Maraya1969
Maraya1969's JournalI went into the belly of the beast and found out some specifics about what Romney plans to do.
I copied some of the here. I added some explanations of the letters he used since he did not take the time to explain what they were, (Like the LSC - Legal Services Council which he wants to eliminate).
Anyway I hope I help someone with this information.
http://www.mittromney.com/learn/mitt
These are some of his proposals - straight from his site.
Reduce Subsidies For
The National Endowments For The Arts And Humanities,
The Corporation For Public Broadcasting,
The Legal Services Corporation
NEA, (National Educational Association - my addition clarification)
NEH, (National Endowment for the Humanities - my clarification)
CPB, (Corporate public broadcasting - my clarification)
LSC, (Legal Services Corporations - my clarification) funds services mostly duplicative of those already offered by states, localities, bar associations and private organizations.
Eliminate Title X Family Planning Funding — Title X subsidizes family planning programs that benefit abortion groups like Planned Parenthood.
Empower States To Innovate
Block grants have huge potential to generate both superior results and cost savings by establishing local control and promoting innovation in areas such as Medicaid and Worker Retraining. Medicaid spending should be capped and increased each year by CPI + 1%. Department of Labor retraining spending should be capped and will increase in future years. These funds should then be given to the states to spend on their own residents. States will be free from Washington micromanagement, allowing them to develop innovative approaches that improve quality and reduce cost.
Align Federal Employee Compensation With The Private Sector — Federal compensation exceeds private sector levels by as much as 30 to 40 percent when benefits are taken into account. This must be corrected.
Repeal The Davis-Bacon Act — Davis-Bacon forces the government to pay above-market wages, insulating labor unions from competition and driving up project costs by approximately 10 percent.
(me - The Davis-Bacon Act is a requirement to pay prevailing wages for federal contractors not above market wages)
Reform Environmental Regulation
As president, Mitt Romney will eliminate the regulations promulgated in pursuit of the Obama administration’s costly and ineffective anti-carbon agenda. Romney will also press Congress to reform our environmental laws to ensure that they allow for a proper assessment of their costs.
Ensure that environmental laws properly account for cost in regulatory process
Provide multi-year lead times before companies must come into compliance with onerous new environmental regulations
Adopt Structural Reforms
An agency may be able to conceive of ten different regulations, each imposing costs of $10 billion while producing at least as much in social benefit. Moving forward might sound like a great idea to the typical regulator. But imposing those regulations, no matter what the social benefits, has a similar effect to raising taxes by $100 billion. Regulatory costs need to be treated like the very real costs they are.
Impose a regulatory cap of zero dollars on all federal agencies
Require congressional approval of all new “major” regulations
Reform legal liability system to prevent spurious litigation
Free Enterprise
Amend NLRA, (National Labor Relations Act - my clarification) to explicitly protect the right of business owners to allocate their capital as they see fit
Reverse executive orders issued by President Obama that tilt the playing field toward organized labor
Support states in pursuing Right-to-Work laws, (Right-to-work states prohibit mandatory organized labor and thus the labor unions have very little clout and the wages in these states, such as Florida are very low - me)
Individual Taxes
Make permanent, across-the-board 20 percent cut in marginal rates
Maintain current tax rates on interest, dividends, and capital gains
Eliminate taxes for taxpayers with AGI, (Adjusted gross income) below $200,000 on interest, dividends, and capital gains
Eliminate the Death Tax
Repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)
ENERGY
Mitt will establish the most robust five-year offshore lease plan in history, that opens new areas for resource development – including off the coasts of Virginia and the Carolinas – and sets minimum production targets to increase accountability.
Instead of relying on decades-old surveys developed with decades-old technologies, Mitt’s plan facilitates new energy assessments to determine the true extent of our resource endowment.
Mitt will pursue measured reforms of our environmental laws and regulations to strengthen environmental protection without destroying jobs or paralyzing industries. Mitt’s plan will also streamline the gauntlet of reviews, processes, administrative procedures, and lawsuits that mire so many new projects in red tape.
(me - more drilling, fracking and bad things for the environment)
Can someone get together or find someone to get together a video of Romney's lies
tonight at the debate, one by one, followed by him telling something completely different at another debate, rally or fundraiser and get it on TV or put it here and we'll get it to go viral?
For one thing the people who think Romney did a good job will see how he was just full of it again and another thing Romney will lose confidence for the next debate.
And the final reason is it is the right thing to do damn it!
I don't know how to make videos but I would be very willing to help locate the "otherwise stated".
The Dem Congressional Campaign Committee is tripp-ling all donations today! Get rid of Boehner!
(From an email sent to me. I think this is the first time I ever gave to them.)
Folks, if you're sick and tired of John Boehner & his Tea Party Congress controlling the House, here's your chance to do something about it. Our friends at the DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) are leading the effort to take back the House. All gifts today will be triple matched!
We can do it. Help the DCCC make it happen.
John Hlinko, Left Action
If the Republicans win the House again in November, they aren’t going to come back to Washington, have a change of heart, and play nice with President Obama.
The only way to stop these extremists is to defeat them in November.
