{"id":15865,"date":"2012-09-19T12:09:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T16:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15865"},"modified":"2012-09-19T12:09:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T16:09:29","slug":"advice-to-romney-on-how-to-redirect-%e2%80%9947-percent%e2%80%99-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15865\/advice-to-romney-on-how-to-redirect-%e2%80%9947-percent%e2%80%99-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice to Romney on How to Redirect \u201947 Percent\u2019 Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15861\/mitt-romney-needs-help\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Quin\u2019s lead<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390444450004578004421263428686.html \" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> offers some ideas on how to reframe Mitt Romney\u2019s 47-percent-of-Americans-see-themselves-as-victims-and-will-vote-for-Obama-no-matter-what:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I want Americans to be less dependent on government not because it costs too much. We will always help Americans who need our help. I want Americans to be independent so they can realize the pride of accomplishment and the dignity of work and contribute their God-given talents to build a better country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the success of a Presidency should be measured by how many <em>fewer<\/em> people need food stamps, how many <em>fewer<\/em> need disability, not how many more people are added to the rolls. I don&#8217;t want to take food stamps away from Americans in need. I want fewer Americans to need food stamps.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I wonder if President Obama shares that view. He and his economists keep saying that food stamps and unemployment benefits are a form of &#8216;stimulus.&#8217; Well, we&#8217;ve sure had a lot of that kind of stimulus, and all we have to show for it are more people on food stamps and more people on welfare and more people looking for work. I think a real stimulus is a job, and I intend to help Americans create more of them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole editorial <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390444450004578004421263428686.html \" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Quin\u2019s lead, the Wall Street Journal offers some ideas on how to reframe Mitt Romney\u2019s 47-percent-of-Americans-see-themselves-as-victims-and-will-vote-for-Obama-no-matter-what: &#8220;I want Americans to be less dependent on government not because it costs too much. We will always help Americans who need our help. I want Americans to be independent so they can realize the pride of accomplishment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,143,1193,1945,19,160,1479],"class_list":["post-15865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign","tag-dependence","tag-economy","tag-mitt-romney","tag-quin-hillyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15865"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15871,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions\/15871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}