Sunday 21 October 2012

[wanabidii] Romney Hijacked and Running away with President Obama's Reform/Recovery Plan......


 
Jamani,
 
 
Nani alimwambia Kundule Maurice Oduor naomba kura yake ???
Ajue vizuri kwamba sina haja ya kura yake ajitokomee mbali zuzu
huyo......Na ajue kwamba mwenye wazimu ni yeye aliekosa mbele
wala nyuma.  Ajue kwamba sina kichwa baridi kama lake asiniletee
ujinga. Bure kama kundu wazi la kupepea lisilo na nanga.
 
 
Apende asipende, ninajimudu nina shuguli, akipenda apasuke.....
Niko timam, na hata ni chimbua anavyo fikiria.  Akiyataka, na kama
yeye ni mume kamili, awache maneno matupu aje tupambane nae
huyo goigoi matepe; yalau, ni mume au ni mke???
 
 
Ajaribu tena subutu........nitamlainisha........
 

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
 


--- On Sun, 10/21/12, Maurice Oduor <mauricejoduor@gmail.com> wrote:
 
From: Maurice Oduor <mauricejoduor@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Mabadiliko] Romney Hijacked and Running away with President Obama's Reform/Recovery Plan......
To: mabadilikotanzania@googlegroups.com
Date: Sunday, October 21, 2012, 10:02 AM

Anthony,

Mwenyewe nipo disapora na sijampigia kura yoyote wala sijasikira about
cheo chochote kiitwacho Msemaji wa diaspora.

Wazimu mtupu Mtume tena !!!

