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Romney Foreign Policy based on Strength and Negotiation

http://news.yahoo.com/erdogan-quarrel-assad-one-thing-putin-another-123411634.html

The comments here that Romney will dictate to Russia are shallow.  Of course Romney, as does Obama, uses two-minute sound bites to tell complicated stories.  The Romney premise is that Obama is not sophisticated enough with Russia and allows Putin to unduly influence our decisions on Middle East.  The key line from the Romney Foreign affairs speech was that a robust military is a deterrent to war.  But it is not just having a military but a consistent foreign policy that will convince our adversaries we will not be shy about protecting our national interests and our ambassadors.  Remember, Romney has dealt with several of the most powerful entities in USA, namely; Big Corporations, Big Labor Unions and Big Banks.  He knows that one cannot bully them.  His record shows that he can convince them to cooperate and collaborate because he is a unifier and an achiever who shows them all that he can get the job done.  Because they believe in his ability and his proven record these big entities are willing to work together because it is in their interests to have him succeed.  This will be true of the Democrats working with the Republicans in a Romney administration.  Romney will not allow Harry Reid to get away with a “dead on arrival” policy in the Senate.  Romney will not broadcast that any law he doesn’t like will be automatically vetoed if it gets past the Senate.  Unlike Obama who encourages Harry Reid and who’s policy is to veto or circumvent the Congress, all the while pointing his finger at them and blaming them for the stalemate, Romney will be persistent in getting the work of the nation done by working with and not against the Congress. It is different from the scolding, finger waging and philosophical/political  speeches of the Obama administration.  We need a known achiever in the leadership of our nation. Romney is the man.

Obama and H. Clinton are Amateurs

The point of all of the criticism is not that “…they are trying to understand what did happen.”  The question is:  Why were they not willing to understand the situation BEFORE it happened?   It is clear that politics prevailed and the Obama administration was too caught up in getting elected again.  Hillary was either at her many hotels, or other travels and Barrack was at another fund-raiser, leaving the government of the nation to the second string.  The second string does a great job when all is well, but in a crisis they require informed and decisive leadership. What happened was the leadership of Obama was missing, and Hillary was unprepared. That both of them did not know anything about this crisis is exactly the point.  Regular briefings are given but if you are jetting to another foreign country or flying to another fund-raiser, you may not be paying very much attention to the importance of what is being briefed.  So, let’s not allow the leadership to investigate and cloud and push-off the responsibility onto the future.  The reasons it happened lay in the past, namely, Obama’s refusal to acknowledge militant Islam as dangerously terrorist and Hillary’s loose administration of the State department.  The Obama administration has gotten away with this in the past where nobody is responsible and no one held accountable because as they say, we don’t know what happened and we are looking into it.  But I think the American people are tired of such amateur government and will make the needed change this November.

Romney Wins Landslide predicts Vegas Oddsmaker

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/10/09/romney-will-win-in-landslide-las-vegas-oddsmaker-doubles-down-on-prediction/  I usually do not read this prediction stuff but I found this article to be very interesting and not the least because the author sounds like a very interesting person and writes very well.  Worth the read.  Let’s see if he is right!!

Obama is always with the Rich, Famous and Powerful

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/romney-vows-us-renewal-obama-big-money-month-17414909?page=2  The truth is that Obama just does not tell the truth.  He says he is for the little person but he spends all of his time with Hollywood rich people, ( Cloney and friends)  Corporate Executives (Chairman of GE) the Wall Street Billionaires ( Warren Buffet) and the powerful (George Soros).  It amazes me that so many people insist that Obama is a compassionate lover of the middle and lower classes.  He is not.  He came to the White House with 900 thousand and his rich friends have helped him to turn that into 12 million.  Obama is a one percenter!!! Yet, it seems that especially middle-aged white women are always at his rallies with big broad smiles and lusty cheers as though he was the man of their dreams.  Well, so much for sex appeal (Likeability?) in politics.  Ok for you, if that’s your thing!  But please do not confuse your libido fantasy with governing the USA.  Obama uses our Air Force One plane at 178 thousand dollars each trip to go to Hollywood and have lunch with Movie stars, and dinner with Rock stars and raise millions of dollars  while our military personnel are being killed daily in Afghanistan and our Ambassador and two Navy seals are murdered because Obama didn’t want to insult Muslim fanatics. And when they are murdered, the Obama administration takes out an advertisement in Libya apologizing for any hurt feelings that some crackpot film maker may have caused which the Obama people said  justified the outrage that led to murders.  Maybe that is why more males are for Romney, he stands up for America, he stands beside those he asks to serve in the military, and he does not blame others for his own failures.  We need Romney for President and not the pick of rock stars, hollywood actors and enamored middle-aged white housewives.

