Romney: Obama responsible for huge `peacetime’ spending binge

[jefferson_dem]

Romney: Obama responsible for huge `peacetime’ spending binge
By Greg Sargent

Mitt Romney is getting some media attention today for an op ed in today’s New Hampshire Union Leader claming that Obama is “not serious about America’s financial health.” But this might be the most newsworthy passage in Romney's piece:

Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history. With its failed stimulus package, its grandiose new social programs, its fervor for more taxes and government regulations, and its hostility toward business, the administration has made the debt problem worse, hindered economic recovery and needlessly cost American workers countless jobs.

Peacetime? I guess that’s an easy way to avoid mentioning that our fiscal problems have been badly exacerbated by the two wars Obama inherited from Bush (one of which Obama escalated), which have cost north of $1.5 trillion.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/romney-obama-responsible-for-huge-peacetime-spending-binge/2011/03/03/AF7DlJjE_blog.html

[villager]

1. One should only binge on war -- else the "fodder" could get the wrong idea!

n/t

[ClassWarrior]

2. Warrior: Mittens responsible for huge clue deficit

NGU.

[rox63]

3. When was this supposed 'peacetime' that they speak of?

:shrug:

[WhiteTara]

4. Peace time? As in, we're not being bombed? n/t

[Beaverhausen]

5. wow- this clueless and he's the frontrunner?

we got this.

[LiberalFighter]

6. I wonder how many are sane enough to be dumbfounded by his article?

[krabigirl]

7. Peacetime? Sorry, what peace?

[Mimosa]

8. The WAR SPENDING is what bothers me

It never stops does it?

http://costofwar.com/en/