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Title: Mitt Romney: Federal Disaster Relief For Tornado And Flood Victims Is ‘Immoral,’ ‘Makes No Sense At All’
Source:
CNN
URL Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co ... hampshire-2012-debate-in-full/
Published: Jun 14, 2011
Author: CNN
Post Date: 2011-06-14 13:42:16 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 1405
Comments: 3
KING: Governor Romney? You’ve been a chief executive of a state. I was just in Joplin, Missouri. I’ve been in Mississippi and Louisiana and Tennessee and other communities dealing with whether it’s the tornadoes, the flooding, and worse. FEMA is about to run out of money, and there are some people who say do it on a case-by-case basis and some people who say, you know, maybe we’re learning a lesson here that the states should take on more of this role. How do you deal with something like that? ROMNEY: Absolutely. Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better. Instead of thinking in the federal budget, what we should cut — we should ask ourselves the opposite question. What should we keep? We should take all of what we’re doing at the federal level and say, what are the things we’re doing that we don’t have to do? And those things we’ve got to stop doing, because we’re borrowing $1.6 trillion more this year than we’re taking in. We cannot… KING: Including disaster relief, though? ROMNEY: We cannot — we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we’ll all be dead and gone before it’s paid off. It makes no sense at all.
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#1. To: go65 (#0)
Aha...getting the federal gvoernment out of disaster relief...is for the children... I'm telling you. The word "brainwashed" is on the tip of his tongue...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" Obama may end up being competitive in Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Oklahoma before this election is over.
"Thats because your basically and idiot." (roaring with laughter)
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
We cannot — we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids.
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#2. To: war (#1)
Badeye posted on 2011-04-29 10:30:22 ET
#3. To: go65 (#2)
Obama may end up being competitive in Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Oklahoma before this election is over.
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