Mitt Romney’s attacks on Obama misguided : News-Record.com : Greensboro & the Triad's most trusted source for local news and analysis

Candidate Mitt Romney continues his inaccurate attack on President Obama’s “failures.” Simultaneously, he stresses his own business experience.

He evidently thinks that a business background has something to do with the administration of government. Based on his known principles, he would no doubt have us fire 3 percent of the government employees, then privatize remaining organizational segments of the government. He would then sell off “unnecessary” assets, while cutting all taxes to the rich, declaring that the middle class can take care of itself so long as it continues to pay the tax load of the wealthy.

I do not believe Romney knows what will cure the economy. He claims to know, but I have not heard one proposal that is likely to be successful.

I have a proposal for him, which could give our economy a real boost:

1) Start paying off our deficit, clearing a path for greater confidence and investment.

2) Let the Bush tax cuts expire, or, following the suggestion of the president, provide a real expansion of taxes for those who make more than $500,000 per year, to provide the funds to do the job.

I realize that much of all the candidates’ speeches is highly modified and dedicated to the political interests of the candidate. But should not even those speeches bear some relationship to news and events of which we have some recollection?

James D. Deere
Greensboro

marcusk

February 23, 2012 - 7:04 am EST

How about this, why not have EVERY American pay Federal income taxes..... instead of having 10% pay most of the federal taxes... that'd be fair... right....

Sawdust

February 23, 2012 - 11:01 am EST

It wouldn't be fair to Obama--the ones who don't pay any income tax (now at 50%) are also known as the Democrats' "base."

February 23, 2012 - 7:18 am EST

It puzzles me why Deere chose to put "failures" in quotation marks. It leads the reader to believe that Deere believes that Obama's economic policies have been resounding successes, and that takes away all credibility for the rest of the letter.

Apparently Deere thinks that shedding 3% of the federal work force would be a bad thing. Federal employment has increased more than 3% under Obama. Would Mr. Deere please explain exactly how all those extra employees have helped our situation? I thought we had plenty of gummint employees in 2008, but obviously Deere and Obama disagree. I can't tell that all those extra employees have improved my life in any way. I believe we could get rid of at least 5% of them and not skip a beat.

Privatizing some tasks presently done by the feds? Sounds good to me. It's common knowledge (but apparently not to Deere) that private industry is more efficient than government, simply because it's their money, not taxpayer money.

The rest of the letter is equally foolish. Perhaps Deere can point out some of Obama's "accomplishments" or "successes." Stimulus? Nope. Obamacare? Nope. Energy policy? No no, but Hell no, as my uncle used to say. Looks to me like after all of Obama's "successes" we're in worse shape than ever, by any measure--unemployment, gas prices, insurance premiums, you name it and it's worse than when The Won took office. If this is success, I'd hate to see what real failure looks like.

But he personally killed Osama.

dubya

February 23, 2012 - 7:34 am EST

bin obama has had to hire more federal employees, not only to make the hard decisions, but to have someone else to lay the blame on when His policies prove useless and detrimental to the country.

February 23, 2012 - 7:26 am EST

Way to go editors, open up a letter that attempts to show your president in a good light and allow no comments on one that speaks to the truth about the Kenyan interloper.

Notice in the republican debate last night the bin obama shill hosting the forum never once offered up a question concerning gas prices and energy policy? No, no...Rick Santorum's religious beliefs must be examined. If a republican was in the white house these bin obama shills would be on energy policy like slick Willie on a fat intern.

nemo0037

February 23, 2012 - 7:38 am EST

"the Kenyan interloper."? You talk about "truth" and refer to this person as a Kenyan? What makes you think you deserve a response when you spout lies that were disproved long ago?

February 23, 2012 - 8:06 am EST

BTW, if you don't feel this 'deserves a response', feel free not to, and bury your head back in the sand...or another cavity provided by the interloper.

February 23, 2012 - 8:29 am EST

Yep -- nothing but "moonbattery" insanity, as I expected. Too bad this board doesn't include an "ignore" feature to keep my view from being cluttered up with your space-wasting nonsense.

February 23, 2012 - 8:44 am EST

nemo: Most of us have the "ignore" feature built into our brains. We're capable of sorting through the chaff without having our computers do it for us. How many angels can dance on your head?

distancerunner

February 23, 2012 - 9:08 am EST

I wouldn't want these comments to be removed; they're all so entertaining. It's how I get my morning coffee down...through all of the gratifying fictions that are posted here. Keep them coming.

