Who's Driving Mitt Romney? in Rolling Stone MAGAZINE
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“Who's Driving Mitt? - If you want to understand Romney's real agenda, just look at what Republicans have been doing in Congress”
by Tim Dickinson
You gotta check out this FANTASTIC ARTICLE that lays it on the line - -
Rolling Stone MAGAZINE - - October 11, 2012 Issue with Adele on the front cover - - and - - Karmin on the back cover (The Creepy Picture on Page 31 of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan hauling ass down the street with Ryan driving the car, giddy Mitt in the baby seat enjoying the ride, and the kidnapping in progress with the Statue of Liberty bound and gagged in the back seat is a MUST SEE.
You can read the full article at www.rollingstone.com/politics by exactly entering in the search box Mitt Romney's Real Agenda
Here are just a few HIGHLIGHTS of the ARTICLE
“Measures that have already sailed through the Republican House would roll back clean-air protections, gut both Medicare and Medicaid, lavish trillions in tax cuts on billionaires while raising taxes on the poor, and slash everything from college aid to veteran benefits.”
FEWER JOBS
“Republicans in congress have repeatedly put ideology before creating jobs.”
“According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the immediate spending cuts required by the debt-ceiling compromise are likely to shrink the economy by $43 billion this year, killing nearly 323,000 jobs.”
“What Ryan markets as his “Path to Prosperity” would make things even worse: The draconian cuts in his latest budget, according to the EPI, would put an additional drag on the economy, destroying another 4.1 million jobs by 2014.”
GOD, GUNS AND GAYS
“The retrograde social agenda laid out in recent GOP legislation represents a full-scale assault on fundamental American rights.”
DRILL AND POLLUTE
“In thrall to dirty-energy interests, House Republicans have held more than 300 votes to hamstring the EPA, roll back environmental protections and open up sensitive public land to drilling - - offering polluters a virtual license to kill.”
THE FEDERAL BAILOUT THAT SAVED ROMNEY
“In February, over the objections of the State Department, the House voted to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport toxic tar sands from Canada across the Midwest's largest and most vulnerable supply of drinking water.”
“In an even more sweeping move, the House passed a bill to block all new major regulations until the nation's unemployment rate falls to six percent - - a measure that would choke off not only new environmental safeguards, but also the new limits on Wall Street recklessness required under Dodd-Frank.
BASH IMMIGRANTS
“In June, the House approved a raft of amendments blocking Obama's executive directives on immigration reform.”
ENRICH BILLIONAIRES
“House Republicans have voted three times to extend all of the Bush-era tax cuts - - a move that would blow a $3.8 trillion hole in the budget over the next decade.”
HOW THE REPUBLICANS BECAME THE PARTY OF THE RICH
“Independent tax groups have concluded that the only way to replace the tax revenue lost by the proposed Ryan and Romney tax cuts would be to end tax breaks - - like the one for home-mortgage interest - - that directly benefit the middle class.”
SLASH GOVERNMENT
“If signed into law by President Romney, the Ryan budget would slash spending on college tuition grants by 42 percent next year and kick 1 million students out of the program. It would also gut funding for public schools, food and drug safety, basic science research, law enforcement and low-income housing.”
“Ripping Ryan for trying to cloak his budget in Catholic doctrine, priests and faculty from Georgetown University wrote, 'Your budget appears to reflect the values of your favorite philosopher, Ayn Rand, rather than the gospel of Jesus Christ.'”
“In May, the House approved a Ryan bill to replace automatic cuts to the Pentagon under the debt-ceiling agreement with $261 billion in cuts to the federal safety net. The measure would deny food stamps to 1.8 million Americans, leave 280,000 kids without school lunches and cut off health care to 300,000 poor children.”
DESROY HEALTH CARE
“Republicans in the House have voted more than 30 times to repeal Obamacare - - a move that would deplete the Medicare trust fund eight years early, kick 6.6 million young adults off their parents' health insurance, cost seniors $700 more on average for prescription drugs, and make it legal once again for insurance companies to charge women more than men and to rescind policies when people get sick.”
“At the same time, repealing Obamacare would provide a massive giveback to the rich, handing over nearly $400 billion in tax revenues to those who earn above $250,000 a year.”
CONCLUSION
“The last time a Republican presidential candidate touted an agenda to cut spending, lower taxes, boost defense and balance the budget was Ronald Reagan in 1980. Like Romney and Ryan, Reagan didn't have an actual plan for his spending cuts - - they were an accounting fantasy, openly joked about as the 'magic asterisk.' In the end, as promised, Reagan's tax cuts went through, and the Pentagon's budget soared. But the spending cuts never materialized - - so Reagan wound up TRIPLING the debt.”
“If it didn't work for Reagan, says Reagan's former budget director David Stockman, it would be foolish to assume Romney and Ryan can do better.”
“The Republican record on spending control is so abysmally bad,” David Stockman says, “that at this point they don't have a leg to stand on.” Indeed, the last GOP administration turned $5 trillion in projected surplus into $5 trillion of new debt.
“Squandering two full workweeks of the congressional calendar on votes to repeal Obamacare has cost taxpayers $48 million. That's nearly the same amount of money now needed to repair cracks in the Capitol itself - - spending the House GOP has refused to authorize, out of anti-governmental spite.”
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You can read the full article at www.rollingstone.com/politics by exactly entering in the search box Mitt Romney's Real Agenda