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Do you believe Romney is better fit for the country? Have people looked at Romney's Massachusetts Record?

Shutter_Label 2012/06/27 21:15:00
Do you think so? If Yes then why? Have you looked at Romney's Massachusetts Record?

Can you tell me that you actually think he better after looking at the video below on his record? There is a transcript below too. You can read.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v;=Pln...


[Mitt Romney] We're going to have a stronger economy because I'm going to be Governor. I have experience in the private sector. I know how jobs are created and how jobs are lost. I'm going to work tirelessly as Governor to bring more good jobs to Massachusetts. I know how to solve a budget problem. I stand very clearly for lowering the taxes. Jobs and the economy is what I know. I spent my life in the private sector. I know why jobs come and why they go. My number one job will be to see that America, once again, is number one in job creation. I will finally get America on track to have a balanced budget. I will cut marginal taxes across the board. People want to know what I stand for? They can look at my record as Governor.

[John Barrett] Mitt Romney was not an effective leader in Massachusetts, and the proof is in the pudding.

[Jay Kaufman] I had worked only under Republican Governors, and I worked really well with allof the others. There was really not much working with Mitt Romney.

[Rob Dolan] When Governor Romney became governor of Massachusetts, many of the issues that our country faces were at our doorstep. High debt, a need for jobs, the need to support a working middle class. There were great opportunities, and there was great hope that Governor Romney could deliver. He didn't deliver.

[Mitt Romney] We need a jobs revolution. We need to have more jobs in Massachusetts.More good jobs. That's the key to our future.

[Karen Spilka] There was that promise - a hope - that Romney would deliver with jobs. And grow the economy here in Massachusetts. And that did not materialize.

[Jack Yunits] Massachusetts' growth stopped. Companies stopped coming. They knew jobs were not being created.

[Jeffrey Sánchez] We knew that we were losing manufacturing jobs. And he never found any solutions to try and figure out: How do we keep them? By the time Mitt Romney left office, we were 47th in the nation in terms of job growth.

[Rob Dolan] During Mitt Romney's tenure as Governor, wages dropped 5% his first two years, which really had a very negative effect throughout Massachusetts.

[Mitt Romney] I will fight to keep our tax rate.. not going up, but to keep it where it is. And then bring it down by the end of my first term.

[Jay Kaufman] What we heard from Mitt Romney during the campaign was the "No New Taxes" pledge. And he found, very quickly, once he was in office, that he couldn't deliver on any services without having sufficient resources. So he raised our taxes by raising our fees.

[Rob Dolan] But a rose by any other name is absolutely still a rose. Fees are an increase out of the pockets of every Massachusetts resident - that's a tax. Let's call it what it is.

[Carl Sciortino] Struggling working families - they were paying more under his administration, They were paying for marriage fees and burial fees.

[John Barrett] Every fee that he put in place, or increased, impacted mainly the average, middle-income person.

[Carl Sciortino] The only place that I remember Mitt Romney actually cutting taxes was for the 278 wealthiest families in our state.

[Mitt Romney] I've indicated what my position is on how to balance the budget. And it's by cutting out waste and inefficiency, and taking advantage of great efficiencies that I think we can capture.

[Jay Kaufman] Under the Romney Administration, we accumulated the greatest debt build-up of any state in the country. That's after a campaign promise to do exactly the opposite.

[Carl Sciortino] He used the debt to pay for annual operations costs. That's like paying your rent on your credit card. And that was Mitt Romney's way of paying for the way we maintained our highways, for the way we cleaned our streets. It was a really flawed way of addressing basic operations - to go deeper and deeper into debt.

[Rob Dolan] Governor Romney's plan for America right now Is the same plan that he sold to the people of Massachusetts in 2002. Less government, less debt, better business, and less taxes. The result? It was the opposite. More fees, less business, more debt, and bigger government here in Boston.

[John Barrett] He just did not get the job done. He just didn't walk the talk.

[Paul Sciortino] There are times when I watch Mitt Romney saying the exact same things now that he said here in Massachusetts in 2002 in a robotic way that is completely hollow. It didn't work here. So I'm not quite sure why he thinks it might work nationally.

[John Barrett] Romney economics doesn't work. It didn't work in Massachusetts, and it's not going to work in Washington.

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  • KingdomNow 2012/06/27 21:23:55
    KingdomNow
    +3
    Have seen the current regime's record?

    At least Romney would appoint people who have more than theories to work with.

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  • JP 2012/06/28 00:21:52 (edited)
    JP
    Government run healthcare is a demon on any level. And looking at the record of Obama, Romney is looking better and better!
  • Jackie G - Poker Playing Pa... 2012/06/28 00:03:05
    Jackie G - Poker Playing Patriot
    +1
    Dropped unemployment from 5.7% to 4.6% - and the dummies on the left say he was low in job creation - these fools do not even understand that 96% were employed -- damned hard to create jobs with damn near all the people employed

    Balanced the budget 4 years straight without raising taxes

    Left a budget surplus

    Hell, sounds damn good to me
  • Reichstolz 2012/06/27 23:11:35
    Reichstolz
    +1
    The economy recovered in the 1990s, as evidenced by several banks' announcement of new lending programs as well as a reduction in the unemployment rate to 4% by 1997. Annual growth rates soared to 7.8% in 1998, 6.8% in 1999 and 9.8% in 2000 as Massachusetts benefited from information technology (IT) and stock market booms of the late 1990s. However, in the collapse of the dot.com bubble in the national recession of 2001, Massachusetts was the hardest hit among the New England economies, as growth abruptly plummeted to 1.7% in 2001. Continued weakness in national business investment and in equity markets continued to impede economic growth in Massachusetts in 2002.

