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A Candidate can redeem us............... Mitt Romney took his state from 50th in unemployment to 11th. He cut 341 social programs to balance a 3 billion dollar deficit in the budget. That is downsizing Government. He is against cap and trade, states there is no way to even measure man’s input to climate change. He is for drilling in the united states and building more refineries. He has always been against federal mandates and believes things should be dealt with on a state to state approach. He was the first to present the idea of waivers against Obama Care until it can be repealed. Immigration? He defunded sanctuary cities while Governor. He is against Amnesty. Take time to look at his 844 vetoes. They are all on the conservative side of every issue. He is pro life and he governed that way. Health Care? They had a 484 Million dollar Heath Care deficit that was greatly affecting the sustainability of the states hospitals. What do you do ignore it? The concept came from the Conservative Heritage Foundations think tank. Once it was presented the Democrats made many additions to it. Mitt Romney vetoed 8 things in it that he knew would be problematic. He was vetoed back by a veto proof legislature. There is nothing any Governor could do, if the legislature has the majority which it did.. In the state it was, when he had to sign it in. It added no new taxes. Was 1% of the state budget. It was created for the 8% of the people in the state that caused the debts. It did not try and do away with private health care. There are good things and bad. He vetoed the bad things. By due process of American Government, he was required to sign the Bill in that present form. Any Governor would have to. He is a fighter. 844 vetoes, was vetoed back 700 times. What more do you want? He has a 169 page plan for you to read on fixing the economy He has so far come up with cutting 500 Billion out of the existing Budget He wants to have a law where it is illegal for the Government to Deficit spend |
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My first choice is Newt, and then I like Santorum. But I could live with Romney. Redeem us? That can only happen if one of those 3 is elected. I fear that may not happen if they continue to rip each other apart so much. This election may be the last time I'll feel any special loyalty to the USA. If Obama wins again, then I think the American people have spoken and their message is that they no longer care to be a great nation. Hence, they will have become another mediocre one. The battle for good in the world will still be with the Lord, but I'll no longer consider the USA an ally in that pursuit. If Obama wins, then America is lost and has become part of the problem. It'll be a nation I won't defend. I'll still live here until someone runs me out, but that's only cos I've got to live somewhere. Nations come and go. When they are on God's side, I'll stand with them. It's possible God is gonna just let America go, by letting them elect leaders who will bring them to ruin. If He does, I'll recognize it by the results of the general election. Then, if Obama wins, I'll let America go too.
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Newt Gingrich is pro National Health Care, For Cap and trade legislation and much of what Obama is (socialist). He is a horrible candidate. Santorum has no executive experience. Mitt Romney has an outstanding record as a problem solver and an executive. There is no one in the race even close
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Then I take it u'd prefer Obama over Gingrich?
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I would never vote again if Gingrich were my choice. He is just as dangerous, and a hor4rible candidate. Santorums record also is very bad I am not a Rick Santorum hater. I do not see him on many levels as a President. How you vote is a window into the soul of how you would Govern. Here is his record of his support. Is this what you want? NEA Voted for taxpayer funding of the National Endowment for the Arts. Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts. Bankruptcy Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy. Defense and Foreign Policy Voted for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Voted against requiring the President to certify that the CWC is effectively verifiable. Voted against requiring the President to certify that that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, China, and all other countries determined to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification. Voted for the START II Treaty Voted to allow the sale of supercomputers to China. Voted to ban antipersonnel landmines Voted against increasing defense spending offset by equivalent cuts in non-defense spending. Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same payraises as uniformed military. Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyranical regimes such as Libya and Cuba. Voted to limit the President’s authority to impose sanctions on nations for reasons of national security unless the sanctions were approved by a multilateral regime. Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia. Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea Voted to weaken alien terrorist deportation provisions. If the Court determines that the evidence must be withheld for national security reasons, the Justice Department must still provide a summary of the evidence sufficient for the alien terrorist to mount a defense against deportation. Voted against delaying the India Nuclear until the President certified that India had agreed to suspend military-to-military exchanges with Iran. Voted against the Conventional Trident Missile Program Nominations Voted for Richard Paez to the 9th Curcuit (cloture) Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge Voted for Richard Holbrooke to be Ambassador to the UN Voted for Margaret Morrow to be District Judge Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9thg Circuit Voted for Mary McLaughlin to be District Judge Voted for Tim Dyk to be District Judge Voted for James Brady to be District Judge Labor Voted against National Right to Work Act Voted against Real of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages Voted for Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding Voted for Trade Adjustment Assistance. Voted for Job Corps funding Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations. Voted for minimum wage increases six times here here here here here and here Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board. Voted to exempt IRS union representative from criminal ethics laws. Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses. Guns Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun. Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device Voted for a Federal ban on possession of “assault weapons” by those under 18. Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools. Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill. Reform Voted for funding for the legal services corporation. Voted twice for a Congressional payraise. Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapits, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections. Voted for the Specter “backup plan” to allow campaign finance reform to survive if portions of the bill were found unconstitutional. Voted to mandate discounted broadcast times for politicians. Voted for a McCain amendment to require State and local campaign committees to report all campaign contributions to the FEC and to require all campaign contributions to be reported to the FEC within 24 hours within 90 days of an election. Immigration Voted against increasing the number of immigration investigators Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens. Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to to the earnings of their sponsors. Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border partrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants. Taxes Voted against a flat tax. Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses. Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child healh insurance. Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding. Voted twice for internet taxes. Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak. Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies. Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase. Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund. Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years. Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans. Voted to say that AMT patch is more important than capital gains and dividend relief. Welfare Voted against food stamp reform Voted against Medicaid reform Voted against TANF reform Voted to increase the Social Services Block Grant from $1 billion to $2 billion Voted to increase the FHA loan from $170,000 to $197,000. Also opposed increasing GNMA guaranty from 6 basis points to 12. Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance. Waste Sponsored An amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (R  and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA)Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion. Voted to increase NIHnding by $700 million Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (A  Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry Voted against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies. Voted to allow OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50% Voted against transferring $20 million from Americorps to veterans. Voted for the $140 billion asbestos compensation bill. Voted against requiring a uniform medical criteria to ensure asbestos claims were legitimate. Voted to increase community development programs by $2 billion. Spending and Entitlements Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies an new entitlement. Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years. Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF. Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt . Health Care Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker. Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance. Voted against a allow consumers the option to purchase a plan outside the parity mandate. Education Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion. Voted against requiring courts to consider the impact of IDEA awards on a local school district. Energy Voted to allow the President to designate certain sites as interim nuclear waste storage sites in the event that he determines that Yucca Mountain is not a suitable site for a permanent waste repository. Those sites are as follows: the nuclear waste site in Hanford, Washington; the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; Barnwell County, South Carolina; and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.
