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    It's all economy, all the time for Romney

    By KASIE HUNT | Associated Press – Fri, Feb 24, 2012

    DETROIT (AP) — Days before a pivotal primary, Mitt Romney is highlighting his economic plan in what was billed as a major campaign speech delivered at a cavernous and largely empty football stadium.

    Romney's speech repeated new tax proposals he released earlier this week, including lowering marginal individual tax rates by 20 percent. He offered few new policy ideas, though he did offer new details on how he would raise the retirement age to help keep Social Security solvent.

    The Detroit Economic Club hosted the speech at Ford Field, where the Detroit Lions play football. The crowd occupied just a portion of the field itself, and the tens of thousands of stadium seats sat empty.

    Romney is fighting an unexpectedly stiff challenge in his home state of Michigan from former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, where voters go to the polls Tuesday.

     

    42 comments

    • Kris
      Kris  •  Highlands Ranch, Colorado  •  3 mths ago
      "Let Detroit die." -Flip Flopney
      • Kris
        Kris 3 mths ago
        "I hate Michigan." -Mitt
    • jd
      jd  •  Elmhurst, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      We can also be certain a capital gains tax reduction would accompany the IT reduction(s).
    • Robert
      Robert  •  3 mths ago
      All the economy, all the time? Are you kidding? Haven't you been listening to him for the last few days ranting about wedge social issues?
    • WoeAreWe
      WoeAreWe  •  Earth, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      So, Ron Paul is 2nd in delegates, yet the CORPORATE-OWNED MEDIA doesn't even mention him...
    • Hark
      Hark  •  Livermore, California  •  3 mths ago
      Ronald Paul, the ardent Christian nationalist, in Congress for 12 terms, patriotically voted against the lobby serving and warmonger plutocrats to:
      1. Reduce taxes
      2. Balance the budget
      3. Reduce Congressional pay
      4. Preserve freedom of speech of the Internet
      5. Preserve the Second Amendment Right to Gun Ownership
      6. Limit the unconstitutional power of the president
      7. Prevent the immoral and un-constitutional Iraq War
      8. Prevent the bailouts to the international bankers

      And, as president, he would lead to:
      1. End the un-constitutional foreign wars
      2. End immigration by illegal means
      3. Expel the 12 million Mexicans occupying America
      4. Nationalize the Federal Reserve Bank
      5. End corporate subsides
      6. Bring the soldiers home
      7. End foreign aid
      8. Balance the Budget
      9. Restore the constitutional powers of the states
      10. Reform the tax code to restore fairness and American jobs
      11. Reform the IRS
      12. Provide affordable healthcare
    • Rob
      Rob  •  Fargo, North Dakota  •  3 mths ago
      None of these fools know what the average person in this country is up against. Romney will talk about the economy because he desparately needs a win in MI. He could care less about the auto industry, he wanted the big three to go bankrupt.He & the rest of the GOPers aren't fit to wipe my butt or anyone elses.All they want to do is make the rich richer & the poor poorer.I would love to see him lose MI. AZ. & the other states and go back to his freaking mansion. Like I said, he's for the rich, not the poor or middle class.DON'T VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!
    • Thomas K
      Thomas K  •  3 mths ago
      Didn't take Yahoo long to bury the high priced gasoline story did it? The Yahoo reelect Obama committee got right on it with some distractions about Republicans
    • WoeAreWe
      WoeAreWe  •  Earth, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      The media's BIG MONEY OWNERS really don't want anybody unfamiliar with Ron Paul to hear anything about his PLAN, like $1 Trillion cut the first year (WITHOUT TOUCHING MEDICARE OR SOCIAL SECURITY, btw) - and balancing the budget by the 3rd year in office. They NEVER print it. NEVER.

      They don't want people visiting Paul's website to read his plan of BRINGING ALL THE TROOPS HOME, IMMEDIATELY, and of SECURING OUR BORDERS RATHER THAN THE BORDER BETWEEN PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN. They don't want to see that his plan goes a long way towards CREATING WEALTH FOR THE REGULAR CITIZEN - and NOT FOR WALL STREET CRONIES - nor the CRONY CORPORATIONS.

      On top of that, the implications of Ron Paul's "de-federalization" of many Departments would return their duties to the STATES, enabling the CITIZENS to decide what they want to do with their budgets & tax dollars, rather than the BUREAUCRATS IN D.C.

      Yes - they really don't want the people looking into Ron Paul - and make mountains of molehills of 20-year-old debunked allegations, and innuendo, and fear-mongering to frighten readers from looking any further. Yes.

      Because...

      Once we become familiar with Ron Paul's plans, ethics, honesty, and past record - though we may have a couple issues where we disagree - we won't EVER settle for "more of the same pack-o-lies" that we've been getting in campaigns for years.

      I voted for Ron Paul in the 2008 Primaries.I'm voting for him again in 2012.I won't settle for less.Neither will countless millions.

