Malloy’s Remarks At The Democratic National Convention
by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy | Sep 5, 2012 9:37pm
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on stage at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte.
I’m here to talk about America’s choice in this election, so let me get right to the point. Mitt Romney has said that if he was president and Paul Ryan’s budget passed, he would sign it into law. That’s what he said, so let’s talk about what it would mean.
Medicare would become a voucher program, effectively ending the guarantee of health coverage for millions of senior citizens. Medicaid would be slashed, jeopardizing coverage for millions of children, people with disabilities, and family members in long-term care. Education would be slashed by 20 percent—from Head Start through college, and everything in between. And all these cuts are being done so Romney can give a tax cut of $265,000 to your average millionaire, and continue billions of dollars in subsidies for Big Oil.
We Democrats have nothing against people who’ve earned their wealth. We salute their hard work and good fortune. But slashing what we invest in schools, in roads, in research and development, in clean energy and in the things that protect our most vulnerable just to cut taxes for those at the top—is ridiculous and wrong!
That’s the Romney-Ryan budget. It isn’t conservative. It’s harsh, it’s radical, and it’s wrong. It would shred the safety net that protects the middle class and those striving to get there. It would undermine FDR’s New Deal, unravel Harry Truman’s Fair Deal and leave us with Mitt Romney’s Raw Deal!
President Obama and we Democratic governors believe something very different. We believe that a budget is more than just a bunch of numbers: it’s a document that reflects our values. We believe we can—and should—make government leaner, cheaper, and more effective - cutting waste and trimming fat where we can. That’s why President Obama signed into law $2 trillion in spending cuts, bringing annual domestic spending to its lowest level, as a share of the economy, since President Eisenhower.
But we can—and should—ask every American to shoulder their fair share, not just the squeezed middle class, but also those at the very top who have done so well these past few years. We can—and should—invest in what will strengthen and grow the middle class, good schools, affordable health care, medical research, clean energy, modern roads and high-speed trains. That’s what President Obama believes. That’s what we Democratic governors believe—and that’s what we’ve done.
There are other differences as well. Let’s talk about jobs. President Obama has helped create 4 million American jobs. Mitt Romney says he’ll create jobs, but in what country?
Let’s talk about voting rights. In Connecticut we’re expanding them, and making it easier for people to register and to vote. The Republicans? In 19 states they’re engaged in a systemic effort to disenfranchise millions of African-Americans, Hispanics, and senior citizens, as they try to undermine the fairness of this election.
Let’s talk about women’s rights. The Republicans want to take away a woman’s right to choose, even if she’s a rape victim. That’s in their platform. That’s what they believe. That’s why there are three simple reasons for anyone to support Barack Obama over Mitt Romney: “Your sister, your mother, and your daughter.”
As Democrats, we have a deep and abiding belief that America is full of people from all walks of life, people who are good and decent, and who work hard. People who are respectful of others, and who do not discriminate based on gender, age, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, or sexual orientation.
We need to fight for our children, fight for our senior citizens, fight for women’s rights, fight for the middle class, and fight for our country’s future. That’s why we need to fight for Barack Obama.
Thank you, God bless you and God bless the United States of America.
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posted by: CitizenCT | September 6, 2012 6:28am
Dannel says, “President Obama and we Democratic governors believe something very different. We believe that a budget is more than just a bunch of numbers: it’s a document that reflects our values.” Considering we haven’t had a federal budget passed in three years, and Obama’s most recent budget didn’t receive a single vote in congress, I guess Obama either has no values or they’re misguided. In CT, with the largest tax increase in history budgeted and implemented, we all know Dannel values a big tax and spend government. Dannel, not sure Obama wanted you to remind the public that the largest ever annual budget deficits experienced ever are under Obama and are heavily influenced by not having a budget to manage to.
posted by: sightover | September 6, 2012 7:59am
“President Obama and we Democratic governors believe something very different. We believe that a budget is more than just a bunch of numbers…”
hahahahaha. That’s for sure!
And unemployment rates are just a bunch of numbers. And trillions in debt? Just a bunch of numbers. Energy costs like gasoline and heating oil doubled since 2008? Just numbers!
