Romney Schools Obama on Jobs
In a freshly penned op-ed, Romney asks “where is Obama?” when it comes to putting American people back to work. As with anything Romney produces, it’s worth a read:
Sometimes truth arrives from the most unexpected sources. Christina Romer, President Obama’s former chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, said last week that she was dismayed at Washington’s lack of focus on jobs.
“I frankly don’t understand why policymakers aren’t more worried about the suffering of real families,” Romer said. “We need to realize that there is still a lot of devastation out there.” She called the 8.9% unemployment rate “an absolute crisis.”
How bad is it? Last week, in the blue-collar community of Taunton, Mass., the annual jobs fair was canceled because not enough companies came forward to offer jobs.[...]
Even 7.5% unemployment means 11.5 million Americans without jobs. The human cost of that dry statistic can be detailed in a canvas of broken hopes and shattered lives. Workers at job fairs today are confronting an employment market in which there are almost five times as many job seekers as there are openings. Anyone who has visited such a fair or gone to a career center has seen the face of despair up close.
President Obama didn’t cause the recession, but he made it worse and caused it to last longer. From the outset, he inaugurated the most anti-investment, anti-business, anti-jobs policies we have seen since Jimmy Carter. Further, the White House has still not crafted any discernible plan to put Americans back to work.[...]
One of our greatest strengths as a nation is our dynamism. When we mobilize to solve a problem, we solve it. It might be a cliché to say that leadership is required, but it also happens to be true.
We don’t have that leadership now. Instead, we have passive acquiescence. Yet, if there was an ever an issue on which all Americans should agree, it is that when it comes to unemployment, the time to define deviancy upward is overdue.
Romney lays out a plan for job creation:
Creating good, lasting jobs will require the following:
•A tax policy that rewards savings, investment, entrepreneurial risk-taking and exports.
•Free, open and fair access to foreign markets, with a focus on constructive trade reform with China.
•Elimination of the federal bureaucratic and regulatory stranglehold on business.
•A market-driven energy policy that encourages investment in America and reduces our dependence on foreign oil.
•A commitment to fiscal responsibility through budget restraints and entitlement reform.
-Luke Gunderson
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I love Mitt Romney’s article!! We need a President who will job creation his #1 priority!
“A market-driven energy policy that encourages investment in America and reduces our dependence on foreign oil.”
My question to Mitt is, what exactly would this policy be? What are the details of such a policy? We have been talking about creating policies that reduce our dependence on foreign oil for years, but nobody seems willing to put forth any real concrete ideas.
I love Mitt Romney, but I am also tired of politicians saying “we need to a policy” or we need a plan” or “we need to encourage innovation” in this or that. I want a politician to tell me their policy, their plan. I want them to be innovative.
@Brandon Hinds
Then read his book…it’s that simple.
I understand why Romney included a mention of free trade in his op ed. If interested, see the latest in conservative thoughts on free trade here
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02242009.html
and here
http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2011/feb11/11-02-18.html
For additional information see the books Bringing America Home by Tom Pauken, How the economy was lost by Paul Craig Roberts, and Free Trade Doesn’t Work by Ian Fletcher.
A great shirt or poster to carry at a convention would be….
“America has a Hitt with Mitt”