Comments about ‘Mitt Romney trying to shift back to economy’

Is it any wonder that Mitt is desperately trying to steer the conversation back to the economy? After his disastrous forays into the foreign policy arena, and his ham handed attempts to explain his stand on abortion, and reproductive rights, Romney is longing for a campaign based solely on hammering Obama on the economy. Let's see how the debates go, but it's starting to look like this election is slowly slipping away from Mitt.

@ Liberal Larry. Disastrous forays into foreign policy? All Romney did is tell the truth after he was being set up by liberal reporters who spun his reply (it was all caught on live tape but don’t look for it to be aired or printed in liberal media). Why do you demand so much of Mitt Romney but so very little from Barrack Obama? Why do you continually accept such dismal performance from Obama? His apologizing and appeasement is dangerous and is backfiring badly! These jihadists do not want to be your friend and they don’t respect weakness. These murders in Libya and riots in Arab countries are a result of their hatred for Israel and America and our weakness emboldens them! They want religious world domination! What we are seeing is the battle of Armageddon taking shape and Obama is fanning the flames!

The Deseret News has 4036 jobs listed that need filled. To hear conservatives there are no jobs anywhere.

And while we are talking about the economy, which includes taxes, I'd like to implore Mitt to release his last 10 yrs tax returns. I believe the POTUS decision needs to include a discussion of how each candidate views the tax burden responsibilities of the wealthy compared to the middle class. I feel that Mitt's tax returns will shed some light on his attitude in this area. On the campaign trail, he is free to say whatever he thinks the electorate wants to hear. But his tax returns (his actions) may speak louder than words.

Keynes described German inflation in 1922: “The various belligerent Governments, unable, or too timid or too short-sighted to secure from loans or taxes the resources they required, have printed notes for the balance."

With its gold depleted, the German government attempted to buy foreign currency with German currency, but this caused the German Mark to fall rapidly in value, which greatly increased the number of Marks needed to buy more foreign currency. This caused German prices of goods to rise rapidly which increase the cost of operating the German government which could not be financed by raising taxes. The resulting budget deficit increased rapidly and was financed by the central bank CREATING MORE MONEY. This placed the government and banks between two unacceptable alternatives: if they stopped the inflation this would cause immediate bankruptcies, unemployment, strikes, hunger, violence, collapse of civil order, insurrection, and revolution. If they continued the inflation they would default on their foreign debt. The attempts to avoid both unemployment and insolvency ultimately failed when Germany had both.

Ultimately at 1 trillion to one, savings, investment, cash, retirement accounts, were worth NOTHING!

Our fearless leaders call it Quantitative Easing.

SO do you really think your over the top hyperbole is really helping make the case for voting for romney? With the kind of "help" you give him the democrats don't really need to do anything to insure Obama wins. keep up the good work.

As Mitt Romney stated to John McCain in December 2007, the economy is the complete issue for the citizens of the United States of America, even if no one really thought about it then, except the financier and economist, Mitt Romney. He knew from his experiences that the economy already had started to crumble. This President may not be trying to divert Mitt Romney away from the economy discussion but without an economy that is solvent, this nation will not continue to operate as a top power of influence, defense and economical.

President Obama defined middle class in 2007 as those with incomes of $250,000 or less as he didn't want to impact on those for the election in 2008 as he wanted those people to vote for his Change and Hope. He didn't want Romney to win the Republican nomination as McCain was a shoein for the President to beat in 2008. John McCain is a man of principles but he suffered enough for our country by demonstrating his power and strength over the North Vietnamese in his POW years and since then as a Senator. Romney is the one to take us through economic corrections

Is Romney better off now than he was four years ago? The answer, of course, is a resounding YES. His cynical campaign slogan will blow up in his face (probably during the debates). Based upon recent polls, more Americans are realizing each day that we are indeed better off than we were four years ago, and the fantasy that we are not will be permanently dispelled when people soon begin receiving their 3rd quarter 2012 401k/IRA statements. So I don't understand exactly why he wants to turn the focus back to the economy.

"Based upon recent polls, more Americans are realizing each day that we are indeed better off than we were four years ago"

ROFL

They laughed at Columbus too. Frequently, the ignorant do not recognize and/or choose to mock reality. I note you did not refute what I said with any facts. By what percentage has your 401k/IRA/other investments increased since Obama took office? Mine has more than doubled.

@laggie

The problem is you originally assumed you where dealing with rational people on these threads, not a safe assumption to make especially with CI lurking in the shadows.

@laggie

The problem is you originally assumed you where dealing with rational people on these threads, not a safe assumption to make especially with CI lurking in the shadows.

"Fifty-two percent of likely voters say the nation is in “worse condition” now than in September 2008, while 54 percent say Obama does not deserve reelection based solely on his job performance." The Hill

"Americans are nearly twice as likely to say they've gotten financially worse off as better off since Obama became president, according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll"

Gallup September 11, 2012 states: "Over half of Americans in an August USA Today/Gallup poll said they and their family were not better off now than they were "four years ago."" (yet, ironically, many pro-Obama papers said the exact opposite in their headline.)

lurk away

I do think Obama worship is rather humorously irrational

BTW: My 401k has recovered - but mostly because I kept putting another 4 years of savings into it (I have yet to decide whether to move it to fixed savings or ride another wave since one has an inflation risk and the other a bust risk)

@ Counter Intelligence

Please read my post carefully again because your response indicates you did not. Regarding your first comment, I did not say anything about the nation being in better or worse condition.

Your second and third comments, talking about totals rather than direction, are equally nonresponsive to my post. I said,"more Americans are realizing each day that we are indeed better off than we were four years ago". Please refer to question 17 of the Washington Post/ABC News poll you referenced and you will see that I am correct. The number of people responding that we are better off has increased 5% during the past year and the number of people thinking we are worse off has declined 3%. Polls are indeed showing that more Americans are realizing each day that we are indeed better off than we were four years ago. So Romney may not be wanting to be returning to that well repeatedly.

Thank you for your last comment wherein you admitted you are better off than four years ago. At least that one was responsive to my post.