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Gingrich: I'm Going To Be The Nominee
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Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
Voters are funny. They desert Herman Cain because a couple of women say he hit on them, yet they are OK with a guy who carried on affairs behind the backs of two wives.
They are wary of Perry's record of crony capitalism, yet they are OK with a guy who was being supported courtesy of the FNM slush fund?
They are skeptical of Romney's past embrace of liberal ideas, yet they are OK with a guy who kissed up to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who made a global warming ad with Nancy Pelosi and considers reforming medicare to be social engineering?
They hate Washington, DC and want fresh faces uncorrupted by politics as usual, but they are OK with a career pol with a 30 year history as a Washington insider?
Who knows, maybe they are right. Newt's brash, know-it-all attitude may be the perfect anitidote to Obama's condescending, know-it-all imagined superiority. Both consider themselves major intellectuals despite scant supporting evidence. Both are career pols with no private sector experience or demonstrated record of running anything.
Certainly Newt would be a huge improvement over Obama, but it seems a bit early for him to be measuring the curtains in the Oval Office.
I suspect its far more simple than that.
Cain offered 999 - at least he had a plan.
Gingrich once had a contract with america.
All the electorate is looking for a person with a plan to stop the crazy spending a person who will execute on it.
Cain showed them how simple it is. Make a better 999.
Just puts on a 11 percent fair flat tax 7 percent spending cuts.
11/7 plan.
Quote from jem:
I suspect its far more simple than that.
We know the country is being run by democrats who are trying to spend it into the ground or destroy our economic system so they can create more dependent democrats.
Cain offered 999 - at least he had a plan.
Gingrich once had a contract with america.
All the electorate is looking for a person with a plan who will execute on it.
Any plan which will counter the destruction of savings and the economy that we are seeing now.
We don't want bailouts we want a leaner less burdensome less corrupt govt.
Ron Paul has it covered and would balance our budget in 3 yrs time:
Mr. Paulâs âRestore Americaâ plan calls for a drastically reduced federal government to help spur American business â a familiar theme for the Texas Republican and many of the GOP White House hopefuls. But unlike some of his Republican rivals who have released economic plans, the libertarian congressman mostly avoids the weeds of tax and trade policy, according to excerpts.
But Mr. Paul does get specific when he calls for a 10% reduction in the federal work force, while pledging to limit his presidential salary to $39,336, which his campaign says is âapproximately equal to the median personal income of the American worker.â The current pay rate for commander in chief is $400,000 a year.
The Paul plan would also lower the corporate tax rate to 15% from 35%, though it is silent on personal income tax rates, which Mr. Paul would like to abolish. The congressman would end taxes on personal savings and extend âall Bush tax cuts.â
He would also allow U.S. firms to repatriate capital without additional taxes. Some lawmakers have recently proposed such legislation as a way to spur job growth. Its critics argue that a tax holiday for companies with money abroad has not historically led to domestic investment.
But the plan, at its heart, is libertarian. While promising to cut $1 trillion in spending during his first year, Mr. Paul would eliminate the Departments of Education, Commerce, Energy, Interior and Housing and Urban Development.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/...abinet-agencies-cut-taxes-cut-presidents-pay/
Quote from DAS Trader:
Ron Paul has it covered and would balance our budget in 3 yrs time:
Mr. Paulâs âRestore Americaâ plan calls for a drastically reduced federal government to help spur American business â a familiar theme for the Texas Republican and many of the GOP White House hopefuls. But unlike some of his Republican rivals who have released economic plans, the libertarian congressman mostly avoids the weeds of tax and trade policy, according to excerpts.
But Mr. Paul does get specific when he calls for a 10% reduction in the federal work force, while pledging to limit his presidential salary to $39,336, which his campaign says is âapproximately equal to the median personal income of the American worker.â The current pay rate for commander in chief is $400,000 a year.
The Paul plan would also lower the corporate tax rate to 15% from 35%, though it is silent on personal income tax rates, which Mr. Paul would like to abolish. The congressman would end taxes on personal savings and extend âall Bush tax cuts.â
He would also allow U.S. firms to repatriate capital without additional taxes. Some lawmakers have recently proposed such legislation as a way to spur job growth. Its critics argue that a tax holiday for companies with money abroad has not historically led to domestic investment.
But the plan, at its heart, is libertarian. While promising to cut $1 trillion in spending during his first year, Mr. Paul would eliminate the Departments of Education, Commerce, Energy, Interior and Housing and Urban Development.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/...abinet-agencies-cut-taxes-cut-presidents-pay/
I just amended mine to say..
all we want is a better 999
11/7 plan.
Quote from DAS Trader:
Ron Paul has it covered and would balance our budget in 3 yrs time:
Mr. Paulâs âRestore Americaâ plan calls for a drastically reduced federal government to help spur American business â a familiar theme for the Texas Republican and many of the GOP White House hopefuls. But unlike some of his Republican rivals who have released economic plans, the libertarian congressman mostly avoids the weeds of tax and trade policy, according to excerpts.
But Mr. Paul does get specific when he calls for a 10% reduction in the federal work force, while pledging to limit his presidential salary to $39,336, which his campaign says is âapproximately equal to the median personal income of the American worker.â The current pay rate for commander in chief is $400,000 a year.
The Paul plan would also lower the corporate tax rate to 15% from 35%, though it is silent on personal income tax rates, which Mr. Paul would like to abolish. The congressman would end taxes on personal savings and extend âall Bush tax cuts.â
He would also allow U.S. firms to repatriate capital without additional taxes. Some lawmakers have recently proposed such legislation as a way to spur job growth. Its critics argue that a tax holiday for companies with money abroad has not historically led to domestic investment.
But the plan, at its heart, is libertarian. While promising to cut $1 trillion in spending during his first year, Mr. Paul would eliminate the Departments of Education, Commerce, Energy, Interior and Housing and Urban Development.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/...abinet-agencies-cut-taxes-cut-presidents-pay/
Another way of thinking about Paul's: run the federal government within its rights enumerated in the constitution and see most of our economic woes disappear as a byproduct. I interpret his plan as fixing the government, not fixing the economy.