      - Ex-democrat who saw through Obama's campaign promises - "tailored for each audience". He "talked the talk" but didn't "walk the walk". And we've seen how the Nobel Peace Prize President even illegally bypassed Congress to go to WAR in Libya (putting Al-Qaeda in power there, btw) - and has passed into LAW his "right" to give AMERICAN CITIZENS whatever he wants, without either a conviction, a trial, or even charges = INDEFINITE DETENTION or even ASSASSINATION. No court. No defense. Nada. That isn't MY Constitution there..,
      • StevenL
        StevenL 3 mths ago
        Those words in all caps are just devastating. Good lord, there is nothing more obnoxious than a Ron Paul supporter.
    • ourjungle
      ourjungle  •  Big Lake, Alaska  •  3 mths ago
      The life of social programs, needs a good econmy to survive..... fix the economy first.
    • RVN70
      RVN70  •  3 mths ago
      Well, he can't talk about his military service.
    • A
      A  •  3 mths ago
      Now he realizes he will lose Michigan he suddenly cares about the economy - His wealth was not used in the last 5 years to create a single job for another American. He took the lowest ethical path with regard to paying taxes by paying less than 15% while average Americans are paying much higher, nothing wrong with that but as a leader he displayed personal greed? His position in Michigan with the Auto Industry was let Detroit fail and when there were lay off's he asked "Where is the Federal government?". There is nothing I am convinced now that won;t say to get the presidency hence I could not trust him. he is counting on a divided nation to catapult him into office - but the Nationwill be worse for it because he is GREEDY...
      • The Truth
        The Truth 3 mths ago
        A, I don't know who you are, but you are a very intelligent person (I hope you're an American). It's so refreshing to finally read comments from an American that are on point and truthful!!! You should be a part of this nation's major media for news. Today's news media brainies are too busy searching for the next sex scandal and searching for the latest lies by the GOP to be expressed before the public (though they make no effort to inform the public that the daily Obama-bashing and their Academy Award-worthy performances about their "fighting for America's future" rhetoric are simply and clearly lies to the highest degree, except for their occasional and very brief "make the public think we are serious about the truth being exposed" Fact Check segments of their TV and radio newscasts). For a long time I've been saying the same thing you expressed about Romney's failure to create American jobs...where are the news media's questions about his failures? Sad, isn't it?
      • A
        A 2 mths ago
        To the The Truth - Thank you for the kudos. I am a very proud American and there are lots of us ;-) . Lots of great and wondeerful people out there just like you. I think there is so much news that alot of it gets buried in the noise. The noise is like dust and many interest groups such as PACS start a storm brewing and get the facts hidden. I have learnt from the debates that each and everyone of the candidates is an embarassment to our Country. One honest but is so religiously bent that he is willing to alienate the rest of the Country, another is just dishonest and will say anything to get elected, another has great big ideas but has facilitated diviciveness in the Congress and country and shamed himself to all his colleagues, one is too idealistic. What tio do? I am in the same quandry as the rest of the country... Thanks for the kind words
    • Conservative Liberal, Lib ...
      Conservative Liberal, Lib ...  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 mths ago
      Mitt's stance on everything, all the time, is like the weather in (insert popular city or state here), "if you don't like the weather now, wait 5 minutes."
    • SYLVIA
      SYLVIA  •  Southfield, Michigan  •  3 mths ago
      O BOY" if this guy gets to be the Prez watch what happens to the middle class.Its going to be fun to watch this fish out of water undo everything from the past four years and settle in with his band of trusty rich henchmen and bring this country to its knees.Let the fun begin.
    • Brian
      Brian  •  Tampa, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      which economy is he talking about
    • Brian
      Brian  •  Tampa, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      No "economy" in his choice of venues.
    • Pablo
      Pablo  •  Washington, District of Columbia  •  3 mths ago
      Mit Romney uber alles!
    • Clay Moore
      Clay Moore  •  Pensacola, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      The only economy that seems to improve when Romney is around is his own. Bane Capital made millions. Most of the companies the "helped" went bankrupt. Taxachussetts was worse off when he left office than it was when he took over. They say that the best predictor of the future is to look at the past.
    • J P Le Petomane
      J P Le Petomane  •  3 mths ago
      The entire slate of GOP canidates wanted to let the auto industry go bankrupt!!! He could have held this rally in a interstate rest stop and still had room. Do any of the GOP idiots think that Michigan citizens will support them?
      • s'up cuz
        s'up cuz 3 mths ago
        didnt the companies going bankrupt have anything to do with bad management, overpaid goonion employees and decades of making crappy cars...just askin', for years the big 3 made cars THEY wanted to make while the Japanese made cars WE wanted them to make...they were making K-cars while the Japanese ran right by those dolts.
      • DLSTRUSSMAN
        DLSTRUSSMAN 3 mths ago
        JP, your focus is in the worng place. Most Americans (i Hope) want a govt that is financially responsible with its money. If we would of insisted on that 30 years ago, the financial crisis would not of happened and "bailouts" would not of been necessary. Now.... When I personally got into a financial crises when the housing market crashed and then everything else crashed, there were no bailouts for me from the govt. When you need your govt to come "bail" you out, something is wrong. Ron Paul wants a financially responsible government so this doesnt happen again. I understand your support of the bailout because it saved jobs, yet it was the entire economy that went under and many people still are unemployeed. The govt put a band aid on a gun shot wound. To this day they have not done what is needed to make the economy healthy again. Less debt.
    • SYLVIA
      SYLVIA  •  Southfield, Michigan  •  3 mths ago
      Who in the hell let this two faced so called son of Michigan into Ford Field? I supposed he said how he loves Michigan and Detoit. Does'nt this just want to make you up chuck.He is no more in love with Michigan or Detroit as the goose that flies South over Detroit for the winter.GIVE ME A BREAK ALREADY.GET LOST YOU PHONY.
    • Knot U
      Knot U  •  3 mths ago
      How about info on what he said rather than pointing out the emptiness of the stadium -- twice?
      • DLSTRUSSMAN
        DLSTRUSSMAN 3 mths ago
        I think the stadium being emtpy reflect what most people feel about what Mr. Romney has to say. I personally am tired of him and Santorums lies. Ron Paul is the only person wanting real change. We are broke....time to face that fact.
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