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Mitt Romney's One Point Plan; For Job Stagnation
Topic Started: Oct 21 2012, 09:48 PM (530 Views)
Berton
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Like Obama is beholden to Soros?
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Oct 22 2012, 03:02 AM
If by moderate you mean the average of all his varied positions ends up somewhere in the middle, maybe you're correct.

Or maybe you mean that his success in Mass. was moderate, which from what I've heard is being very generous.

But as Paul says, the real danger is not Mitt, it's all the extremists he's beholden to.
This is the problem. But Mitt is rich and will take care of ONLY the rich
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I read the article Neal, and came away wondering if the reason his approval rating was low upon leaving office was because he changed the way community expenses were funded. I can't picture people being upset on how he approached the need to bring jobs to the state. He was on that issue from day one.

I wonder how the democrat governor has preformed since replacing Mitt?
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Oct 22 2012, 04:34 AM
I read the article Neal, and came away wondering if the reason his approval rating was low upon leaving office was because he changed the way community expenses were funded. I can't picture people being upset on how he approached the need to bring jobs to the state. He was on that issue from day one.

I wonder how the democrat governor has preformed since replacing Mitt?
"I can't picture people being upset on how he approached the need to bring jobs to the state. He was on that issue from day one."

Yep, and he fared about as well as Obama has.

I would guess that a simple google search would answer your last question.
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PolitiFact Checks Romney's Record in Massachusetts:

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"Massachusetts Was 47th Out Of 50 In The Percentage Of Job Growth."

We ran the some numbers ourselves using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics. We should note up front that there are a number of ways to slice the data, and the numbers change a bit depending on the parameters of your search. For example, do you look at all nonfarm workers (which includes government workers) or only private workers? We ran the numbers a few different ways, and while the numbers changed slightly, the ranking did not: Massachusetts was 47th out of 50 in the percentage of job growth.

If you look at all nonfarm workers, for example, Massachusetts went from 3,158,800 jobs to 3,198,500, an increase of 1.3 percent. Only Ohio, Michigan and Louisiana were worse. The national average was 5.3 percent.

At our request, the taxpayer-backed Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, which does nonpartisan analysis of the state's financial and economic statistics, ran some numbers as well. They looked at figures from December 2002 (right before Romney took office) to December 2006, so the percentages were slightly different than ours, but they came to the same ranking for Massachusetts.

"Jobs grew, but they grew at an anemic rate compared to the rest of the country," said Michael Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.

When you have Romney running for president as a business person who says he created jobs for the private sector when he was governor, "In that context, the numbers from the DNC are relevant," Widmer said. "They are a relevant and accurate rebuttal." [PolitiFact, 6/22/11]

Sorry, lost the link, but anyone interested can look up PolitiFact and Date.
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This claim has been an old chestnut on the campaign trail since last year; we first rated it when President Barack Obama’s campaign adviser, David Axelrod, made it in June 2011. We rated it Half True then, and Half True again a year later. It became such a common talking point for Democrats the Romney campaign came up with a counterattack -- that Massachusetts under Romney initially ranked last among states in job growth, but by the end of his governorship, "we were in the middle of the pack." We gave this claim a Half True as well.


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