VP Biden slams Romney in Ohio speech: GOP 'Just Don't Get It'

"Biden survived his own near-death experience in 1988, undergoing surgery for a pair of brain aneurysms."
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brain aneurysms damage the brian and biden had two of them.

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"Biden underwent surgery in 1988 to repair two berry aneurysms on opposite sides of his brain. (A berry aneurysm gets its name because the bulge it creates is so small it looks like a tiny blueberry.)"

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"In the winter of 1988 Joe Biden was chairing the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on Supreme Court nominee Anthony Kennedy when he began to experience neck pain. The pain worsened and was joined by other problems, including nausea. Eventually, Joe Biden went to the hospital.

Turns out Biden had what’s called a berry aneurysm at the base of his brain that was leaking blood into the space between his brain and the brain’s protective lining. An emergency, six-hour surgery at Walter Reed Medical Center took care of the problem and in this regard Joe Biden lucked out, since most people with a brain aneurysm get no advanced warning -- it simply bursts, resulting in paralysis, mental impairment, coma or death."

1, "not to spend more than what we take in." That's is something Obama was only able to do in only ONE month of his time as president - last April, 2012, $-59,117,000,000 All the rest of the months of Obama's 1st term in office of President so far, 40 months, he has spent more money than this government took in revenues (such as taxes, fees fines levies, and rents (as in oil leases rents)) in every single month - as much as $231,677,000,000 over what the government took in, Feb. 2012 (receipts (= took in) $103,413,000,000, Outlayed (= spent) $335,090,000,000) . G. W. Bush was able to do to spet less in a month than what the government took in receipts 38 times in his years as President, 15 times in his first term alone. I got the data to back that up strait for the government itself. But yet you guys claim Obama is more fiscally responsible than Bush was. MY ASS HE IS! That's one area Romney promises to do.

the rest of this post copies and pastes from Romney's own site at http://www.mittromney.com/jobs It's his platform.

On Spending, Romney promises
- Cap Spending At 20 Percent Of GDP
•Reduced from 24.3 percent last year; in line with the historical trend between 18 and 20 percent
•Close to the tax revenue generated by the economy when healthy
•Requires spending cuts of approximately $500 billion per year in 2016 assuming robust economic recovery with 4% annual growth, and reversal of irresponsible Obama-era defense cuts
- Take Immediate Action: Return Non-Security Discretionary Spending To Below 2008 Levels
•Send Congress a bill on Day One that cuts non-security discretionary spending by 5 percent across the board
•Pass the House Republican Budget proposal, rolling back President Obama’s government expansion by capping non-security discretionary spending below 2008 levels
1.The Federal Government Should Stop Doing Things The American People Can’t Afford, For Instance:
•Repeal Obamacare — Savings: $95 Billion. President Obama’s costly takeover of the health care system imposes an enormous and unaffordable obligation on the federal government while intervening in a matter that should be left to the states. Mitt will begin his efforts to repeal this legislation on Day One.
•Privatize Amtrak — Savings: $1.6 Billion. Despite requirement that Amtrak operate on a for-profit basis, it continues to receive about $1.6 billion in taxpayer funds each year. Forty-one of Amtrak’s 44 routes lost money in 2008 with losses ranging from $5 to $462 per passenger.
•Reduce Subsidies For The National Endowments For The Arts And Humanities, The Corporation For Public Broadcasting, And The Legal Services Corporation — Savings: $600 Million. NEA, NEH, and CPB provide grants to supplement other sources of funding. LSC funds services mostly duplicative of those already offered by states, localities, bar associations and private organizations.
•Eliminate Title X Family Planning Funding — Savings: $300 Million. Title X subsidizes family planning programs that benefit abortion groups like Planned Parenthood.
•Reduce Foreign Aid — Savings: $100 Million. Stop borrowing money from countries that oppose America’s interests in order to give it back to them in the form of foreign aid.
If pursued with focus and discipline, Mitt’s approach provides a roadmap to rescue the federal government from its present precipice. But that respite will be short-lived without a plan for the looming long-term threat posed by the unsustainable nature of existing entitlement obligations. Learn more about Mitt’s proposals for entitlement reform: [links to Medicare and Social Security]

