RNC claims Romney wants to let 'every industry' in America go bankrupt
by Jed Lewison
Well, to be honest, that headline's not really true. But if you were to deploy the same sort of logical chicanery used in the latest attack against President Obama from Mitt Romney and the Republican Party, that's exactly the conclusion you would draw.
Here's the story. Yesterday, speaking in Pueblo, Colorado, President Obama slammed Mitt Romney for wanting to "let Detroit go bankrupt," contrasting Romney's position with the successful auto rescue package. Obama said betting on America was the right thing to do, and now that auto manufacturing jobs have come back and now that an American car company is once again number one in the world, he wants to make sure that every American industry has the same sort of success.
Here's the direct quote from the president: "When the American auto industry was on the brink of collapse—more than 1 million jobs at stake—Governor Romney said, let's 'let Detroit go bankrupt.' I said I believe in American workers, I believe in this American industry, and now the American auto industry has come roaring back and GM is number one again." After several seconds of applause, the president continued. "So now I want to do the same thing with manufacturing jobs not just in the auto industry, but in every industry. I don’t want those jobs taking root in places like China. I want them taking root in places like Pueblo."
That's pretty standard stuff, right? Unless you've got something against manufacturing jobs, what the president said makes total sense. Perhaps that's why in the many times that the he's made the same me sort of statement, no Republican has ever attacked him for it.
But this time is different. Both the Romney campaign and the GOP's rapid response team decided that the president's words represented a nice juicy target. Romney communications aide Brendan Buck tweeted:
Here we go again. President opens mouth, proposes bailout "in every industry." http://t.co/Ku0AE0fs
— @Brendan_Buck via TweetDeck
And then the GOP's rapid response team put up a video making the same claim.
So apparently there's now something wrong with wanting America to have a prosperous industrial sector. If you want to see growth in manufacturing jobs, then you obviously want to bail out every industry. And if you like the fact that an American car company is number one in the world and want to see the same thing happen in other parts of the economy, then you're a socialist who wants to turn America in to Europe.
Their attack is every bit as absurd as "you didn't build that," but this isn't even a question of context: there's simply nothing in what Obama said that suggests anything along the lines of what they are claiming. Obama said that auto manufacturing jobs have come back, that an American car company is now number one, and that he wants every American industry to have the same success. That has nothing to do with bailouts: it's called believing in America.
But if we were to take these guys seriously and accept their absurd claim at face value, then the implication is pretty obvious: Mitt Romney and the Republican Party want every single American industry to go bankrupt. Just like they wanted Detroit to bankrupt.
That might be a totally ridiculous thing to say, but if you believe what they are saying, it's the only logical conclusion you can make.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/10/1118557/-RNC-claims-Romney-wants-to-let-every-industry-in-America-go-bankrupt
The Romney campaign is pathetic. If they aren't telling lies, they're taking things out of context to spin distortions...oh, that's lying.
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What happens to country with a truckload of unemployed, some which will die off?
That will make things more efficient for running the country as business, with people's lives discarded off the balance sheets of profit. Because we have accepted capitalism as a religion which must not be discussed, and we haven't said what is more important than business, we define each other in terms of net worth. We have said anything for money is okay, for a long, long time.
More important, what happens to their children and grandchildren, or those at working age now, for whom there is little to no productive work left and no chance o advance in society, unable to vote, unable to get into the small success club? The ground work for that is being laid now.
Romney behaves like an emperor, a king, unwilling to be bothered with democratic or governmental restraints. This is the model of all Republicans, when you strip the flag and cross away. When they finish giving all our resources to their friends with privatization schemes, there will be no common ground for those who are or have been disadvantaged, to be mobile on. They will be penned into smaller lives, more desperate and malleable.
They will do what is needed to survive, just like generations in the past did, and in historically disadvantaged groups, that means joining the army. Landless men joined the legions of Rome to advance in a society run by patricians. In our modern world, the military is where those denied other ways to get ahead can get a paycheck, healthcare, room and board, education and retirement.
That will be their part in society and the world. And what better way to transform a generation of underprivileged, deprived of higher education, political power and work at home than to have non-stop wars? Is this not what every Republican initative and every GOP propagandist is pushing?
It has been said repeatedly that a war with Iran would take generations, would result in a conflict with Russia, China, who knows how many countries would be involved. It would be an endless war for control of a brutal global empire, with some quasi-American oligarchs at the helm and armies they send to cement their place in history.
Where to get sufficient cannonfodder? Does any of this remind anyone of history at all? The end of American jobs may be the end of the America our forefathers dreamed of and the final result will be a world wide empire on steroids. Will it be another Bush dynasty or Romney the First followed by his children?
Check out Romney's policy team, the PNAC and Blackwater members with Cheney as well. The American people will be trapped into working against their own best interests, for a global cabal. This has got to be the GOP's wet dream come true, and they're really not bothering to hide it.
