If not for passing references to Friendlys, the “Big E,” and Bristol Community College, you’d barely know that Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren are fighting for a US Senate seat in Massachusetts.
In Wednesday’s debate in Springfield, moderator Jim Madigan asked about potential areas of job growth in the region, and about why electronic medical records weren’t cutting costs in the state’s biggest economic sector. What he got was a presidential debate writ small: Warren and Brown alike kept going back to military cuts, entitlements, the deficit, and Obama-care.
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We get it that Brown would work in a bipartisan way? Actually the word is "buy".You "buy" that Brown would work in a bi=partisan way. It would not be relavant anyway because Repub control of the Senate would be disastrous and Brown is pitching this in his nationwide fundraising communication. Obamacare is not a small.irrelavant issue.Warren supportsit.Brown voted against it. Entitlements are not a small issue.We need Warren in the Senate as someone who would comsostently and reliably defend Medicaire and Social Security from such threats as the Ryan budget plan which Brown said he welcomes. As Tom Menino said when he endorsed Warren,we need consistency.We can't afford to have a Senator who's "wishy-washy" and "on the fence"about issues important to the people of MA.
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Gee, I could have sworn that I already commented on THE SYSTEM WORKED, you know, the guy who's (in)famous for LAUGHING OUT LOUD... But these days seems bent on having my comments removed.... Well I've heard that a mule is an animal with long funny ears, kicks up at anything he hears. His back is brawny but his brain is weak, he's just plain stupid with a stubborn streak... And by the way, if you hate to go to school- You may grow up to be a mule.
The one thing that is clear after three debates is that Liz isn't qualified for the job!! Her childlike refrain of taxing the rich ignores basic economics. Taxing the rich also raises taxes on small businessmen who don't net much money, and it crushes new job creation. That is why Democrats didn't raise taxes when they had all the votes they needed for two years to do so! Because enough of them understand basic economics to know that would only make the problem worse! Liz Warren doesn't seem to have gotten the memo!! Liz Warren pretends that if we just let he tax the rich, all of America's problems will go away, when, in fact, basic knowledge of basic economics should inform her that taxing the rich will crush new jobs because it also taxes small businesses who create all the new jobs. Worse, taxing the rich only brings-in 15% of what Obama wants to spend over the next ten years. The other 85% gets to be paid by YOU the middle class!! You get to pay $5.3 trillion of 'EXTRA' Obama spending! Taxing the rich doesn't come close to solving the problem, any problems, but it puts a wet blanket on job creation. We are spinning our wheels going absolutely nowhere exactly because of this Democrat ignorance of economics. And Liz may be the dumbest of them all repeating this stuff! That she is still repeating the same Democrat economic fantasy three years later should be the final nail in her candidacy.
Let me guess- rich?
“We get that Brown would work in a bipartisan way ...” Mr. Ramos, you may still believe that falsehood or pretend to believe it. I find that amazing however, considering that it was quite obvious in the debate that Brown was giving all the well-worn Republican lines and buzz words.
Well as one not able to vote in Mass. as I no longer live there, I will stick in my two cents. Vote for Liz purely as a vote against the Republican Party. Purely on philosophical grounds. If you believe it is immoral to abandon veterans, the elderly, the disabled, you have to vote against Brown. Not because Brown is a bad guy but because the Republican agenda is an unhealthy, immoral agenda.