2.Empower States To Innovate — Savings: >$100 billion
•Block grants have huge potential to generate both superior results and cost savings by establishing local control and promoting innovation in areas such as Medicaid and Worker Retraining. Medicaid spending should be capped and increased each year by CPI + 1%. Department of Labor retraining spending should be capped and will increase in future years. These funds should then be given to the states to spend on their own residents. States will be free from Washington micromanagement, allowing them to develop innovative approaches that improve quality and reduce cost.
3.Improve Efficiency And Effectiveness. Where the federal government should act, it must do a better job. For instance:
•Reduce Waste And Fraud — Savings: $60 Billion. The federal government made $125 billion in improper payments last year. Cutting that amount in half through stricter enforcement and harsher penalties yields returns many times over on the investment.
•Align Federal Employee Compensation With The Private Sector — Savings: $47 Billion. Federal compensation exceeds private sector levels by as much as 30 to 40 percent when benefits are taken into account. This must be corrected.
•Repeal The Davis-Bacon Act — Savings: $11 Billion. Davis-Bacon forces the government to pay above-market wages, insulating labor unions from competition and driving up project costs by approximately 10 percent.
•Reduce The Federal Workforce By 10 Percent Via Attrition — Savings: $4 Billion. Despite widespread layoffs in the private sector, President Obama has continued to grow the federal payrolls. The federal workforce can be reduced by 10 percent through a “1-for-2” system of attrition, thereby reducing the number of federal employees while allowing the introduction of new talent into the federal service.
•Consolidate agencies and streamline processes to cut costs and improve results in everything from energy permitting to worker retraining to trade negotiation.

On the workforce, mitt promisesRetraining Workers
•Eliminate redundancy in federal retraining programs by consolidating programs and funding streams, centering as much activity as possible in a single agency
•Give states authority to manage retraining programs by block granting federal funds
•Facilitate the creation of Personal Reemployment Accounts
•Encourage greater private sector involvement in retraining programs
On attracting the best and the brightist (which involves immigration too)
•Raise visa caps for highly skilled workers
•Grant permanent residency to eligible graduates with advanced degrees in math, science, and engineering

on labor, Romney promises:
•Appoint to the NLRB experienced individuals with respect for the rule of law
•Amend NLRA to explicitly protect the right of business owners to allocate their capital as they see fit
•Reverse executive orders issued by President Obama that tilt the playing field toward organized labor
•Amend NLRA to guarantee the secret ballot in every union certification election
•Amend NLRA to guarantee that all pre-election campaigns last at least one month
•Support states in pursuing Right-to-Work laws
•Prohibit the use for political purposes of funds automatically deducted from worker paychecks

On energy, which is a part of his jobs package, Romney promises "Significant Regulatory Reform"
•Establish fixed timetables for all resource development approvals
•Create one-stop shop to streamline permitting process for approval of common activities
•Implement fast-track procedures for companies with established safety records to conduct pre-approved activities in pre-approved areas
•Ensure that environmental laws properly account for cost in regulatory process
•Amend Clean Air Act to exclude carbon dioxide from its purview
•Expand NRC capabilities for approval of additional nuclear reactor designs
•Streamline NRC processes to ensure that licensing decisions for reactors on or adjacent to approved sites, using approved designs, are complete within two years

to increase energy production (which means jobs).
•Conduct comprehensive survey of America’s energy reserves (which Obama did his best to shut down.)
•Open America’s energy reserves for development
•Expand opportunities for U.S. resource developers to forge partnerships with neighboring countries
•Support construction of pipelines to bring Canadian oil to the United States
•Prevent overregulation of shale gas development and extraction


On Taxes. Romney promises "Flatter, Fairer, Simpler."
on individual taxes:
•Make permanent, across-the-board 20 percent cut in marginal rates
•Maintain current tax rates on interest, dividends, and capital gains
•Eliminate taxes for taxpayers with AGI below $200,000 on interest, dividends, and capital gains
•Eliminate the Death Tax
•Repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)

