{"id":16182,"date":"2012-10-16T18:01:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T22:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16182"},"modified":"2012-10-16T18:01:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T22:01:21","slug":"5-points-romney-should-make-in-tonight%e2%80%99s-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16182\/5-points-romney-should-make-in-tonight%e2%80%99s-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Points Romney Should Make in Tonight\u2019s Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2012\/10\/16\/morning-bell-5-issues-that-havent-come-up-in-the-debates\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heritage Foundation<\/a> tees up five issues that so far haven\u2019t been mentioned in the Romney-Obama or Ryan-Biden matchups:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Welfare Reform<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trade<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Medicaid<\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Federal Spending and Debt<\/p>\n<p>5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 American-Produced Energy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Each of these is not only critical to American prosperity, but also conveniently is attached to a disastrous policy decision by the Obama Administration.<\/p>\n<p>This summer Obama\u2019s HHS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/research\/reports\/2012\/09\/obamas-end-run-on-welfare-reform-part-two-dismantling-workfare\" target=\"_blank\">gutted the work requirement<\/a> for receiving welfare checks that was the hallmark of the mid-1990\u2019s reform.<\/p>\n<p>The President and his fellow liberals in Congress <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/jul\/18\/obama-administration-way-behind-predecessors-free-\/?page=all\" target=\"_blank\">held hostage free trade agreements<\/a> negotiated by the Bush Administration as a favor to labor unions, and in the process damaged our international standing.<\/p>\n<p>Obamacare is scheduled to hit Medicaid doctors with a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2012\/10\/16\/morning-bell-5-issues-that-havent-come-up-in-the-debates\/\" target=\"_blank\">19 percent pay cut<\/a> starting in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2012\/10\/12\/deficit-tops-1-trillion-again\/1630377\/\" target=\"_blank\">fourth consecutive year of $1 trillion budget deficits<\/a> presided over by President Obama, and there is no indication the incumbent will do anything differently if reelected.<\/p>\n<p>As for domestic energy production, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/OTUS\/president-obama-rejects-keystone-xl-pipeline\/story?id=15387980#.UH3YYa7hKSo\" target=\"_blank\">Obama\u2019s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline<\/a> angered not only consumers paying high gasoline prices, but also the unionized labor that stood to benefit from short- and long-term job creation.<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney should look for ways to insert these failures of leadership into his answers during tonight\u2019s townhall debate with Barack Obama.\u00a0 People need to be reminded that the President\u2019s kneejerk liberalism is bankrupting the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heritage Foundation tees up five issues that so far haven\u2019t been mentioned in the Romney-Obama or Ryan-Biden matchups: 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Welfare Reform 2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trade 3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Medicaid 4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Federal Spending and Debt 5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 American-Produced Energy Each of these is not only critical to American prosperity, but also conveniently is attached to a disastrous policy decision by 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