Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Romney's "fire people" comment

Neal Boortz

"Mitt Romney is being fired on for something he didn’t even really say.  What we have here is a classic case of something being taken out of context.  But unfortunately for him, he will have to battle this soundbite from now through November if he is the nominee."....
"What’s the problem?  Well there shouldn’t be a problem.  But liberals and GOP opponents are glomming onto this “I like being able to fire people.”  Relax, people.  Mitt Romney is expressing his affinity for the power of choice, and if Barack Obama has his way … it’s something that will become a precious commodity that we will one day look back on and realize we took for granted."


And this is how Debbie W-S used it.


Legal Insurrection and Newt Gingrich point out the obvious distortion of Romney's words.  Romney is right: being able to "fire" a health-care provider is a choice the Obamacrats will deny us if Obamacare goes through. If you want to see how dealing with agencies that you can't fire, just go to the nearest Department of Motor Vehicles office and do business. Picture those unsmiling, somber clerks behind empty shelves in those government-owned department stores in the old Soviet Union.


Speaking of firing providers, how about this?  Read "Kodak and the Post Office", by Thomas Sowell:

"Great names of companies in other fields have likewise vanished as new technology brought new rivals to the forefront, or else made the whole product obsolete, as happened with typewriters, slide rules and other products now remembered only by an older generation. That is what happens in a market economy and we all benefit from it as consumers.
"Unfortunately, that is not what happens in government. The post office is a classic example."...More...

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