Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Romney To Unveil Major Economic Plan

Mitte Romney will unveil a major plan for jobs and the economy tomorrow.
But You can find a preview of it in a fine column that Romney has written for USA Today that also appears on Mitt's website.
Here are some brief excerpts from the column:

Tomorrow, I will introduce a plan consisting of 59 specific proposals — including 10 concrete actions I will take on my first day in office — to turn around America's economy. Each proposal is rooted in the conservative premise that government itself cannot create jobs. At best, government can provide a framework in which economic growth can occur. All too often, however, government gets in the way. The past three years of unparalleled government expansion have retaught that lesson all too well.
Only the individual initiative of entrepreneurs, workers, investors and inventors enables companies, and our economy as a whole, to flourish. We must once again unleash the tremendous economic potential of the American people. The contrast between what the Obama administration has done and what I would do as president could not be starker. . . .
Seeking to pay back political favors, President Obama has catered to the institutional interests of union bosses at the expense of both workers and businesses. I will fight against measures that deprive workers of basic rights, such as the secret ballot. . . .
I will also press for a Constitutional amendment to balance the budget. Tellingly, while the private sector shed 1.8 million jobs since Barack Obama took office, the federal workforce grew by 142,500, or almost 7%. A rollback is urgently required.
Click here to read the entire column.

2 comments:

Josh said...

Enough with this pipe dream of a Balanced Budget Amendment. It's not happening. You need 2/3 of each chamber of Congress and 3/4 of state legislatures to approve a constitutional amendment. Good luck trying to get that kind of support on any bill of significance.

And as nice as a balanced budget amendment sounds in theory, it could hamstring the government's ability to respond in times of crisis. Heaven forbid we have a serious natural disaster or another war and need to spend large quantities of money quickly.

Dan Cirucci said...

The balanced budget may indeed be very hard to achieve -- very hard to turn into an amendment. Granted.
But there's nothing wrong with being aspirational.
Plus, in the Romney plan you will also find many, many, down-to-earth, common sense measures aimed at solving our economic problems.