More than 500 economists, 5 Nobel laureates back Romney’s economic strategy
More than 500 economists — including five Nobel laureates — have
endorsed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s economic plan
as the right choice for jobs creation and economic growth.
The pro-Romney group “Economists for Romney” announced Monday that its statement of support for the former Massachusetts governor’s economic plan now has 526 signatories, up from 400 a week ago.
“We enthusiastically endorse Governor Mitt Romney’s economic plan to
create jobs and restore economic growth while returning America to its
tradition of economic freedom,” Economists for Romney’s statement of
support reads, proclaiming Romney’s plan as based on “proven
principles” to restrain the federal government and expand opportunities
in the private sector.
The 526 economists — including Nobel laureates Gary Becker, Robert
Lucas, Robert Mundell, Edward Prescott, and Myron Scholes — point to
six facets of Romney’s economic approach that they see as beneficial to
future economic success.
- Reduce marginal tax rates on business and wage incomes and
broaden the tax base to increase investment, jobs, and living standards. - End the exploding federal debt by controlling the growth of
spending so federal spending does not exceed 20 percent of the economy. - Restructure regulation to end “too big to fail,” improve credit
availability to entrepreneurs and small businesses, and increase
regulatory accountability, and ensure that all regulations pass
rigorous benefit-cost tests. - Improve our Social Security and Medicare programs by reducing
their growth to sustainable levels, ensuring their viability over the
long term, and protecting those in or near retirement. - Reform our healthcare system to harness market forces and
thereby reduce costs and increase quality, empowering patients and
doctors, rather than the federal bureaucracy. - Promote energy policies that increase domestic production,
enlarge the use of all western hemisphere resources, encourage the use
of new technologies, end wasteful subsidies, and rely more on market
forces and less on government planners.
Seven of the signatories are from Harvard University and five from Columbia
University — two of President Barack Obama’s alma maters.The economists’ statement of support pillories Obama’s economic record,
claiming that his expansion of the federal government has resulted in “anemic
economic recovery and high unemployment,” which will continue if his future
plans are implemented.
2. Mitt Romney supported Barack Obama’s “economic stimulus” packages.
3. Mitt Romney says that Barack Obama’s bailout of the auto industry was actually his idea.
4. Neither candidate supports immediately balancing the federal budget.
5. They both believe in big government and they both have a track record of being big spenders while in office.
6. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both fully support the Federal Reserve.
7. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are both on record as saying that the president should not question the “independence” of the Federal Reserve.
8. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have both said that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke did a good job during the last financial crisis.
9. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both felt that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke deserved to be renominated to a second term.
10. Both candidates oppose a full audit of the Federal Reserve.
11. Both candidates are on record as saying that U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has done a good job.
12. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have both been big promoters of universal health care.
13. Mitt Romney was the one who d...
2. Mitt Romney supported Barack Obama’s “economic stimulus” packages.
3. Mitt Romney says that Barack Obama’s bailout of the auto industry was actually his idea.
4. Neither candidate supports immediately balancing the federal budget.
5. They both believe in big government and they both have a track record of being big spenders while in office.
6. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both fully support the Federal Reserve.
7. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are both on record as saying that the president should not question the “independence” of the Federal Reserve.
8. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have both said that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke did a good job during the last financial crisis.
9. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both felt that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke deserved to be renominated to a second term.
10. Both candidates oppose a full audit of the Federal Reserve.
11. Both candidates are on record as saying that U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has done a good job.
12. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have both been big promoters of universal health care.
13. Mitt Romney was the one who developed the plan that Obamacare was later based upon.
14. Wall Street absolutely showers both candidates with campaign contributions.
15. Neither candidate wants to eliminate the income tax or the IRS.
16. Both candidates want to keep personal income tax rates at the exact same levels for the vast majority of Americans.
17. Both candidates are “open” to the idea of imposing a Value Added Tax on the American people.
18. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that the TSA is doing a great job.
19. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both supported the NDAA.
20. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both supported the renewal of the Patriot Act.
21. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that the federal government should be able to indefinitely detain American citizens that are considered to be terrorists.
22. Both candidates believe that American citizens suspected of being terrorists can be killed by the president without a trial.
23. Barack Obama has not closed Guantanamo Bay like he promised to do, and Mitt Romney actually wants to double the number of prisoners held there.
