The Republican presidential race for the White House is moving to Missouri this weekend, so Mitt Romney stopped in Kirkwood today, hoping to drum up some support in this Saturday's caucus following last month's humiliating loss to Rick Santorum in the non-binding primary.
During an interview with Ann Rubin on KSDK-TV in Kirkwood today, Romney was asked about how he would reduce the debt.
"The test is pretty simple," he said. "Is the program so critical, it's worth borrowing money from China to pay for it? And on that basis, of course, you get rid of Obamacare, that's the easy one. Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that. The subsidy for Amtrak, I'd eliminate that. The National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities."
Did you see (hear) that? Planned Parenthood is the second thing to cut on his list.
Women and men who support Planned Parenthood are already tweeting in protest, many (sarcastically) wondering if that's his latest plan for women's health and/or to slow the plummeting female support for the GOP.
And talk about a weak plan to reduce the deficit. Planned Parenthood’s government funding comes to about $363 million. The federal deficit for fiscal 2012 is estimated to be at $1.2 trillion. Gee Mitt, only 1.199 trillion to go and you've balanced the budget!
Oh right, Obamacare. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office states that repealing the health care law would worsen the federal deficit over the next 10 years by $230 billion. OK, scratch that.
Now he's down to cutting Amtrak (about $1.4 billion), the National Endowment for the Arts ($144.7 million) and the National Endowment for the Humanities ($154.69 million). That brings Mitt's cuts to $2.062 billion, which still leaves an annual deficit of just under $1 trillion.
Romney has presented a plan he says will reduce the deficit by $500 billion by 2016, but given the huge tax breaks he'd give to the wealthy, we don't think it has much credibility.
No, the only credible plan is from President Obama, which includes a tax hike on the 1% that Romney would not only protect, but reward with huge tax cuts.
By the way, in case you think pulling the plug on federal funding for Planned Parenthood may not help reduce the deficit, but would reduce abortions, keep this in mind: Planned Parenthood CANNOT use federal funds for abortions by law.
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If the female voters can't understand by now, that there is a Republican war on women, they never will. But they had better start paying attention before voting day gets here and wise up.
MJB, You are so right. As watched the primary results last night and Sanatorium won. I ask myself do these people realize what he stands for? Romney wants to do away with planned parent hood. At the end of this circus if they should win. Women's health care will be turned upside down. Its bad enough when you have the Governors trying to enact legislation, but to have a president who would be contraceptive and chief , ladies this is so wrong. Your health is your own, you are responsible for your own decisions and have the right to make them for your selves not the government! I think there are women MJB who are sailing on the river of Denial !
If Willard wins the republican nomination, as they predict, I'll bet he'll try to flip-flop on this, too. Why aren't there more ads about Willard backing the Ryan plan for Medicare?
Tell Businessman Romney to go back to his office and leave this to the REAL politicians! He'll get rid of Planned Parenthood? Another attack against women? Is Romney trying to bring us back to those good old days before Womens' Rights? It certainly looks that way to me.
romney cant get rid of planned parenthood, the govt has no control over planned parenthood, unless maybe he plans on calling his buddies at bain capital and using a leveraged buyout bankrupting it, stealing all its capital for themselves, and firing all the planned parenthood employess and adding to the unemployment rates as he has done for many years.
Romney just said that because he thinks that's what the extremists want to hear. He'll reverse his position soon, when he's told he doesn't want that.
Planned Parenthood does get government funding, but I'm not sure how much.
Around 300 million
I cannot wait to watch this money grubbing 1 percenter "try" to debate Barack Obama.
Radical GOP stupidity... What's wrong with family planning?
It's not like PP is offering drive-thru abortions or anything! Couples have the right to decide how many kids they'll have, why are small-gov Republicans wanting so bad to get involved with this? They're liars, small government, so small they can hide under your bed!
His own healthcare plan, mass transit and women's health care providers. Yup, sounds like a Republican.
Why do the American People have to fund nobuma care and planned parenthood, do away with at least 1 or the other. This is NO war on women like msnbc is trying to shove down your left wing throats. American should NOT have to fund every left wing give away program, put your big boy pants on and be responsible for your own individual needs.....
Get back in the car, clown.
LMAO
thanks for the afternoon laugh.
big boy pants on >> now thats just funny
Hey jerry, There is no such thing as "nobuma" care. But if there was, how is buying insurance from a PRIVATE insurance company ask you to pay for a damn thing?
IF, as you clowns believe, there is no war onwomen, why all the contraceptive BS, the ultrasound BS and all the other legislation directly against women? Sounds like right wing radical war to me. Maybe you would benifit from more fact check and less Fox lies.
Agree with you, larry74, sounds like a war against women to me.
larry there's no contraceptive BS. If a woman wants it she can go to Walmart and get it real cheap. If she's a liberal looking to get it free she can go to planned parenthood.
And if you're a conservative, you can just go f*** yourself.
Planned parenthood would have prevented Mitt Romney.
Do you stupids libs know there is a federal law against any federal funding going towards abortions
And your stupid if you think some of that money given to PP doesn't go towards abortions
Now if PP drops doing abortions I'm sure Romney or any other republican will continue its funding
No TRFjr I do know that but listening to right wingers it seems that they don't
Just wondering. Is there going to be a "full court press" to get Ed off the air for calling Laura Ingram a "slut?" One other thing. There is no "war against women" brought on by the Republican party. This is all trumpet up BS from the far left. Why don't we discuss the debt, jobs, etc., etc., and stop making crap up? The problem is the President has a record he can not stand on. You know it and so does the rest of the country. Being from the Chicago area and working in the city I have to give to the Dem's for creating false narratives and diverting the real issues so that his record won't be examined.
LMAO thanks for the morning funny rant.
"trumpet up BS from the far left" 'no war on women' those are funny