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Campaign 2012, part 1

September 23, 2012 5:09 PM

Mitt Romney's plan to restore America to fiscal health includes less government, entitlement reform, tax cuts - and cooperation with Congress. Scott Pelley reports.

Campaign 2012: Obama vs. Romney

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by aboaboni November 4, 2012 5:13 AM EST
Romeny, 38%-20% is 18% percent! Not 20%, don't say everything is less 20% and the current rates will go from 30% to 28%! Please, please, please addition and subtraction is important when attempting to reduce the current national budget..
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by gordontull October 14, 2012 12:22 AM EDT
Very good interview!

This may seem easily palpable, but what do each of us stand for?

It seems simple to keep talking about cutting amounts of dollars, but what are we sacrificing and more importantly what are we not sacrificing/AKA supporting. This is rarely in the discussion and is disturbing.

We live in an affluent modern society where we must value the vulnerable demographics---the poor, the disabled, the sick, the elderly, the exploited. We must put societal protections and safety nets in place to ensure this. I do not care about what percentage of the vulnerable demographics we are protecting. As an affluent society, lets please step up to protect them. It is the right thing to do, the Christian thing to do, the Jewish thing to do, the Muslim thing to do, the Hindu thing to do, the Buddhist thing to do, did I mention the right thing to do?

Let's do it.
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by lindascales October 11, 2012 7:56 AM EDT
please review presidential debate at very end and see what paper work mitt removed from stage
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by gpxgirl October 2, 2012 12:37 PM EDT
I believe in jesus, I love God with everything I have. But I would never vote for this jerk! The bible says Proverbs 21:13 "He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor. Will also cry himself and not be answered." 22:16 "He who oppresses the poor to make more for himself Or who gives to the rich, will only come to poverty. Psalm 37:14
The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright. Proverbs 14:31 Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God. Romney is all of these things when it comes to poor people, he doesn't care WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM! NOR DOES HE CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO PREGNANT TEENAGERS. THEY COULD HAVE BABIES ON THE STREET FOR ALL HE CARES. A REAL, TRUE CHRISTIAN WOULD DO EVERYTHING HE CAN TO HELP THOSE LESS FORTUNATE, HE HIMSELF SAID WE DON'T NEED TO HELP THEM. HE IS A BIGOT, HE IS RACIST, SEXIST, AMONG MANY OTHER THINGS. JUST BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE IN GOD, DOESN'T MAKE YOU A CHRISTIAN! YOU HAVE TO ACT LIKE ONE! AND MITT ROMNEY HAS IN NO WAY, SHOWED CHRISTIAN BEHAVIOR. JUST UNDERHANDED, BACKSTABBING, CHEAP SHOTS TO OBAMA. His obviously plan is to cut up his running mate so bad, with slander and hate, because he knows he can't win on his beliefs alone.
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by LoriB66 October 2, 2012 1:28 AM EDT
How can someone that is super rich really pass stuff that would make him pay more taxes. He will make sure to keep him money and not pay more in taxes.He wants the States to fund medicaid when most states are broke. He doesn't talk about ending the war for oil which is costing billions to fund the war. He wants to benefit big business and the heck with middle and lower classes. He doesn't talk about our homes being underwater. The health insurance plans don't sound so good. He leaves out the people that can't pay. He doesn't say how he is going to promote more jobs in USA or how he would entice businesses to stay in USA and hire Americans. I am not feeling good about Momney. He is stuck in the 1950s. We need to move forward not go backward. The super rich need to be taxed way higher!
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by freedomloverforevermore October 1, 2012 7:39 PM EDT
The clear choice is between good and evil. The DNC made the choice to leave God out. And so no clearer choice was made. We will evil after this election all demo have been told to hold off on any violence until after the election in CA. I can only guess that its a memo sent from Obama.
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by fmonner September 28, 2012 10:31 AM EDT
Hello Senor N, thank you for responding to my comments

1) No one on the Republican side wants to increase taxes on anyone.

The difference between the Romney plan versus the Obama plan in caring for the poor are stark.
Romney idea of being compassionate is to see how many jobs he can create for the poor. (He has a track record)
Obama's idea of being compassionate is to see how many poor people he can get on food stamps. (he also has a track record; when he took office the people on food stamps were about 20 million, now, after four years 43 million)

I don't know where you get these figures of 400 rich Americans versus the 150 millions poor Americans.
Rich and poor are not static categories, they are fluctuating categories.

Bill Gates was a struggling poor fellow here in Albuquerque, NM about 30 years ago; by all accounts ... not so now anymore!

In the 1950's I came to this great country with wife and three kids. I did not know English nor a good skill. I started with $1.00 per hour.
Looking back; it was very satisfying, made good money, lost good money. The point is, in the beginning you make little money, later good money and when you are old little money. You don't need money on the other side.

