Romney: Dump it on the States

[courseofhistory]

More out of touch hogwash from Romney:

On Thursday, Mitt Romney unveiled the latest in a series of bad ideas for taking government duties out of Washington and hiding them in the back rooms of state capitols. Mostly, Mr. Romney wants to allow states to quietly smother social programs the federal government has run for decades. In the case of his new energy policy, he wants to give states power to bypass Washington’s caution in burrowing for oil, gas and coal on federal lands.

States, he said, could accelerate the permitting process for energy extraction, resulting in far more production than Washington has allowed. That’s probably true because many states have traditionally been poor stewards of their resources. They are far more captive than the federal government to the energy and timber interests that have long pressed for this concession and have far less oversight by government inspectors and journalists.

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Mr. Romney has a long list of other core federal functions that he wants to dump onto the states. He has proposed offloading Medicaid and food stamps by writing a sharply reduced check to the states to take care of the health and nutrition needs of poor people. He wants to repeal health care reform and let the states design their own programs for the uninsured (or not).

He wants to turn over federal job-training programs to the states, let them design their own unemployment insurance programs and give them a bigger role in designing immigration controls. (Of course, he is strongly opposed to giving the states flexibility in their welfare programs, lest they give money to a low-income family that isn’t working up to Republican standards.)

Don’t be fooled by his claims that states can perform these vital functions “more efficiently” than Washington. They can’t. Battered by the downturn, states can barely perform the core functions they have. They have been laying off teachers and school personnel by the tens of thousands, cutting services to the poor past the bone and falling far behind on needed public works

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[Mad Scientist]

Yeah, taking power from Centralized Gov't in Washington and putting it back into the hands of people at the local level is a real nightmare for all you Communists (Liberal Democrats) out there.

Remember the immortal words of John Lennon who wrote:

"Power to the Government!
Power to the Government!
Power to the Government!
Power to the Government, Right On!"

 

[Sallow]

State's rights is generally brought to you by the crowd that supports slavery.

 

[PredFan]

An OP/Ed from the New York Times? That's your point? What a buffoon.

 

[eflatminor]

Central planners infect all levels of government, that's for sure. But to suggest that Washington's central planners know what's best for the entire country and more than a state does for its own citizens, well, I'd say it's you shoveling the out-of-touch hogwash.

 

[PredFan]

State's rights is generally brought to you by the crowd that supports slavery.

What fucking century are you living in?

 

[Sallow]

State's rights is generally brought to you by the crowd that supports slavery.

What fucking century are you living in?

This one.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmqtNiy4lgc&feature=related]Texas Sovereignty or Secession Rally - Larry Kilgore- YouTube[/ame]

The states rights/secessionist crowd are American hating racists that want a confederacy of states.

 

[PredFan]

State's rights is generally brought to you by the crowd that supports slavery.

What fucking century are you living in?

This one.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmqtNiy4lgc&feature=related]Texas Sovereignty or Secession Rally - Larry Kilgore- YouTube[/ame]

The states rights/secessionist crowd are American hating racists that want a confederacy of states.

Where is the evidence that they support slavery?

 

[eflatminor]

State's rights is generally brought to you by the crowd that supports slavery.

Wow Sallow, that's a truly ignorant statement. 150 years ago, it was STATES that nullified the federal government's law that required escaped slaves be returned to their owners in the South. Even after the Supreme Court upheld that law, it was STATES that said "no", we do not recognize this law as Constitutional and we nullify it. The Southern succession started after the they got sick and tired of Northern STATES nullifying laws the central government had created.

Today, those of us that value state's rights do so out of concern regarding the size of the federal government, their reach, and the debt they've accrued. We're certainly not in support of slavery, but I suspect you know that damn well.

A disturbingly dishonest post from you my man.

 

[Katzndogz]

This is one of Romney's better ideas.

 

[Sallow]

State's rights is generally brought to you by the crowd that supports slavery.

Wow Sallow, that's a truly ignorant statement. 150 years ago, it was STATES that nullified the federal government's law that required escaped slaves be returned to their owners in the South. Even after the Supreme Court upheld that law, it was STATES that said "no", we do not recognize this law as Constitutional and we nullify it. The Southern succession started after the they got sick and tired of Northern STATES nullifying laws the central government had created.

Today, those of us that value state's rights do so out of concern regarding the size of the federal government, their reach, and the debt they've accrued. We're certainly not in support of slavery, but I suspect you know that damn well.

A disturbingly dishonest post from you my man.

Not dishonest at all.

The south was never interested in ending slavery..that's a myth.

And in countries where you have the sort of "confederacy" you folks are looking for..you have a vast amount of injustice and corruption.

China is a good example. It isn't at "centralized" and laws vary from province to province. Alot of your quality of life depends on how much you can bribe officials. They have little or no oversight from the Central Government.

 

[Steelplate]

the problem with turning things over to the States....especially when those things involve COST is this. All States are not created equal. New York, for example has an incredible amount of potential revenue to draw from. Montana or any other sparsely populated state does not.

When you have a Federal pool of money to draw from, a state like NY can get by with less for a given program/project and more can be given to Montana to achieve the same result.

That's why RED States...which are usually the least populated, tend to get the most help from the Federal government. It's kind of ironic that the folks that get the most help are the same ones that bitch and moan the most.

 

[WillowTree]

Well I sure as fuck wouldn't put it in the hands of Cali for ni cation.. look what the fuck those idiots did? oh wait.... them's democrats..

 

[PredFan]

State's rights is generally brought to you by the crowd that supports slavery.

Wow Sallow, that's a truly ignorant statement. 150 years ago, it was STATES that nullified the federal government's law that required escaped slaves be returned to their owners in the South. Even after the Supreme Court upheld that law, it was STATES that said "no", we do not recognize this law as Constitutional and we nullify it. The Southern succession started after the they got sick and tired of Northern STATES nullifying laws the central government had created.

