President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan all have frequented the State of Florida in recent weeks. With 29 electoral votes up for grabs, the State of Florida is crucial in deciding who will be the next president.
Community activist Queen Brown
That said, we can expect a lot more visits from the candidates before Election Day. The candidates are wooing Florida voters by weighing-in on immigration, Medicare and the economy — all issues that are of particular importance to Florida voters.
South Florida is home to some of America’s wealthiest residents who will be voting for Mitt Romney. However, it is also home to the middle class and some of America’s poorest. No middle class or poor person should be voting for Romney after his declaration at a recent fundraiser in Florida, saying he does not care about 47 percent of people and folks that he considers “free loaders [that] don’t earn enough to pay income taxes.”
This is in stark contrast to Romney and his cronies who earn millions but still don’t want to pay their fair share of income taxes. The truth is Romney has written off the votes and voters of the 47 percent — in essence writing off millions of citizens. The people he was referring to are the elderly, the disabled, veterans and families who receive income credits. If you haven’t done so already, please take the time and register to vote by October 9th so that you are eligible to vote in the General Election on November 6, 2012.
Romney doesn’t want our votes and according to him he is not expecting to get our vote. In fact he calls 47 percent of American voters moochers who see themselves as victims and will vote for Obama. Why would anyone want to vote for a candidate who runs a company that prides itself in driving companies into bankruptcy and loves to fire people? It’s obvious to most Americans that Romney is oblivious to the issues confronting most Americans. With the election less than 35 days away there is no time to teach him the American way of life. Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney declares he won’t be getting our votes and we need to make sure he is right.
Queen Brown is a freelance writer, a motivational speaker and a trained crime victim’s advocate.
By Queen Brown
queenb2020@bellsouth.net
lisa lakotich
October 8, 2012 at 12:41 pm
Anyone can argue, but it takes dedication and care for others to fix years of problems facing our nation, issues that previous administrations have ignored.
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney solidly won his first debate tonight with President Barack Obama by remaining on the attack from start to finish and articulating a vision of how business and the private sector, and not government, works best to create jobs (jobs for business people and not the working man) prosperity, and freedom. President Obama facilitated Romney’s win by remaining presidential and being too careful not to be appear angry or aggressive. Obama could have counterpunched much more aggressively and effectively but did not.
The key to Romney’s big win tonight was his body language, preparation and aggressiveness. On substance he repeated falsehoods about his true positions on the issues discussed and President Obama aided and abetted his opponent by not calling him out on his denial of what the objective reality of his policies and positions are. But sometimes campaigns are lost with first impressions. And most voters have not thought about the issues sufficiently to know what that objective reality is. MSNBC debate anchor Chris Matthews made the most cogent observation of the night when he pointed out that all the issues on which Romney is most vulnerable and where the greatest gaps exist with voters were not discussed: the 47% of us Romney doesn’t give a damn about. Bain Capital. His failure to tell us who will pay more and for what when tax cuts and budget balancing is done. The position he and his party take on women’s health care, equal pay in the workplace, immigration issues and racial and ethnic tolerance issues of great importance to Latinos, and all people of color.
Then there is foreign policy where President Obama’s record is stronger than any Democrat’s has been in over a generation. Romney was able to deflect the questions and negative impacts of his plans to add five trillion in tax cuts primarily for the wealthy, and thereby put pressure on middle class wage earners and tax payers and Federal programs that are vital by saying he simply was not going to do that. This is contrary to what he has told his party base at every single campaign stop, the Ryan economic budget plan in both versions, and in his own published plans concerning tax cuts and deficits. Romney was able to deflect the questions and negative impacts of his plans to add five trillion in tax cuts primarily for the wealthy, and thereby put pressure on middle class wage earners and tax payers and Federal programs that are vital by saying he simply was not going to do that. This is contrary to what he has told his party base at every single campaign stop, the Ryan economic budget plan in both versions, and in his own published plans concerning tax cuts and deficits. What the Republicans have proposed does in fact add five trillion dollars to the deficit and more if you add increases in defense spending even the Pentagon does not seek. That is mathematical and objective fact.
Romney’s declaration that he is not cutting taxes by five trillion was the biggest shift in the stance of either candidate in the campaign thus far and the most dishonest in a campaign filled with prevarication and lies. The President ought to have said that the obstructionist Republican Congress is simply un-American and that this behavior by the Republican Party, of which Romney is the standard bearer, is unacceptable to the people of this nation. This is why we are having trouble riving our economy, constant blockage from a Republican Congress; we could possibly fix our problems if we had a Congress that works for the people instead of against us.
In the coming days, the Republican presidential hopeful will have to explain why in the print media, on a multitude of taped television appearances the statements he’s made all completely contradict what he said at this first debate. It is a polite way of saying he lied to the American people at practically every turn and denied the objective reality of what he has told us repeatedly he will do. Look for the Democrats and especially both President Obama and Vice President Biden to tie Romney to his ultra conservative political base and a Republican Party that is well out of the mainstream these days. It’s going to be difficult for the Romney-Ryan team to continue this novel approach in debate on the campaign trail. Romney is a much better debater than he is a campaigner. He will bring his frequent gaffes and misstatements with him once he gets in front of less controlled audiences and situations. For that is a big part of the story of why President Obama has not been able to fully revive this economy.