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Originally Posted by Adak
Yes, Romney has flipped on several issues, but Massachusetts is a VERY liberal state, and that's where he was governor.
If you're a pragmatic person, and you believe in states rights, you will be more liberal as it's governor. You aren't just running your own agenda, you're being a true statesman.
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Yes, it takes a "true statesman" to lead the state to 47th in job growth, and number 1 state in debt per person.
Oh and good business man Thurston... er, Mitt, saving the Olympics? Bullshit.
The Olympics were saved by $1.5
Billion of our tax money, more than all seven previous American Olympics, even adjusted for inflation.
Worse, how the money was spent.
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The most damning aspect of the Salt Lake tab wasn't the final amount, but how it was being spent. In their exhaustively researched Sports Illustrated accounting, Barlett and Steele explain how many Olympics projects amounted to little more than slush funds for wealthy donors to the games. Wealthy Utahns used the games as an excuse to receive exemptions for projects that would otherwise never meet environmental standards, or to receive generous subsidies for improvements of questionable value to the games—but with serious value to future real estate developments. In one example, a wealthy developer received $3 million to build a three-mile stretch of road through his resort. Where'd he get the money? Federal funds that had been deposited in the Utah Permanent Community Impact Fund.
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So much more it's sickening.