Mitt Romney, in a pocketbook appeal to moderates, sought Sunday to reassure middle-class voters he would not raise their taxes and offer big breaks to millionaires, as Democrats charge, and vowed to restore some elements of the national health care law after he repeals it.
The Republican presidential nominee made the pledges in a two-part interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,’’ which was filmed Friday aboard Romney’s campaign bus and Saturday at his Boston headquarters.
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So after stating that the President's economic policies are "feckless" we have a 180 degree spin. However if you look around at his advisers, all are very conservative economists and health insurance industry executives. Mitt Romney tests anyone's credulity unless of course you catch his wink and nod to the tax cut, reduce government spending crowd no matter what the consequences. There is also the policies of war and peace with neo-conservatives for advisers and reactionary groups who have thrown their support to assure like minded Supreme Court Justices. Going both ways makes multiple choice Romney a pig in the poke choice. His decisions or appointments repeal women's hard earned rights, could move us into another unnecessary war, and impoverish even more people caught in the wayward policies of previous conservative Republican administrations.
Obamacare has already resulted in tax increases for the middle class. Starting in 2013, the annual contribution to flexible saving accounts for medical and dental expenses will be reduced from $4000 to $2500. That will lower the deductions of middle class taxpayers and increase their tax bills. Welcome to the Orwellian world of Barack Obama.
George Bush's war in Iraq will cost more than $3 trillion, and it was the first war in history done entirely on credit. Welcome to the fraudulent world of the Republican party and its failed policies: "Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses, and for misrepresenting the cost of the venture, there is no excuse for how he chose to finance it. His was the first war in history paid for entirely on credit. As America went into battle, with deficits already soaring from his 2001 tax cut, Bush decided to plunge ahead with yet another round of tax “relief” for the wealthy.
CommentsToday, America is focused on unemployment and the deficit. Both threats to America’s future can, in no small measure, be traced to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Increased defense spending, together with the Bush tax cuts, is a key reason why America went from a fiscal surplus of 2% of GDP when Bush was elected to its parlous deficit and debt position today. Direct government spending on those wars so far amounts to roughly $2 trillion – $17,000 for every US household – with bills yet to be received increasing this amount by more than 50%." [ http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-price-of-9-11 ]
Do I detect a flip, or was that a flop?