Courage



On 10/21/12, ANTHONY MAVERE <maveretukai1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nilishauliza humu,
>
> Huyu sio msemaji wa africa diaspora wala nini, ni dalali wa tumbo lake na
> obama
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Augustine Rukoma
> <arukoma66@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> KAMATA HIYO JUDY UZIDI KUTUDANGANYA VIZURIMitt Romney Surges in
>> Presidential Polls; Leads in Ohio, North Carolina and Colorado
>> Presidential
>> Poll Roundup - Oct. 9By Micah
>> Taylor<http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/1130021/micah_taylor.html>|
>> Yahoo!
>> Contributor Network – Tue, Oct 9, 2012
>>
>> Mitt Romney continues to surge in the polls after a strong performance in
>> the first presidential debate last week. Romney now leads in three swing
>> states; Ohio, North Carolina and Colorado. He is also tied with President
>> Barack Obama in another important battleground state, and has taken the
>> lead in some national polls as well.
>>
>> *Ohio*
>>
>> In the week before the first debate, Obama was routinely winning polls
>> in
>> the Buckeye
>> State<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/oh/ohio_romney_vs_obama-1860.html#polls>.
>> Since his defeat last week, Obama has lost two out of three. The latest
>> poll by ARG <http://americanresearchgroup.com/pres2012/OH12.html> shows
>> Romney up 1 point, 48-47 percent. The poll surveyed 600 likely voters
>> with
>> a 4 percent margin of error. The polling sample was taken entirely after
>> the first debate, showing the race there may have significantly shifted
>> in
>> Romney's favor.
>>
>> *Colorado*
>>
>> A second ARG <http://americanresearchgroup.com/pres2012/CO12.html> poll
>> taken in Colorado also shows Romney ahead. In the survey of 600 likely
>> voters, Romney led by 4 points, 50-46 percent. Obama had lost only one
>> poll
>> of Colorado in all of
>> September<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/co/colorado_romney_vs_obama-2023.html#polls>.
>> Since the debate, the president has lost two out of four.
>>
>> *Nevada*
>>
>> A new
>> Rasmussen<http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/nevada/election_2012_nevada_president>poll
>> of Nevada shows the race tied. The survey of 500 likely voters found
>> Obama and Romney knotted at 47 percent each. The poll had a 4.5 percent
>> margin of error. Prior to the debate, the president had led in every poll
>> of
>> Nevada<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/nv/nevada_romney_vs_obama-1908.html#polls>except
>> one.
>>
>> *North Carolina*
>>
>> Romney has expanded his lead in North Carolina. A new poll by Gravis
>> Marketing
>> <http://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2012/Gravis_NC_1008.pdf>has Romney
>> up by 9 points over Obama, 50-41 percent. The poll surveyed
>> 1,325 likely voters with a 2.9 percent margin of error. This is a five
>> point increase over the last poll, conducted by
>> Rasmussen<http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/north_carolina/election_2012_north_carolina_president>the
>> day before the first debate.
>>
>> *Pennsylvania*
>>
>> It's not all bad news for Obama, although a new poll out of Pennsylvania
>> could have been better. Obama remains in the lead in Pennsylvania, but
>> his
>> large lead has vanished. A
>> Siena<http://www.siena.edu/uploadedfiles/home/parents_and_community/community_page/sri/sny_poll/Siena_PA_political_FINAL.pdf>poll
>> found Obama up by 3 points over Romney, 43-40 percent. The poll of 545
>> likely voters had a 4.2 percent margin of error. The poll was conducted
>> from Oct. 1-5, straddling the debate evenly. Obama had led in every poll
>> of
>> the state in
>> September<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/pa/pennsylvania_romney_vs_obama-1891.html#polls>,
>> sometimes by double digits. This new result indicates the state may be
>> swinging back to a toss-up.
>>
>> *National Polls*
>>
>> Two national tracking polls show the race continues to narrow
>> nationally. The Gallup Seven Day Tracking
>> Poll<http://www.gallup.com/poll/150743/Obama-Romney.aspx>shows Obama's
>> lead in the poll down to 3 points, 49-46 percent. The Rasmussen
>> Three Day Tracking
>> Poll<http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll>has
>> the candidates tied at 48 percent.
>> Gallup<http://www.gallup.com/poll/157955/romney-obama-among-likely-voters.aspx>released
>> a separate report showing Romney ahead of Obama by 2 percent among
>> likely voters, but Obama ahead 3 points with registered voters. The
>> report
>> indicates that get-out-the-vote operations are going to be key to the
>> success of both campaigns.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 8:50 AM, <abduldello@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> **
