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Mitt Romney’s illegal immigrant problem

by Phantom Ace ( 6 Comments › )
Filed under Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Progressives, Republican Party, Special Report at October 24th, 2011 - 9:27 am

Mitt Romney has been demagoging the illegal immigrant issue. He has done this in the tradition of other Progressive Republican candidates. They pick a red meat issue that whips up the base to cover up a liberal agenda. It turns out that as part of Romneycare, illegal aliens get medical care!

The Massachusetts healthcare law that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed in 2006 includes a program known as the Health Safety Net, which allows undocumented immigrants to get needed medical care along with others who lack insurance.

Uninsured, poor immigrants can walk into a health clinic or hospital in the state and get publicly subsidized care at virtually no cost to them, regardless of their immigration status.

The program, widely supported in Massachusetts, drew little attention when Romney signed the trailblazing healthcare law. But now it could prove problematic for the Republican presidential hopeful, who has been attacking Texas Gov. Rick Perry for supporting educational aid for children of undocumented immigrants in Texas.

Mitt Romney is a hypocrite. Then again, he’s a Progressive and it’s a hypocritical ideology.

Romney advisers helped create Obamacare

by Phantom Ace Comments Off on Romney advisers helped create Obamacare
Filed under Elections 2012, Headlines, Mitt Romney, Progressives, Republican Party, Socialism at October 11th, 2011 - 10:43 am

Many people have pointed out the similarities between Obamacare and Romneycare. Well it turns out that Obama’s team did model Obamcare on Romney’s plan. They even consulted some of Romney’s advisers to create Obamacare.

Newly obtained White House records provide fresh details on how senior Obama administration officials used Mitt Romney’s landmark health-care law in Massachusetts as a model for the new federal law, including recruiting some of Romney’s own health care advisers and experts to help craft the act now derided by Republicans as “Obamacare.”

The records, gleaned from White House visitor logs reviewed by NBC News, show that senior White House officials had a dozen meetings in 2009 with three health-care advisers and experts who helped shape the health care reform law signed by Romney in 2006, when the Republican presidential candidate was governor of Massachusetts. One of those meetings, on July 20, 2009, was in the Oval Office and presided over by President Barack Obama, the records show. 

“The White House wanted to lean a lot on what we’d done in Massachusetts,” said Jon Gruber, an MIT economist who advised the Romney administration on health care and who attended five meetings at the Obama White House in 2009, including the meeting with the president. “They really wanted to know how we can take that same approach we used in Massachusetts and turn that into a national model.”

Mitt Romney is a Progressive. He will be the doom of Conservatism.

(Hat Tip: tqcincinnatus)

Romney care cost 18,000 jobs

by Phantom Ace ( 1 Comment › )
Filed under Business, Economy, Elections 2012, Headlines, Health Care, Mitt Romney, Progressives, Republican Party, unemployment at September 15th, 2011 - 4:10 pm

Mitt Romney brags that he knows how to create jobs. His track record says otherwise. As head of Bain Capital he shipped thousands of American jobs overseas. Now thanks to with Romneycare, Massachussets lost 18,000 jobs.

The Bay State’s controversial 2006 universal health-care plan — also known as “Romneycare” — has cost Massachusetts more than 18,000 jobs, according to an exclusive blockbuster study that could provide ammo to GOP rivals of former Gov. Mitt Romney as he touts his job-creating chops on the campaign trail.

“Mandating health insurance coverage and expanding the demand for health services without increasing supply drove up costs. Economics 101 tells us that,” said Paul Bachman, research director at Suffolk University’s Beacon Hill Institute, the conservative think tank that conducted the study. The Herald obtained an exclusive copy of the findings.

“The ‘shared sacrifice’ needed to provide universal health care includes a net loss of jobs, which is attributable to the higher costs that the measure imposed,” said David Tuerck, the institute’s executive director.

Mitt Romney knows nothing about creating jobs.

Mitt Romney: Job Killer

by Phantom Ace ( 5 Comments › )
Filed under Economy, Elections 2012, Headlines, Mitt Romney, Progressives, unemployment at June 14th, 2011 - 10:42 am

The Progressive media is hyping Mitt Romney. They are claiming that jobs and the economy are his strength. This is not the case as therecords indicate. As head of Bain Capital, Mitt Romney specialized in buying out small and medium companies. He than would outsource the jobs and sell the company to a bigger one. The result is Bain Capital destroyed whole towns and many families. As Governor of Massachusetts, the state ranked 47th in job creation. Romney is a job killer, not creator.

You see, Romney made a Mittloadof cash using what’s known as a leveraged buyout. He’d buy a company with ‘money borrowed against their assets, groomed them to be sold off and in the interim collect huge management fees.’ Once Mitt had control of the company, he’d cut frivolous spending like jobs, workers, employees, and jobs. Just like America’s sweetheart, Gordon Gecko. […]

“Because Mitt Romney knows just how to trim the fat. He rescued businesses like Dade Behring, Stage Stories, American Pad and Paper, and GS Industries, then his company sold them for a profit of $578 million after which all of those firms declared bankruptcy. Which sounds bad, but don’t worry, almost no one worked there anymore

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Complicating matters, during Romney’s only service in public office, his state’s record on job creation was “one of the worst in the country.” Adding insult to injury, “By the end of his four years in office, Massachusetts had squeezed out a net gain in payroll jobs of just 1 percent, compared with job growth of 5.3 percent for the nation as a whole.”

How bad is Romney’s record? During his tenure, Massachusetts ranked 47th out of 50 statesin jobs growth.

Nice track record there Mittens. If I know Romney’s true record, you don’t think Obama does?