Does Mitt Romney want to cut jobs for police, firefighters, and teachers?

It's really hard to say because Obama wanted to increase the numbers and even did a campaign taking photo's with the police he was going to help provide with more backup and in many places, the money just wasn't there so they had to make cuts.

This is one of those areas where the state and local communities are more at fault as most accepted the stimulus which was for investment but instead, all they did was keep paying the bills like normal. There were almost no efforts to reduce fraud or to increase public efforts to rebuild communities... no new schools, no new infrastructure, no new police officers, no new firefighters... they just spent the money to pay the bills like normal.

The federal government cannot be held accountable for this except in that Obama gave the money to the states "UNCONDITIONALLY" where FDR made conditions and told the states they couldn't get federal help unless they spent the money for specific purposes.

If Mitt Romney becomes President, he really would not have any control over cutting jobs for firefighters and police which I think the author of this topic misunderstands in relation to the power the President has as Obama isn't responsible for what's done by the states and local communities where local and state leaders control what happens.

What Romney did as Governor of Massachusetts falls under this umbrella because as a Governor, he directly controlled such resources but as President... he would not.have such power as President.

For three years, states were paying teacher salaries but they were not investing to build new schools or anything else related to improving education. So when the stimulus ran out and the economy had not improved... what happened?

What happened is that hundreds or even thousands of teachers were laid off, retired or fired because there wasn't enough money to pay their salaries. School classrooms were increased and the media did not report on something very important... there was no decrease in grade scores even where classroooms almost doubled in size.

Now why would the media not talk about this? Because for decades they have been promoting that smaller classrooms would produce higher gpa's and yet, this past year reveals that is not the case. It's not the size of the classrooms that determine gpa, it's the willingness of the teacher to do their job and not use their desk and a wall between them and their students.

This past year has been very enlightening about many things because as state and local governments were forced to cut billions from state budgets, a lot of fat was trimmed and a lot of muscle... in other words, some communities cut waste but a lot of communities also cut needed programs and personnel they needed because they did not cut the fat for various reasons with the lead reason being corruption and incompetence.

So Romney will not have such power as President to determine any of these scenarios where teachers, police or firefighters get fired. It will entirely be the state and local governments... all Romney would determine is federal funds for these matters and even there it's Congress that plays the more important role.

If you mean does he want the states and local communities to cut the number of civil servants employed by the country... you would have to ask if Obama wanted that since under him it did happen. Thus, you can't fault Romney if it happens unless you equally fault Obama for allowing it to happen under his watch and neither Obama or Romney will possess that power as President.