    Massachusetts's gross state product in 2001 was the 11th largest among the states at $287.8 billion, to which general services contributed $79.9 billion; financial services, $73.9 billion; trade, $42.2 billion; manufacturing, $34.4 billion; government, $26 billion, transportation and public utilities, $16.1 billion; and construction, $13.5 billion. Output from financial services increased 39% across the period 1997 to 2001, whereas output from general services increased 34%; from trade, 25%; and from both government services and the transportation and utilities sector, about 20%. Output from manufacturing increased ...
    The economy recovered in the 1990s, as evidenced by several banks' announcement of new lending programs as well as a reduction in the unemployment rate to 4% by 1997. Annual growth rates soared to 7.8% in 1998, 6.8% in 1999 and 9.8% in 2000 as Massachusetts benefited from information technology (IT) and stock market booms of the late 1990s. However, in the collapse of the dot.com bubble in the national recession of 2001, Massachusetts was the hardest hit among the New England economies, as growth abruptly plummeted to 1.7% in 2001. Continued weakness in national business investment and in equity markets continued to impede economic growth in Massachusetts in 2002.

    Massachusetts's gross state product in 2001 was the 11th largest among the states at $287.8 billion, to which general services contributed $79.9 billion; financial services, $73.9 billion; trade, $42.2 billion; manufacturing, $34.4 billion; government, $26 billion, transportation and public utilities, $16.1 billion; and construction, $13.5 billion. Output from financial services increased 39% across the period 1997 to 2001, whereas output from general services increased 34%; from trade, 25%; and from both government services and the transportation and utilities sector, about 20%. Output from manufacturing increased 17% between 1997 and 2000, but then fell 9% in 2001. As a percent of total output, manufactures fell from 14.4% in 1997 to 12% in 2001. The public sector constituted 9% of gross state product in 2001, the 2nd-lowest percent among the states where the average was 12%.
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  • Radlad 2012/06/27 22:09:15
    Radlad
    +2
    That's why not a whole lotta defending for romney goin' on here. One thing I know for certain. obama damn sure ain't fit for the country and we got a four year record proving it. Coarse not that such evidence matters to commies er I mean liberals.......
  • Grabitz 2012/06/27 21:45:36
    Grabitz
    No , you think the poor has it bad now then you haven't seen anything yet . The day he starts cutting SS and Medicare giving the rich more tax breaks and charging the poor more tax is the day this country gets in another civil war . Only this time it will be the poor against the rich . I guaranty even the starving republicans will turn against him .
  • Jackie ... Grabitz 2012/06/28 00:04:26
    Jackie G - Poker Playing Patriot
    +1
    Dropped unemployment from 5.7% to 4.6% - and the dummies on the left say he was low in job creation - these fools do not even understand that 96% were employed -- damned hard to create jobs with damn near all the people employed

    Balanced the budget 4 years straight without raising taxes

    Left a budget surplus

    Hell, sounds damn good to me
  • Grabitz Jackie ... 2012/06/28 01:12:45
    Grabitz
    Yeah it does sound good and was good back in the day . Thing is it was good for many of us , more then not . That means absolutely nothing today . Everything And I mean everything has changed with this free trade in high gear . Don't believe ask Bush he went through it as well and sending us all a check . During Clinton we was all making tuns of money but only because we was building factories and all the equipment they need shipping them all across the third worlds especially China . American corporation fired the American workers with Romney on the team doing the replacing simple as that .

    I would like to know what his plan is for the NWO , what kind of jobs is he going to bring back and how many ? How is he going to compete with $365 a month vs our at least $400 a week ?

    I would advise everyone to watch this vid http://moneymagnetbook.blogsp...
  • tblackb 2012/06/27 21:35:29
    tblackb
    no, I don't think people have really looked @ who romney really is and that's largely because he isn't saying & they r not looking. venture capitalism is 2 complex 4 most people 2 understand so... and then racism is an issue weather people want 2 admit it or not.
  • KrSpo 2012/06/27 21:31:52
    KrSpo
    My opinion is, the Republicans are attempting to put a guy in office that has a track record of actually doing the things they state the current administration i doing. Did they get their memos mixed up?
  • KingdomNow 2012/06/27 21:23:55
    KingdomNow
    +3
    Have seen the current regime's record?

    At least Romney would appoint people who have more than theories to work with.
  • kir 2012/06/27 21:20:38
    kir
    +1
    Neither Obama or Romney are effective leaders and more importantly neither has as his goal to protect the freedoms of the American people.

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