The time is drawing near quickly when voters will decide which one of the two candidates they will be voting for in the polls. But much like the terrorist attack on the embassy is Libya, President Obama is working on Hurricane Sandy relief efforts while Mitt Romney is criticizing from his seat on the sidelines. While is it really no surprise that Romney is on the attack again, as this presidential candidates 2012 campaign has been full of criticisms and attacks, what is surprising is how ridiculous some of the criticism is. Romney has lowered himself to attacks so banal that they make you think of how very small children fight - without any logic and without substance.
For instance, Romney criticized the president recently for a statement in which Obama said that he wanted to create a secretary of business, to head a new government agency to help businesses create jobs. "I've said that I want to consolidate a whole bunch of government agencies. We should have one Secretary of Business, instead of nine different departments that are dealing with things like giving loans to SBA (Small Business Administration) or helping companies with exports," Obama said, in an MSNBC interview.
On Monday, Romney attacked the president for this, charging him with expanding the government. "I don't think adding a new chair to his cabinet will help add millions of jobs on Main Street," Romney said. Maybe Romney doesn't know the meaning of the word consolidate. Not only is the president trying to find a way to create more jobs, but he wants to "consolidate a whole bunch of government agencies," which means that the government will get smaller, not expand. This attack makes you think of a little kid, countering an argument with things like "Well, you're stupid and your mom smells like poo."
Romney will be traveling to Wisconsin, Ohio, New Hampshire, Iowa and Colorado as well as Nevada over the coming days, in order to get the 270 electoral votes that he needs for the election. Ohio is a key state in the election, and he will be trying to influence those in Wisconsin, which has voted democrat during recent elections. He had better hope that he can come up with a better argument than that, otherwise the presidential candidates 2012 efforts may have been wasted throughout this campaign.
Gabriel Legend covers current events for Gather News, and writes horror fiction as well. He is participating in this year's National Novel Writing Month Challenge. You can follow him on Twitter (@GabeLegend).
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Comments: 18
It is amazing the Republicans are falling for this shell game.
There is nothing wrong with this statement if you take into account the low probability that O would even meet with this person on a regular basis even if a "secretary of business" position is created. And probably wouldn't listen to him/her even if he did consult with him/her in any case... IE: Half the country/Congress/his own Jobs Council for instance.
Yeah... about that. . .
Neither you nor I are experts on these things but it seems to me that at best only one job would be created, and that one would get paid from the public coffers! A new government job, a "Secretary of Business" would take his/her salary, pension and other benefits direct from our pockets. Just like any other public service job.
From the article ...but he wants to "consolidate a whole bunch of government agencies," which means that the government will get smaller, not expand.
Yesss... 'consolidate' generally means something would either get smaller or more efficient ... or both. But in the case of government... Well, think about that for a sec. Really?
Then there is this to think about ... even if the Secretary of business position really did try to consolidate a whole bunch of government agencies, a lot of jobs would become (probably are in any case) redundant. A true consolidation would eliminate all redundancy and many jobs would actually go away ... people will lose their government jobs as a result.
Let me make sure I have this straight. You don't want a "Secretary of Business" because that will take money out of the budget that would be required to pay the person.
You also don't want any government jobs eliminated because it would put people out of work?
So, you want things to stay exactly the way they are, right now. Even though, all of the Romney supporters I have ever talked to or heard from don't like the way things are right now, and that's why they are voting for Romney, because they want a change.
I'm a little confused by that.
Incidentally, if a "Secretary of Business" was appointed, and he or she eliminated all of the unnecessary jobs and consolidated government agencies, wouldn't that make it easier for the agencies to work on helping businesses create jobs for millions of Americans? If the jobs were redundant anyway, why would you want to keep them? It will put a few people out of work maybe, but wouldn't it be worth it if it created a few million jobs for Americans out work?
See, that's the problem with most Romney supporters. They don't really care about the issues that they pretend to care about. They just don't like Obama. They wouldn't care if he shat gold bricks and put them in the nation's budget, they would still say he was screwing up the economy. I'm very confused by this.