* $10 billion foreclosure prevention fund to help struggling homeowners * Change in bankruptcy law to allow judges to modify mortgage loan terms * Tax credits for struggling homeowners * A crackdown on predatory and fraudulent lenders * Better disclosure about mortgages to home-buyers * A moratorium on foreclosures
而直到今天他又做到了哪一點? 即使奧巴馬自己都承認說：the housing crisis is the most stubborn issue I've faced。
他的各項經濟紓困方案一般變調，虎頭蛇尾, 執行時他的團隊又多所延誤。簡單概括就是：“輕易跳票”（over promise and under deliver）。奧巴馬的經濟政策顧問團隊最近持續100天沒有一起舉行過工作會議；蓋特納是一位已知的，有多年稅務作弊的財政部長；2012年06月14日，商務部長布賴森卷入兩起車禍，居然還“肇事逃逸”（hit-and-run），難怪外界質疑奧巴馬用人不當。
羅姆尼應該當選的十大理由 Why Romney's victory is critical to US economy?
Romney has a stellar track records to turn businesses, state, Olympics around. He has a profound understanding of how business and economy functions, while Obama lacks of basic understanding and experiences, and holds wrong philosophy.
1. How jobs are created? Jobs are created where businesses prosper, so companies need to hire more people to produce products or provide services, which are in high demands. Jobs are not created for the sake of creating jobs.
2. How businesses prosper? Business prospers when their products and services are in demands. Business typically prospers in environment of low land costs, low labor costs, low energy costs, low taxation, etc.
3. How bubbles are created? Bubbles are typically created by easy monetary policy and easy credit.
4. How banking crisis are created? Banks typically use assets as collateral. When assets are in bubble, bank makes loan without enough backing. Also banks adopt loose lending policies to businesses and individuals.
5. What's the downside of money printing? Money printing promotes unfair wealth transfer, borrowing, speculation and moral hazard, while discourages hard working and saving.
6. What's the unintended consequence of government guarantee? The government guarantee makes risks of deposit, investment, artificially equal, thus promotes return chasing at the cost of more risk taking.
7. How to solve the too big to fail problem? Too big to fail simply means too big. We need incentives to break them down. Bailing out banks simply did the opposite. We should wipe out creditors’ value rather than using tax payers’ money.
8. Why big government is never the answer? Market economy is more efficient in allocating resources.
9. Why Obama is not qualified as President? He lacks basic understanding of how business and economy work. He doesn't understand priorities and urgency in managing the economy. He over-emphasizes green energy and education. In Chinese, we say far water can't save the close fire.
10. How a country prospers? Hopefully it prospers when households, companies, states and locals, and federal are in good financial conditions.
In conclusion, Romney understands how to generate economic growth, create jobs, balance budgets, get rid of Bernanke's money printing, and consolidating government. He is the man who can turn US around and make US prosper again for generations to come!
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donzhu 發表評論於
回複Richard的評論:
The failure rate of the current administration in the bail out effort is about 8%, including the infamous Solyndra. I wonder why you only listed the successful enterprises Bain/Romney invested but not the failures. If you do a research, you will find out 22% of the companies they bought/sold ended up going bankrupted. So Bain/Romney is not all that glamorous at all and one certainly cannot count on Romney's enterprise skill in running the US government if he keeps the failure rate at 22% which is much higher than the current administration.
There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life. One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense, when even Hillary only had three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one; and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President's own pocket.
Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe.
長在紅旗下 發表評論於
First Lady Michelle Obama's Servant List and Pay Scale
The First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants (Thats 22 Attendants to be exact)
1. $172,200 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 - Medina, David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary to The First Lady)
16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special-2Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide to The First Lady)
17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000 - Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
(This is community organizing at it's finest.)
