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01 March 2012

Part Two: President Obama's Failure

Damn, we are just moving right along! We are already on Part Two and so far we have learned that Romney is literate and conservative. Learning new things already! All joking aside, congratulations to Romney for winning Michigan and Arizona yesterday. Gained him back some momentum and slowed Santorum's roll as we move along to Super Tuesday. Now, back to the economic plan!
Previous Installments: Introduction and Part One
Part Two: President Obama's Failure
Mitt Romney says that when Obama took office, "Washington was at crossroads". This was an intelligent assessment, but before we give him too much credit, he follows this by saying that there were two options. Yes, to Mitt Romney, the presidency is like a True/False Quiz and you can flip a coin to choose what to do. One was liberal and one conservative. Willard has a great way of simplifying things, doesn't he?
The Stimulus
The $775 billion stimulus clearly did not work in the way that it was intended and Romney does nothing to contradict this. The main intention was to lower the unemployment to 5.25% before 2013. This is not going to happen and Mitt also shows that the stimulus plan was meant to create an approximate 3 or 4 million jobs by 2010 and instead we, as a nation, cut 2.5 million. After coherently and respectfully analyzing the situation, Romney really gained some respect,  but then lost it all when he finished this segment with, "Romer and Bernstein's own caution about potential error turned out to be the only thing accurate in their forecast."
Distractions
The main focus of this segment is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was a 2,139 page bill that passed through the House without a single "Aye" by a conservative. Easy to guess where Romney's stance is on it. The bill, which was meant to help stabilize Wall Street by installing a "flood of new regulation", will not be fully understood until the consequences are examined further down the road. After spending two pages on the Dodd-Frank bill, Romney switches gears. Now we can focus on "the biggest elephant in the room": Obamacare.
Once we get to the juicy stuff, Romney let's us down by saying that, "This is not the place to spell out its problematic implications." Well if this isn't the place, then where exactly would you place it? Your will? Maybe the real issue that is stopping him from launching a full-frontal attack of Obamacare is the fact that his health-care initiative during his time as governor of Massachusetts was strikingly similar.

That is where we end Part Two. The next segment, Part Three will have to be split up. It is titled Mitt Romney's Plan, so it is longer than the Book of Mormon (Okay, you got me. I don't know how long it is, but I needed a quick and easy Mormon joke).
Let's keep the Mormon jokes to a minimum. Like my
 qualifications to be President.

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