TheHeretic
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For all those who wonder about or support what would happen if Romney won.
what policies has he stated that are or could be realistic.
1) Could he really appeal Obamacare?
2) Labeling China a currency manipulator, does it have any real effects? Knowing that the law has such a provision already, and that negotiations on currency have been going for a long time, does it have any effect?
3) Increasing the military budget by 2 Trillion dollars and cutting the budget to a balanced position?
4) Balancing the budget while continuing and increasing tax cuts with increased expenditures on the military?
5) Giving the burdens of health care to the states? Can states handle the expense?
So with the tone of the thread set aside, let's go through these. I'll take the liberty of re-phrasing the spin out of the questions as well, as required.
1) Flat out repeal of Obamacare? Not likely, but a Republican administration can monkey-wrench the hell out of the implementation, and probably push through some serious amendments to what we get. Mitt sure as shit could have Sebelius packed out of her office at HHS, before he and Anne would be done toasting with orange juice and sparkling cider at the inauguration balls.
2) Purely symbolic, but we can apply a fuckload more pressure on China than this administration has been willing to do. Yep. They hold chunk of our debt, but only have that kind of money to invest because of the access to our markets.
3) Using the money we've been spending to fight the wars, to get our military refreshed and re-equipped is the wise course of action, once we finally get the hell out of Afghanistan. It's also genuine stimulus spending, where we have something to show for the spending at the end of the day, as opposed to the stupid handouts, giveaways, and crony capitalism this administration has embraced.
4) Get the economy growing, get more money moving around for the government to pass it's sticky hands over and through, and we'll have ourselves a positive impact. We aren't going to grow our way out of a debt this big, but the inevitable inflation is going to help (though it's really going to suck for retirees, who thought they had a nice nest-egg). A well thought out rewrite of the tax code, in a healthy economic climate? Yeah. We could see a balanced budget.
5) The burden of healthcare is still on the individual, in this country, Mark, and it's bullshit to suggest that it should be a state obligation to carry, rather than regulate. It could work a lot better, and there are a lot of good ideas that should be explored. We also have the unpleasant fact that even with Steve Jobs money, we are all going to die. I am completely opposed to the mandate, for reasons I've gone over before, and I think single-payer is an idiotic invitation to fraud and a bureaucratic spiral into waiting longer for worse care, that costs even more, but I'm willing to talk nationalization, if the plan is right. We should let the states experiment for us.
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