If these yahoos are Mitt’s opposites than we welcome the election of big bad Romney, the man for whom numbers actually have meaning.
posted by: Jesterr73 | September 6, 2012 8:39am
Malloy is an embarrassment to CT - the worst governor in 50 years. People in this State better wake up soon or he’ll have done to the whole State what he did to Stamford - and it cost the middle-class worker PLENTY.
posted by: Jesterr73 | September 6, 2012 8:43am
Hey Gov,
If Republicans are “engaged in a systemic effort to disenfranchise millions of African-Americans, Hispanics, and senior citizens, as they try to undermine the fairness of this election” by forcing Voter ID laws, then does that mean Democrats are suppressing delegates at your convention by requiring them to show ID THREE times just to get into the convention hall? Can you spell “HYPOCRITE”???
posted by: skyrocket27 | September 6, 2012 11:11am
Note to voters: Governor Malloy’s hyperbole aside, there are 23 million reasons to vote against President Obama’s failed leadership. Each one of the 23 million represents an American that is unemployed, their families, their friends and the lost sense of dignity President Obama has taken away from them.
We need and deserve better.
posted by: SalRomano | September 6, 2012 11:22am
Fiscally, Gov. Malloy is a carbon copy fiscal failure, as Pres. Obama—who has plummeted our country into $5.2 trillion dollars of federal deficit spending in only 44 months.
“Bords of a feather stick together, as Malloy has aso been spending out State of Connecticut to deficit disaster. Voters who vote for Obama—are looking for “another hote in their heads” as Obama has dug us into a disastrous hole == without providing for a JOB CORP for the 23 million American workers. Obama learned nothing fro Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s putting the unemployed to work during THE GREAT DEPRESSION—as he is a failure as a leader. Of course, Malloy doesn’t want to accept this fact “like the blind, leading the blind!” Obama and Malloy deserve each other, but not our electorate, “who must eliminate such bad politicians.”
posted by: CT Jim | September 6, 2012 1:10pm
Obviously you guys didnt watch President Clintons speech last night. Clinton laid out exactly how and we got here including the previous 12 years before he took office where the national debt tripled and the next 8 after he left where it double inspite of a projected $5 trillion surplus. just the facts
posted by: SalRomano | September 7, 2012 9:56am
CT Jim: Don’t use Bill Clinton as a diversion. Clinton is not running for the presidency. It’s Barack Obama—the same president that gave us a massive $5.2 trillion dollar federal budget deficit in only 44 months in office.
After all that spending, Obama didn’t even care to provide funds for a Civilian Job Corp —to provide work for our 23 million jobless. Obama nust go! Vote for Mitt Romney, if you really care for America—CT Jim.
posted by: SalRomano | September 7, 2012 10:02am
Gov Malloy doesn’t care that Pres. Barack Obama has let this country go into a deficit nightmare.
Malloy has exhibited the same, wild fiscal madness, with his legislative Democratic voting robots to disaster, for 100% support—in the wrong direction—for his constituents.
posted by: Lawrence | September 7, 2012 7:51pm
Wow, so much anger!
Let’s just chill out to some rockin’ GOOD news for a change: Connecticut Republican legislators celebrating a state grant to pay for new basketball courts in their own backyard! Yay!!!
Sen. Rob Kane and Rep. Arthur O’Neill joined local leaders in Southbury on Sep. 5 to cut the ribbon on two state-funded, state-of-the-art basketball courts at Community House Park.
The courts system is waterproof and comes with a 20-year guarantee to be free of any structural cracking.
“The old court was a popular place for young and old to play basketball,” Sen. Kane said. “We want these new courts to continue to be a safe and fun gathering place for Southbury families. This location will become a great community resource, and it really is a tribute to the hard work and persistence of the officials who are gathered here today.”
The project was funded by a state grant.
“I am proud to have helped obtain the original state grant that funded these new basketball courts,” Rep. O’Neill said. “These courts are a wise, long-term investment which will provide enjoyment for Southbury residents for years to come.”
posted by: SalRomano | September 8, 2012 12:43pm
“Birds of a feather—flock together.” It’s ironic that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy flew to North Carolina to glorify the master spender in America, Pres. Barack Obama —who has buried this country into $5.2 trillions of dollars in federal debt in only 44 months in office. Malloy is a carbon copy of Obama wayward spending in Connecticut, aided an abetted by his ‘immorally captive Connecticut Democratic General Assembly”—which continues to bury this state into fiscal oblivion.
With Obama and Malloy, we are having “the blind, lead the blind.” Shame on us, for electing this type
of blind leadership. Voters have a chance to vote out Obama on Election Day, Nov. 6. Vote for Mitt Romney like our lives depend on it—as that’s the truth! And we never got any truth from the Obama-Malloy team, to start with. God bless America to put an end to the past voting charade!