24. Both candidates support the practice of “extraordinary rendition”.
25. They both support the job-killing “free trade” agenda of the global elite.
26. They both accuse each other of shipping jobs out of the country and both of them are right.
27. Both candidates are extremely soft on illegal immigration.
28. Neither candidate has any military experience. This is the first time that this has happened in a U.S. election since 1944.
29. Both candidates earned a degree from Harvard University.
30. They both believe in the theory of man-made global warming.
31. Mitt Romney has said that he will support a “cap and trade” carbon tax scheme (like the one Barack Obama wants) as longas the entire globe goes along with it.
32. Both candidates have a very long record of supporting strict gun control measures.
33. Both candidates have been pro-abortion most of their careers. Mitt Romney’s “conversion” to the pro-life cause has been questioned by many. In fact, Mitt Romney has made millions on Bain Capital’s investment in a company called “Stericycle” that incinerates aborted babies collected from family planning clinics.
34. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that the Boy Scout ban on openly gay troop leaders is wrong.
35. They both believe that a “two state solution” will bring lasting peace between the Palestinians and Israel.
36. Both candidates have a history of nominating extremely liberal judges.
37. Like Barack Obama, Mitt Romney also plans to add “signing statements” to bills when he signs them into law.
38. They both have a horrible record when it comes to job creation.
39. Both candidates believe that the president has the power to take the country to war without getting the approval of the U.S. Congress.
40. Both candidates plan to continue running up more government debt even though the U.S. government is already 16 trillion dollars in debt.
Source: The American Dream
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Yeah, and you dunces really trust him.
From the sublime to the ridiculous, the Obama administration’s energy policy has devolved into self-parody.
President Obama recently announced that he would accelerate the construction of . . . ta da! . . . the southern half of the Keystone XL pipeline. This portion, conveniently enough, does not reach Canada, which yearns to send America petroleum from its oil sands in Alberta. Obama’s move is like building an airport runway while banning the taxiway that would connect it to the passenger terminal.
The only thing sillier than Obama’s plan would have been his announcing it while wearing pants, but nothing north of his waist.
Obama, naturally, shirks responsibility for keeping Keystone a pipe dream. As he claims, “The rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by congressional Republicans prevented a full assessment of the pipeline’s impact.”
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From the sublime to the ridiculous, the Obama administration’s energy policy has devolved into self-parody.
President Obama recently announced that he would accelerate the construction of . . . ta da! . . . the southern half of the Keystone XL pipeline. This portion, conveniently enough, does not reach Canada, which yearns to send America petroleum from its oil sands in Alberta. Obama’s move is like building an airport runway while banning the taxiway that would connect it to the passenger terminal.
The only thing sillier than Obama’s plan would have been his announcing it while wearing pants, but nothing north of his waist.
Obama, naturally, shirks responsibility for keeping Keystone a pipe dream. As he claims, “The rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by congressional Republicans prevented a full assessment of the pipeline’s impact.”
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Rushed?
Team Obama has had its entire tenure to study Keystone. As a State Department timeline confirms, it received TransCanada’s Keystone application on September 19, 2008 — under President George W. Bush. As Obama was inaugurated on January 20, 2009, Washington already had evaluated Keystone for four months and one day. It weighed the pipeline for nearly three more years, whereupon Obama blamed GOP monsters for forcing him into a snap judgment within 60 days of last December 23’s payroll-tax-holiday legislation. So, on January 18, Obama spiked Keystone rather than decide too quickly.
“John Boehner ate my homework” is neither a policy nor an excuse.
Facing high gasoline prices, Obama says, “We can’t simply drill our way out of the problem” while bragging that “we’re drilling all over the place.”
As if to underscore this non sequitur, Obama spoke March 21 in Maljamar, N.M., before at least a half-dozen oil wells. This was a gripping visual, except that the wells stood perfectly still. Motionless oil wells. What a perfect, Obamaite metaphor. According to the Institute for Energy Research, oil production on private property grew 14 percent last year. However, it shrank 11 percent on federal acreage — which is controlled by Barack Obama.
An average gallon of gasoline has climbed from $1.84 when Obama entered office to $3.94 today. Despite this 114 percent increase, Energy Secretary Steven Chu told a House hearing, “I would give myself a little higher” than an A-minus on fuel prices.
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Seven of the signatories are from Harvard University and five from Columbia
University — two of President Barack Obama’s alma maters.