The Real Mitt Romney

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Originally Posted by BigV

... like runaway spending on more military might that we do not need?

He contradicts himself in his first sentence saying that he'll match our military to our interests. But his whole plan is to make sure this all happens above a *FLOOR* (his italics, not mine) of 4% of GDP. If all you have are military dollars, everything looks like a military threat. He doesn't say how he will pay for it, what with reducing everyone's taxes, dramatically increasing our defense budget, typical Romney, say anything that will stampede the voters.

Does Obama say how he's going to pay for Obama care? Nooooo!
That's what lying politicians do - get over it.

Jesus, you are obdurate. Please provide a citation for this. (ps, I'm just gonna ask nicely this once, and if you don't give a cite, I'm going to chalk this up to more defamation by you.)

I don't have a cite for you. It's been played a few times on the conservative radio talk shows. The announcer/host said where and when, but I didn't write it down. It came up when Obama care was about to be voted on, so it was some time back.

I agree with you, the federal government can't afford to be a replacement for insurance on your home.

But no one is suggesting that. You are melodramatically exaggerating the role of FEMA.

Oh, am I? What were all those trailers about after Katrina, then?

You and I both know that the reason those buildings in New Orleans couldn't be rebuilt quickly, was because they either had no flood insurance, or if they were rebuilt, their new flood insurance rates would be higher (probably too high), or unavailable.

Think about it. The City of New Orleans is built on washed down dirt from the Mississippi River. As the dirt compacts, the city sinks about just a bit, every year. In addition, a large part of N.O. is in a bowl depression, close to sea level.

In other words, the city is doomed - it will sink into the Gulf, inexorably. Clearly, they need to build a New New Orleans, back on solid ground, asap. Did you notice that another part of N.O. did receive 12 ft. of flood waters, in their last Hurricane? (Not Sandy). The sea wall and etc., doesn't protect the whole city, even when it works.

We don't need FEMA to think, and we need to start using our own resources to mitigate these disasters ourselves. THEN FEMA and Red Cross and other groups, can assist. ASSIST, not be expected to rescue our butts.

My god, you sound like Romney, that you believe that people, some 47% of us, won't take responsibility for our lives, that we, some 47% of us, believe it is the federal government's responsibility to take care of us in every way, including our safety. Unbelievable.

Watch the interviews done with the Katrina survivors that were inside the Superbowl in New Orleans. Every one of them relied on the gov't for help - and most of them relied on the gov't for everything - even though they were told to bring their own supplies, explicitly and repeatedly.

You would blindly put our national safety in the hands of the same "nitwits", with an even bigger military budget. Gotcha. I doubt you can explain that one away, but you probably meant to say something else.

I am not sure that we need a bigger military budget. I just don't want the Navy ships budget cut any more. As far as the "nitwits" in charge of our national safety - no, the military doesn't allow the Crony Appointments that Presidents are so famous for (like BROWN at FEMA, or Janet Reno as Attorney General).