February 23, 2012 - 11:02 am EST

Be careful not to snort your coffee onto your keyboard.

thinkingman

February 23, 2012 - 8:32 am EST

By opening this letter for comments, they actually exposed it to your vitriol, and a slew of other comments attacking the letter and the president. How you see that as evidence of liberal bias, I'm not sure. Perhaps you're just predisposed to seeing liberal bias everywhere, whether it's there or not.

If the other letter had been opened for comments, I know that I would have plenty to say about it, as would many others. But it's a topic that's been beaten to death in these forums over the last week or so. A letter about the economy (while also not new ground) is at least somewhat of a change.

rmails

February 23, 2012 - 9:30 am EST

Dubya - Accuse the media, accuse whomever you like, but no one is doing more to reelect the President than those of your ilk. As the Republican race becomes desperate, and as the candidates increasingly pander to the sort of rage and fear you package in language like "bin obama" here, they are loosing voters they can't do without. So, really, the spittle and invective does a true service.

February 23, 2012 - 9:42 am EST

You left out "As a former Republican"...LOFL!

Snapper0274

February 23, 2012 - 7:40 am EST

"He evidently thinks that a business background has something to do with the administration of government."

Well, why not? We currently have a community organizer as president and what has that gotten us? $5 trillion in new debt, a proposed budget of $1.3 trillion more debt, lingering high unemployment, gas nearing $4/gallon, O'care looming around the corner, and class warfare between the makers and the takers.

Maybe a little business experience would be helpful at this point. It's well proven in the last three years that community organizers don't make effective presidents.

ghost from white oak

February 23, 2012 - 10:20 am EST

You beat me to it, I was going to say that.

Doug Johnson

February 23, 2012 - 8:05 am EST

Not to worry about gas prices.
I understand Obama will tell a bunch of college folks today how to solve the problem.
Wonder if he explain how he, and Pelosi and Boxer, said the republicans were terrible when gas prices were, $2.50 and we read dozen of letters to the editor. about Bush and big oil.
Now at $3.60 the letters have disappeared.
Strange how that works!

February 23, 2012 - 8:46 am EST

If it wasn't for Democrats, the moonstream media wouldn't have any rear ends to kiss.

February 23, 2012 - 9:04 am EST

Frau Peloski declared in 2006 that the reason for high gas prices ($1.86 per gallon) was because of 'the two oil men in the white house'...

Now we have two solar panel/windmill "men" (and I use that term loosely) in the white house and we have gas nearing $4 per gallon. And nary a peep out the Marxtream media about the hypocrisy.

General Greensboro

February 23, 2012 - 9:01 am EST

@ dubya: Despite this being an LTE complimentary of the president, you were still able to use this space as a forum to criticize him.

I suspect you could have done the same had we opened the LTE about Obama and birth control. Heck, I'm pretty sure you could have found something about Obama to criticize in the LTE about Alzheimer's.

Don't look at the daily selection of open-for-comment threads as a limitation. No, view it as a challenge.

February 23, 2012 - 9:06 am EST

I've got lots of vitriol to spew and I doubt one letter can hold it all. :]

February 23, 2012 - 9:17 am EST

I might have to copy and frame that comment, Dubya.

itsjustron

February 23, 2012 - 10:18 am EST

Why do you remove my post about eligibility, which was not vulgar, or slamming to obama in any way, yet keep dubyas, whihc basically references the same comment?

February 23, 2012 - 10:28 am EST

Thanks for pointing it out. It's gone now.

Please don't post any more birther nonsense here.

February 23, 2012 - 11:31 am EST

Let me understand this, if you don't believe something, then it must be nonsense not worthy of printing.
Do I understand this correctly, does this apply to all letters or only this one?

February 23, 2012 - 12:56 pm EST

I dont think its so much of an unbelief, as a fear.

February 23, 2012 - 1:28 pm EST

Disagreeable opinions are welcome. Fiction is not.

February 23, 2012 - 1:39 pm EST

fiction is not? And another letter is about the sky color and its relation to god and school? hahahahahahahaha?

February 23, 2012 - 1:53 pm EST

I was referring to the comments. I have no control over the LTEs.

That said, all the UNC grads I work with swear the thing about the blue sky is true. Who are any of us to argue with God on that point, hmm?

February 23, 2012 - 2:01 pm EST

I was referring to the comments as well..in terms of subject matter..

However.. I cannot argue with the UNC grads, they are a smart bunch!

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