Thread: Mitt Romney

^ Just like his dad, totally clueless. If he's smart he'll stick with real estate and keep his nose out of politics, unless of course he wants to get his ass kicked like his dear old dad...

I'd piss myself if Mitt the Twit is the best they have to offer.

The GOP primary season is shaping up to be even funnier that the last clownshow!

After jeering serving soldiers and cheering for the uninsured to be left to die on the streets it's hard to imagine what the hell they are going to come up with this time.

They have to have Mitt as it is the only way to guaranteee the chosen puppet, sHillery get the gig as voted for by 18% of the american public or how many it is.

Originally Posted by Camel Toe

Good luck Mitty:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reducing government deficits Mitt Romney's way would mean less money for health care for the poor and disabled and big cuts to nuts-and-bolts functions such as food inspection, border security and education.

Romney also promises budget increases for the Pentagon, above those sought by some GOP defense hawks, meaning that the rest of the government would have to shrink even more. Nonmilitary programs would incur still larger cuts than those called for in the tightfisted GOP budget that the House passed last month.

Differences over the government's budget and spiraling deficits are among the starkest that separate Republican Romney and Democratic President Barack Obama. Obama's budget generally avoids risk, with minimal cuts to rapidly growing health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid while socking wealthier people with tax increases. It's all part of an effort to close trillion-dollar-plus deficits.

Romney, by contrast, proposes broad cuts in government spending, possibly overpromising on reductions that even a Congress stuffed with conservatives might find hard to deliver.

His campaign materials give relatively few specifics, other than a pledge to bring total government spending down to 20 percent of the U.S. economy by the end of a first term in 2016. That is roughly in line with where it was during Republican George W. Bush's presidency.

Estimates by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office put current government spending at $3.6 trillion, or about 23.5 percent of the gross domestic product this year, slipping to 21.8 percent by 2016.

The math can get fuzzy. But the Romney campaign says it needs to come up with $500 billion in cuts in 2016, the target year. Overall, Romney promises to shrink the government by about one-seventh when compared against the size of the economy.

The GOP front-runner suggests raising the Social Security retirement age and reducing cost-of-living increases for better-off retirees.

He generally endorses a plan by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to gradually transform Medicare from a program that directly pays hospital and doctor bills into vouchers for subsidizing future beneficiaries in buying health insurance.

Because Romney promises to protect current Social Security and Medicare recipients from cuts, he cannot get much savings from those programs by 2016. Combined, they are projected to make up about 44 percent of the budget that year. Interest costs, which cannot be touched, would make up an additional 9 percent of the budget, while Romney promises to add almost $100 billion to the Pentagon budget that year, based on his pledge that military spending reach 4 percent of GDP.

So what's left to cut?

—MEDICAID: The program now provides health care for about 50 million mostly poor and disabled people, including nursing home care for 7 of 10 patients nationwide. Obama's health care law sharply would sharply boost Medicaid enrollment to cover more people above the poverty line, a move that Romney promises to repeal.

Like House Republicans, Romney promises to transform Medicaid into block grants for states and shed federal supervision of it. He would cap the program's annual growth to inflation plus a percentage point. His campaign says the approach would unshackle states to innovate and, by the end of a decade, cut costs by more than $200 billion a year.

Advocates for the poor say the inevitable result will be that millions of people will be bounced from the program. An Urban Institute study last year estimated that Ryan's cuts would force between 14 million and 27 million people off of Medicaid by 2021. Romney's budget would make deeper cuts.

—DOMESTIC AGENCY BUDGETS: If Social Security is mostly off the table and current Medicare beneficiaries are protected, domestic Cabinet agency budgets would take a major hit in ways that could fundamentally alter government. The future growth of those discretionary programs funded through annual appropriations bills was already cut greatly in last year's deal to raise the government's borrowing limit.

At issue are these programs, just to name a few: health research; NASA; transportation; homeland security; education; food inspection; housing and heating subsidies for the poor; food aid for pregnant women; the FBI; grants to local governments; national parks; and veterans' health care.

Romney promises to immediately cut them by 5 percent. But they would have to be cut more than 20 percent to meet his overall budget goals, assuming veterans' health care is exempted. It's almost unthinkable that lawmakers would go along with cuts of such magnitude for air traffic control and food inspection or to agencies like NASA, the FBI, Border Patrol and the Centers for Disease Control.

"It's just not sustainable," said GOP lobbyist Jim Dyer, a former staff director for the House Appropriations Committee. "What do you want to do with the national parks? Which ones do you want to close? ...The only way it adds up is if you go after the big, popular stuff, and nobody talks about that now."

Among the few specific cuts listed in Romney's campaign literature are proposals to cut the federal workforce by 10 percent through attrition, eliminate federal family planning money, privatize the money-losing Amtrak system and trim foreign aid.

—OTHER BENEFIT PROGRAMS: Like Ryan's budget, the Romney plan would also cut benefit programs other than Social Security and Medicare. They include food stamps, school lunches, crop subsidies, Supplemental Security Income for very poor seniors and disabled people, unemployment insurance, veterans' pensions and refundable tax credits to the working poor.

Based on the Romney materials, it's impossible to project the size of the cuts to such programs. Suffice it to say, they would be controversial.

