What is the Republican Strategy to Improve the Economy?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Repeal Obamacare x 2! or is it 3?

More like 30+. That's how many votes they had to repeal the ACA or try and gut it into non-existence. There's not a shred of evidence that repealing the ACA would create a single job, of course.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

This can be answered with a photo.

Wrong picture - more like this:

[sly_wolf 199]

The Repub strategy is to do whatever they can to fill their own pockets and everyone else can eat cake.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

You can't even answer the question. That's what's going to kill Romney's chances of being elected - the GOP isn't even focused on the economy.

I agree the democrats are more focused on the Economy. However "destroying it" was not quite the focus we were hoping for.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

I agree the democrats are more focused on the Economy. However "destroying it" was not quite the focus we were hoping for.

If the Democrats "destroyed" it, shouldn't the Republicans try to run on the fact that they can fix it? I mean, it's a pretty big issue to ignore.

[kytwell 179]

It's the same plan that hasn't worked the last time around: lower taxes on "job creators". They'll create jobs and the economy will grow. Of course, the jobs are created in China and India. And them economies have been growing. So, if you want more jobs - albeit in China and India - and if you want the economy to grow double digit - again, albeit in China and India, you vote for Mitt and GOP all the way down the ballot. Now, if you care about jobs and the economy here at home, then the GOP has nothing to offer.

Similar to how Jeffrey Immelt has done. You know him right? He's the job czar of the current administration. The one closing factories left and right and moving them overseas, under Obama's watch. The same company with no tax liability in the USA in 2010. Don't be fooled, neither party has a viable jobs plan. Unless we have another "tech" boom or some other now unknown technology discovery we will continue to lose manufacturing jobs here at home. We can fix the service side industry woes though, by not embracing illegal immigrant labor. Obama had a green energy vision, unfortunately at this point in time not all of the pieces are in place or available to make it economically profitable to the private sector. When they are in place or available; it will happen. Might be 2, might be 20 years from now.

I am no fan of the loss of American manufacturing jobs, but I am also in tune with the the reality that in the grand scheme of things it is a fact that about 95 percent of the world’s consumers and workers live outside the United States. We live in a world where U.S. companies have much more competition on the supply side, much greater opportunity on the demand side, and far greater potential for tapping into a global pool of labor than 50, 25, 10 or even 3 years ago. After a very long time in the dark ages, the rest of the world has or is now coming on-line. We should embrace aspects of this, not curse the entire thing.

I know we "R's" like to complain about regulations and labor costs here at home as a root cause, but we do neglect the facts that Toyota, Airbus and other foreign companies are and have built factories here despite those things. And at the same time some of our home grown companies are outsourcing aspects of their business. It comes down to dollars and cents from the business side, whether it be a U.S. company or a foreign owned company. I get this and think we would all be better served to evolve some of our long held beliefs. Although I won't give up my beliefs against out of control social and war spending and freebies for freeloaders.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Can anyone honestly answer that? Seriously, what's the plan?

They have no plan.

Their plan has been doing nothing and saying 'NO' to everything.

In all fairness not everything the administration brought forward was above criticism, but GOP refusal to work with them; and stall every bill they could and concentrate on unimportant issues, not only they did not help but also only made things worse.

The GOP alone can't fix it. The Democrats alone can't fix it.

We all help dig this hole in which we find ourselves and it will take all of us to plug it.

[kytwell 179]

The GOP alone can't fix it. The Democrats alone can't fix it.

We all help dig this hole in which we find ourselves and it will take all of us to plug it.

I agree, but it is hard to do; when the tactics being used(by both sides)is divide and conquer.

[JohnR! 5,495]

I agree, but it is hard to do; when the tactics being used(by both sides)is divide and conquer.

True. What is important however is that we recognize it and vote accordingly, although good politicians are a race in extinction.

Despite all the opinions and words we see exchanged in these fori and the jestful jabs we take at others sometime, I do wish to believe, as a group we are far more intelligent than simply tugging the party line, for pure conviction and ideology.

[rocks 494]

Repeal Obamacare x 2! or is it 3?

[rin and john 71]

http://www.mittromney.com/jobs

[one...two...tree 2,762]

http://www.mittromney.com/jobs

That's pretty much GW Bush's strategeries. Can somebody explain how Bush's failed economic policies will somehow work this time around?

[Captain Oates 911]

It shocks me that this topic is falling down the page so fast. The usual mouthy ones don't want to even touch it.

That's what you think evil-one

[rocks 494]

How could this not work?!

Edited July 13, 2012 by rocks

[Penny Lane 8,159]

How could this not work?!

But I thought the deficit was Obama's fault.

Politics are confusing.