We Are Better Off Than We Were Before
by Clyde Weiss | September 26, 2012
Mitt Romney’s appeal to the nation has been, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Ohio’s Republican governor, John Kasich, has an answer: Yes!
“I hope you all know that Ohio’s coming back,” Kasich said as he introduced the GOP Presidential nominee, The Los Angeles Times just reported. “From 48th in job creation to No. 4. No. 1 in the Midwest. From 89 cents in a rainy day fund to a half a million dollars and we have grown 123,000 jobs in the state of Ohio. Our families are going back to work,” Kasich boasted.
No wonder Romney’s poll numbers are dropping like lead balloons in Ohio and Florida, two key battleground states. Romney’s problem now is that his message is working against him as voters realize that they are, for the most part, better off than they were before President Obama took office after the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression.
That’s why Romney is re-jiggering his appeal, saying in a new ad, “We can’t afford another four years like the last four years.” But the Romney-Ryan plan would return the country to the very economic policies that caused the Great Recession in the first place.
That’s why we can’t afford four years of a Romney presidency.
