This tweet from Governor Romney earlier today was welcome news:
Looking forward to discussing my op-ed on S&P credit warning w/ @gretawire tonight on @foxnews at 10 pm EDT http://mi.tt/dWtPwqless than a minute ago via web 
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Among the topics discussed, Romney spoke ‘On The Record’ with Greta Van Susteren about Obama’s failures – his Stimulus Bill that stiffed taxpayers and only created a few government jobs, Obama’s refusal to allow America to be energy self-sufficient, i.e. the President’s decisions that are making Americans gasp and groan at the gas pump, our indebtedness to China, illegal immigration, and the presidential race for 2012 (Donald Trump).
UPDATE: FULL INTERVIEW
Romney: Obama White House Downplaying ‘Giant Wake-up Call’, talks gas prices
“You have to have an energy policy that says America is going to develop our own energy resources, as well as developing those renewable sources that – frankly – are important to us, but simply CAN’T POWER OUR CARS.” -Mitt Romney
OPEN THREAD on GretaWire; to share your opinion of her guests tonight, click here.
► Jayde Wyatt
Yes, Mitt. You are correct. Entrepreneurs should be able to drill for oil here in the U.S. We have a lot of oil, but you are failing to draw an important conclusion here.
The cheapest gas in American history, was in 1931, at 17 cents a gallon. However, today, you can buy a gallon of gas for less than 10 cents, but a real dime, one minted before circa 1964, which has a value in today’s USD for $5. So in terms of constitutional money, gasoline isn’t the problem, it’s the value of the dollar.
You can reform our energy policy, that doesn’t get to the root of the problem, which is the devaluation and (not so) orderly destruction of the dollar.
Perhaps Mitt could learn a few things from Joseph Smith:
And Ezra Taft Benson:
Sorry Mitt, you’re not quite there yet.
All oil goes on the global market and disappears into that black hole known as emerging markets. More oil will not mean lower prices because this is not a supply and demand problem, it’s a speculation problem.
Mitt is being intellectually dishonest. I wish he weren’t, I really do.
#1 & #2 And your better solution is?
By Drilling here… you keep the Jobs and the money here, instead of sending it abroad. Simple solution frankly.
Tariffs.
Great interview with Greta. First time I heard/saw you since the last election. Did a great job. You actually mentioned “freedom”. Lack of freedom is the root of all our problems. You have my attention. Thx
Marilyn: Speculators also make money off falling oil prices. Speculation is a two-edged sword, is always present, and serves many important functions for the markets. Blaming rising oil prices on speculation and greed is like blaming gravity for your death after being pushed off the top of a building.
The Federal Reserve has pumped trillions of dollars into the banking cartel (monetary inflation), which is causing massive increases in the prices (price inflation) of food, energy, and other commodities. Is it a coincidence that all of this ‘money-printing’preceding massive inflation? And tariffs? Wow, I’m sure glad you’re not in charge. Tariffs would increase gas prices even more.
Deg: The solution is to follow the constitution, make gold and silver legal tender, and disband the government’s monopoly on money. The monopoly protects the banking cartel, inflates the rich’s assets while inflating the poor’s living expenses. It’s absurd to think a couple of bearded guys in a room can properly set the supply and prices of money (interest rates). When they force interest rates below its true market value, economic balance ensues, causing misallocation of resources and dangerous speculative bubbles (like dot-com or housing). Central banking which serves the interests of the banking cartel and other political-corporatist initiatives causes these boom and bust cycles. Mitt claims to be for free markets, yet he supports the banking cartel and central bank which controls and sets the supply and price of money, the unit we must use in every-day transactions. The solution is go to constitutional money and free market money/banking, as allowed in the constitution. End the Fed.
Some quotes for Mitt:
Marilyn: Speculators also make money off falling oil prices. Speculation is a two-edged sword, is always present, and serves many important functions for the markets. Blaming rising oil prices on speculation and greed is like blaming gravity for your death after being pushed off the top of a building.
The Federal Reserve has pumped trillions of dollars into the banking cartel (monetary inflation), which is causing massive increases in the prices (price inflation) of food, energy, and other commodities. Is it a coincidence that all of this ‘money-printing’preceding massive inflation? And tariffs? Wow, I’m sure glad you’re not in charge. Tariffs would increase gas prices even more.
Deg: The solution is to follow the constitution, make gold and silver legal tender, and disband the government’s monopoly on money. The monopoly protects the banking cartel, inflates the rich’s assets while inflating the poor’s living expenses. It’s absurd to think a couple of bearded guys in a room can properly set the supply and prices of money (interest rates). When they force interest rates below its true market value, economic balance ensues, causing misallocation of resources and dangerous speculative bubbles (like dot-com or housing). Central banking which serves the interests of the banking cartel and other political-corporatist initiatives causes these boom and bust cycles. Mitt claims to be for free markets, yet he supports the banking cartel and central bank which controls and sets the supply and price of money, the unit we must use in every-day transactions. The solution is go to constitutional money and free market money/banking, as allowed in the constitution. End the Fed.
Some quotes for Mitt:
Good job Mitt! We love you!
Mitt, we supported you last time and will again! I believe you are the only qualified person to lead this country out of the mess that our present president has put us in. Yes, loss of our American Freedoms is alarming! Also, we need to Drill, Baby, Drill and produce our own energy resources!! Be courageous!!
We must have tariffs if we’re to get jobs to come back to USA residents. Fact. Yes, it will increase prices in the short term, but its the long term that we need to be concerned with. Even Walmart is starting to be hurt by the loss of jobs, that they have in large part contributed to the loss of. They blame it on inflation due to energy, but it’s a lot more than just that.
Yes, printing money has an effect, but it isn’t as big of an effect as you want to think since banks are ALREADY sitting on trillions that they won’t invest here, but freely invest over there in that black hole known as emerging markets. And there are reasons why they invest over there, instead of here, that have nothing to do with taxes. To hear some Republicans talk, they want us to look like communist China. I don’t want the trade-offs that they’ve made there, made here.
For those with an open mind, I recommend the books Bringing America Home, How the Economy was Lost, and Free Trade Doesn’t Work.
Here’s a transcript of the entire interview:
http://ontherecord.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=25657&content=51164816&pageNum=-1