The adage of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer is as much a myth as the myth of the republicans wanting to tax the poor.
2) About the unemployment rate: In a nutshell: 100 people are hired through the front door and 1000 people are fired and exiting the back door. I get it now!
I looked at that Washington Post link, why someone would paste that on his refrigerator door is beyond me.

Why, it is nothing less than an apology for a failed policy.

I am a simple man, so I see things in simple terms.

For instance, in the real corporate world, when a new CEO is hired to replace a former CEO of a large company with the explicit promise by the new CEO that he will turn around the company in 4 years. Not only that, but that he will Cut the financial deficit in half and change the unemployment rate from 7.95 to 6.5 %. All that, with a guarantee expressed by him, that If he is not successful in doing so, he should be fired!

Now, if after 4 years, not only was he able to do what he promised, but he made the bad situation twice as bad as when he took office.

What should the board of directors do?

His explanation is "Hey, I did not realize that I inherited such a great mess, it will take an other 4 years to clean up this horrible mess I inherited!"

My question is: What does anyone in his right mind think the Board of Directors should do? (In the real world that is)

3) The first two years Obama had a veto proof Democratic Congress. He just did not have the leadership capacity to get his agenda trough his own majority Congress. (in simple lingo "he is clueless!")
As for the republicans voting as a block, well yes, but what you see as bad I see as good. The newly elected, mostly Tea party members, chosen to Congress, voted the way their constituents wanted them to vote. That is, not to go back on their word, as politicians are wont to do. Not,to promise to vote one way and ending up voting the other way. They promised their constituents no new taxes and they kept their promise.They promised to vote to repeal Obama care, because it is devastating for the next generation and they kept their promise. If you have any quarrel, it should be with us, their constituents We are plain tired of politician promising one thing and doing the opposite. Indeed they are more principled than Obama with his false promises. We fired one President doing exactly that. Bush I. He said, "read my lips, no new Taxes," Then he raised taxes. We fired him;

Us conservatives are a principled bunch , you know!
Regards,
Frans
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by fmonner September 25, 2012 5:19 PM EDT
This segment of 60 Minutes was the best hard hitting journalism so far on the Presidential election.
I have three comments:
1) About that "fairness thing"; What is better for the coffers of the government, and thereby for the needy, e.g. 10% of $10,000 000 = $1,000 000 or
50% of $10,000 = $5,000
Romney paid $ 6, 000 000 on taxes and charity; Obama paid $162 000, which one contributed more to the needy?

2) Obama claimed that when he took office the country lost 900 000 per month. He also claimed that he reversed that trend by creating 4.5 million jobs.
How then..., the unemployment rate went from 7.9% to 8.3%?

3) Obama complained that he could not accomplish many things he promised to do, because of obstructions by the Republican Congress.
The first two years he had a veto proof Democratic Congress, the second two years a divided congress.

Come to think of it, President Bush last two years had a full Democratic Congress. It was Pelosi, Reid and Obama's Congress.
The economy and jobs started to nose dive during that time. However, President Bush never complained.

By the way, I am 77 years, I have a small pension and social security totaling about $1000 per month supporting a wife and sister in law. I have no savings. I belong to that 47% category that Romney offended; but I am not offended, because I am smart enough to know what Romney meant.

Frans Monnereau,
Albuquerque, NM
fmonner@gmail.com
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by BH1958 September 25, 2012 3:41 PM EDT
That's Democratic... not "Democrat". Moron. Moron. Moron.
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by moonrigger September 25, 2012 11:50 AM EDT
Folks, Romney has not really put forth a concrete plan about how he's going to increase jobs. When his plan will reduce education funding, how will this be happening? Look at the facts: during Bush I and II, trickle down was a pipe-dream. Jobs went down. Pay stagnated. Energy costs increased. Regulations went out the window, resulting in the worst financial meltdown since the Depression, and really worse. No candidate is perfect, but if you are a woman, if you are middle class,if you are gay, if you are a thoughtful person who realizes that our parents rely on Medicare and Social Security, and so will we be--very soon--then think carefully about who you vote for. Do your due diligence--don't simply buy the rhetoric without looking at the implications. Romney thinks, like Trum, that you can fire people, rather than work with them. Huh? We control what happens in congress by voting in or out the folks who must Yay or Nay. Obama can't fire the do-nothings. He's not a CEO. We can, though. If you really want to see the economy improve, get rid of those obstructionists who blocked the plan to rebuild the infrastructure. It's gotta get done, folks, so why not employ the unemplolyed to do this? Are you going to wait until your water main breaks, your gas main blows up, your bridges fail? If your daughter gets raped and impregnated by some criminal, do you want her to be able to choose whether or not she can terminate the pregnancy, without being prosecuted for murder? Think about it. If you're out of work, and have lost your insurance, don't you want to be able to get a Pap smear, mammogram, x-ray, etc.? Think clearly now. Once we lose medicare, it will be the foxes guarding the henhouse.
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