There are just 24 hours until the most important fundraising deadline of the election. The DCCC must raise $240,000 more before tomorrow's midnight deadline to wage a winning campaign for a Democratic House.
This is our chance to end the national nightmare of Tea Party Republican rule.
Donate $3 or whatever you can today: http://dccc.org/24-Hours
Thanks,
Barney Frank
FLORIDA GOP ELECTION FRAUD SCANDAL! Same company as the one in Colorado!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/28/1137628/-BREAKING-Florida-GOP-Election-Fraud-scandal-spreads-to-ten-countiesUPDATED x3 with CO Tie-in* BREAKING: Florida GOP Election Fraud scandal spreads to ten counties
WASHINGTON — Florida elections officials said Friday that at least 10 counties have identified suspicious and possibly fraudulent voter registration forms turned in by a firm working for the Republican Party of Florida, which has filed an election fraud complaint with the state Division of Elections against its one-time consultant.
The firm of course is none other than Strategic Allied, which is basically a regurgitation of Nathan Sproul's infamous firm which destroyed Democratic registration forms in swing states during the 2004 election.
(There are 3 updates at this link)
Link to LA Times article about it
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-voter-registration-florida-republicans-20120928,0,7654954.story
I have an idea about how to fix the CEO/worker wage disparity and maybe some others have ideas also?
First off please don’t just say, “It won’t work” unless you have a suggestion to place after it or an explanation that could be helpful. I am just throwing out an idea here and hopefully it will get other people’s ideas up or other people to start thinking about how to solve this problem that we have in our country.
I will limit this argument to food stamps for now.
Doesn’t it seem like the person’s company should be written down in the food stamp process and that said company should be given a bill by the state governments for the amount that the government gave said company’s employee if the government finds out that that said company indeed has enough money to pay the employee for his or her own food?
That way Starbucks, that made a profit of 6.2 billion in 2010 and paid its CEO 26 million that year would be responsible for the Starbucks employee, (who makes $8.77/hour) who receives $150/month for food from the government.
It would have to be made a law of course but I think it is only fair.
Editing to add that it might be a black eye on the company that would work to make them increase their employees wages. Not many people that I speak to know that Walmart employees are on food stamps for example. But if the government gets involved it might become more widely known and companies might just have to increase their wages or lose customers, (then again Walmart still seems to be doing good but their prices are obscenely low)
Why is no one talking about the real class warfare in our society?
Why aren't people talking about the class warfare that is going on constantly, in practically every corporation in America? I watched Bill Mahar last night and I was jumping out of my skin because everyone was talking about people getting food stamps and government assistance but no one mentioned that most of these people are actually working for companies who use the government to assist them in paying their employees!
I have friends at Walgreens who collect food stamps because Walgreens does not pay them a living wage; rather they get around $10/hour after working there for years. Meanwhile the CEO got a total compensation of $7,847,000 in 2010 according to the Wall Street Journal. It is common knowledge that people at Walmart need public assistance to survive. If employers’ salaries had advanced at the same rate that top executives have in the last 40 years the poorest people would be making $23/hour. It is a disgrace what we in America pay our workers.
So who is really taking from the government? I say it is the big CEO’S and executives who skim the profits from their companies right off the top and let THE GOVERNMENT TAKE CARE OF THEIR EMPLOYEES.
They are the real welfare queens.
Mitt Romney tells 533 lies in 30 weeks, Steve Benen documents them
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/08/29/mitt-romney-tells-533-lies-in-30-weeks-steve-benen-documents-them/I’ve written about or linked to a great deal here “chronicling Mitt’s mendacity” — to borrow Steven Benen’s phrase.
Mitt Romney says many, many things that are not true. He says this despite being in possession of the correct facts of the matter.
Which is to say that Mitt Romney lies. A lot. He lies more than any other national candidate for office in my lifetime. And I was born before the Nixon administration.
This is documented. Proven. Validated, verified, demonstrated, catalogued and quantified. Mitt Romney lies.
Here are 30 — 30! — of Benen’s weekly “chronicling” posts. These are all backed up and sourced. These are not assertions, interpretations or allegations. These are facts, actual instances.
(follow the link to get to the actual lies documentations)
The top 5 reasons Romney won't release his tax returns
Can someone contact the right people at FB to get the horrible page off? Warning VERY OFFENSIVE!
http://www.facebook.com/barackobamasdeadflyI tried when it was put on my page but they actually said it was not "hate speech". I sent them another letter and suggested that maybe they did not open the link. So now I found a page where they are using the picture as a background and would like to get it the Hell off!
These people are so ignorant!
A "good" "Christian" "friend" just posted a support picture of Romney and a link right about it
that says, "Barack Obama's dead fly". I clicked on it and I don't even want to say what it was. Let me just say it was an open holy book with feces and bacon on it.
This woman goes to church all the time. She goes to prayer meetings and healing services.
I wrote to her that it was disgusting and wrong and that she should take it off. I also said it was the type of thing that incites violence.
I'm still shaking.
EDIT: I just found out how to submit a link to FB. I submitted it for "Hate speech"
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