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Related: About this forum"Economists: Romney’s ideas wouldn’t fix short-term crisis, and could make things worse" at WP
Economists: Romneys ideas wouldnt fix short-term crisis, and could make things worseby Greg Sargent at WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/economists-romneys-ideas-wouldnt-fix-short-term-crisis-and-could-make-things-worse/2012/06/07/gJQAHKUWLV_blog.html
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Mitt Romney frequently faults President Obama for not having any kind of plan to pull us out of our employment slump. But would Mitt Romneys ideas help fix the economic crisis?
I asked two economists to take a look at that question. Their conclusion: While both said they support some of Romneys long term goals, they both agreed that Romneys ideas would do little or nothing to fix the immediate crisis, and could in the short term make things worse.
The question of whether Romneys ideas would fix the economy in the near term has gotten short shrift, because presidential campaigns amid a bad economy tend to focus relentlessly on the incumbent.
The most direct answer Romney has given to the question of what he would do to fix the near term crisis as opposed to his long-term plan came during an interview on CNBC in the wake of the bad May jobs numbers. Romney offered six suggestions.
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"Economists: Romney’s ideas wouldn’t fix short-term crisis, and could make things worse" at WP (Original Post)
applegrove
Jun 2012
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Thrill
(19,178 posts)1. LOL you won't hear the TV Media heads mention
this
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)2. I suspect ...
This material will find its way into the Presidential debates.
Arneoker
(375 posts)3. The question a voter has to ask themselves is
Will I be better off with restoring the policies in place when the economy went bad in the first place, or the policies in place since the economy has started on a steady recovery?