"關於猶太人多數支持民主黨，最主要的原因是，民主黨奉行自由化，比較沒有信念，因此比較容易被金錢左右，成為猶太人的“傀儡”。猶太人自己很難成為美國總統，就選擇一個可以操縱的人稱為他們的代言人。奧巴馬就是這樣的代言人，傀儡。" - 這樣的言論不是別有用心至少也是無知。猶太人支持民主黨的主要原因是因為對他們而言（這裏我引用一個調查的結果）“a commitment to social equality is most important to their Jewish identity”- 社會公正對猶太人是最重要的。聯想到他們過去數千年受到的不公正待遇，這是很自然的。在一個平等的，公平競爭的社會裏，猶太人絕對脫穎而出。這也是我偏向民主黨的主要原因， 因為對我們中國人作為少數族裔而言，競爭我們不怕， 怕的是不公平的待遇，排華法案，等等。 別以為這些不會再發生， 有一天跟中國打起來， 我們還有可能被送進集中營。很多民主黨的主張我也不讚成，但民主黨更傾向少數族裔，包括我們華人，對我們是最重要的。有些華人有了一點錢，離1% 還遠得很， 就以為成了白人，甚至比白人還要歧視少數族裔，包括猶太人。有一天你受迫害時，看誰來為你說話，好好想想吧。
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock refused to apologize Wednesday for saying that rape resulting in pregnancy is "something God intended."
Republican Mitt Romney's campaign says he still supports Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock after Mourdock said "God intended" pregnancies that result from rape. The campaign has not asked Mourdock to pull a TV ad featuring Romney.
Chinese Americans who are still undecided please, firstly, ask yourself a question--why did you leave your homeland and come to this country in the first place? Secondly go see a movie--2016, Obama's America. Obama is by no means a traditional democrat. To understand why he is doing what he is doing and has done in the past three and half years, you need to understand where he came from.Eventually you will be able to decide to whom to vote for.
Main strain media which is deeply in bed with Obama portrayed Romney--a husband who married his wife for over 40 years,a father who raised five fine sons, a self-made mufti-millionaire who donated all money inherited from his father to BYU a villain who simply doesn't care about the poor, and there are lots of folks out there seem to buy all those B.S. I don't understand. If Obama is re-elected, Americans deserve whatever they will get. I always believe things happen for a reason. Maybe this is just the destiny of America. Not long ago in history channel a documentary on George Washington I watched, in his diary, Washington wrote he had a dream last night and someone came to his tent and talked to him he with his legion is going to win the war against Great Britain, he will lead them to built a new country which will be blessed to have about 200 years of unrivaled prosperity, later it's said, the truth is in his diary Washington didn't say it's a dream.
sharptooth 發表評論於
回複Richard的評論:
Richard在教數學? 放無腦爺爺奶奶們一馬,沒聽說過: old dog can't learn new tricks.. 嗬嗬~
Nationwide, immigrants go for Democrats over Republicans by 5:1, with the exception of Chinese (and Koreans), who are at (or near) the bottom of the social political ladder.
To appreciate 樓主's effort and time, I wanna show my 100% support and agreement. Our household and all my American friends voted and would vote for the same as you would do.
GWB started two wars without paying for them. Remember them?
And if Romney and Ryan are elected — the anti-war movement, the movement to hamstring the War on Terror, will return.
So will homelessness, already present in every corner. The Rich will discover that there’s poverty. thanks to Wall Street greed. “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism” will once more be heard in the land.
You get the picture. I hope you’re having a less cynical day than I am!
The President's "new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared" is the same old economic class dividing rhetoric of telling people the only way their own lot in life can improve is by bringing another down, drawing on the basest of human emotions avarice, jealousy and class envy, shamelessly inciting citizens to covet with authority as he does.
It's not spreading the wealth, but spreading the misery incrementally, as more and more slackers are rewarded from the productivity of fewer and fewer productive workers resulting in the loss of liberty and the eventual tyranny of a life by government ration for all of us.
To be an American is to love liberty and freedom and many Americans have died defending them for us.
This President hardly ever mentions these words in his speeches because liberty and freedom are directly opposed to the society he seeks for America. He is a committed collectivist working to diminish them by incrementally absolving personal responsibilities and conferring them on the collective, slowly undermining our American heritage, our values, our work ethic, and our pride in American self reliance by leading lives prepared for tomorrow.
Our Constitution, the same one he’s sworn to uphold, defend and protect, is not "a fundamentally flawed document" as he repeatedly states at college commencement exercises as he seeks to dissociate our young people from the founding of their republic, their heritage, their education and the values of their parents and grandparents, and any religious instruction.
His revisionist history, his contrived new start, his secular collectivist vision of the future are all baseless, backward, wrong, un-American, a road to certain ruin, depravity and decadence, that will all be defeated simply because they must be defeated.
Ronald Reagan taught us, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." Our vigil in the defense of liberty is perpetual, constant and without end.
