Posted on 12/20/2008 3:09:04 PM PST by SeekAndFind
That's the most idiotic proposal I've ever seen. It's a recipe for unlimited spending.
Every agency already runs to Congress every year looking to spend every penny they can lay their hands on. If the agencies get to make the spending decisions themselves, the already weak OMB and Congressional oversight checks evaporate.
His record is indisputably liberal. To say otherwise is to expose one as a sycophant in total avoidance of reality...and I hate to say it, but a danger to the conservative movement.
Right on, gal. But I afraid some of the FR are children that never grew up. Romney is right on with his suggestions. Something positive unlike the nitwits we have now. I surprises me how some small minds can harbor hate to the point that their minds are closed.
I’m glad Romney wasn’t the Republican nominee for President, but he would have made a decent Secretary of Treasury or Secretary of Commerce.
The difference is that Keyes has never done anything.
I voted for him once and sent him money, but when he started preaching black reparations, that was the end.
Like his proposal to give the power of the purse directly to the federal agencies?
Bureaucrat heaven.
Well son the reason is the his deeds don’t match his words. The words he hath spoken hear are right on target, but his record in political office do not match these words.
A social liberal big-government republican like Mitt just don’t cut mustard....regardless of the words he uses.
As for your point about "heckling," I will continue to vocally oppose those politicians whose programs I disagree with and support those with which I am in agreement. Should the GOP hang it up as a party? After the socialism of W. and the debacle of McCain, perhaps it is time to pull the plug on it and start fresh from basic conservative principles.
It's what Romney knows. The massive taxpayer funded bailout of the Olympic games Willard engineered was his original ticket to the national spotlight.
On the other hand Mitt has done a lot and when he was governor he was as far left on social issues as you can go and still be considered a republican, and he had a love of big-government boondoggles. No thanks. I’ll take a conservative who has conservative deeds to back it up.
He didn't propose that.
... and lost by larger margins. He was not trustes, less even than McCain. Be it his religion, his liberal past, or his smug, smarmy lack of appeal to Conservatives, he was handicapped far more than even McCain.
Wow...so Mitt is saying..someone other than those elected by the people. Sounds closer to communism than the liberalism his record shows.
Ummm... wouldn't it be more productive to look at his current porposals?
Like most Republicans nowadays, Romney doesn't have the power to "do" anything.
There are things Romney says in this opinion piece that are good. I welcome that.
I guess Ann Coulter and I (as well as many other conservatives like Mark Levin) are sycophants, and dangerous to the conservative movement then. At least I’m in good company. : )
Although Romney would later point to Staples as a key example of the kind of job-creating, forward-looking enterprise he made his living in, venture capital deals like Staples soon became only a small part of his firm's business, in favor of leveraged buyouts.
Venture deals invest in start-ups in the hope they hit it big. Leveraged buyouts combine small amounts of investors' money with large amounts of borrowed money to buy established companies.
Leveraged buyouts played to Bain Capital's analytical strengths and Romney's caution. If venture investing requires vision, leveraged buyouts demand precision. To determine how much to pay, and hence to borrow, buyout firms must figure out how much cash their targets can generate. Over8estimate cash flow by just a few percentage points, and the company misses debt payments and plunges into bankruptcy.
Despite the success of Staples, the venture capital world had too many unknowns for Romney's taste. So he steered the firm to focus squarely on leveraged buyouts.
"All new spending projects should be selected by the responsible federal agency according to published criteria, not by congresspersons and senators based upon favors and politics." --Mitt Romney
The quote doesn't support your claim.
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