Romney Wins Debate

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-goes-offense-against-subdued-obama-first-debate-030217430–election.html  Before of the sleeping main stream media editors have at it, the night editors declare Romney in command, with a strong presence, solid facts and a leadership of the debate which indicates yet again his total preparedness for the Presidency.  The key questions posed by others and answered strongly by Romney are: Can he be a solid performer as President?  Yes.  Does he have a solid governmental and business plan that will restore the USA economy, create jobs, make successful businesses and improve the lives of the people?  Yes, Romney is an experienced business developer.  He is an unashamed capitalist. (Bravo). And he has an excellent record of taking huge but failing companies and turning them around to become successful companies.  In his career at Bain, Romney worked with antagonists and the unions.  He worked to analize the mega problems that thwarted the success of the company.  He then worked together with those who said it couldn’t be done and convinced them that it could be done.  Having enlisted their support, Romney worked tirelessly with the workers, unions and capitalist managers turning the dying corporations into mega succerssful companies.  Indeed, for those who refused to be reasonable and for those whose faith in the company was so little that they pig headedly refused to cooperate, they were fired: as they should be.  And yes, when he faced those inside of the various companies who put their personal job security above the success of the firm, they too were fired.  But for the greater mass of workers, unions, and investers, the Bain story, of which Romney is the genius, was one of success.  Tonight’s debate on the economy showed Romney to be the right man for America.  We need his experise, his captialist genius and his managerial leadership in order to stop the decline of American businesses and the economy.  We need his vision of a greater prosperity for all of us.  We need his courage which will fire those within our government and within our industries who put their own personal wealth, power or privileges above the success of America: who see themselves as needing protection from economic decline while the people suffer.   Romney is the man for team USA.  We need to elect him.

Obama Missed The Mark and Failed the Sale

http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-obama-phantom-peace-dividend-033637499–election.html

The Democrat convention tried to shock, insult and frighten the voters with wildly false and baseless accusations.   The fact remains that we have run up an additional five trillion in debt we owe to others.  We have 23 million people out of work.  College students are living at home because they have large loans and no jobs or prospect of  jobs.  We have Obama care which will take away Medicare Advantage by 2014 when the law is fully enacted.  Those who hoped for change saw it in the social area with acceptance of the concept of government paid abortion, and government paid contraception.  They saw it in the military with the acceptance of  gay, transgender, lesbian personnel.  It also showed in increased federal lawsuits against States like North Carolina and Arizona as they attempted to protect their States against fraudulent voters and illegal immigrants.  It even revealed itself in the Presidential executive orders that went behind the back of Congress to carry out Obama’s will against the enacted law and against the 535 elected representatives of the people. 

The main point is that the Obama administration has not been successful in stopping our economic decline nor has it created an environment for business owners of all sizes to create jobs.  Obama’s speech intimated that with better times, hopefully to come, the government will be able to create jobs.   Government jobs are always paid with tax dollars.  And tax dollars come from successful business and working citizens.

Obama says he will build roads and bridges.  We do that already and it doesn’t solve the need of our college graduates for jobs.  Infrastructure is paid with tax dollars.  He says we will have better education.  We already have the best in the world for the most citizens.  So, if the plan, is for the Obama to allow students not to pay back their student loans, well, that is more tax dollars spent. Remember taxes come from profit-making businesses and employed workers.

But people will tell me that when we are out of the War in Afghanistan then we will lots of money.  The war is paid for by loans so any money saved by bringing the troops home,  the so-called peace dividend, is a fantasy and not a fact.  Bottom line?  Obama’s speech indicates the same failed ideas that got us into the 16 trillion dollars of debt, namely, more and more government spending and more and more government control over our lives.  Question?  How will he pay for it.

At first more borrowing.  Then he will print more money to inflate (cheapen) our dollar.  Then as the clamor from our creditors and ourselves rises, he will tax all of us.  Oh, yes, he will say he is taxing only the wealthy – an old class warfare trick of communists to divide and destroy the opposition forces.  And when he taxes all of us, he will smilingly tell us that we demanded it and even mandated the new taxes  because we re-elected him.  He will say, “you wanted it and now, I am giving it to you.”

President Obama is very good at saying empty words that are carefully selected.  The intent is to encourage  us to fill his words with our own meaning.  But his meaning for the words is not what we intend for ourselves but what he intends to do to us.  The President, facing a re-election campaign, did not deliver on his promises in the first term, he will not deliver on his promises in the second.  What could we do to him in the second? I shudder in remembering, his whispered words to the Russian Prime Minister, ” Tell Vladimir, that after I win election I will be free ….”  Those are very frightening words that tell us that what he says and what he intends to do are not the same.

Clinton Not Telling Whole Truth

http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-clinton-claims-compromise-stretch-043255807–election.html  The article cited speaks for itself.  Congratulations.  I hope to see corrections to Michelle Obama’s speech as well.  After all, President Obama entered office with a net worth of a little under one million.  Today, according to Internet sources, he is worth 11.35 million.  You say, That is now, but Michelle talked about then.  But the facts of her own Charter school for elite academic achievers and his private boarding school for privileged children belies the idea of his being just like the rest of us.  Also, he went to Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard.  Surely, these are not community colleges!  And when she and he met they were employed at a law firm.  Mrs. Obama has previously confessed that she went through college on Affirmative action.  Because Barrack has litigated successfully to keep all his college records, including college applications and financial results sealed we do not know anything about the reality of his college education.  But even more to the point, how did he manage a 200+ thousand dollar condo back then? And even more telling, how did he turn, let’s say, one million net worth into 12 million net worth in a mere four years?  Wish I could do that and I love America and captialism.  But I am always wondering if President Obama loves America, although his investment record shows that he loves captalism, at least for himself if not for the rest of us. 

