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...things that keeps his candidacy alive. At an "Ask Mitt Anything" event in Salem, one undecided voter came to hear Romney with a pencil in hand. Bob Gibbs, a small business owner in town, scribbled as the candidate spoke: "Domestic oil field...bold military...end illegals...McCain cancel tax cut" [this underlined] ... "strengthen family." By the time Romney took his last question (something about "men's rights" - a visibly uncomfortable Romney wrapped it up quickly), Gibbs was convinced. "Oh, yeah," he said, "I'm going to vote for Romney." Asked why, he consulted his notes...
...foodstuffs. Laws passed to allow employees and businesses to sidestep France's 35-hour workweek limitation and heed Sarkozy's call to "work more to earn more" have largely been ignored as too complicated, and even some fellow conservatives question the wisdom of the $22 billion in tax cuts passed last July when - as Sarkozy himself acknowledged last month - "the coffers are empty". Little wonder, then, that as displeasure over Sarkozy's glitzy private life has grown, both approval and confidence indices have shrunk. Just 34% of respondents now believe Sarkozy is capable of remedying slumping purchasing power...
Four years later Iraq is exactly none of those things: free, democratic, peaceful internally or externally. Lines of humongous, heavily-armored American Humvees with steel chains dangling from their front ends roll through Baghdad, America's tax dollars in action, a panorama of monstrous battle cats going anywhere they want. It was never like this before. Back then, you could at least see the fresh faces of young American soldiers, even if their eyes were obscured by wrap-around Oakleys. Now their faces are steel plates, their eyes electronic sensors...
...Georgia's GDP grew by 9.6%, the World Bank named Georgia the top reformer in the world. Its officials forecast growth of 14.5% in 2007. The Georgian government boosted revenues by tightening up the administration of the tax system. Private investment went up and there has been a crackdown on corruption. Per capita income is up from $700 a year in 2003 to the current figure of $1,500. The most astonishing achievement was Saakashvili's reform of the traditionally corrupt police forces. He disbanded the entire Ministry of the Interior - with recruitment based on the western testing system...
...living conditions fast enough. Complaints arose that his macro-reform was adversely affecting ordinary businessmen and traders. A crackdown on the black market in cigarettes and alcohol left thousands of street vendors without jobs. Growing incomes are offset by rising inflation and these reforms have made many Georgians pay tax and utilities bills in full. The government is also dramatically increasing the defense budget instead of raising pensions. The opposition, represented by nine parties, invoked Saakashvili's increasingly authoritarian style of management...