Posts Made By: david elosser

You forgot the dead. They have a legal right to vote too, ya know.

David E

[COLOR="Red"]" Romney, in concert with the legislature, created new fees, doubled fees for court filings, professional regulations, marriage licenses, and firearm licenses, and increased fees for many state licenses and services. In all 33 new fees were created, and 57 fees were increased, some that had not been adjusted in over a decade. Some of these fees included were service fees, such as charging businesses more to put up signs. Opponents said the reliance on fees sometimes imposed a hardship on those who could least afford them."[/COLOR]
Not good, but then Romney was working with a largely liberal state legislature. I don't give him a free pass, but understand where he's coming from.

[COLOR="Red"]Romney approved $128 million in tax changes such as sales tax from purchases on the Internet...[/COLOR]
Not sure what the taxes hit exactly, if they were collecting taxes on internet stores that has brick and mortar in the state, then they deserve to collect them. For a long time, internet businesses were not charging sales taxes in states where they had a physical presence but I think that has largely changed.
[COLOR="Red"]In response, the state legislature passed a bill moving the effective date of the tax increase to January 1, 2003.[22] Romney signed the legislation and praised the legislature for its actions.[/COLOR]
Don't agree with the state legislature's tax increase, but I do agree with moving the effective date up to the next year, that was the responsible thing to do.
[COLOR="Red"]"During his 2002 gubernatorial campaign, Romney had been a supporter of the federal assault weapons ban, and had also said he believed "in the rights of those who hunt to responsibly own and use firearms.[/COLOR]
A toughy for the NRA?
[COLOR="Red"]"On a personal basis, I don't favor abortion. However, as governor of the commonwealth, I will protect a woman's right to choose under the laws of the country and the commonwealth. That's the same position I've had for many years."[/COLOR]
I am also pro-choice. I want that choice to be life. Every time.
[COLOR="Red"]"As governor, Romney signed off on a substantial increase in funding for the construction of thousands of new housing units, especially in urban or downtown areas.[54] A goal of this was to counteract the state's otherwise high housing prices"[/COLOR]
In my state we call these "housing authorities" but they are run by the cities and counties, not the state. Massachusettes is a very small state physically so I can see where public housing might better be controlled on the state level. The intention is to provide low-cost housing for low-income earners. I don't know about Massachusettes, but the houses built by the housing authorities in my state are often sub-standard.
[COLOR="Red"]"As a candidate for governor in 2002, Romney proposed indexing the minimum wage to inflation and raising the hourly pay for the state's lowest-paid workers from $6.75 an hour to $6.96 an hour starting January 2004, saying, "I do not believe that indexing the minimum wage will cost us jobs. I believe it will help us retain jobs."[/COLOR]
I believe in this wholeheartedly. Although not really a conservative concept, if we must have minimum wage, it is irresponsible IMO to set that wage and then leave it alone for 10 years or so while the rest of the population is getting their pay raises. It is equally irresponsible to make sudden jumps of 15-25% in the minimum wages putting pressure on businesses to lay off workers. Index it to inflation, and everyone wins.
[COLOR="Red"]"Governor Romney supported regulation of greenhouse gas emissions...[/COLOR]
A lot of otherwise smart people have been duped into this man-made global warming hoax. Hopefully by now he's come back to reality.
[COLOR="Red"]Romney's use of state troopers for security during his campaign trips was criticized...[/COLOR]
I wouldn't be critical. The sad reality is that our public leaders are often the targets of whackos and they need to be protected. That's not really a partisan issue.

David E

That one's hilarious! "Elderly complaining about constant pill-reminder robo-calls!" and "GPO handing out no-slip bathtub flowers on campaign trail!" and "GOP: Any senior who mailed write-in vote free to die now!" That has to be one of The Onion's best satires yet!

Thanks for posting.

David E
(And how about: :GOP funding research to reanimate dead voters!" A great idea, as everyone knows dead people always vote Democrat! )

Rod Kaufman said:

From the DNC convention:
Romney: "Let GM go bankrupt!"
Obama: "Not on my watch!"

Uh, Mr Klueless, GM did go bankrupt. Along with Chrysler. GM filed for Chapter 11 on June 1st, 2009, on President Empty Chair's watch. Besides, those words are being pulled a bit out of context:

"These [auto] companies need to go through managed bankruptcy," Romney said to applause from the Michigan crowd. Rather than receive federal aid or loans to whether the downturn, the companies should have been left on their own to "shed the extra costs" incurred by labor contracts with the United Auto Workers union, Romney said.

"No way would we allow the auto industry to totally implode and disappear," Romney added carefully. "It would go through bankruptcy."


David E

It's a desparate move, like the hail Mary pass at the last 10 seconds of the football game. The only problem is, a touchdown with 10 seconds to go won't help you when you're 10 points down.

David E

http://www.cnbc.com/id/49037337

"Ratings firm Egan-Jones cut its credit rating on the U.S. government to "AA-" from "AA," citing its opinion that quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve would hurt the U.S. economy and the country's credit quality."

David E
(Just 53 more days!)

* Elderly on SS: recent polls I've seen indicate that Romney is leading Obama among seasoned citizens.
* Students: Just recently saw a poll that indicated that students will be voting in larger numbers this presidential election. The reason: anger about the bad economy. Although they didn't specify any candidate in the poll, the polling company concluded that Obama is probably the recipient of that anger based on the wording of the polling questions.
* Disabled: The number of people on SS disability is growing monthly. Many of these are people who used to have jobs, they want jobs, but cannot find them now. These people are going to rush out and vote for Obama?
* Unemployed: Dittos disabled, above.
* Full-time workers making low enough wages or having enough dependents to qualify for tax credits: So Romney has pledged to take away their tax credits?
* Finally, the freeloaders: I'll grant that one, they'll always vote democrat.

David E
(Just 50 more days!)

100% true. So sad you have to laugh to keep from crying.

David E
(Thank God only 48 more days!)

He'd rather be on the golf course.

David E
***47 more days***

Gee, without illegals and the dead, how can Democrats ever win elections???
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/09/18/secretary-of-state-4000-on-michigan-voter-rolls-may-be-illegal/
Here in my state they just discovered over 30,000 dead people still on the voter rolls. Many of which have been voting for as long as 10 years!

David E
(My parents voted Republican all their lives. Until they died and now they vote Democrat.)