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Obama for America

"Mitt Romney's Economic Plan: It Didn't Work Then, It Won't Work Now" +
  1:27 web video from June 11, 2012.

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    TEXT: Mitt Romney's Economic Plan
    TEXT: He wants to cut jobs for fire fighters, police, and teachers.

Romney (clip): He says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers—did he not get the message of Wisconsin?  The American people did.  It's time for us to cut back on government and help the American people... [cheers, applause]

    TEXT: The same thing he did in Massachusetts.

Rob Dolan, Mayor of Melrose, MA: During Governor Romney's tenure, local government was cut dramatically.

    HEADLINE: The Boston Globe   Budget cuts up teachers at risk

We lost police, fire fighters, teachers at rapid rates.  People that directly impact the lives of every citizen.

   HEADLINE: Boston Herald   Mayors: We're less prepared; Blast aid cuts as threat to security

Our cities were not as safe, not as clean, larger class sizes...

Jay Kaufman, State Rep. for the 15th Middlesex District: All the local services, schools, fire, police—all the basic services that we rely on—are the poorer for Mitt Romney's administration

   HEADLINE: AP  Report: About 2,000 teaching positions lost in two years

Carl Sciortino, State Rep. for the 34th Middlesex District: We know that behind budgets there are real people, there are real families, there are communities that are struggling...

   HEADLINE: AP UMass lays off 110 at Amherst campus, fights to save honors college from Romney veto

I don't know that Mitt Romney really understands those struggles.

John Barrett, Former Mayor of North Adams, MA: The man did not care; he didn't care what was going on in our communities.

    TEXT: Mitt Romney's plan didn't work in Massachusetts.

Jeffrey Sánchez, State Rep. for the 15th Suffolk/Norfolk District: By the time Mitt Romney left office we were 47th in the nation in terms of job growth.

   TEXT: It won't work now.

Romney (clip): He says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers—did he not get the message of Wisconsin?

John Barrett, Former Mayor of North Adams, MA: Romney economics doesn't work.  It didn't work in Massachusetts, and it's not going to work in Washington.

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