Romney's 59 step plan

[SoutherDem]

Ok, I downloaded it today and gave it a quick review. I quickly discovered a few things;
1. Taxes would be recessive giving tax breaks to the rich.
2. Deregulation would give free reign to the banking and energy industries.
3. Free trade would pave the path to more jobs going over seas and possibly lower our standard of living.
4. Destroy remaining unions and encourage right to work.
5. Destroy the social safety nets including ending ACA and ending Medicaid.

This was just from a short review, not a detailed reading, I am sure it get worst. I guess the beauty of creating an 87 page document is you can say you have a plan while insuring very few will actually read it. I plan on reading it and making a point by point review.

Before I endure the process of reading and noting the problems does anyone know of a link to a website where this has be done?

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Where's the jobs? Thought he said he had a 59-step jobs plan.

[SoutherDem]

2. I didn't really find them but as I said it was a quick review.

I missed the jobs, but I am sure they are there, Mitt wouldn't lie to us.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

3. One big problem is that the written plan remains the same though many

of Romney's policy positions have changed dramatically. USA Today had a brief article about this in April, at http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-04-29/romney-economic-plan-evolves/54632552/1 .

Another problem with the written plan is that President Obama already has carried out some of Mitt's key points, such as approval of trade agreements with Columbia, Korea, and Panama. Bizarrely, Romney continues to say "the President has negotiated no trade agreements in 3 and a half years". Romney repeated that lie just today mid-vacation at a New Hapmshire hardware store--see http://www.democraticunderground.com/125152471 .

IMO you might be wasting a lot of time reviewing the written document because Romney already has flip-flopped on some of its key points.

[SoutherDem]

7. I read the article and see what you mean by wasting a lot of time

From what I read in the article his wonderful plan is out dated but not update. He really wants us to just trust him.

I know the jobs report wasn't what we wanted. But, when the choice is between slow but continued growth and some plan which is out of date, which has been updated but those updates won't be released to be reviewed I don't know how the American electorate can give Romney the time of day much less their vote.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

15. Melissa Harris-Perry has a segment on Mitt's 59-point plan

Her first graphic has at the top, "Maintain current marginal tax rates".

Mitt already has moved on from this position to advocate a 20 percent across-the-board cut in marginal tax rates. I'm surprised that none of her four panelists pointed this out.

MHP is waving around a PDF printout of Mitt's plan, most likely downloaded during the past few days, so this is confirmation that what USA Today said in April still is true" Romney has not updated his written plan.

Why should he? Mitt's 50-point plan is like a bad poker hand a blowhard is hiding in order to keep raising the stakes and take the pot with a pure bluff strategy. Romney knows nobody in the stenographic media ever is going to call him on it. And even progressives find it hard to keep up with his ever-changing etch-a-sketch.

[wandy]

4. In the end it will all boil down to yet another rehash of "A contract with America".......

or was that "A contract on America"
They have done a pretty good 'hit job' so far.

[SoutherDem]

6. A Contract On America is what I always called newts plan

[wandy]

10. Yup, Yup. And the Orange Boner presented it again somewhere around 2009.......

Coming soon to a Romney speech near you.
"A contract on America"! The Final Delusion!

[Wounded Bear]

5. I think it's really a 3 step plan....

1. Do what Reagan did.....minus all of his tax increases.

2. Do what Baby Bush did....

3. Repeat.

[CBHagman]

8. Link to the Romney site.

I've only just got started reading it (You have to click on the individual issue), but what I've read so far is nothing but what I've been hearing from the Republicans for a decade and more -- eliminate the estate tax, eliminate the progressive income tax, yada, yada, yada.

http://www.mittromney.com/jobs

[ProgressiveEconomist]

11. And where are the estimates by independent economists of what effests

if any Romney's policies would have on employment and economic growth?

In contrast, see http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/10/07/economists-president-s-plan-will-create-jobs-now-gop-s-won-t for a White House article on the President's American Jobs Act, introduced last fall. John McCain's campaign economist in 2008, Mark Zandi of Moody's, estimated that the AJA would create 1.9 million jobs, take a full percentage point off the unemployment rate, and increase the economic growth rate by two percentage points. But Republicans have refused to bring these proposals to a vote.

IMO Romney's "economic plan" is a BLUFF the media refuse to call.

[SoutherDem]

12. I left this point out of my OP

Nothing I have seen thus far is measurable. They are theories. Purely academic. That is the other beauty of his plan, don't give anything that can be measured. The only specifics from what I have seen are not specific at all.

[CBHagman]

9. News flash: Romney earns an MS and a Ph.D.

More Shit, Piled Higher and Deeper.

As I said above, the plan reiterates the usual Republican talking points and policies, such as cutting the Legal Services Corporation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, while cutting taxes on those with the highest incomes.

[Raven]

13. You take...

one step in, you take one step out
you take one step in and turn it all about
you do the hokey pokey
and you turn yourself around
that's what it's all about!

did I get that right?

or...you put your right foot in
you put your right foot out....

depends on where you grew up.

[SoutherDem]

14. That about sums it up nicely.