Mr. President, A Lack of Plan isn't the Problem, It's Your Inability to Execute

This week, our president released a 20-page pamphlet with his plan to get America back to work.  He is calling it a "The New Economic Patriotism--A Plan for Jobs."

In its glossy pages, the president touts that his 2nd term will focus on 1) Reviving manufacturing 2) Creating energy independence, 3) Encouraging small business growth 4) Improving education 5) Cutting the deficit.

He believes this will be the key to turning the economy around.

Hmmm.

Am I wrong?  It sure sounds a lot like Mitt Romney's 5-point plan: 1) Energy Independence  2) Improving Trade  3) Improve Education and Skills Training  4) Cut Deficit & Balance the Budget  5) Strengthen Small Business.

With less than 2 weeks to go, is this little blue book, the October surprise?

The president seems to think so.  He is now proudly distributing the 20-page pamphlet and the contents are now part of every stump speech.  He says, "I've got a plan that will actually create jobs, that will actually lower the deficit, that will actually create middle-class security."

"Actually" create jobs?  "Actually" lower the deficit?  "Actually" create security?

The truth of the matter is Mr. President, your record of the past four years has shown that every single one of those areas has "actually" been hurt under your leadership.

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His Plan Will Actually Create Jobs?
Problem?  Obama has already been trying to create jobs for the past 4 years and he spent trillions to accomplish it.  Yet, 23 million Americans are still out of work.  Median incomes are down ($4300 per family), overly qualified people are taking underpaying jobs and college graduates can't find work.

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Why should we expect this to be any different if the leadership stays the same? 

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His Plan Will Actually Lower the Deficit?
In the first few weeks of his presidency, President Obama vowed to the American people that he would cut the budget deficit in half in his first term.  Did he keep that promise?  No, far from it.  He actually doubled it.  Under his watch, our government is now borrowing $4 billion a day.

The truth? $5 trillion has been added to the deficit under his watch.

Why should we expect this to be any different if the leadership stays the same?

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His Plan Will Actually Create Security for the Middle-Class?
In the last four years, more Americans---47 million people---more than any other time in our history are now dependent on the Food Stamp program.  In the last four years, 1 in 6 Americans now lives in a state of poverty.  Under this president's watch, millions of Americans have slipped out of the Middle Class.

It is important to remember that according to this Administration, the recovery from the Great Recession  began in the summer of 2009.  Does that record reflect a recovery?

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Why should we have confidence that the results would be any different if the leadership stays the same?

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It isn't that the president lacks a plan--it's that he has simply shown a complete inability to execute one.

The promises he now makes are just recycled promises from his first term.  This video shows it perfectly.  If he couldn't get it done in four years, why would the results be any different in the next four?

While I appreciate the boldness and sincerity of a specific plan, I am afraid that this time around I don't need lofty ideas or beautiful speeches, I need results.

I will fully support the candidate who also has a 5-point plan, but this candidate's record tells me that he'll know how to execute it.  The candidate whose career has revived the bankrupt, fixed the broken, balanced the budgets, created jobs, created surpluses, worked in a bipartisan fashion and never raised a single tax or borrowed a single dollar to accomplish it.

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Unfortunately the president's record doesn't even come close.

Go Mitt.