Romney’s ‘plan’ is Recession II

Published 3:25 pm Friday, June 8, 2012

On Mitt Romney’s website, you’ll find what is shockingly called Romney’s “59 Point Economic Plan.” But carefully reading through some of his points, I’m suddenly reminded that these ideas are eerily similar to the last administration’s economic plan: Which calls for massive government deregulation and massive tax cuts for the rich.

I know most people these days have short-term memories and a lot of it can be tied into how much we can recall, but the fact remains: Embracing Romney’s economic plan for “job growth” and “prosperity” will only lead to renewed financial ruin for this nation and far fewer jobs than Romney actually promises to create. In fact — given the vulgarities of the last Great Recession, many predict that we won’t see any serious job creation for a great number of years because we currently lack any means to innovate and stimulate our nation’s economy like it had been during the boom of the ’90s.

Something which is lacking from Romney’s economic plan.

But of course, we can all forget the last decade where we had two jobless recoveries, two recessions, massive job losses, and of course the Great Recession and willfully vote for Romney and pray that he doesn’t screw things up as badly as Dubya did during his two terms of office.

Naturally, I’m more curious as to how many of us will remember any of this after Romney gets done destroying our country for personal and financial gain — while putting millions more out of work and millions more straight into poverty?

Yes, we can all go on hating President Obama ‘til the cows come home, but would you really trust a man who likes to fire people to be in charge of our country’s economy? Especially since his plan of action is a redress of the last administration’s economic fiascoes and utter failures.

Schuyler Thorpe

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