>>> Huyu mama asipopewa nafasi yeyote na Obama mimi sitamwelewa kabisa
>>> mjaluo
>>> yule
>>> Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on the Tigo Tanzania Network
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From: * Judy Miriga <jbatec@yahoo.com>
>>> *Sender: * mabadilikotanzania@googlegroups.com
>>> *Date: *Sat, 20 Oct 2012 07:40:58 -0700 (PDT)
>>> *To: *Judy Miriga<jbatec@yahoo.com>
>>> *ReplyTo: * mabadilikotanzania@googlegroups.com
>>> *Subject: *[Mabadiliko] Romney Hijacked and Running away with President
>>> Obama's Reform/Recovery Plan......
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Without Mitt Romney producing his own principles of his Plan, he is
>>> busy eating away
>>> from President Obama's Recovery Acts Agenda; which he must not be let to
>>> settle on.
>>> Mitt must be thoroughly exposed to force him to produce his own plan.
>>> Why
>>> wouldnt
>>> Romney produce his plan for which he should remain steadfast and
>>> consistent so to be
>>> trusted........???......Will he win without a concrete plan or should he
>>> be left to run away
>>> with President Obama's........??? Is Romney being Truthful.......??? Why
>>> wont he be
>>> cornered......??? OR should he be left to keep a secret which many
>>> people
>>> suspect that
>>> he is running in someone elses shadow; where many speculate he could be
>>> running for
>>> Bush Plan..........it is why people want to know........
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> President Obama must own his Recovery Acts Agenda, state them in point
>>> form and
>>> continue to expose Gov. Romney on his diagnosed condition of
>>> Romnesia.....so he
>>> can produce what he stand for without taking people for a ride. Yea,
>>> President Obama
>>> must not let Mitt Romney cloth himself with Obama Recovery Agenda and be
>>> let to
>>> run away with it. It is the reason why Mitt Romney and Team are now
>>> claiming that
>>> President Obama has no plan for his second-term........Very tricky
>>> calculation.....Do
>>> you see that ? Which is why Romney does not have a trusted New *Deal*,
>>> the *square*
>>> *deal*, or the fair *deal* .....but Romney is trying to sell a *"sketchy
>>> deal". This is for *
>>> *sure unacceptable trading practice......It is a practise which has
>>> failed the test *
>>> *of time and is bound to put many people to unprecedented risk which
>>> must be *
>>> *rejected by all good people and for cover-up, Romney is running with
>>> Obama *
>>> *Plan.*
>>> **
>>> **
>>> **
>>> This is where President Obama must attack and hit with deadly jabs and
>>> expose the
>>> condition of Romnesia even more........President Obama must stay in form
>>> and beat
>>> the condition boxing Mitt to the corner till he tells American people
>>> his
>>> plan........
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There is no otherwise.......Mitt must not be left to get away with
>>> it.......
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Every time Mitt open his mouth telling a lie, Obama must pounce him
>>> with a solid jab
>>> of facts.......while he asserts is Achievements and Way Forward Strategy
>>> of Recovery
>>> Agenda......Lists from Jobs, Education, Healthcare, Security and Foreign
>>> policy must
>>> be well articulated in point forms........
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Judy Miriga
>>> Diaspora Spokesperson
>>> Executive Director
>>> Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
>>> USA
>>> http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Obama chides GOP: Help homeownersBy Mary Bruce | ABC OTUS News – 3
>>> hrs ago
>>>
>>>
>>> - [image: Obama to GOP: Help Homeowners (ABC News)]
>>> Enlarge
>>> Photo<http://news.yahoo.com/photos/obamas-address-urging-gop-lawmakers-help-homeowners-photo-100200585--abc-news-politics.html>
>>>
>>> ABC OTUS News - Obama to GOP: Help Homeowners (ABC News)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> President Obama uses his weekly address to tout his efforts to revive
>>> the housing industry, casting himself as a take-charge president and
>>> slamming Republicans for standing in the way of progress.
>>>
>>> "I never believed that the best way to deal with the housing market was
>>> to just sit back, do nothing, and simply wait for things to hit bottom.
>>> That would have been a disaster for all the responsible families who -
>>> through no fault of their own - were struggling to make ends meet,"
>>> Obama
>>> says in a not-so-subtle jab at GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
>>>
>>> Instead, the president says he has made helping homeowners a top
>>> priority. "Construction workers are breaking ground on new homes in
>>> America
>>> at the fastest pace in more than four years," Obama boasts. "More homes
>>> are
>>> being sold. Home values are back on the rise."
>>>
>>> The president admits, "we're not where we need to be yet," but says "one
