In the recent presidential debate, Mitt Romney, in referring to eliminating spending programs, said: “I’m not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for.”
The question is: How is he going to determine which programs rely upon money borrowed from China in order to be funded?
For all we know, perhaps the entire military budget relies on said money (and everything else is funded by the U.S. taxpayers), and we know he’s not going to eliminate that.
Will he “determine” that any programs he disagrees with are the ones which are funded by borrowing money from China and, therefore, are the ones he would eliminate?
The devil is in the details, and Romney refuses to disclose any details.
He seems to have decided that the American people are supposed to be kept in the dark.
Brian Marsh
Brainerd
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Add commentChoosing what to be upset about?
Excuse, me but look at the debt. You should know that Congress has to have something to do with it. After all, the budget starts in the House. Duh.
I love the way the lefties all think...
...Romney should lay out details of his plan without consulting and working with the Dems. That way they can accuse him of being a divider and of not working with them. Apparently it never occurred to them that he might actually engage them and talk to them and solicit their input before he puts together a detailed blueprint?
Why not, Brian?
"He seems to have decided that the American people are supposed to be kept in the dark."
You have to elect him before you know what's in him. Seems to have worked in the past.
Does anyone have the figures
Does anyone have the figures on what we spend in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan? For both the military and for the paid contractors? Most of that money is borrowed. Are we right in assuming it's borrowed from China? Let's get some facts into this discussion. Then we can compare war costs to the .01% of the budget that helps Big Bird.
Neither candidate has a sound plan to restore economy
Multiple bi-partisan committees and analysis of the causes, scale, and size of the national debt have said the same thing: the only way out requires a combination of spending cuts AND revenue increases.
No candidate has had a plan that includes components of both since McCain. And not his last bid, but his first one, when Dubya's political hacks resorted to some of the most slimy, despicable lies about his own family to help sway impressionable South Carolina voters during their primary, dooming his campaign. By the time of his 2nd run he had morphed to please the party, specifically drinking the no new tax coolaid and even worse--threatening to add to the deficit with further tax reductions. And of course allowing the party to slid the nutjob Palin in next to him!
Today, if we really wish to cast a vote on the basis of starting to fix our huge national problem, we have to resort to speculation. Who will be more likely to push for what's really needed? Will Romney abandon Grover Nordquist and those who control the republican party these days and agree with all the experts and bi-partisan commissions to allow taxes to rise to increase revenue? Or will Obama agree to more cuts of programs that his party has supported. And will either one of them tackle the sacred cows that have to be dealt with if we are to reverse the debt--shrinking the monstrous defense budget, and reforming medicare and social security?
At this point neither party and neither party's candidate has earned any trust. What we have seen visually is that both parties have focused more on staying in power and pleasing their campaign contributors than they have worked to solve economic problems.
But the republicans have taken this to new extremes in the last 4 years, with all their energy focused on defeating Obama.
Perhaps we need to take a new strategy. Since both parties have abandoned the people--and there is no sound 3rd party candidate on the ballot--the only chance of an administration willing to work across the aisle and actually fix the countries problems is to vote for the one who has all these political obligations disappear--the incumbent.
If Obama is elected, he can't be president again, per national law. If Romney is elected he can--and from what we have seen of republican party behavior--all his energy during that first term will be spent on trying to get re-elected for a 2nd term.
In 3 years "Hope and Change" is now "dark" is even darker
What are the specifics of Obama's plan? After 3 years, where's his budget? Where's his foreign policy? What the (filtered word) are we doing???
Even though it's 2012 I feel like it's 1984.
Cost of unfunded wars
Here's a cost calculator for the 2 wars that we've been in since 2001. It's split between the 2 wars.
http://costofwar.com/
It doesn't take into account the massive amount of suffering those wars have inflicted on our troops and their families or the people living in those countries.
Neither Cheney nor Bush will ever be held accountable for deliberately misleading us into war while they are living. Future historians will expose them but it will be too late.
fish
I am proud of the fact that I and two of my sons (so far) have "suffered" so that you can sit at your computer and make ridiculous statements. History shows that Iraq had and used WMD. I do believe that there are still WMDs in Iraq and that they may never be found. I can never explain to you what it is like over there, so I suggest you get on a plane and see for yourself!
Romney is the real
"Pig in a poke." And that is scary.
Dean
I am a thinking that most of those WMD's made it to Syria & the spooks know it to. That is why we put a bunch of troops on the Jordan/Syria border that handel WMD"s.
WMDs
Fact is, Saddam was bluffing about having WMDs so he could huff and puff and dominate the region.
He never dreamed the Bush administration would swallow that nonsense and invade him.
So the gas he used on the Kurds
didn't exist,Rolf? Hmmmmm, I suppose the Holocaust didn't happen either.
Wait till
Wait till one of those shoulder fired missles that went missing in Libya brings down an airliner....Everyone will forget about WMD's..
They're not missing,
the government in power is distributing them to their Muslim Brotherhood bretheren.
You know, the students,doctors, teachers and the rest of the peaceful Libyan rebels.