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Sen. Rubio: Obama has ‘given up’ on outlining second term agenda



Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Sunday charged that President Obama had "given up" on trying to present voters with a second term agenda.

“The most startling thing that has happened here the last month over this campaign is the president has completely given up on outlining any sort of agenda for the future. What’s his plan for the next four years?” asked Rubio, a prominent surrogate for GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney, on ABC’s “This Week.”

Rubio said that the few policies pushed by the president and his supporters called for “spending a lot of money.”

“That’s what they’ve done for the last four years,” he said. “They are going to spend money on roads, bridges. But we already did that one time, that’s called the stimulus. $800 billion and it didn’t grow the economy.”

Rubio’s comments come as the Romney campaign has opened up a new line of attack, accusing the president of having “no agenda for the future,” and saying that the GOP ticket’s bid would be about “big ideas, bold ideas, a strong agenda.”

"We’re going to get America working again and that’s why you’re going to help elect the two of us,” Romney said at a campaign rally in Florida with running mate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).

Earlier Friday, the Obama team accused the GOP candidate of walking back from many policy positions and mischaracterizing his record to win centrist voters in key swing states, saying that Romney was suffering from “Romnesia.”

Rubio dismissed that attack from Obama, saying it fell short of what voters expected to hear.

“That fires up his base, folks that are going to vote for him anyway, but for the rest of Americans who are trying to make up their minds who to vote for, what they’re wondering is ‘well, that’s very cute Mr. President, but what are you going to do for the future, what is your plan to get this economy growing again.’”

Senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod hit back at Rubio's criticisms during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Axelrod said he’d “never seen Sen. Rubio at one of the president’s events,” but that if he were to attend one, he’d hear about the administration’s plans on education, energy and tax reform.

The top strategist said it was Romney who had failed to outline an agenda.

“We have a very specific agenda about how we’d like to move forward,” Axelrod said on. “On the other hand what you hear from Mitt Romney are a bunch of chapter heads with no chapters and a plan to spend $7 trillion more in tax cuts and more money for the Pentagon than they’re even asking for. So if there’s anyone whose running without a real plan here, it’s Gov. Romney, and to the extent he has one it’s going back to the same policies from the last administration.”

New polls show the two campaigns locked in a tight race, with a Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey released Sunday putting the two candidates in 47-47 tie among likely voters and swing-state polls showing many battlegrounds are still a toss up.


Interesting how both sides claimed they had plans, but in the end neither of these guys happened to mention what those plans actually were.




http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing- ... erm-agenda

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Rubio said that the few policies pushed by the president and his supporters called for “spending a lot of money. That’s what they’ve done for the last four years,” he said.”

Spending has not even kept pace with inflation under Obama. Romney promises to increase defense spending by 2 trillion over the next ten years with no cuts to Medicare or Social Security. Romney criticizes Obama for cutting defense and Medicare.

Federal Spending (thousands):
FY 2001: 1,863,039 (Clinton's last budget)
FY 2008: 2,978,440
FY 2009: 3,520,082 (Bush's last budget)
FY 2010: 3,455,835
FY 2011: 3,599,285
FY 2012: 3,538,446

The increase from 2008 to 2009 was food stamps, unemployment benefits and Medicaid. Bush's recession wiped out 9 million private sector jobs. Obama's stimulus only added 100 billion in FY 2009, before some tea baggin' dunce claims the increase was 800 billion in stimulus spending.

2000&2001
http://www.fms.treas.gov/mts/mts0901.pdf
2008 & 2009
http://www.fms.treas.gov/mts/mts0909.pdf
2009 & 2010
http://www.fms.treas.gov/mts/mts0910.pdf
2011 & 2012
http://fms.treas.gov/mts/mts0912.pdf

“They are going to spend money on roads, bridges. But we already did that one time, that’s called the stimulus. $800 billion and it didn’t grow the economy.”

LMFAO, the portion of the stimulus spent on roads, bridges was 243 billion.

Romney said govt spending creates jobs.

He said it in during the 2012 convention:
"His trillion dollar cuts to our military will eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs"

He said it in an interview with Time Magazine:
"Well because, if you take a trillion dollars for instance, out of the first year of the federal budget, that would shrink GDP over 5%."

And one of his surrogates said the same yesterday:
"What is really frightening is that we know a second term for President Obama will bring devastating defense cuts that will cost Virginia over 130,000 jobs"

Interesting how both sides claimed they had plans, but in the end neither of these guys happened to mention what those plans actually were.

Obama's plan is very clear. He is going to continue to reduce the deficit.He'll do it the same way Clinton reduced the deficit. He will raise taxes and cut defense spending. Deficit has already been substantially reduced under Obama.

Deficit (thousands)
FY 2009: 1,417,121 (Bush's last budget)
FY 2012: 1,089,353


Romney's plan is to reduce the deficit by cutting taxes and increasing defense spending. That quadrupled the national debt under Reagan/Bush Sr and doubled the national debt under Baby Bush. Maybe the third time is a charm and the magical plan will work.