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Indi Guy

(3,992 posts)
Mon Oct 8, 2012, 04:45 PM Oct 2012

You Don’t Know Mitt!! - 99 Facts About Mitt Romney (you'll want to bookmark this)...

Please bookmark this page and check it out for some real insight as to where Romney stands on the important issues of our day. Some of these entries are real eye openers -- http://thinkprogress.org/romney-facts/?mobile=nc



Here are only a few examples (web page has links to all entries):

9. In 2008, Mitt Romney proposed a $233 billion "stimulus package" to boost the economy.

12. A Northeastern University economist found that Massachusetts lagged on virtually every economic indicator while Mitt Romney was in office.

15. Mitt Romney called the Occupy Wall Street movement "dangerous."

16. Mitt Romney's top economic adviser Greg Mankiw said the "offshoring" of American jobs was a good thing.

18. Mitt Romney called the auto bailout "tragic." After it succeeded his campaign claimed he "had the idea first."

21. Mitt Romney would repeal the Dodd-Frank bill, which regulates the risky practices that led to the 2008 crisis.

23. Mitt Romney: "Corporations are people, my friend."

26. Mitt Romney defended his belief that we "should consider a higher retirement age" for Social Security and Medicare to preserve tax breaks for corporations.

35. Mitt Romney wanted "bombardment" of Iran...





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