Who needs Police, Firefighters, or Teachers? The Free Market will protect us!
6:14 pm - 06/08/2012
Romney Says America Doesn’t Need ‘More Firemen, More Policemen, More Teachers’
The last three years are the worst on record for public sector job loss, and the 700,000 government jobs that no longer exist remain a large drag on the American economy.
Today, New Jersey Gov. and Mitt Romney campaign surrogate Chris Christie (R) said that those losses meant the country was moving in “the right direction,” and Romney himself backed that statement up later, criticizing President Obama for calling for the hiring of more teachers, firefighters, and police officers, the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent reports. From CNN’s report of the Romney event:
Romney said of Obama, “he wants another stimulus, he wants to hire more government workers. He says we need more fireman, more policeman, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.”
State and local governments have been forced to layoff mass amounts of teachers, firefighters, and police officers because budget crunches have led to school closures and the elimination of public safety departments. That has hurt the unemployment situation (which Romney also criticizes), considering the unemployment rate would be a full point lower without the 700,000 layoffs.
Romney’s honesty isn’t a new position for him or the GOP — he’s called for more government layoffs since the beginning of his campaign. But it’s yet another indication that Romney is more interested in continuing the GOP’s ideological battle against government instead of curing the ills that are plaguing the American economy.
Source: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/0
The last three years are the worst on record for public sector job loss, and the 700,000 government jobs that no longer exist remain a large drag on the American economy.
Today, New Jersey Gov. and Mitt Romney campaign surrogate Chris Christie (R) said that those losses meant the country was moving in “the right direction,” and Romney himself backed that statement up later, criticizing President Obama for calling for the hiring of more teachers, firefighters, and police officers, the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent reports. From CNN’s report of the Romney event:
Romney said of Obama, “he wants another stimulus, he wants to hire more government workers. He says we need more fireman, more policeman, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.”
State and local governments have been forced to layoff mass amounts of teachers, firefighters, and police officers because budget crunches have led to school closures and the elimination of public safety departments. That has hurt the unemployment situation (which Romney also criticizes), considering the unemployment rate would be a full point lower without the 700,000 layoffs.
Romney’s honesty isn’t a new position for him or the GOP — he’s called for more government layoffs since the beginning of his campaign. But it’s yet another indication that Romney is more interested in continuing the GOP’s ideological battle against government instead of curing the ills that are plaguing the American economy.
Source: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/0
STOP TALKING
If by American people, you mean "you and your wealthy chums".
Good luck getting that to work.
Oh, and you're a bully, homophobe animal abuser. Kindly get fucked, sir, and stop talking, please.
Yes, because I'm sure the 60+ teachers in my area that were recently laid off was really beneficial to the community.
How. The Fuck. Does laying off MORE PEOPLE help the "unemployment situation"? What. The Fuck. Are you criticizing in this "unemployment situation"? You're calling for MORE fucking layoffs and then you criticize unemployment?
Mittens, I realize you made your fortune by layoffs and destroying companies. I'm going out on a limb to say that the gov'n isn't exactly the same as one of those companies. Cannibalizing its assets while laying off almost everyone to stand back and show that you've made a glimmer of positive change (and, naturally, running far far away before it dies) isn't going to work for you in this venture. You're going to have a whole country of gun nuts after you Mittens. There's only one planet. Until Newt makes that moon-base, you're screwed.
Ayep. Fuck the American people so that they can get back into power.
orrrrrrrrrr not.
I can't even begin to start with teaching because every attack on teachers is just like watching my dreams go down the drain.
State and local governments have been forced to layoff mass amounts of teachers, firefighters, and police officers because budget crunches have led to school closures and the elimination of public safety departments. That has hurt the unemployment situation (which Romney also criticizes), considering the unemployment rate would be a full point lower without the 700,000 layoffs."
He just fried my logic subroutine. My positronic brain is now caught in an endless loop trying to make sense of the contradictions and is on the verge of a meltdown.
Go lock yourself in the bathroom and beat off, you flip-flopping, job eliminating freak. Or go fire someone in your campaign for fun, since you LOVE firing people. Shoo now.
And no fire trucks waiting outside his venues, either. Definitly no EMS on hand.
Fuck him.
And teachers? Really? How's that going to help the next generation with innovation and thinking and brain things? Oh. wait. You and your cronies offshored the work and every other nation's going to do the intellectual heavy lifting,...unless you're rich and can afford private tutors.
Combine it with Santorum's "edumacation is elitist!" and well, we can plainly see that Mitten's vision of america clearly is whatever suits him and his cronies best, fuck the rest of the masses.
Ugh. fuckery man.
So as the uneducated (lbr its going there) plunge into a choatic world where their parents couldnt afford a tutor~~~ and all hell breaks loose there will be no cops or firemen? like what
this makes no sense
You're a moron, Mittens.
This guy's a train wreck.