Mittens, STOP CALLING ME
The Market Ticker - Commentary on The Capital Markets
Posted 2012-07-20 15:50
by Karl Denninger
in Politics
 

I'm not going to vote for you.

I'm not going to give your campaign money.

I will verbally accost and challenge any and all of the idiots who invade my home by telephone, and I will lampoon and attack any of your printed campaign materials.

I will not vote for you because:

  • You signed and issued a signing statement in support of a state Assault Weapons ban as Governor.  You claim to support the Second Amendment on your web site but this is a bald lie, based on your own signing statement of July 1st, 2004.  For those who forgot, this is what you said: "Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts", Romney said, at a bill signing ceremony on July 1 with legislators, sportsmen's groups and gun safety advocates. "These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense.  They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people."   There is only one man running for President who has actually ever banned a gun, and that man is Mitt Romney.

  • You have refused to put forward an honest economic policy.  Your "web" position assumes "robust" 4% economic growth.  There is no evidence that will happen as the government has crowded out the private sector.   Your identified direct "budget cuts" are under $100 billion annually.  The deficit is more than $1 trillion!  This is clown-car garbage.

  • Block grants are simply a cost-shift that bankrupts states.  States are seeing 20% annual Medicaid cost increases!  You cannot fix the budget without putting a stop to medical cost escalation and cost-shifting -- period!  This isn't what I want or anyone else wants, it's math.   You're lying Mitt.

  • If fraud and waste are bad why are they continuing?  Remember that one man's fraud and waste is another man's paycheck!  Cutting it off means cutting off GDP even though it's bogus GDP -- it still counts.  Fraud and waste exist because people like you love the contributions that come to your political campaigns as a result of it.  Period.

Even if I accept your "savings" are factual (I don't; those from "block grants" are simply a spending shift, not a spending decrease) I still find 80+% of the deficit un-addressed in your fraudulent "plans."

You say on your web page: "We have a moral responsibility not to spend more than we take in."  You're a damned liar as your announced program spends vastly more than the government takes in.  That it would propose to spend a bit "less" than Obama doesn't change the fact that you can't be a little bit pregnant and you can't be a little bit moral.

You either are or you're not.

You're a jackass and a dangerous thug Mitt.  Your blatant disregard of fundamental liberty interests guarantees that I will never vote for you, and your outrageous and transparent lying on top of it within your own web page when it comes to economics, not even needing to look at your record and speeches, says that you simply cannot be trusted.

I'd rather vote for Beelzebub than Mitt Romney.

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