Romney finally admits I was right...

[Conservative]

Why is Obama accepting contributions from equity firms and then attacking what they do?

Why are you in my thread?

WHY are YOU even here?

someone kept calling the police, telling them a strange man was parked outside the school in a windowless van.......

 

[The T]

Why are you in my thread?

WHY are YOU even here?

someone kept calling the police, telling them a strange man was parked outside the school in a windowless van.......

 

[The T]

telling how the OP answered every other challenge but the one that shows he took only 'sound bites' of Romney's comments and ran with them, like the libtards accuse conservatives of doing with Obama.

perhaps the idiot who started this thread should have read the transcript of the interview, instead of relying on a summary and partisan diatribe against Romney.

The Page by Mark Halperin | The Complete Romney Interview Transcript

Halperin: I want to get to a lot of those, and let’s go to spending, which is a big thing for you, one of the bases of comparison – you say you’d cut spending a lot more than the President has. And like most governors I know, you can get down in the detail. A lot of people don’t know that about you; you can really get your arms around a policy issue and go deep, so let’s talk about spending. You have a plan, as you said, over a number of years, to reduce spending dramatically. Why not in the first year, if you’re elected — why not in 2013, go all the way and propose the kind of budget with spending restraints, that you’d like to see after four years in office? Why not do it more quickly?

Romney: Well because, if you take a trillion dollars for instance, out of the first year of the federal budget, that would shrink GDP over 5%. That is by definition throwing us into recession or depression. So I’m not going to do that, of course. What you do is you make adjustments on a basis that show, in the first year, actions that over time get you to a balanced budget. So I’m not saying I’m going to come up with ideas five or ten years from now that get us to a balanced budget. Instead I’m going to take action immediately by eliminating programs like Obamacare, which become more and more expensive down the road – by eliminating them, we get to a balanced budget. And I’d do it in a way that does not have a huge reduction in the first year, but instead has an increasing reduction as time goes on, and given the growth of the economy, you don’t have a reduction in the overall scale of the GDP. I don’t want to have us go into a recession in order to balance the budget. I’d like to have us have high rates of growth at the same time we bring down federal spending, on, if you will, a ramp that’s affordable, but that does not cause us to enter into a economic decline.

makes perfect sense. unless you're a partisan nutweeb like the OP.

In other words? Immediate action to erase the damage and get people more confident. I think the Defeat of Obama would overnight transform this nation.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

...when I said, many times in the past, that cutting spending was a job killer, not a job creator:

In his inteview with Mark Halperin, the following exchange occcurred:

Halperin: You have a plan, as you said, over a number of years, to reduce spending dramatically. Why not in the first year, if you’re elected — why not in 2013, go all the way and propose the kind of budget with spending restraints, that you’d like to see after four years in office? Why not do it more quickly?

Romney: Well because, if you take a trillion dollars for instance, out of the first year of the federal budget, that would shrink GDP over 5%.

That is by definition throwing us into recession or depression. So I’m not going to do that, of course.

Romney

As Limbaugh likes to say...

...See? I told you so.

Romney believes that cutting all that spending that you people have so much fun BLAMING Obama for,

WOULD THROW US INTO A DEPRESSION!!

(and this YOUR guy, not me, talking now, let's not forget)

He said you can't cut 1 trillion in year 1

So you favor Obama historic deficit as stimulative?

 

[The T]

...when I said, many times in the past, that cutting spending was a job killer, not a job creator:

In his inteview with Mark Halperin, the following exchange occcurred:

Halperin: You have a plan, as you said, over a number of years, to reduce spending dramatically. Why not in the first year, if you’re elected — why not in 2013, go all the way and propose the kind of budget with spending restraints, that you’d like to see after four years in office? Why not do it more quickly?

Romney: Well because, if you take a trillion dollars for instance, out of the first year of the federal budget, that would shrink GDP over 5%.

That is by definition throwing us into recession or depression. So I’m not going to do that, of course.

Romney

As Limbaugh likes to say...

...See? I told you so.

Romney believes that cutting all that spending that you people have so much fun BLAMING Obama for,

WOULD THROW US INTO A DEPRESSION!!

(and this YOUR guy, not me, talking now, let's not forget)

He said you can't cut 1 trillion in year 1

So you favor Obama historic deficit as stimulative?

