commentary by Timothy
Horrigan
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Right before the 2012 General Election,
Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast hard. Willard M.
Romney's comments at a June 13, 2011 Republican Presidential
debate sounded very bad 16 months after the fact in October
2012... at least they sounded bad to anyone with even a modicum
of commonsense. So, actually, I guess his core supporters
won't be offended by them.
KING: You've been a chief executive of a state. I was just in Joplin, Missouri. I've been in Mississippi and Louisiana and Tennessee and other communities dealing with whether it's the tornadoes, the flooding, and worse. FEMA is about to run out of money, and there are some people who say do it on a case-by-case basis and some people who say, you know, maybe we're learning a lesson here that the states should take on more of this role. How do you deal with something like that?
ROMNEY: Absolutely. Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that's even better.
Instead of thinking in the federal budget, what we should cut -- we should ask ourselves the opposite question. What should we keep? We should take all of what we're doing at the federal level and say, what are the things we're doing that we don't have to do? And those things we've got to stop doing, because we're borrowing $1.6 trillion more this year than we're taking in. We cannot...
KING: Including disaster relief, though?
ROMNEY: We cannot -- we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we'll all be dead and gone before it's paid off. It makes no sense at all. (emphasis added)
(The rest of this page has nothing directly to do with
Hurricane Sandy.)
America's just another nation with a flag!
Original URL: http://youtu.be/sjJorv8HBU4
And here he is answering the questions and giving the answers he likes:
Original URL: http://youtu.be/tIhgcG6C-ek
"MYTH"
ROMNEY IN HIS OWN WORDS!
(This one is courtesy of "KenyanBornObamacorn")
Original URL: http://youtu.be/W6CqQYzUCbU
and, from the other side of the
spectrum: "Romney vs. Reality" (courtesy of Barack
Obama)
Original URL: http://youtu.be/dM9DVC7kd7s
Original URL: http://youtu.be/QDuk6dYjocM