcast interview that "the stimulus that the president and the Congress passed is not what's helped the economy."

Romney said on CBS's "The Early Show" that the administration's stimulus plan "didn't work" and

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: dnc4romney; romney; romney2lose; romneybadeconomics; romneycare; romneydeathpanel; romneyfledmass; socializedmedicine
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1 posted on 11/02/2009 4:53:42 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

Well, Mitt would sure as hell know about failure.....can you say Romney Care?


2 posted on 11/02/2009 4:55:55 AM PST by NCBraveheart (I think therefore I am Libertarian)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Mitt Romney = The All New and Improved Captain Obvious

Nothing like showing up for the matinee movie at midnight.

3 posted on 11/02/2009 4:56:00 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Abort porkulus, abort Obamacare, abort the cap and trade tax. Start over with something that will work.


4 posted on 11/02/2009 4:56:45 AM PST by Need4Truth (Who can reprogram the Branch Carbonians?)
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To: NCBraveheart

Mitt Romney would make a great Secretary of the Treasury.

And Tim Pawlenty will make a great President of the United States.


5 posted on 11/02/2009 5:03:20 AM PST by DavidAccord
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To: Jet Jaguar

Goa way Mitt. You had an opportunity two weeks ago to loomk principlede. Instead, you waffled. Nobody cares what you have to say anymore (excluding, of course, the Rockefeller Republicans and Mittbots).


6 posted on 11/02/2009 5:09:55 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Enjoy nature - eat meat, wear fur and drive your car!)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Mitt Romney got a "C" rating from CATO.
And that was BEFORE Romney's failure of Socialized medicine matured.

"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace."

There is one conclusion: Romney is a PROVEN economic failure – except maybe his hotel porn videos and his “raping” of companies.

7 posted on 11/02/2009 5:13:09 AM PST by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney says the time has come to stop the economic stimulus program, contending that it has not worked as the Obama administration planned.

Ummm, ok. You're right. Now go away, RINO.

8 posted on 11/02/2009 5:13:30 AM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Jet Jaguar

If 2012 is between Mittens & Hussein, I’m writing in Reagan.


9 posted on 11/02/2009 5:15:10 AM PST by rae4palin
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To: Jet Jaguar

Is Rommney whistling a different tune? Could it be because of Hoffman? The writing on the wall, huh?


10 posted on 11/02/2009 5:23:17 AM PST by shiva
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To: Jet Jaguar
Romney: Obama economic stimulus plan is a failure

Likewise, Obamacare is also. Which is a national version of Romneycare, a miserable failure

11 posted on 11/02/2009 5:23:54 AM PST by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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To: Jet Jaguar

The fascinating aspect of the “stimulus” discussion is that by their own numbers the jobs they say were “saved or created” cost $230,000 apiece and they trumpet that like it is a good thing. I have about 4 “openings” in my apartment - where’s my $920,000?

That doesn’t even consider that the 650K is likely grossly inflated to begin with.


12 posted on 11/02/2009 5:30:30 AM PST by gthog61
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To: DavidAccord
Mitt Romney would make a great Secretary of the Treasury.

I wish people would stop hyping this. That would put him in the line of succession. About fourth or fifth, I'm not sure which. That's way too damn close.

13 posted on 11/02/2009 5:41:15 AM PST by Graybeard58 ( Selah.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Hey Mitt, what is your position on NY 23?


14 posted on 11/02/2009 5:41:57 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Note to the GOP: Do not count your votes until they are cast.)
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To: DavidAccord
Mitt Romney would make a great Secretary of the Treasury. And Tim Pawlenty will make a great President of the United States.

Yet DavidAccord makes a terrible prognosticator.

Our next POTUS


15 posted on 11/02/2009 5:47:35 AM PST by jla
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To: Jet Jaguar

Romney: “If only Obama could have gotten through a socialized
healthcare plan, like I did in MA.”


16 posted on 11/02/2009 5:49:22 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Jet Jaguar

Gee, that o’l Mitt, Harvard MBA, master of finance...he’s right on it, eh? ( Even fighting man Joe Biden said Porkulus didn’t work, and that was a month and a half ago.)

Mitt should just keep selling GOP Girl Scout cookies. He’s good at sales, glad handing, ‘how’s the wife and family’, that kind of stuff.


17 posted on 11/02/2009 6:03:37 AM PST by Leisler (We donÂ’t need a third party we need a conservative second party.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Hass Mitt jumped on the Hoffman (NY23) bandwagon yet?


18 posted on 11/02/2009 6:20:24 AM PST by sportutegrl (If liberals could do math, they would be conservatives.)
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To: DavidAccord

You ARE kidding....right?


19 posted on 11/02/2009 7:02:59 AM PST by NCBraveheart (I think therefore I am Libertarian)
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To: Jet Jaguar
In the four balanced budgets he signed into law, Governor Romney used the line-item veto or program reduction power to cut spending by nearly $1 Billion. Over the course of four budgets, Governor Romney made over 300 line-item reductions, 350 line-item eliminations and struck language 150 times. In total, Gov. Romney issued 844 vetoes during his administration.

Massachusetts had a $1 billion budget surplus by 2005 and the state's rainy-day fund grew to $2 billion by the end of Gov. Romney's term.

Club For Growth: Governor Romney "Imposed Some Much-Needed Fiscal Discipline On A Very Liberal Massachusetts Legislature." "[O]n balance, he imposed some much-needed fiscal discipline on a very liberal Massachusetts Legislature." (The Club For Growth, "Mitt Romney's Record On Economic Issues," Press Release, 8/21/2007)
http://www.freerepublic.com/~unmarkedpackage/#spending

20 posted on 11/02/2009 10:06:51 AM PST by redgirlinabluestate
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