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Mitt has never ever wanted federal health care. In 1994 he argued against it with Ted Kennedy. He believes each state should deal with the issues on its own. I have researched all of this for 4 years. I know what happened. The Mass health Care came about as a result of the state having a 484 Million dollar deficit from people not paying Hospital Bills. The concept that Mitt Romney presented was written by the Conservative Heritage Foundation. The State Legislature which had veto proof power, added many things to it that Mitt did not agree with and he vetoed which is his power as a Governor. That is 1/3 the vote. He was vetoed back. Case closed. This only covered 8% of the state that was uninsured. It did not have big fines. It was 1% of the state budget and did not add any new taxes. It does not do away with Private Health Care. It is an alternative that helps off set the issues caused by the 8% uninsured that caused the deficit and would have led to the closing of hospitals which is happening in Arizona, where the problem is much worse. If you take out the 8 items Mitt Vetoed, you have a very good plan. It had 2 amendments added to it after he left office. People think he should apologize. Why? He presented a good plan. It was altered by the democratic party that had the house and senate. Its called states rights, and it is called due process. He did his part. He vetoed the bad parts. So why should he be ashamed.Its how Government works. He could have let them do what they wanted, because in the end they had the power to do so. As of 2010 the state of Massachusetts still likes the plan at a 68% approval. He did what he could and took them on.He vetoed them 844 times in his term and was vetoed back 700 times. He was a fighter. So why should he apologize. His 844 Vetoes were also all conservative. And there is more to this, President Bush was going to cut other medical benefits totally 400 million if they did not insure more people. It was a mess in which he did the best he could having 2/3rds liberal legislature against him That is what happened
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Gingrich's Gurus Summer 1995 CREATING A NEW CIVILIZATION: THE POLITICS OF THE THIRD WAVE Alvin and Heidi Toffler Foreword by Newt Gingrich Turner Publishing, 1995, 112 pp. Newt Gingrich claims that "Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given us the key to viewing current disarray within the positive framwork of a dynamic, exciting future" (p. 14). The book, he thinks, "is an effort to empower citizenslike yourself to truly take the leap and begin to invent a Third Wave civilization" (p. 17). Though of course reluctant to disagree with so august a personage as the Speaker of the House, I cannot share his high opinion of this book. The Tofflers, like Karl Marx, think that technology determines history. But Marx got the details wrong. The Tofflers claim that industrial development does not inevitably pave the way to socialism, as he thought; instead, the growth of computers and other types of "open knowledge" will lead to a new type of society. "Third Wave" thinking has now superseded Second Wave industrialism, on which both old-fashioned capitalism and socialism are based. (First Wave or agricultural civilization is even more outmoded.) In predicting the increased importance of computers, the Tofflers occupy the firm ground of those seers who prognosticate by projecting the immediate past into the future. But they nowhere show that growth in information has the revolutionary effects on society that they postulate. Why must changes in technology alter the structure of the family, make nationalism obsolete, and require us to abandon traditional morality? They condemn those who "appeal to nostalgia in their rhetoric about culture and values, as though one could return to the values and morality of the 1950s—a time before universal television, before the birth-control pill, before commercial jet aviation, satellites and home computers—without also returning to the mass industrial society of the Second Wave" (p. 77). How do satellites change morality? The all-determining influence of technology operates in the Tofflers' system as an unquestioned axiom. If their predictions are banal, and their social theory unfounded and simplistic, their recommendations for political change are more than a little sinister. Although constantly calling for decentralization, they also complain that we are "politically primitive and undeveloped" at the "transnational level." Decisions must be transferred "up" from the nation-state (p. 100). Translating the Tofflers' Third Wave argot into English, this is a call for global government. Not surprisingly, those who oppose Nafta are prisoners of the outmoded Second Wave. Although our authors say some commendably harsh things about socialism, they by no means advocate the free market. Massive job retraining and new forms of collective bargaining are the order of the day: to think otherwise is of course to be enmeshed in Second Wave Thought (p. 53). But what exactly the anticipatory democracy that they, and Newt Gingrich, see in store for us consists of, they mostly leave vague. To demand specifics is no doubt to fall victim to the discredited analytic approach, pioneered by Descartes (p. 60). These Third Wave thinkers, who take a "systemic or integrative view," have transcended old-fashioned logic. Creating a New Civilization contains many more gems. We learn, e.g., that St. Augustine thought that those who could add or subtract had made a covenant with the Devil (p. 35). But enough. Readers will have no difficulty in gauging the quality of the Tofflers' intelligence, or the intelligence of those who recommend them. This is not a book, but a symptom.
