Excerpts of McDonnell’s convention speech
Gov. Bob McDonnell speaks to reporters at the Republican National Convention. (photo by Ross Taylor, The Virginian-Pilot)
The Republican National Committee has released excerpts of the speech Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell will deliver today at the party’s national convention in Tampa, Fla. Looks like the governor will make a reference to Radford baker Chris McMurray in his remarks.
“The times call for new leadership to get this great nation out of debt and back to work.
The choice is clear: the status quo of the entitlement society, or dynamic change to an opportunity society.
We need a President who will say to a small businesswoman: congratulations, we applaud your success, you did make that happen, you did build that!
Big government didn’t build America: You built America!
Small businesses don’t come out of Washington D.C. pre-made on flat bed trucks.
That coffee shop in Henrico; that florist in Virginia Beach….that bakery in Radford…they were all built by entrepreneurial Americans with big dreams….not a big spending government with a wide open wallet full of other people’s money!”
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“Conservative fiscal policies are working, and so are more Americans in states with Republican governors.
Now, just think what we can do if we had a President who would support us, not obstruct us.
Someone who has created jobs in the private sector, who understands the economy, and who has actually balanced a budget….or heck, for that matter, who has actually passed a budget!
We need President Mitt Romney!
When Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get to work with Susana Martinez…Scott Walker…John Kasich ….Terry Branstad and governors from both parties across this country, we will get people back to work!”
August 28, 2012 - 1:24 PM
I am so totally sick and tired of this whole “entitlement” mantra! Even if you could make the notion that the “Founders” never intended for us to be a nation that looks after her own (and I do not believe you can), that is still not an indictment.
Regardless of how you view Medicare/Social Security or any other program you call an “entitlement” as a pejorative, they are programs that the participants in some form or fashion “paid into”. Certainly SSI/Medicare is a promise and something that workers have seen withdrawn from their paychecks and included in their benefits package as workers. The other safety net programs are paid for with tax dollars that also came out of paychecks, purchases, and a myriad other taxes that people pay to live here.
It is a decision and a direction this nation chose to go in. It is what we decided separates us from countries who make no provision for the public good, to promote the general welfare or to make the nation stronger by caring for the weak. It is a noble effort well worth it.
Health care may not be an enumerated civil right, but given the oath of doctors, the aim of medicine and the dictates of the God in whom we trust, it is the right thing to do.
I truly wonder what it is you think the poor, the working poor, the disabled and the elderly are supposed to do? Fend for themselves? How exactly is that?
You KNOW that this nation has people unable to fend for themselves. You KNOW that this nation has elderly people and the working poor whom we have depended on for over 200 years to do those low wage but necessary jobs and you still, with what brain think they can afford to save for retirement and health care after they can no longer work, or while working for minimum wage? What area of your brain figures these things for you?
You KNOW that the wealthy and business has profited enormously on the backs of the working class and consumers. You know the injustice in our system.
I see too many workers losing teeth because they cannot afford dental care. I see too many workers dying of curable (if caught early) disease. I see to many families struggling in poverty and being blamed for it. Like I said, I am damned sick and tired of the idea that we can pay for bombs, bombers, ships, a bloated military, troops all over the globe, foreign aid to rich nations, more tax cuts for the wealthy, an unfair tax structure, a unfair and imbalanced judiciary, and yet shun and demean people needing health care! You keep pushing Marie Antoinette!
“I see to many families struggling in poverty and being blamed for it.”
As a liberal, you WILL see to many families struggling in poverty based on who you support usually.
Couldn’t have said it better myself, Marked Man.
It’s all about gutting Social Security and Medicare people, and don’t forget those scary vaginas!
They really aren’t that scary, Art. I’m serious.
I can see the rich supporting the Plutocracy, I don’t get why you guys do however.
Marked Man, are you saying that your TP/GOP blinders help you not see the struggling people? Or is it just that they all “bring it on themselves”?
You keep people in poverty and encourage people to be less productive when you give them a base line drip of welfare and other entitlements. You destroy their need/will to work and be successful when they aren’t required to do anything to survive and provide for themselves. Why do you think its a right to be taken care of for your entire life? The government should not be in the charity and welfare business. If people are struggling and can’t provide for themselves actual charities and private organizations should step up and help the people in need. If you want to donate your paycheck to these organizations you can make that choice.
#8 Welfare pays so well, John Brown. I’ve been thinking of quitting my job so that I can live in the lap of luxury.
Yes gdad…that “base line drip” is so attractive.
John Brown, you have proved you know nothing about being poor and in the safety net zone in this nation. The money we give in “charity and welfare” is not one iota more than what we give to corporations, the wealthy and foreign countries. Read a little something once in a while that is outside the right wing bubble.
Social Security and Medicare are paid into by the recipients and workers of this nation, it is not “welfare” or “charity”. We paid it forward all our working lives.
” Read a little something once in a while that is outside the right wing bubble.”
Yes John Brown, like the data that clearly shows the wealthy and more conservative folk give way more to charity than the less-wealthy or more liberal folk.
I am encouraged to see in a swing state the articulate voices are there advocating for the people who have been left out or left on the margins. Nobody chooses to get a catastrophic illness, nobody is willingly crushed by poverty,nobody gets rich on welfare or food stamps. That last is the most ludicrous of the GOP propaganda. America is only as successful as our pathways to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans. The Declaration of Independence did not include an income threshold for inalienable rights.
#13 You mean you haven’t heard about what a great life it is living in the projects and sponging off welfare, Shenandoah?
Gee, you think the most wealthy being the most charitable, on paper for that is the only tracking considered, is a partisan thing? It is more about religious affiliation than party and if indeed you also read something outside that right wing bubble, you would know that too.
Well said Shenandoah!