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To: presidio9

Romney is for gun control

And he made slaves of the citizens of massachusetts to the insurance industry.

Is that enough?


16 posted on 02/15/2010 12:45:21 PM PST by Keith Brown (Among the other evils being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised Machiavelli.)
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To: Keith Brown
Romney is for gun control

Mitt Roment has supported so-called "assault weapons" bans as Governor of the most liberal state in the country. The Supreme Court has ruled that it is constitutional for individual states make their own rules on these things, just as it was constitutional for the Sheriff to require men to check their guns when they rode into town. Laws like the assault weapons obviously don't accomplish anything, but Romeny's electorate overwhelmingly supported this one. I don't agree with this one, but it's clearly not the same thing as supporting "gun control" is it is known as a political issue.

And he made slaves of the citizens of massachusetts to the insurance industry.

Mitt Romney signed a health care bill into law in liberal Massachussets, just as Ronald Reagan signed an abortion bill into law in California. The state of Massachusetts is about 20% Republican voters. A Romney veto would have been overriden. He did veto eight provisions, including ones specificially for immigrants not covered by federal plans, but those vetos were overriden. In the end, he did not run against the bill (like Scott Brown) did, so he had no mandate to veto it. The main provision of the bill was tax breaks for those who had insurance, penalties (by way of loss of those tax breaks)for those who could afford it, but remained uninsured, and assistance for those who could not afford insurance. It is not bankrupting the peopel of Massachussetts, but it was never Romney's plan, so how is he "making made slaves of the citizens of massachusetts to the insurance industry?"

56 posted on 02/15/2010 1:12:19 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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