ROMNEY'S WINNING STREAK

(Excerpt) Mitt Rom­ney says Pres­i­dent Obama wants "to re­place our merit-based so­ci­ety with an en­ti­tle­ment so­ci­ety." Ac­cord­ing to Rom­ney, this means a Eu­ro­pean-style wel­fare state that re­dis­trib­utes wealth and cre­ates equal out­comes re­gard­less of in­di­vid­ual ef­fort and suc­cess.

That’s pretty strong stuff, but of course this doesn’t sound any­thing like the Pres­i­dent Obama who many of us have come to know and crit­i­cize. After all, this is the guy who got at the top Wall Street bankers and told them that he was the only thing stand­ing be­tween them and the pitch­forks. And, ac­cord­ing to Ron Suskind, he as­sured them that he would hold his ground.

Rom­ney’s com­plaint in­volves Pres­i­dent Obama’s oc­ca­sional ref­er­ences to "fat cats," plus the core of the Rom­ney ar­gu­ment is that Pres­i­dent Obama wants to raise the tax rate on high-in­come tax­pay­ers back to the level of the Clin­ton years. Call­ing this sort of tax in­crease a re­dis­tri­b­u­tion that leads to equal out­comes re­gard­less of in­di­vid­ual ef­fort and suc­cess is just non­sense.

The rich got plenty richer dur­ing the Clin­ton years.....it was the time when the stock mar­ket had its great­est rally since the 20s. There were huge for­tunes made on Wall Street, Sil­i­con Val­ley and other cen­ters of the “new econ­omy.” Bill Gates be­came the rich­est per­son in the world dur­ing these years.

Fi­nally we have Pres­i­dent Obama’s health care plan. Yes, this will ex­tend health care in­sur­ance to tens of mil­lions of peo­ple who would not oth­er­wise have it. Of course hav­ing every­one cov­ered by health care, which the plan will not ac­tu­ally ac­com­plish, is not quite the same as end­ing the dif­fer­ences be­tween rich and poor.

And the way in which the plan ex­tended cov­er­age en­sures that Mr. Rom­ney’s friends in the health in­sur­ance, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal, and med­ical sup­ply in­dus­tries can con­tinue to make great for­tunes in the health care in­dus­try. Rom­ney knows this fact very well, since the plan is es­sen­tially the same plan that he put in place as gov­er­nor of Mass­a­chu­setts.

In short, when Rom­ney makes a com­ment about Pres­i­dent Obama want­ing to have equal out­comes re­gard­less of in­di­vid­ual ef­fort and suc­cess, he is just speak­ing non­sense. This is a gaffe.

http://www.nationofchange.org/will-romney-lie-his-way-white-house-1326209656

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