On Corporate taxes:
•Cut the corporate rate to 25 percent
•Strengthen and make permanent the R&D tax credit
•Switch to a territorial tax system
•Repeal the corporate Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)

On Government regulations; Romney promisesto "Eliminate Undue Economic Burdens"
•Repeal Obamacare
•Repeal Dodd-Frank and replace with streamlined, modern regulatory framework
•Amend Sarbanes-Oxley to relieve mid-size companies from onerous requirements
•Initiate review and elimination of all Obama-era regulations that unduly burden the economy

-Reform Environmental Regulation
•Ensure that environmental laws properly account for cost in regulatory process
•Provide multi-year lead times before companies must come into compliance with onerous new environmental regulations

- Adopt Structural Reforms
•Impose a regulatory cap of zero dollars on all federal agencies
•Require congressional approval of all new “major” regulations
•Reform legal liability system to prevent spurious litigation

On Medicare, Romney says, 'Preserve it, Strengthen it":

Key Elements of Mitt’s Plan

•Nothing changes for current seniors or those nearing retirement
•Medicare is reformed as a premium support system, meaning that existing spending is repackaged as a fixed-amount benefit to each senior that he or she can use to purchase an insurance plan
•All insurance plans must offer coverage at least comparable to what Medicare provides today
•If seniors choose more expensive plans, they will have to pay the difference between the support amount and the premium price; if they choose less expensive plans, they can use any leftover support to pay other medical expenses like co-pays and deductibles
•“Traditional” fee-for-service Medicare will be offered by the government as an insurance plan, meaning that seniors can purchase that form of coverage if they prefer it; however, if it costs the government more to provide that service than it costs private plans to offer their versions, then the premiums charged by the government will have to be higher and seniors will have to pay the difference to enroll in the traditional Medicare option
•Lower income seniors will receive more generous support to ensure that they can afford coverage; wealthier seniors will receive less support
•Competition among plans to provide high quality service while charging low premiums will hold costs down while also improving the quality of coverage enjoyed by seniors

On Healthcare, Romney say to repeal Obamacare and replace it:
"On his first day in office, Mitt Romney will issue an executive order that paves the way for the federal government to issue Obamacare waivers to all fifty states. He will then work with Congress to repeal the full legislation as quickly as possible.

In place of Obamacare, Mitt will pursue policies that give each state the power to craft a health care reform plan that is best for its own citizens. The federal government’s role will be to help markets work by creating a level playing field for competition.

Restore State Leadership and Flexibility

Mitt will begin by returning states to their proper place in charge of regulating local insurance markets and caring for the poor, uninsured, and chronically ill. States will have both the incentive and the flexibility to experiment, learn from one another, and craft the approaches best suited to their own citizens.

•Block grant Medicaid and other payments to states
•Limit federal standards and requirements on both private insurance and Medicaid coverage
•Ensure flexibility to help the uninsured, including public-private partnerships, exchanges, and subsidies
•Ensure flexibility to help the chronically ill, including high-risk pools, reinsurance, and risk adjustment
•Offer innovation grants to explore non-litigation alternatives to dispute resolution
Promote Free Markets and Fair Competition

Competition drives improvements in efficiency and effectiveness, offering consumers higher quality goods and services at lower cost. It can have the same effect in the health care system, if given the chance to work.

•Cap non-economic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits
•Empower individuals and small businesses to form purchasing pools
•Prevent discrimination against individuals with pre-existing conditions who maintain continuous coverage
•Facilitate IT interoperability
Empower Consumer Choice

For markets to work, consumers must have the information and the power to make decisions about their own care. Placing the patient at the center of the process will drive quality up and cost down while ensuring that services are designed to provide what Americans actually want.

•End tax discrimination against the individual purchase of insurance
•Allow consumers to purchase insurance across state lines
•Unshackle HSAs by allowing funds to be used for insurance premiums
•Promote "co-insurance" products
•Promote alternatives to "fee for service"
•Encourage "Consumer Reports"-type ratings of alternative insurance plans"