>>> of the heaviest drags on our recovery is getting lighter."
>>>
>>> Obama urges lawmakers to act on his proposal to help responsible
>>> homeowners refinance at today's lower rates. "It's a plan that we know
>>> will
>>> work. It has the support of independent, nonpartisan economists and
>>> leaders
>>> across the housing industry. It's a no-brainer that should have passed
>>> easily," he says. "But Republicans in Congress banded together and kept
>>> this plan from even coming to a vote."
>>>
>>> The president accuses Republicans of holding back the economic recovery:
>>> "Let's be honest - Republicans in Congress won't act on this plan before
>>> the election. But maybe they'll come to their senses afterward if you
>>> give
>>> them a push," he says.
>>> Romney Backs Away From Own Tax Plan
>>> [image: Mitt Romney]Mitt Romney
>>> *Brian Beutler
>>> <http://talkingpointsmemo.com/brian_beutler.php>*October 3, 2012, 9:32
>>> PM
>>> 102438
>>> At the first presidential debate in Colorado Wednesday night, former
>>> Gov. Mitt Romney disputed a central criticism of his tax reform plan —
>>> and
>>> appeared to disavow one of its central features.
>>> Responding to President Obama's description of Romney's proposal, Romney
>>> claimed: "I don't have a $5 trillion tax cut. I don't have a tax cut of
>>> the
>>> scale you're talking about. I think we ought to provide tax relief to
>>> people in the middle class. But I won't reduce the share of tax paid by
>>> high-income people. … I'm not looking to cut massive taxes and to reduce
>>> revenues going to the government. My number one principal is, there will
>>> be
>>> no tax cut that adds to the deficit. I want to underline that no tax cut
>>> that will add to the deficit."
>>> So who's right?
>>> Romney has run for months on a plan to lower everyone's tax rates by 20
>>> percent — an amount that independent analysts have concluded will reduce
>>> revenues by $5 trillion over 10 years.
>>> Romney has also insisted that his plan will be deficit neutral and that
>>> it won't increase taxes on the middle class. But according to the
>>> non-partisan Tax Policy Center and other analysts, Romney won't be able
>>> to
>>> make good on both of those latter promises.
>>> According to TPC, even if Romney closes all loopholes and deductions for
>>> high-income earners, that alone will not account for all the revenue he
>>> loses because of the rate cut. Thus, to make the overall plan deficit
>>> neutral he'd have to raise the tax burden on middle income Americans.
>>> Faced with this basic description, Romney said, "If the tax plan he
>>> described were a tax plan I was asked to support, I would say absolutely
>>> not."
>>> *Bill Clinton Breaks Down Mitt Romney's Tax Plan 'Illusion' For Obama
>>> Campaign*
>>> (VIDEO)
>>> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/16/bill-clinton-romney-tax-plan_n_1969879.html?view=print&comm_ref=false>
>>> **
>>> **
>>> *President Clinton Explains Mitt Romney's $5 Trillion Tax Cut *
>>> *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB7I0vpwT7M&feature=player_embedded*<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB7I0vpwT7M&feature=player_embedded>
>>> **
>>> Published on Oct 16, 2012 by
>>> BarackObamadotcom<http://www.youtube.com/user/BarackObamadotcom>
>>>
>>> *Share this: **http://OFA.BO/7GJS7j* <http://ofa.bo/7GJS7j>
>>> *Tweet this: **http://OFA.BO/GAjtKE* <http://ofa.bo/GAjtKE>
>>>
>>> *President Clinton explains Mitt Romney's $5 trillion tax cut and how
>>> middle class families with children will get an average tax increase of
>>> $2,000 to pay for $250,000 in tax cuts for multi-millionaires.
>>>
>>> As President Clinton shares:
>>> "In the first debate, Governor Romney said that he wasn't really going
>>> to
>>> cut taxes on upper income people—he only wanted to cut taxes for middle
>>> class people. That's not true."*
>>> *The Huffington Post* | By Nick
>>> Wing<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicholas-wing><http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/16/bill-clinton-romney-tax-plan_n_1969879.html#>
>>> Posted: 10/16/2012 10:19 am Updated: 10/16/2012 6:02 pm
>>> Former President Bill Clinton reprised his role as President Barack
>>> Obama's "secretary of explaining
>>> stuff<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/08/obama-bill-clinton_n_1867588.html>"
>>> on Tuesday, starring in a new video seeking to debunk the vague details
>>> of
>>> Mitt Romney's tax plan.
>>> The Obama campaign has frequently attempted to characterize Romney's
>>> plan
>>> as one that will provide a windfall to the wealthiest Americans and
>>> shift
>>> the tax burden onto the middle class. Obama has also repeated the
>>> conclusions of a number of analysts in attacking the blueprint as one
>>> that
