Romney tells military contractors President Obama should cut medical care for the poor, not defense

[bigtree]

November 21, 2011

NASHUA, N.H. - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today called on President Obama to take money from Medicaid, not defense, to compensate for the failure of a congressional supercommittee.

Romney called on Obama to introduce legislation to rescind the defense cuts and take the money from elsewhere in the budget – potentially from Medicaid, the state-federal health care program for the poor. “Return that program to the states,” Romney said. By telling states that their Medicaid funding would grow at the rate of the consumer price index plus 1 percent, Romney said, “You more than compensate for the $600 billion that you restored to the defense budget.”

“The president has shown only a willingness to cut military spending,” Romney said. “His answer to a government that’s too big is to keep cutting the military. And this at a time when the world has become more dangerous. It is unacceptable.”

Obama has actually increased the defense budget. According to the Associated Press, when Obama took office the defense budget was $513 billion, plus $153 billion in spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the budget year that ended Sept. 30, the defense budget was $530 billion plus $159 billion in war spending.

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Mitt Romney speaks to employees at BAE Systems in Nashua, N.H., Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

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[bluestateguy]

1. Obama got Osama

nt

[Atman]

2. GOP priorities.

Typical.

[PA Democrat]

3. Uh oh, the truth is out.

Defense spending has NOTHING to do with protesting the lives of average citizens.

[valerief]

4. The .01% don't want their Petty Cash (the Defense Budget) tampered with. nt

[Angry Dragon]

5. Yes we need to spend over 55% of the budget on defense, war

and all that other good killing stuff
more 30,000lb bombs, more drones

[sarcasmo]

6. Another clueless rich fucker running for the White House.

[Vincardog]

13. He got rich exporting American JOBS. He wants to get elected taking American LIVES?

[savalez]

7. Romney doing what he does best - LYING.

By the way, we know how he looks, no need for the photo.

[bigtree]

10. I think the photos are descriptive

. . . and allow the reader to place themselves in the audience as they read the quotes.

I do admit, they can often be offensive, in and of themselves.

[Bandit]

8. In the words of another Republican..."You LIE"

Obama has asked for an increase in the Defense Budget every year he has been in office....

[Aerows]

9. Next week

Mitt will be meeting with hospital directors to demand that defense spending be cut so that we can continue funding Medicare/Medicaid.

Nothing Mitt Romney says concerns me in the slightest since he says something different every time he opens his mouth.

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. Mitt's pander du jour.

What a spineless clown.

[bigtree]

12. 'Mitt's pander du jour'

sounds like a good idea for a web page

[bigtree]

14. .

[FlyByNight]

15. "Corporations are people, my friend."

How can anyone be this empty yet full of shit at the same time?

He'll probably end up doing a 180 the next day anyway. As Bill Hicks once stated, "just another whore at the capitalist gang-bang."

Complete cipher.