Shit man? Bump it UP! It's worked SO FAR according to Carbonated...

 

[MeBelle]

...when I said, many times in the past, that cutting spending was a job killer, not a job creator:

<snip>

Why bother posting a thread in which you NEVER respond to questions asked?
You do not want a debate. Sadly.

The thread is nothing but a slam.

Have a happy life...

 

[The T]

...when I said, many times in the past, that cutting spending was a job killer, not a job creator:

<snip>

Why bother posting a thread in which you NEVER respond to questions asked?
You do not want a debate. Sadly.

The thread is nothing but a slam.

Have a happy life...

Carbonated has been drubbed so many times i think he's seriously numb...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQWszrZHBPI]Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd - The Wall - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Lakhota]

Romney Argues Big Spending Cuts Would Cause 'Depression,' Contrary To Tea Party Activists

 

[Lakhota]

Not that there's anything wrong with that! Keynes' theories remain the essential guide to understanding recessions.

The OP Link: Romney’s Big Fat Wet Kiss to Keynesian Economics

 

[NYcarbineer]

...when I said, many times in the past, that cutting spending was a job killer, not a job creator:

In his inteview with Mark Halperin, the following exchange occcurred:

Halperin: You have a plan, as you said, over a number of years, to reduce spending dramatically. Why not in the first year, if you’re elected — why not in 2013, go all the way and propose the kind of budget with spending restraints, that you’d like to see after four years in office? Why not do it more quickly?

Romney: Well because, if you take a trillion dollars for instance, out of the first year of the federal budget, that would shrink GDP over 5%.

That is by definition throwing us into recession or depression. So I’m not going to do that, of course.

Romney

As Limbaugh likes to say...

...See? I told you so.

Romney believes that cutting all that spending that you people have so much fun BLAMING Obama for,

WOULD THROW US INTO A DEPRESSION!!

(and this YOUR guy, not me, talking now, let's not forget)

He said you can't cut 1 trillion in year 1

So you favor Obama historic deficit as stimulative?

He said cutting 1 trillion in one year would lower GDP by 5%.

Romney is saying the deficit is stimulative. I've said deficit spending is stimulative a zillion times,

including half a dozen times in my own quotes that I posted below. Go read them.

And, as I have said another zillion times:

I favor making people pay for the government they get, when they get it.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Not that there's anything wrong with that! Keynes' theories remain the essential guide to understanding recessions.

The OP Link: Romney’s Big Fat Wet Kiss to Keynesian Economics

Keynes was gay, which makes that picture, intentionally or not, even more precious.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Why is Obama accepting contributions from equity firms and then attacking what they do?

Why are you in my thread?

Who died and made YOU thread God?

God would have smote him with a lightning bolt for trying to hijack the thread. I was simply asking him for an explanation as to why he was doing so.

 

[NYcarbineer]

...when I said, many times in the past, that cutting spending was a job killer, not a job creator:

In his inteview with Mark Halperin, the following exchange occcurred:

Halperin: You have a plan, as you said, over a number of years, to reduce spending dramatically. Why not in the first year, if you’re elected — why not in 2013, go all the way and propose the kind of budget with spending restraints, that you’d like to see after four years in office? Why not do it more quickly?

Romney: Well because, if you take a trillion dollars for instance, out of the first year of the federal budget, that would shrink GDP over 5%.

That is by definition throwing us into recession or depression. So I’m not going to do that, of course.

Romney

As Limbaugh likes to say...

...See? I told you so.

Romney believes that cutting all that spending that you people have so much fun BLAMING Obama for,

WOULD THROW US INTO A DEPRESSION!!

(and this YOUR guy, not me, talking now, let's not forget)

He said you can't cut 1 trillion in year 1

So you favor Obama historic deficit as stimulative?

Chris Hayes on his show 'Up' this morning commented on this Romney statement with a great observation,

he said this brings up the question of whether or not Republicans believe their talking points.

Clearly Romney doesn't, and since I don't see anyone here on the Right disagreeing with Romney, clearly you people don't either.

Cutting government hurts the economy and jobs. Period.

That is not an argument against cutting government; it's an argument against lying.

Romney is, in a rare moment of lucidity and honesty, admitting what most Republicans dare not admit.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Why are you in my thread?

