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StarryNite

(9,458 posts)
Sat Oct 27, 2012, 02:41 AM Oct 2012

Mitt Romney Like George Bush Only Scarier



Mitt Romney's Nightmare for America

Repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), saying "I'll kill it dead on Day One"

Let employers and politicians limit women's access to common forms of birth control

Turn Medicare into a voucher program and end guaranteed benefits

Cut investments in education, even as the wealthy get larger tax cuts

Give tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires, paid for by raising taxes on the middle class—the same failed policies that caused the financial crisis

Mitt Romney would let employers, insurance companies, and politicians limit women's health choices.

Mitt Romney believes that Roe v. Wade should be overturned, and backed an extreme proposal to outlaw abortions even in the case of incest and rape.

Slash family planning funding, and "get rid of" funding for Planned Parenthood

Mitt Romney has no plan to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan.

Mitt Romney has made reckless, unfounded claims but has outlined no detailed policies for these issues.

On a foreign trip, Mitt Romney insulted one of our closest allies—the British—right before their Olympics. And he's spent months on the campaign trail criticizing our allies and partners around the world.

Mitt Romney said that we should have let Detroit "go bankrupt."

Mitt Romney has promised to repeal Wall Street reform, allowing big banks to once again write their own rules.

Mitt Romney called the President's decision to bring troops home from Iraq "tragic"

"I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives." —Mitt Romney on 47% of Americans

Mitt Romney would end guaranteed benefits and turn Medicare into a voucher program, which could cost seniors more than $6000 more each year.

Mitt Romney would let employers, insurance companies, and politicians limit women's health choices.

Mitt Romney would go back to the days when insurance companies made their own rules, and families had fewer choices. Compare the plans.

Mitt Romney wants to preserve loopholes that allow millionaires like himself to pay a lower tax rate than working families.

Mitt Romney would slash investments in the middle class while providing one of the largest tax cuts in history to the wealthy.

Mitt Romney has refused to detail any plan for how he would reduce the deficit. Instead, he has called for $5 trillion in new tax cuts weighted towards the wealthy and a massive defense build-up with no strategic rationale, along with deep cuts to investments in the middle class.
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Mitt Romney Like George Bush Only Scarier (Original Post) StarryNite Oct 2012 OP
Wouldn't a rubber Halloween mask StarryNite Oct 2012 #1
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StarryNite

(9,458 posts)
1. Wouldn't a rubber Halloween mask
Sat Oct 27, 2012, 02:52 AM
Oct 2012

that looks just like he does in the last picture be the scariest mask ever?!

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