You Don’t Know Mitt: 99 + 1 Facts About Mitt Romney
1. As head of the investment company Bain Capital, Mitt Romney laid off thousands of workers.
[CBS News, 01/28/2008]
2. Mitt Romney's advice on the foreclosure crisis: "Don't try and stop the foreclosure process."
[Mother Jones, 10/18/2011]
3. The former Bain Capital managing director said of Mitt Romney's tenure: "We had a scheme where the rich got richer."
[Los Angeles Times, 12/16/2007]
4. Mitt Romney set up shell companies in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda to avoid U.S. taxes.
[Los Angeles Times, 12/19/2007]
5. Mitt Romney calls Obama's payroll tax cut that would save middle class/lower income families $1,500 a year "temporary little band aids."
[Yahoo! News, 10/18/2011]
6. Mitt Romney's first budget as governor included $240 million in fee increases.
[Meet the Press, 12/16/2007]
7. As governor, Mitt Romney made it more expensive to use an ice skating rink, register a boat, take the bar exam, and transport hazardous waste.
[Associated Press, The Boston Globe, 08/28/2007]
8. Mitt Romney's plan for a "middle class tax cut" would provide zero benefits to 73.9 percent of the middle class.
[ThinkProgress, 10/14/2011]
9. In 2008, Mitt Romney proposed a $233 billion "stimulus package" to boost the economy.
[USA Today, 01/20/2008]
10. Under Mitt Romney's leadership, Massachusetts ranked 47th among the 50 states in job creation.
[ThinkProgress, 06/2/2011]
11. During Mitt Romney's tenure, Massachusetts' job growth was at 0.9 percent, far behind the national average of over 5 percent.
[ThinkProgress, 06/2/2011]
12. A Northeastern University economist found that Massachusetts lagged on virtually every economic indicator while Mitt Romney was in office.
[ThinkProgress, 06/2/2011]
13. Mitt Romney has proposed tax cuts for the rich and corporations that would cost $7.8 trillion over 10 years.
[ThinkProgress, 09/7/2011]
14. Mitt Romney boasts a record for creating private-sector jobs, but as governor, state employment grew twice as fast as the private sector.
[ThinkProgress, 09/6/2011]
15. Mitt Romney called the Occupy Wall Street movement "dangerous."
[ThinkProgress, 10/4/2011]
16. Mitt Romney's top economic adviser Greg Mankiw said the "offshoring" of American jobs was a good thing.
[Washington Post, 02/11/2004]
17. Mitt Romney called for taxes on the poor, saying low-income Americans having no income tax liability is "a problem" that will "kill the country."
[ThinkProgress, 09/21/2011]
18. Mitt Romney called the auto bailout "tragic." After it succeeded his campaign claimed he "had the idea first."
[ThinkProgress, 05/25/2011]
19. Back in 2002, a spokesman for Mitt Romney derided an anti-tax pledge as "government by gimmickry." He signed the Americans for Tax Reform pledge in 2011.
[ThinkProgress, 06/29/2011]
20. Mitt Romney admits he couldn't reduce Massachusetts' multi-billion dollar budget deficit without new revenue.
[The Boston Globe, 04/6/2003]
21. Mitt Romney would repeal the Dodd-Frank bill, which regulates the risky practices that led to the 2008 crisis.
[ThinkProgress, 08/25/2011]
22. Mitt Romney, who lambasts the "failures" of government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, profits from investments in the firms.
[ThinkProgress, 09/20/2011]
23. Mitt Romney: "Corporations are people, my friend."
[ThinkProgress, 08/11/2011]
24. In 1996, Mitt Romney called the flat tax a "tax cut for fat cats." In 2011, Romney said "I love a flat tax."
[New York Times, 10/24/2011]
25. Mitt Romney supports privatizing Social Security.
[ThinkProgress, 09/8/2011]
26. Mitt Romney defended his belief that we "should consider a higher retirement age" for Social Security and Medicare to preserve tax breaks for corporations.
[ThinkProgress, 08/11/2011]
27. Mitt Romney signed a budget that cut K-12 spending by $181.6 million (4 percent) and higher education spending by $100 million (10 percent).
[The Boston Globe, 10/24/2005]
28. Mitt Romney said he wants to "get the federal government out of education."
[ThinkProgress, 09/23/2011]
29. As governor, Mitt Romney vetoed a minimum wage increase to $8 an hour.
[The Boston Globe, 08/1/2006]
Foreign Policy
30. Mitt Romney said he "cannot see that a Cabinet position would be justified" for an American Muslim.
[Politico, 11/27/2007]
31. Mitt Romney opposes troop withdrawal from Iraq.
[ThinkProgress, 10/21/2011]
32. Mitt Romney says the U.S. should cede humanitarian aid and global leadership to China: "We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people."
