Some excerpts from Mitt Romney's speech today in Iowa: (Complete Text here.)
"President Obama is an old school liberal whose first instinct is to
see free enterprise as the villain and government as the hero. America
counted on President Obama to rescue the economy, tame the deficit and
help create jobs. Instead, he bailed out the public-sector, gave
billions of dollars to the companies of his friends, and added almost as
much debt as all the prior presidents combined.
The consequence is that we are enduring the most tepid recovery in modern history.
The consequence is that half of the kids graduating from college can't find a job that uses their skills. Half.
The consequence is that retirees can no longer get by on savings and Social Security.
The consequence is that the length of time it takes an unemployed worker to find a job is the longest on record.
This is why even those who voted for Barack Obama are disappointed in him.
Disappointment is the key in which the President's re-election is
being played. Americans will not settle for four more years of the same
melancholy song. We can and we must do better.
President Obama started out with a near trillion-dollar stimulus
package – the biggest, most careless one-time expenditure by the federal
government in history. And remember this: the stimulus wasn’t just
wasted – it was borrowed and wasted. We still owe the money, we’re
still paying interest on it, and it’ll be that way long after this
presidency ends.
Then there was Obamacare. Even now nobody knows what it will
actually cost. And that uncertainty has slowed our economy. Employers
delay hiring and entrepreneurs put the brakes on starting new
businesses, because of a massive, European-style entitlement that
Americans didn’t want and can’t afford.
When you add up his policies, this President has increased the national debt by five trillion dollars.
Let me put that in a way we can understand. Your household's share of
government debt and unfunded liabilities has reached more than $520,000
under this president. Think about what that means. Your household will
be taxed year after year with the interest cost of that debt and with
the principal payments for those liabilities. Of course, it won't be
paid off by the adults in your household. It will be passed along to
your children. They will struggle throughout their lives with the
interest on our debts--and President Obama is adding to them every
single day.
And that's the best case scenario. The interest rate on that debt is
bound to go up, like an adjustable mortgage. And there's a good chance
this debt could cause us to hit a Greece-like wall."
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