WASHINGTON — There's nothing like a natural disaster to test the depth of politicians' preference for small government.
And so it turns out that after Superstorm Sandy battered the East Coast, Mitt Romney is far more supportive of the government agency in charge of coordinating disaster relief. Only last year, as Romney hewed to the right while battling for the GOP nomination, he seemed to downplay the federal government's role in disaster response.
"Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction," Romney said at a debate last June. "And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that's even better." warning alert!!
Asked by moderator John King of CNN whether that would include disaster relief, Romney said: "We cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids."
Now, a week before Election Day, after of a massive disaster, Romney's campaign is reassuring voters that his administration wouldn't leave disaster victims in the lurch.
read between the lines my friends it's all about the money and privitization, don't be fooled nothing in his agenda is without that recuring stance on privatizing everything the gov't provides jst for tax money or nothing if you are in that circumstance to money hungry entities like Bain to wring you out and squeeze your dollar bill till the eagle screams.
Romney is ducking and pretending to not hear like Reagan used to do to avoid the press. when you run with your tail between your legs you are either afraid or can't own up to your own words, me i'm going with the latter.