[ThinkProgress, 10/19/2011]
33. Mitt Romney vowed to increase the size of the military by 100,000 troops.
[Associated Press, 10/8/2011]
34. Mitt Romney said that catching bin Laden would be "insignificant" and it's "not worth moving heaven and earth."
[New York Times, 05/3/2007]
35. Mitt Romney wanted "bombardment" of Iran.
[New York Times, 10/26/2007]
36. Mitt Romney advocated doubling the size of Guantanamo.
[ThinkProgress, 08/22/2011]
37. Mitt Romney says Obama's worst foreign policy mistake is the START treaty, a modest treaty originally negotiated by Reagan to ensure nuclear stability between the U.S. and Russia.
[ThinkProgress, 07/6/2010]
38. Many of Mitt Romney's foreign policy advisers helped push the U.S. into war with Iraq.
[ThinkProgress, 10/6/2011]
39. In 2008, Mitt Romney said if a Democrat won the White House it would mean "attacks on America."
[ThinkProgress, 02/7/2008]
40. Mitt Romney says it was "entirely possible" that Saddam did have WMDs.
[ThinkProgress, 05/8/2007]
41. Asked if Iraq was a mistake, Mitt Romney said "Well, the question is kind of a nonsequitur."
[Media Matters, 06/6/2007]
42. Mitt Romney named Walid Phares, a radical Islamophobe tied to a militia that committed atrocities, to his foreign policy team.
[The New Republic, 10/24/2011]
43. Mitt Romney won't say whether he thinks waterboarding is torture.
[Democracy Now, 11/29/2007]
Environment
44. Mitt Romney criticized President Obama for a nearly identical green energy program Romney set up in his state. Three of the six companies the Massachusetts fund invested in are now defunct or struggling.
[Politico, 10/26/2011]
45. Mitt Romney opposes regulating carbon dioxide and other gases linked to climate change.
[ThinkProgress, 08/26/2011]
46. Mitt Romney supports drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
[The Boston Globe, 12/13/2005]
47. Mitt Romney considers liquid coal a "clean" technology, though it emits more greenhouse gasses than oil.
[USA Today, 09/27/2007]
48. Mitt Romney stalled and eventually withdrew from a multi-state "pollution pact" that would cap plants' carbon emissions.
[The Boston Globe, 12/10/2005]
49. Mitt Romney said the Clean Air Act doesn't apply to carbon emissions.
[ThinkProgress, 07/18/2011]
50. Today, Mitt Romney says a cap and trade program would have "devastating results for people across the planet." In 2005, Romney said he was "convinced" that cap and trade was "good business."
[ThinkProgress, 05/20/2011]
51. Mitt Romney's energy policy adviser works for a lobbying firm for a major coal company.
[ThinkProgress, 09/12/2011]
52. Mitt Romney supports unlimited coal and oil production.
[ThinkProgress, 05/20/2011]
Social Issues
53. Mitt Romney supports penalties for doctors who perform an abortion.
[ThinkProgress, 10/3/2011]
54. Mitt Romney wants to see Roe v. Wade overturned.
[Meet The Press, 12/16/2007]
55. Mitt Romney used to say he was pro-choice, and now he's "avidly pro-life."
[Sioux City Journal, 12/27/2007]
56. Mitt Romney would "absolutely" support a state constitutional amendment to define life as beginning at conception, which would restrict women's right to an abortion.
[ThinkProgress, 10/3/2011]
57. In 2005, Mitt Romney vetoed a measure that would have increased access to emergency contraception by allowing pharmacists to provide the pill without a prescription.
[ThinkProgress, 07/29/2011]
58. Mitt Romney pledged to expand a Bush-Era policy of permitting doctors to deny women access to contraceptives.
[ThinkProgress, 09/6/2011]
59. Top Mitt Romney legal adviser Robert Bork said women "aren't discriminated against anymore."
[ThinkProgress, 10/17/2011]
60. Mitt Romney drafted a bill to exempt a religious group from nondiscrimination rules, allowing it to ban gay couples from adopting children.
[Associated Press, 03/14/2006]
61. In the 1990s, Mitt Romney told the Log Cabin Republicans that he'd be better than Ted Kennedy on gay rights.
[ThinkProgress, 06/8/2011]
62. Mitt Romney has signed the National Organization for Marriage anti-gay campaign pledge, calling for a federal amendment outlawing same-sex marriage.
