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Related: About this forumRomney's Cruel Joke on the Middle Class
http://prospect.org/article/romneys-cruel-joke-middle-classRomney's Cruel Joke on the Middle Class
Jamelle Bouie
August 3, 2012
The Republican presidential nominee has stopped trying to hide his allegience to the wealthy and privileged.
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Romneys cuts to Medicaid, Pell Grants and other social servicesthe inevitable outcome of capping federal spending while drastically reducing revenuewould shred the social safety net and make financial security an impossible prospect for millions of Americans. His promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act would deprive countless people of health insurance, and force them to shoulder the burden of an expensive and dysfunctional health care system. His promise to drastically reduce regulations would allow unscrupulous corporations to mislead consumers, and pollute our air, water, and soil with dangerous chemicals. His promise to take on unionswhich are already in declinewould make it even harder for workers to negotiate and stand up for themselves.
Its a cruel joke to describe this as a plan to strengthen the middle class, when in reality, it would destroy opportunity, eliminate security, and place vulnerable Americans at the mercy of employers who lack a commitment to anything other than profits.
Even more galling than the plan itself is the fact that its wrapped in a promise to create 12 million jobs over the next four years. As Greg Sargent points out at the Washington Post, the economy is already projected to create 12 million jobs.
In other words, Romney is peddling a sham plan that does nothing for the economy and nothing for ordinary people. Instead, it drains our shared resources, and diverts them to job creatorsthe privileged elite that has jettisoned any and all concern for the public good.
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Romney's Cruel Joke on the Middle Class (Original Post)
babylonsister
Aug 2012
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Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)1. very good article
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Amonester
(11,541 posts)2. 12 million jobs IF the million retirees can rely on SS, Medicare, etc.
Once all these 'so-called' by the extreme rightists socialist-government 'entitlements' would be squashed, these 'baby-boom' retirees would be forced to keep their jobs, so from where would these projected 12 million jobs come from, mittstick? (crickets, of course, again)