Who died and made YOU thread God?

He's scared of me.

This thread is not about Bain Capital or private equity, as was your post. I asked you why then you posted it here.

There are innumerable threads about Bain Capital, not to mention the fact you could start your own.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Gotta love it.

Romney must have heard the 'we're all Keynesians now' voices in his head.

didn't someone already explain how you don't understand that phrase? Oh yes... ME.

Alright, if you really want to discuss this in detail...

Tell us how much you can cut government in the first year without lowering GDP.

 

[JoeB131]

Because it would.
You have to get jobs back first.
Gov. Spending restraints require lay offs of government workers, they then need to find private sector jobs.

Except the private sector isn't hiring, that's the point.

Private investors are sitting on two trillion dollars. They aren't investing it because there's no consumer demand.

 

[clevergirl]

Because it would.
You have to get jobs back first.
Gov. Spending restraints require lay offs of government workers, they then need to find private sector jobs.

Except the private sector isn't hiring, that's the point.

Private investors are sitting on two trillion dollars. They aren't investing it because there's no consumer demand.

The uncertainty in the market is holding them back. From Obama Care to what is gonna happen with Bush tax cuts and the democrats desire to raise taxes on investment, the private sector remain skittish.

 

[JoeB131]

Because it would.
You have to get jobs back first.
Gov. Spending restraints require lay offs of government workers, they then need to find private sector jobs.

Except the private sector isn't hiring, that's the point.

Private investors are sitting on two trillion dollars. They aren't investing it because there's no consumer demand.

The uncertainty in the market is holding them back. From Obama Care to what is gonna happen with Bush tax cuts and the democrats desire to raise taxes on investment, the private sector remain skittish.

Okay, that's more than enough excuse, but the reality is, people aren't spending, so there's no point in investing in new products or plants... it's just that simple.

And to say that the "Certainty Fairy" is going to waive her wand when the Weird Mormon Robot get elected is just silly. Especialy since he pretty much admitted he isn't going to cut government spending all that much.

 

[clevergirl]

Except the private sector isn't hiring, that's the point.

Private investors are sitting on two trillion dollars. They aren't investing it because there's no consumer demand.

The uncertainty in the market is holding them back. From Obama Care to what is gonna happen with Bush tax cuts and the democrats desire to raise taxes on investment, the private sector remain skittish.

Okay, that's more than enough excuse, but the reality is, people aren't spending, so there's no point in investing in new products or plants... it's just that simple.

And to say that the "Certainty Fairy" is going to waive her wand when the Weird Mormon Robot get elected is just silly. Especialy since he pretty much admitted he isn't going to cut government spending all that much.

The only weird robot is you and your tired mantra. You could just post (blah blah burp) and trust we all know to what you are referring- you know, change it up a bit from your weird robotic diatribe.

What he stated was that he would not cut all at once- like DUH. Cutting programs and slowing their growth must occur over time...

As to market fears that are hampering investment- those are realities. Neither business or private investors are going to risk their capital, if they think it's gonna be taken or lost.

Romney offers a new direction then what the current president has on the table.

 

[NYcarbineer]

The uncertainty in the market is holding them back. From Obama Care to what is gonna happen with Bush tax cuts and the democrats desire to raise taxes on investment, the private sector remain skittish.

Okay, that's more than enough excuse, but the reality is, people aren't spending, so there's no point in investing in new products or plants... it's just that simple.

And to say that the "Certainty Fairy" is going to waive her wand when the Weird Mormon Robot get elected is just silly. Especialy since he pretty much admitted he isn't going to cut government spending all that much.

The only weird robot is you and your tired mantra. You could just post (blah blah burp) and trust we all know to what you are referring- you know, change it up a bit from your weird robotic diatribe.

What he stated was that he would not cut all at once- like DUH. Cutting programs and slowing their growth must occur over time...

As to market fears that are hampering investment- those are realities. Neither business or private investors are going to risk their capital, if they think it's gonna be taken or lost.

Romney offers a new direction then what the current president has on the table.

So, a private sector company that does a large chunk of business with the government might not be hiring now because of the uncertainty of whether or not they'll have that business if Romney and the Republicans take over,

and make big cuts in government spending...