>>> can not possibly remain deficit neutral, as Romney claims. Romney has
>>> said
>>> that he'll make up for lost revenue by eliminating tax loopholes, but
>>> he's
>>> refused to specify which ones, a detail that has left him open to
>>> criticism.
>>> During the first presidential debate, however, Romney argued that it was
>>> Obama's math that was incorrect, not his. Obama was subsequently
>>> criticized
>>> by some for not pushing back more aggressively.
>>> In the video above, Clinton explains some of the specifics that Obama
>>> could have used to make his case.
>>> "We simply cannot afford to give another round of tax cuts to people who
>>> got the benefit of the tax cuts and the economic growth of the last
>>> decade," Clinton says. "It hasn't worked before, and it won't work this
>>> time."
>>> A clip then shows Clinton asking audience members to stand up for
>>> "arithmetic over illusion," a point that he underscored during his
>>> speech
>>> at this year's Democratic National
>>> Convention<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/bill-clinton-speech_n_1850525.html>
>>> .
>>> The video likely won't receive broadcast airtime, as it's longer than 2
>>> minutes, but it could be a sign that the president has gotten some
>>> useful
>>> advice from his "secretary of explaining stuff" in anticipation of
>>> Tuesday's meeting with Romney.
>>> *"Romney believes that with even bigger tax cuts for the wealthy, and
>>> fewer regulations ...all of us will prosper. He'd double down on the
>>> same
>>> trickle down policies that led to the crisis in the first place."*
>>> *- Barack Obama*
>>> Mitt Romney's 'new math' for jobs plan doesn't add up
>>> Posted by *Glenn
>>> Kessler<http://www.washingtonpost.com/glenn-kessler/2011/03/02/ABzNymP_page.html>
>>> * at 06:02 AM ET, 10/16/2012 TheWashingtonPost
>>> *"Let me tell you how I will create 12 million jobs when President
>>> Obama couldn't. First, my energy independence policy means more than 3
>>> million new jobs, many of them in manufacturing. My tax reform plan to
>>> lower rates for the middle class and for small business creates 7
>>> million
>>> more. And expanding trade, cracking down on China and improving job
>>> training takes us to over 12 million new jobs."*
>>> *— Mitt Romney, "in his own words," in a campaign television ad*
>>> Romney's 12-million-jobs promise has garnered a lot of attention. We
>>> became interested in this ad after a reader asked whether the campaign
>>> had
>>> provided much detail on how he would reach this total. This television
>>> ad
>>> is also prominently featured on the Romney campaign's "Jobs
>>> Plan<http://www.mittromney.com/JobsPlan>"
>>> Web page.
>>> The math here appears pretty simple: 7 plus 3 plus 2 equals 12. But
>>> this is campaign math, which means it is mostly made of gossamer. Let's
>>> take a look.
>>>
>>> The Facts
>>> As we have noted
>>> before<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/fact-checking-mitt-romneys-acceptance-speech-at-the-gop-convention/2012/08/31/70c3d8de-f31f-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_blog.html>,
>>> the 12 million figure is not a bad bet by Romney. Moody's Analytics, in
>>> an
>>> August forecast,
>>> <https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/u/0/?ui=2&ik=bd9d03a590&view=att&th=1397a52ef81105bd&attid=0.1&disp=inline&safe=1&zw&saduie=AG9B_P-W2dqidfj1DwWfjx1DLq4v&sadet=1346377169016&sads=w%20>predicts
>>> 12 million jobs will be created by 2016, no matter who is president. And
>>> Macroeconomic Advisors in April also predicted a gain of 12.3 million
>>> jobs.
>>> In any case, four of Romney's top economic advisers — R. Glenn
>>> Hubbard<http://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/ghubbard/>(Dean of Columbia
>>> Business School), N.
>>> Gregory Mankiw <http://scholar.harvard.edu/mankiw> (Harvard professor),
>>> John
>>> B. Taylor <http://www.hoover.org/fellows/10298> (Stanford professor) and
>>> Kevin
>>> A. Hassett <http://www.aei.org/scholar/kevin-a-hassett/> (American
>>> Enterprise Institute scholar) — co-wrote a white
>>> paper<http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/102687937?access_key=key-tvcla8fht0g06taehfj>that
>>> lays out the case that Romney's spending, tax and regulatory policies
>>> would yield a more robust recovery — adding 250,000 jobs a month — that
>>> would result in 12 million jobs over four years. The analysis, which is
>>> prominently posted on the Romney campaign Web site, concludes:
>>>
>>> "If we had a recovery that was just the average of past recoveries from
>>> deep recessions, like those of 1974-1975 or 1981-1982, the economy would
>>> be
>>> creating about 200,000 to 300,000 jobs per month. By changing course
>>> away
>>> from the policies of the current administration and ending economic
>>> uncertainty, as proposed by the Romney plan, we expect that the current