[ThinkProgress, 08/4/2011]
63. Mitt Romney on Don't Ask, Don't Tell's end: "I believe it should have been kept in place until conflict was over."
[ThinkProgress, 06/13/2011]
64. Mitt Romney refused to condemn the booing of a gay soldier at a GOP debate.
[ThinkProgress, 10/4/2011]
65. Mitt Romney suggested the government should continue to subsidize religious organizations that discriminate against gay couples in the adoption process.
[ThinkProgress, 09/6/2011]
66. Campaigning in 1994, Mitt Romney said "I don't line up with the NRA." Today, Mitt Romney is a lifetime member of the NRA.
[Time, 05/10/2007]
67. Mitt Romney criticized Ted Kennedy for not being tough enough on guns.
[The Boston Globe, 08/27/1994]
68. Mitt Romney falsely claimed he was endorsed by the NRA in 2002.
[Washington Post, 12/16/2007]
69. Mitt Romney blamed pornography for the Virginia Tech shooting.
[Fox News, 07/5/2007]
Health Care
70. Mitt Romney's former health care consultant, an MIT economist, claimed the former governor is being "dishonest" when he says he didn't have to raise taxes in order to pay for Romneycare.
[ThinkProgress, 10/14/2011]
71. Mitt Romney said he supported the Ryan Republican budget plan that would effectively end Medicare.
[ThinkProgress, 04/25/2011]
72. Mitt Romney's first act as president would be to allow all states to opt out of health reform through executive action, which would be illegal.
[ThinkProgress, 03/23/2011]
73. Mitt Romney would repeal the broad prohibition against denying coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions.
[ThinkProgress, 05/13/2011]
74. Mitt Romney claims Massachusetts is not a model for health reform, after saying in 2009 his state "is a model for getting everyone insured."
[ThinkProgress, 04/8/2010]
75. Mitt Romney criticizes "Obamacare" but it is functionally identical to Romneycare.
[ThinkProgress, 01/19/2010]
76. Mitt Romney reversed his campaign position, enacting abstinence-only sex education in schools.
[The Boston Globe, 06/30/2007]
77. Mitt Romney's health care advisers played a key role in drafting the Affordable Care Act.
[ThinkProgress, 03/5/2010]
Immigration
78. Mitt Romney: "I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, I can't have illegals."
[Politico, 10/19/2007]
79. Mitt Romney initially supported the Bush plan for a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. He later denounced it.
[Washington Post, 02/4/2008]
80. Mitt Romney was endorsed in 2008 by radical anti-immigrant activists like Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) and Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
[ThinkProgress, 03/5/2010]
81. The landscaping company Mitt Romney used to tend his mansion for 10 years employed illegal immigrants.
[ThinkProgress, 04/26/2011]
82. Mitt Romney criticized Rick Perry for providing government benefits to undocumented immigrants, but Romneycare provided free health care to undocumented immigrants.
[Los Angelus Times, 10/23/2011]
Politics
83. As of October 2011, Mitt Romney has raised more than five times as much money from Wall St. employees as Obama, raising $1.5 million.
[ThinkProgress, 10/16/2011]
84. A leaked strategic document from Mitt Romney's 2007 campaign lists "perfect hair" among the candidate's flaws.
[The Boston Globe, 02/27/2007]
85. Mitt Romney said he finds "it hard to disagree with Rush Limbaugh on topics."
[ThinkProgress, 03/9/2010]
86. Mitt Romney in 2004: "From now on, it's me me me."
[The Boston Globe, 06/30/2007]
87. Whenever the Massachussets House challenged Mitt Romney, they overrode his vetoes 99.6 percent of the time.
[The Boston Globe, 06/30/2007]
88. Mitt Romney in 2008: I "love" George W. Bush.
[ThinkProgress, 01/3/2008]
89. Mitt Romney refused to pardon an Iraq war veteran's BB-gun conviction but called Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence "reasonable."
[ThinkProgress, 07/4/2007]
90. Tea Party billionaire David Koch hosted one of Mitt Romney's first fundraisers for his 2012 campaign.
[ThinkProgress, 03/15/2011]
91. Mitt Romney considers himself "in sync" with the Tea Party.
[Reuters, 08/18/2011]
Other
92. Mitt Romney's beach house has a "nonliving area" that is twice the size of the average American home.
[ThinkProgress, 08/29/2011]
93. Mitt Romney plans to bulldoze his 3,000-square-foot $12 million home in California to replace it with one four times its size. Romney also owns a $10 million estate in New Hampshire.
