By John Cody Treadaway, Staff Writer
As we approach Election Day, people are taking sides as to whom they will vote for. Many base it off of facts, and others their beliefs. Allow me to point out a few flaws and facts in this election season in explaining why Mitt Romney should become the next president of the United States of America.
First, let’s take care of the political commercials that have been putting down Romney. Fact: It isn’t true that Romney outsourced jobs. His company, Bain Capital, did, from 2000 to 2001. Romney is shown on paper as still leading the company until 2001, but he actually left Bain in 1999 to oversee the Salt Lake City Olympics. Bain officials even stated that Romney was in no way involved with the outsourcing of jobs.
Another fact: Yes, Romney had millions of dollars in offshore bank accounts, but he showed all the money that went into it on the tax returns he released, so he did in fact pay taxes on it, plus it was set up for diversification in the blind trust that manages his family fortune. Also, Romney closed a Swiss bank account in 2010, so that controversial item doesn’t even exist anymore.
Another fact: Romney’s plan isn’t to give tax cuts to the rich and increase taxes on the poor. He plans to decrease tax rates across the board by 20 percent. Romney also plans to cut the deficit, unlike President Obama, who did inherit a budget deficit but allowed it to rise without doing anything about it.
Romney actually has a simplistically brilliant plan to cut the deficit: “I’m going to look at each federal government organization, and decide if it’s absolutely necessary to keep the country running. If it doesn’t pass that test, then I will eliminate it, and use the money saved to help cut the deficit.”
Fact: Romney isn’t going to change Medicare for current users, but will change it for future seniors by giving more benefits to lower-income people and fewer benefits to high-income earners. In turn, he will take the money saved from not giving the rich so many benefits and put it toward eliminating the deficit.
“I will repeal Obamacare, because it’s costing the federal government $1 billion a year,” Romney said. “We have to stop spending more money than we make.”
Why else should Romney be elected?
For one thing, he can make the two political parties work together, as seen during his reign as governor of Massachusetts. When that state’s legislature was 87 percent Democratic, Romney was able to make a relationship with the Democrats and get both parties to work together and get things done, something that hasn’t happened recently in the federal government.
Romney agrees to bring American troops home by 2014. Even though he doesn’t have that much experience in foreign affairs, Romney will still do his best to see that relations are smooth as he meets each foreign delegate with open arms as long as they follow their treaties with other allies of America.
Romney also plans to “cut out cheaters like China” in the trade market and open up new and better trade with others to restore our country to a land of workers and resources.
Additionally, Romney will make the government smaller and allow the people to have more control just as they should, unlike the government right now, which is only getting bigger.
The Democrats and President Obama have said repeatedly in this election season, “This is a clear choice.”
In this case, they are right. It is either failure for another four years or a fresh four years of success under President Romney.