"Romney presided over a series of spending cuts and increases in fees that eliminated an up to $1.5 billion deficit"
"Romney cut spending and restructured state government"
"Romney stated that Massachusetts finished fiscal 2004 with a $700 million surplus. Official state figures said that fiscal 2005 finished with a $594.4 million surplus. For fiscal 2006, the surplus was $720.9 million according to official figures. The state's "rainy day fund", more formally known as the Stabilization Fund, was replenished through government consolidation and reform. At the close of fiscal year 2006, the fund enjoyed a $2.155 billion balance."
"In relative terms, however, Massachusetts added 51,362 jobs during Romney's tenure, while its population grew by 26,500 residents during that same period. Massachusetts therefore added two jobs for every resident gained."
The state's unemployment rate fell during the same period, from 5.6 to 4.7 percent"
Is the true reality is that Romney’s tenure as governor of Massachusetts was an economic disaster for the state?
bob
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Reichstolz 2012/04/23 15:00:36
“Because Mitt Romney knows just how to trim the fat. He rescued businesses like Dade Behring, Stage Stories, American Pad and Paper, and GS Industries, then his company sold them for a profit of $578 million.
Democrats think these are his negative assets. LOL
But if you ask me trimming the fat, making government run on less money with more capital is just what the doctor ordered for our sick and obese government.
Blaming him for that is like someone sueing you for a car crash by a car you had already sold to someone else.
It is crazy that so many people assume the President or a Governor has complete control, when in reality, the laws, regulations, taxes, and spending in a state or the federal government are really decided by the legislature and the executive is charged with managing according to them.
Romney...."No one likes the idea of a Wall Street bailout. I certainly don’t.” Now, wasn't that a resounding commitment full of ideas? No one likes a root canal, but sometimes one is necessary. He then added that it’s a “terrible idea” to “protect the shareholders.” But shareholders weren’t the force behind the 2008 bailouts. Bondholders and derivatives counter-parties were.
Romney said further that “action had to be taken” in 2008, but when asked, “Were there some institutions that should not have been bailed out?" Romney answered, " Absolutely.” The institutions he mentioned by name, though, were auto companies, not, financial firms.
The man doesnt have any idea what went down in 2008. NONE ! He is freaking clueless!
"Prices are going up. Unemployment is continuing to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve System."
-- Ron Paul
Sure, a bit of passive voice. But there's also that "we" lacking from the Etch-a-Sketch's weaseling as he distances himself (and his bankster buddies) from the application of the proper solution.
The "global financial system" people claim that they make the big moolah because they take the big risks, right?
So how come the professional politicians don't let that "risk" come crashing down - where it belongs - on the guys who made all the money when things when they decided to take on all that "risk"?
Hey, I don't mind 'em doing their "fly with the eagles" bit.
I just want to see them get sucked into a jet engine when the air currents waft 'em up to altitude.
Shove your head back up your ass, schmucklet. Your ears are getting cold.
As for Willard Mittney, permit me to quote a recent article by L. Neil Smith (see http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle20... ):
"Mitt hates, loathes, and despises your individual right to own and carry weapons. (He has a D-minus rating from Gun Owners of America.) He has Secret Service protection already, but he did his damnedest to keep Massachusetts Bill-of-Rights-free for years. Everybody is aware by now that he is an original architect of medical Marxism. And if that's not enough, he's said he'd have signed the NDAA. In the end, exactly like Obama, he will deliver the United States and all its assets into the genocidal hands of the United Nations.
"It's clear — to me, at least — that if Mitt Romney gets elected instead of Obama, it will make no more historical difference than electing his father or any of his old man's friends would have back in 1964.
"Politically, all Romney is, is an Obama clone."
"Romney cut spending and restructured state government"
"Romney stated that Massachusetts finished fiscal 2004 with a $700 million surplus. Official state figures said that fiscal 2005 finished with a $594.4 million surplus. For fiscal 2006, the surplus was $720.9 million according to official figures. The state's "rainy day fund", more formally known as the Stabilization Fund, was replenished through government consolidation and reform. At the close of fiscal year 2006, the fund enjoyed a $2.155 billion balance."
"In relative terms, however, Massachusetts added 51,362 jobs during Romney's tenure, while its population grew by 26,500 residents during that same period. Massachusetts therefore added two jobs for every resident gained."
The state's unemployment rate fell during the same period, from 5.6 to 4.7 percent"
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