[ThinkProgress, 08/21/2011]
94. Mitt Romney feels Americans' pain because he's "also unemployed." Romney was worth $250 million in 2008.
[ThinkProgress, 06/16/2011]
95. Mitt Romney's Olympics office refused to give free or discounted tickets to family of firefighters who died in 9/11, though it provided tickets to Utah legislators.
[The Boston Globe, 06/28/2007]
96. Mitt Romney made millions investing in companies that did business in Iran.
[CNN Money, 07/12/2007]
97. Mitt Romney falsely claimed he saw his father march with MLK Jr.
[The Boston Phoenix, 12/21/2007]
98. In 2007, Mitt Romney briefly declared his favorite book was Scientology classic Battlefield Earth, though he quickly changed it to Mark Twain's Hucklebery Finn.
[ThinkProgress, 07/5/2011]
99. Mitt Romney won't release his tax returns.
[ThinkProgress, 10/11/2011]
and now
+1. Mitt Romney on China: We are going to have a trade war, but we can't have a trade surrender either…
起個破名想半天 發表評論於
過去4年的美國，就是毛巴馬在行動。
穿高跟鞋的貓 發表評論於
Anybody who wants to vote for Obama should read this and think about what he will do to this great country for the next 4 years if re-elected. Anybody who wants to vote for Romney - please go and cast your vote!
* $10 billion foreclosure prevention fund to help struggling homeowners * Change in bankruptcy law to allow judges to modify mortgage loan terms * Tax credits for struggling homeowners * A crackdown on predatory and fraudulent lenders * Better disclosure about mortgages to home-buyers * A moratorium on foreclosures
而直到今天他又做到了哪一點? 即使奧巴馬自己都承認說：the housing crisis is the most stubborn issue I've faced。
他的各項經濟紓困方案一般變調，虎頭蛇尾, 執行時他的團隊又多所延誤。簡單概括就是：“輕易跳票”（over promise and under deliver）。奧巴馬的經濟政策顧問團隊最近持續100天沒有一起舉行過工作會議；蓋特納是一位已知的，有多年稅務作弊的財政部長；2012年06月14日，商務部長布賴森卷入兩起車禍，居然還“肇事逃逸”（hit-and-run），難怪外界質疑奧巴馬用人不當。
羅姆尼應該當選的十大理由 Why Romney's victory is critical to US economy?
Romney has a stellar track records to turn businesses, state, Olympics around. He has a profound understanding of how business and economy functions, while Obama lacks of basic understanding and experiences, and holds wrong philosophy.
1. How jobs are created? Jobs are created where businesses prosper, so companies need to hire more people to produce products or provide services, which are in high demands. Jobs are not created for the sake of creating jobs.
2. How businesses prosper? Business prospers when their products and services are in demands. Business typically prospers in environment of low land costs, low labor costs, low energy costs, low taxation, etc.
3. How bubbles are created? Bubbles are typically created by easy monetary policy and easy credit.
4. How banking crisis are created? Banks typically use assets as collateral. When assets are in bubble, bank makes loan without enough backing. Also banks adopt loose lending policies to businesses and individuals.
5. What's the downside of money printing? Money printing promotes unfair wealth transfer, borrowing, speculation and moral hazard, while discourages hard working and saving.
6. What's the unintended consequence of government guarantee? The government guarantee makes risks of deposit, investment, artificially equal, thus promotes return chasing at the cost of more risk taking.
7. How to solve the too big to fail problem? Too big to fail simply means too big. We need incentives to break them down. Bailing out banks simply did the opposite. We should wipe out creditors’ value rather than using tax payers’ money.
8. Why big government is never the answer? Market economy is more efficient in allocating resources.
9. Why Obama is not qualified as President? He lacks basic understanding of how business and economy work. He doesn't understand priorities and urgency in managing the economy. He over-emphasizes green energy and education. In Chinese, we say far water can't save the close fire.
10. How a country prospers? Hopefully it prospers when households, companies, states and locals, and federal are in good financial conditions.
In conclusion, Romney understands how to generate economic growth, create jobs, balance budgets, get rid of Bernanke's money printing, and consolidating government. He is the man who can turn US around and make US prosper again for generations to come!
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