"There's good reason why Ryan's budget and the Romney budget don't have details," said Jim Horney, a budget analyst with the liberal-leaning Center on Budget and Policy priorities think tank. "If people knew what it would actually have to be done to accomplish what they're saying should be done, it's hard to imagine there would be widespread support for it."

What border are you talking about, certainly not a border of America, there is no security on the borders of America

Originally Posted by TonyBKK

^ Do try to stay on topic Booners. This thread is about that "has-been" Mitt Romney, the fellow who got his arse handed to him in the 2012 Presidential Election, remember?


Gonna be fun watching the dysfunctional GOP get stomped again in 2016

ps. take a look at your link and fess up dude, you pulled that 37% number out of your butt, didn't you

You mean like they got stomped in the mid terms?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I'd piss myself if Mitt the Twit is the best they have to offer.

Then you will shit yourself if he is president? Just sayin.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I'd piss myself if Mitt the Twit is the best they have to offer.

Then you will shit yourself if he is president? Just sayin.

Yeah like that will ever happen.

Maybe he could pick someone from his binders full of women to run for him.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

there is no security on the borders of America

There is no brain in the head of RPETER65.


Along U.S. Borders | U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by RPETER65

there is no security on the borders of America

There is no brain in the head of RPETER65.

Well duh, he thinks the bible's non fiction, pretty compelling evidence.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I'd piss myself if Mitt the Twit is the best they have to offer.

Then you will shit yourself if he is president? Just sayin.

Mitt won't run. After his "...47% of Americans..." are leeches (paraphrasing) remark... after his ..."I like to fire people..." remark, after his "My wife owns two Cadillacs" remark--the GOP knows he isn't fit to be an electable candidate and the American people just don't like him. I doubt that those that did vote for him before won't be able to suppress their gag reflex enough to do it again.

Probably he's just trying to pump up his campaign coffers to spend elsewhere.

^you could be right, but it will be fun to watch the crazy ultra right wing nuts (teabaggers) of the republican party go even crazier/implode for the next few months.

2012 GOP presidential nominee Dip Shit Mitt is Republicans, top pick for 2016

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by RPETER65

there is no security on the borders of America

There is no brain in the head of RPETER65.


Along U.S. Borders | U.S. Customs and Border Protection

You can post all the links you like but the fact is illegals are crossing the borders by the thousands, how do you call that security.

Originally Posted by MrG

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I'd piss myself if Mitt the Twit is the best they have to offer.

Then you will shit yourself if he is president? Just sayin.

Mitt won't run. After his "...47% of Americans..." are leeches (paraphrasing) remark... after his ..."I like to fire people..." remark, after his "My wife owns two Cadillacs" remark--the GOP knows he isn't fit to be an electable candidate and the American people just don't like him. I doubt that those that did vote for him before won't be able to suppress their gag reflex enough to do it again.

Probably he's just trying to pump up his campaign coffers to spend elsewhere.

I am no Romney fan just wanted to dig Barracuda,

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Originally Posted by MrG

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I'd piss myself if Mitt the Twit is the best they have to offer.

Then you will shit yourself if he is president? Just sayin.

Mitt won't run. After his "...47% of Americans..." are leeches (paraphrasing) remark... after his ..."I like to fire people..." remark, after his "My wife owns two Cadillacs" remark--the GOP knows he isn't fit to be an electable candidate and the American people just don't like him. I doubt that those that did vote for him before won't be able to suppress their gag reflex enough to do it again.

Probably he's just trying to pump up his campaign coffers to spend elsewhere.

I am no Romney fan just wanted to dig Barracuda,

Haha you ain't very good at it.

^
Harry the Barracuda is one Hard Core Troll

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

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Harry the Barracuda is one Hard Core Troll

I'm a troll because I ridicule the endless stream of bollocks you come out with?

Oh purlease.

Anything he wasn't correct about?

Flashback: Mitt Romney says Iran ‘will have a nuclear weapon’ if Obama reelected.

Mitt Romney says Iran ?will have a nuclear weapon? if Obama reelected - Post Politics - The Washington Post

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Anything he wasn't correct about?

Flashback: Mitt Romney says Iran ‘will have a nuclear weapon’ if Obama reelected.

Mitt Romney says Iran ?will have a nuclear weapon? if Obama reelected - Post Politics - The Washington Post

And has it got a nuclear weapon Booners?

No, so he was fucking wrong about that and everything else.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Anything he wasn't correct about?

Flashback: Mitt Romney says Iran ‘will have a nuclear weapon’ if Obama reelected.

Mitt Romney says Iran ?will have a nuclear weapon? if Obama reelected - Post Politics - The Washington Post

And has it got a nuclear weapon Booners?

No, so he was fucking wrong about that and everything else.

Two years to go.

Says Tweedledee...

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Anything he wasn't correct about?

Flashback: Mitt Romney says Iran ‘will have a nuclear weapon’ if Obama reelected.

Mitt Romney says Iran ?will have a nuclear weapon? if Obama reelected - Post Politics - The Washington Post

And has it got a nuclear weapon Booners?

No, so he was fucking wrong about that and everything else.

Two years to go.

Don't get too excited.

The only way they'll get one in two years is if they buy one off the Bacon Sarnies.