Clinton Speech Highlights the Federal Fiscal Crisis

I am selecting the article below in order to put a personal face on the national debt.  I think it is a fair article.  However, the kind of fiscal responsibility and management skill needed to address the crisis is lacking in the Obama Administration.  This is so not only for the President but the whole administration which thinks wrongly concerning the way to lower the deficit, create jobs and foster employment.  Besides the 23 million unemployed, we are looking at businesses afraid of burdensome federal regulations and therefore they are willing to close USA workplaces in favor of opening in foreign countries.  Is that patriotic?  Probably not ! But patriotism works two ways.  It is not patriotic to ask businesses and business people to achieve against a federal government that sues them while at the same time increasing their regulatory compliance burden and upping their taxes.  The “Yes, we did build it” campaign of the Republicans does not discount a favorable government, that indeed has been there in SBA loan guarantees and Federal farm subsidies.  But without the vision, the dedication and the innovation of the business founders and owners there would be no business.  And the workers,(?) they contribute to making the vision of the owner a reality for which they receive a wage and benefits and the owner and stockholders a profit.  But you cannot reverse the process.  Gather 100 people together and tell them to get to work and make a profit.  They will ask, doing what? producing what? and how do you want us to do it?  The inventiveness and entrepeneur ship of the owner/founder is a prerequisite for jobs.  I believe the Romney Ryan approach will accomplish what only good businessmen can do, and even Clinton acknowledges Mitt’s “sterling” business ability.  We don’t need a lawyer in the WH, we need a businessman.  Let the 500 lawyers in the Congress decide the law.  Yes, I do know that there are 535 congress persons, but not all are lawyers.

By Gordon Gray, Director of Fiscal Policy at the American Action Forum

The Treasury Department has confirmed that the national debt exceeded $16 trillion at the end of August. This figure is so large as to be almost an abstraction, a figure divorced from any tangible context. However, under current fiscal policies, this unprecedented degree of national indebtedness is only expected to grow, both in absolute terms and as a share of the economy.

The national debt is the net effect of all past economic policies — the accumulated difference between all past revenues and outlays. Prospectively, a rising debt necessarily reflects a persistent excess of outlays relative to revenues, or put another way, a shortfall of revenues relative to outlays. Any policy approach that would close this gap must therefore reduce outlays in the form of government benefits or services, increase revenues in the form of higher taxes, or some combination of the two. Any policy choice to address the broader debt or future deficits will therefore ultimately be borne by taxpayers. The abstraction becomes personal.

By the Numbers

As of Friday, August 31st, the debt stood at $16.016 trillion. Since the president took office, that number has increased by $5.389 trillion. To the extent that this increase in debt burden under the president is ultimately borne by individuals, it is reasonable to apportion the national debt increase on a per capita basis. This amounts to $17,146 per person.

The United States must pay interest on its debt obligations. At present, the average interest rate paid on U.S. debt is 2.62 percent. This rate represents interest owed not only to U.S. creditors in the public, but also to non-marketable securities, such as federal trust funds. The relatively low rate reflects low interest rates set by the Federal Reserve and the global perception of Treasury securities as a virtually riskless investment, which keeps yields at bay. This rate compares quite favorably to consumer credit rates. For example, as of the end of August the average variable-rate credit card APR was 14.52 percent.

Is a Pay-Off Even Possible?

Thus any individualized analysis of the recent increase in federal indebtedness depends heavily on interest rate assumptions. Both the low-bound assumption (the current low average federal borrowing rate) and the high-bound assumption (the average credit card rate) reflect a sufficiently high increase in indebtedness under the current administration to require over a decade to fully pay off. Indeed, using the Federal Reserve’s pay-off calculator that includes standard assumptions about minimum payment requirements, assuming an individual debt balance of $17,146, and the low-bound interest assumption of 2.62 percent, it would take 18 years to fully repay the debt increase under President Obama, with an initial minimum payment of $343. This payment would diminish over time to reflect a lower principal balance. Under the high-bound interest assumption, it would take an individual 36 years to repay $17,146 in debt with an initial minimum payment of $343.

The bottom line is simple: if an American put $17,000 on her credit card, she would face over 35 years of the burden of repaying. In the past four years, the President has done exactly that.

Gordon Gray currently serves as the Director of Fiscal Policy at the American Action Forum (AAF). Prior to joining AAF, Gray served as senior policy advisor to Senator Rob Portman and as policy director on the Senator’s campaign. Gray has also worked for the Senate Budget Committee as professional staff and before that was deputy director of domestic and economic policy for Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign. Gray also spent several years with the American Enterprise Institute.