>>> recovery will align with the average gains of similar past recoveries.
>>> History shows that a recovery rooted in policies contained in the Romney
>>> plan will create about 12 million jobs in the first term of a Romney
>>> presidency."
>>>
>>> But the specifics — 7 million plus 3 million plus 2 million — mentioned
>>> by Romney in the ad are not in the white paper. So where did that come
>>> from?
>>> We asked the Romney campaign, and the answer turns out to be: totally
>>> different studies … with completely different timelines.
>>> For instance, the claim that 7 million jobs would be created from
>>> Romney's tax plan is *a 10-year number*, derived from a
>>> study<http://bakerinstitute.org/publications/Diamond-RomneyTaxReformPlan-080312.pdf>written
>>> by John
>>> W.
>>> Diamond<http://bakerinstitute.org/personnel/fellows-scholars/jdiamond>,
>>> a professor at Rice University.
>>> This study at least assesses the claimed effect of specific Romney
>>> policies. The rest of the numbers are even more squishy.
>>> For instance, the 3-million-jobs claim for Romney's energy policies
>>> appears largely based on a Citigroup Global Markets
>>> study<http://fa.smithbarney.com/public/projectfiles/ce1d2d99-c133-4343-8ad0-43aa1da63cc2.pdf>that
>>> did not even evaluate Romney's policies. Instead, the report predicted
>>> 2.7 million to 3.6 million jobs would be created *over the next eight
>>> years*, largely because of trends and policies already adopted —
>>> including tougher fuel efficiency standards that Romney has
>>> criticized<http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/02/24/romney-speaks-to-econ-club-uaw-rallies-nearby/>and
>>> suggested he would reverse.
>>> The 2-million-jobs claim from cracking down on China is also very
>>> suspicious.
>>> This figure comes from a 2011 International Trade Commission
>>> report<http://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/pub4226.pdf>,
>>> which estimated that there could be a gain of 2.1 million jobs if China
>>> stopped infringing on U.S. intellectual property rights. The estimate is
>>> highly conditional and pegged to the job market in 2011, when there was
>>> high unemployment. "It is unclear when China might implement the
>>> improvement in IPR protection envisioned in the analysis, and equally
>>> unclear whether the United States will face as much excess labor supply
>>> then as it does today," the report says.
>>> The Romney campaign has already used this study, in a misleading
>>> way<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/another-misleading-china-ad-from-mitt-romney/2012/10/01/1ec03102-0bcc-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_blog.html>,
>>> to claim that Obama's China "policies cost us 2 million jobs." Now the
>>> campaign has just taken the same figure and credited the claimed job
>>> gain
>>> to itself, even though the report does not examine any of Romney's
>>> proposed
>>> policies.
>>>
>>> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/another-misleading-china-ad-from-mitt-romney/2012/10/01/1ec03102-0bcc-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_blog.html>"The
>>> big point is the 3+7+2 does not make up the 12 million jobs in the first
>>> four years (different source of growth and different time period),"
>>> Hubbard
>>> acknowledged in an e-mail.
>>>
>>> The Pinocchio Test
>>> This is a case of bait-and-switch. Romney, in his convention speech,
>>> spoke of his plan to create "12 million new jobs," which the campaign's
>>> white paper describes as a four-year goal.
>>> But the candidate's personal accounting for this figure in this campaign
>>> ad is based on different figures and long-range timelines stretching as
>>> long as a decade — which in two cases are based on studies that did not
>>> even evaluate Romney's economic plan. The numbers may still add up to 12
>>> million, but they aren't the same thing — not by a long shot.
>>> In many ways, this episode offers readers a peek behind a campaign
>>> wizard's curtain — and a warning that job-creation claims by any
>>> campaign
>>> should not be accepted at face value. The white paper at least has the
>>> credibility of four well-known economists behind it, but the "new math"
>>> of
>>> this campaign ad does not add up.
>>> As readers know, we tend to judge more harshly claims in prepared
>>> speeches or ads that were the result of considered discussion by
>>> political
>>> aides.
>>> Clearly, some clever campaign staffer thought it would be nice to match
>>> up poll-tested themes such as "energy independence," "tax reform" and
>>> "cracking down on China" with actual job numbers. We just find it
>>> puzzling
>>> that Romney agreed to personally utter these words without asking more
>>> questions about the math behind them.
>>>
 
 
 

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