Today, those of us that value state's rights do so out of concern regarding the size of the federal government, their reach, and the debt they've accrued. We're certainly not in support of slavery, but I suspect you know that damn well.

A disturbingly dishonest post from you my man.

Not dishonest at all.

The south was never interested in ending slavery..that's a myth.

And in countries where you have the sort of "confederacy" you folks are looking for..you have a vast amount of injustice and corruption.

China is a good example. It isn't at "centralized" and laws vary from province to province. Alot of your quality of life depends on how much you can bribe officials. They have little or no oversight from the Central Government.

A dishonest post followed by a dishonest post. You're on a roll.

 

[California Girl]

State's rights is generally brought to you by the crowd that supports slavery.

It is the liberals who enslave people... that's what welfare amounts to.

 

[Katzndogz]

Well I sure as fuck wouldn't put it in the hands of Cali for ni cation.. look what the fuck those idiots did? oh wait.... them's democrats..

California is an ideal example. If money were withheld from California and they didn't have the entire federal teat to suck on, we might start uncapping those offshore oil wells.

 

[courseofhistory]

Yeah, taking power from Centralized Gov't in Washington and putting it back into the hands of people at the local level is a real nightmare for all you Communists (Liberal Democrats) out there.

Remember the immortal words of John Lennon who wrote:

"Power to the Government!
Power to the Government!
Power to the Government!
Power to the Government, Right On!"

Uh...the states can't afford to take on more and they often survive on plenty of aid from Washington. Like it or not, states can't be as autonomous at you and other repubs think they are because they don't have the operating funds or budgets!

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

More out of touch hogwash from Romney:

On Thursday, Mitt Romney unveiled the latest in a series of bad ideas for taking government duties out of Washington and hiding them in the back rooms of state capitols. Mostly, Mr. Romney wants to allow states to quietly smother social programs the federal government has run for decades. In the case of his new energy policy, he wants to give states power to bypass Washington’s caution in burrowing for oil, gas and coal on federal lands.

States, he said, could accelerate the permitting process for energy extraction, resulting in far more production than Washington has allowed. That’s probably true because many states have traditionally been poor stewards of their resources. They are far more captive than the federal government to the energy and timber interests that have long pressed for this concession and have far less oversight by government inspectors and journalists.

...

Mr. Romney has a long list of other core federal functions that he wants to dump onto the states. He has proposed offloading Medicaid and food stamps by writing a sharply reduced check to the states to take care of the health and nutrition needs of poor people. He wants to repeal health care reform and let the states design their own programs for the uninsured (or not).

He wants to turn over federal job-training programs to the states, let them design their own unemployment insurance programs and give them a bigger role in designing immigration controls. (Of course, he is strongly opposed to giving the states flexibility in their welfare programs, lest they give money to a low-income family that isn’t working up to Republican standards.)

Don’t be fooled by his claims that states can perform these vital functions “more efficiently” than Washington. They can’t. Battered by the downturn, states can barely perform the core functions they have. They have been laying off teachers and school personnel by the tens of thousands, cutting services to the poor past the bone and falling far behind on needed public works

More at link

Sounds like a great idea to me, considering that's the way our government was meant to function in the first place.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Yeah, taking power from Centralized Gov't in Washington and putting it back into the hands of people at the local level is a real nightmare for all you Communists (Liberal Democrats) out there.

Remember the immortal words of John Lennon who wrote:

"Power to the Government!
Power to the Government!
Power to the Government!
Power to the Government, Right On!"

Uh...the states can't afford to take on more and they often survive on plenty of aid from Washington. Like it or not, states can't be as autonomous at you and other repubs think they are because they don't have the operating funds or budgets!

States don't collect taxes? Boy, that's news to me. I ought to sue for that 7% state income tax that comes out of my check for the State of South Carolina since I'm apparently being defrauded.

Oh and by the way, in case you weren't aware of the latest $1.2 trillion deficit the federal government is running this year, the fourth year in a row over a trillion, the federal government doesn't have the operating funds or the budget either.

 

[Lumpy 1]

More out of touch hogwash from Romney:

On Thursday, Mitt Romney unveiled the latest in a series of bad ideas for taking government duties out of Washington and hiding them in the back rooms of state capitols. Mostly, Mr. Romney wants to allow states to quietly smother social programs the federal government has run for decades. In the case of his new energy policy, he wants to give states power to bypass Washington’s caution in burrowing for oil, gas and coal on federal lands.

States, he said, could accelerate the permitting process for energy extraction, resulting in far more production than Washington has allowed. That’s probably true because many states have traditionally been poor stewards of their resources. They are far more captive than the federal government to the energy and timber interests that have long pressed for this concession and have far less oversight by government inspectors and journalists.

...

Mr. Romney has a long list of other core federal functions that he wants to dump onto the states. He has proposed offloading Medicaid and food stamps by writing a sharply reduced check to the states to take care of the health and nutrition needs of poor people. He wants to repeal health care reform and let the states design their own programs for the uninsured (or not).

He wants to turn over federal job-training programs to the states, let them design their own unemployment insurance programs and give them a bigger role in designing immigration controls. (Of course, he is strongly opposed to giving the states flexibility in their welfare programs, lest they give money to a low-income family that isn’t working up to Republican standards.)

Don’t be fooled by his claims that states can perform these vital functions “more efficiently” than Washington. They can’t. Battered by the downturn, states can barely perform the core functions they have. They have been laying off teachers and school personnel by the tens of thousands, cutting services to the poor past the bone and falling far behind on needed public works

More at link

.. it's nice you're finally owning up to your liberal utopian ideals of failure.