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These are all recent Newt Gingrich statements. I WAS A GREEN PUPPET WHEN IT WASN’T COOL: “When I first ran for Congress I was the natural candidate of most environmental groups…” Newt Gingrich, “Winning The Future,” Page 168 CREATE GLOBAL SPENDING REGIMES: “If the United States challenged Europe and Japan to join it in financing a world biodiversity refuge system and tied foreign aid into the process of maintaining biodiversity, we could probably save a very high percentage of the earth’s biological richness…” Newt Gingrich, “Winning The Future,” Pages 170-171 SPREAD THE WEALTH, TO GREENS: “The United States should support substantial research into climate change, managing the response to climate change, and in developing new non-carbon energy systems.” Newt Gingrich, “Winning The Future,” Page 171 PUT DC IN CONTROL: “The federal government should establish measurable standards for a healthy environment…” Newt Gingrich, “Winning The Future,” Page 172 CASH FOR CLUNKERS? MORE, PLEASE: “A tax credit to subsidize energy efficient cars (including a tax credit for turning in old and heavily polluting cars) is another idea we should support.” Newt Gingrich, “Winning The Future,” Page 174 INDOCTRINATE THEM YOUNG: “As a young professor at West Georgia College, I taught in the second Earth Day in 1971 and coordinated an interdisciplinary environmental studies program.” Newt Gingrich, “Real Change,” Page 196 NEWT ENDORSES ‘CASH FOR CLUNKERS,’ AGAIN: “There ought to be a tax break for trading in old cars that use a lot of petroleum and emit a lot of pollution.” Newt Gingrich, “Real Change,” Page 204 WE MUST PROTECT THE ESA “That is why I worked so diligently as Speaker of the House to protect the Endangered Species Act, historic legislation that has been mired in controversy…The Endangered Species Act is an excellent example of the value of civility, consultation and collaboration.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Pages XII & 51 THE EARTH NEEDS A GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER “Government, at all levels, should be a facilitator for entrepreneurial, private-sector innovations and the formation of private-public environmental partnerships.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Page 13 STOP THE CONSERVATIVES FROM LIMITING GOVERNMENT POWER “For that reason, we have supported its (the Endangered Species Act’s) continuation against all challenges by private citizens, interest groups, and congressional opponents.” Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Page 53 CREATE NEW GOVERNMENT SPENDING PROGRAMS “The U.S. government operates endowments for the humanities and the arts…Perhaps, it is time we consider a new endowment for conservation and the environment.” “Newt Gingrich, “A Contract With The Earth,” Pages 115-116 [NOTE: As Speaker,
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WHAT IS NEWT GINGRICH’S VOTING RECORD ??? Who is Newt: 04/02/1987 – He cosponsored the 1987 Fairness Doctrine 10/22/1991 – He voted for an amendment that would create a National Police Corps. 03/—/1993 – He Voted for sending $1.6 Billion in foreign aid to Russia. 11/19/1993 – He voted for the NAFTA Implementation Act. 11/27/1994 – He supported the GATT Treaty giving sovereignty to the U.N. 08/27/1995 – He suggests that drug smuggling should carry a death sentence. 04/25/1996 – Voted for the single largest increase on Federal education spending ($3.5 Billion) 04/10/1995 – He supported Federal taxdollars being spent on abortions. 06/01/1996 – He helped a Democrat switch parties in an attempt to defeat constitutionali st Ron Paul in the 1996 election. 09/25/1996 – Introduced H.R. 4170, demanded life-sentence or execution for someone bringing 2 ounces of marijuana across the border. 01/22/1997 – Congress gave him a record-setting $300,000 fine for ethical wrongdoing. 11/29/2006 – He said that free speech should be curtailed in order to fight terrorism. Wants to stop terrorists from using the internet. Called for a “serious debate about the 1st Amendment.” 11/29/2006 – He called for a “Geneva Convention for terrorists” so it would be clear who the Constitution need not apply to. 02/15/2007 – He supported Bush’s proposal for mandatory carbon caps. 09/28/2008 – Says if he were in office, he would have reluctantly voted for the $700B TARP bailout. 10/01/2008 – Says in an article that TARP was a “workout, not a bailout.” 12/08/2008 – He was paid $300,000 by Freddie Mac to halt Congress from bringing necessary reform. 03/31/2009 – Says we should have Singapore-style drug tests for Americans. 07/30/2010 – Says that Iraq was just step one in defeating the “Axis of Evil”.. 08/16/2010 – Opposes property rights of the mosque owner in NYC. 11/15/2010 – He defended Romneycare... now he attacks it 12/05/2010 – He said that a website owner should be considered an enemy combatant, hunted down and executed, for publishing leaked government memos. 01/30/2011 – He lobbied for ethanol subsidies. 01/30/2011 – He suggested that flex-fuel vehicles be mandated for Americans. 02/13/2011 – He criticized Obama for sending less U.S. taxdollars to Egypt. 02/15/2011 – His book said that he believes man-made climate-change and advocated creating “a new endowment for conservation and the environment.” 03/09/2011 – He blames his infidelity to multiple wives on his passion for the country. 03/15/2011 – Says that NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico. 03/19/2011 – He has no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage. (Now $7.2T unfunded liability) 03/23/2011 – He completely flip-flopped on Libyan intervention in 16 days. 03/25/2011 – He plans to sign as many as 200 executive orders on his first day as president. 04/25/2011 – He’s a paid lobbyist for Federal ethanol subsidies. 05/12/2011 – He was more supportive of individual health-care mandates than Mitt Romney, who's mandates Romney actually vetoed..and was vetoed back. 06/09/2011 – His own campaign staff resigned en masse. 07/15/2011 – His poorly managed campaign is over $1 Million in debt. 08/01/2011 – He hired a company to create fake Twitter to appear as if he had a following. 10/07/2011 – He said he’d ignore the Supreme Court if need be.e order and bypass the constitution and congress (as if they wouldn't go along anyway) then read the voting record and charge list below. http://bigchurch.com=NGtfSf3jjAI&feature=share
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