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He could do a lot that Obama cannot do. After all, he would no longer face such stubborn obstructionist that Obama has to deal with. You know, the kind of politician who forgets that he ought to serve the people of the United States and who is only interested in blocking any initiative because compromise is seen as a weakness.
Both parties have done of obstructionism in the past and the president knew how to deal with or prevent it. Lok at how Clinton worked things out with Gingrich. The problem with Obama is that he doesn't know how to do that...he just wasn't for the job. Hillary should have gone first...for eight years....then maybe Obama.
Romney's not beholden to environmentalists, the finest job-killing entity in existence as Obama is, not to mention belligerent unions such as the UAW.
'Shovel ready' jobs are plentiful, but Obama's subservience to environmentalists makes filling them impossible something that Romney isn't handicapped with.
His party's continued practice of endorsing the rampant illiteracy in our public schools and unwillingness to take on the unions is pathetic, but that's been the case for 99% of Democrats since the Nixon Presidency.
Romney's not beholden to environmentalists, the finest job-killing entity in existence as Obama is, not to mention belligerent unions such as the UAW.
'Shovel ready' jobs are plentiful, but Obama's subservience to environmentalists makes filling them impossible something that Romney isn't handicapped with.
His party's continued practice of endorsing the rampant illiteracy in our public schools and unwillingness to take on the unions is pathetic, but that's been the case for 99% of Democrats since the Nixon Presidency.
Specifics? How has Obama's "subservience to environmentalists" hurt the economy?
Both parties have done of obstructionism in the past and the president knew how to deal with or prevent it. Lok at how Clinton worked things out with Gingrich. The problem with Obama is that he doesn't know how to do that...he just wasn't for the job. Hillary should have gone first...for eight years....then maybe Obama.
Perhaps - or it could be that he has been actively blocked by his opponents like no other president before him.
Look at the craziness you can find on this forum. If Obama orders a Pepsi at a restaurant, his opponents will immediately declare that Obama has declared an ideological war on Coke.
It is ridiculous, shameful, and extremely detrimental to this nation.
Sorry, but I don't find the majority of blame with Obama - I do find it with those who will block any initiative that comes from Obama or the Dems, no matter how sensible it is.
It's not a matter of Obama can't do, it's a matter of Obama won't do:
Begin by cutting spending
1. Eliminate the Federal Department of Education
2. Eliminate the EPA
3. Repeal Obamacare
4. Pass a balanced budget amendment
5. Reign in entitlements
6. Collect on foreign debt
7. Eliminate foreign aid to unfriendly nations
8. Eliminate contributions to the UN
9. Repeal Dodd-Frank
10. Approve Keystone pipeline
11. Drill baby drill
Specifics? How has Obama's "subservience to environmentalists" hurt the economy?
Real world only please, no talking points.
The entire GREEN agenda is nothing but a UN scam for global redistribution of wealth based on carbon taxes! Or have you already forgotten Obama's Green Energy Czar, self-avowed communist Van Jones?
1) Reduce corporate income taxes. Right now, U.S. corporations pay far higher corporate taxes than any other industrialized nation. Even Sweden's corporate rates are 13% lower the the U.S.
2) Reduce regulations. The CEO of Intel did an eye-opening interview a couple of years ago, stating flatly that a factory that costs $1 billion to run in Asia costs $2 billion to run in the United States, and only 10% of those extra costs were in higher wages. The rest were taxes and regulations.
3) Gut Dodd/Frank. Designed to curb the worst excesses of lending in the middle part of the last decade (Which, by the way, were in large part because of the government's wholesale involvement in housing lending beginning in the mid 90s), Dodd Frank actually went way too far the other way. In a classic case of the Law of Unintended Consequences in action, small- and mid-sized banks, the ones who did not cause this mess in the first place, are the ones who are being punished while the megabanks who were the biggest offenders have prospered. What's more, DF created incredibly detailed government oversight on lending, so that even businesses with impeccable credit records have had difficulty borrowing money or even rolling over current loans. My wife is the VP/Finance of a very large commercial real estate company, and you wouldn't believe the gyrations she has had to go through with lenders, even though her company has never missed a single mortgage payment ever. Given that lending is the engine of expansion and financial growth, this has retarded economic activity to a remarkable degree. Barney Frank, because of both his cheering of the real estate bubble and his authorship of this law, could possibly be the worst Federal legislator of the past century.
5) Avoid entanglements with the IMF. The new agreement with the IMF that nobody seems to be aware of, put into place additional fees that will add 26 basis points to every single loan rate. WTF? At a time when it's important to stimulate borrowing, why in God's name would you make borrowing more expensive?
6) Encourage domestic energy production in the United States and make it easier to import from Canada. Currently, the United States gets 80% of its energy from either our own country, Canada, or Mexico. Increase that percentage and you not only create additional jobs and reduce overall fuel costs, but you also have the added side effect of diminishing our dependency to a bunch of medieval Arab states. Win win in my opinion.
7) Move towards slashing entitlements. The current trends are completely unsustainable and efforts to prop up an unworkable system will ultimately devalue the currency and destroy borrowing costs.
I would bet you a lemon that Obama is better at accounting than Mitt the twit.Mitt never went to law school either. He was to busy cutting hair and closing doors so a blind person would slam into it.
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