"Mitt Romney talked about the Iowa prairie today, but Iowans who have lived their lives here on the prairie are very familiar with hot air. He failed to mention that his credibility on debt and deficits is just like out on the prairie: blowin' in the wind. Mitt Romney knows a lot about out-of-control spending and debt- it was his record in Massachusetts. During his four years as governor, state spending increased by 6.5% per year, government jobs grew six times as fast as private sector jobs, taxes and fees went up by $750 million each year, and debt increased by 16%. In fact, he left Massachusetts with the largest per-capita debt of any state in the country.
"Now, while President Obama has a plan to reduce the national debt by $4 trillion, Mitt Romney's would give $5 trillion in tax breaks weighted to millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the middle class?without saying how he'd pay for it.
"Helping the wealthiest prosper by any means necessary, even if it means undermining workers and middle class families, was Mitt Romney's record in the public and private sectors and it represents the values that he'd bring as President. Mitt Romney was a corporate-buyout specialist whose guiding principle was that as long as he and his investors walked away with millions it didn't matter if companies went bankrupt and thousands lost their jobs. Those values won't help us build an economy built to last, and we can't afford to have them in the White House."
