How many of you want a job when you graduate? We certainly hope you do, why else would you be dropping $40,000 a year at Creighton? Mitt Romney is the only candidate who can improve your odds of getting a job post-graduation. It does not take too many statistics (such as, unemployment: 7.8 percent, though this doesn’t include millions of Americans who have dropped out of the workforce) to recognize that President Barack Obama’s economy is not working. Romney has proven his ability to create growth in the private sector, public sector and public-private partnerships. In so many situations, Romney entered a financially dire situation, and left with the books in the black.
How many of you graduated from a public high school? If you care about the future of education, Obama needs to go. Think about it this way: how much better would Brandeis be if people had the choice to eat somewhere else? Brandeis would either improve or close. The same logic applies to schools: if students had the opportunity to choose any school, there would be competition, and schools would be forced to improve or close. Romney has a proven track record: Massachusetts schools were the best in the nation when he left office. Even better, he reduced the budget while he was at it. Throwing money at schools will not lead to improvement, competition will.
How many of you are pre-med? If you want an income sustainable enough to pay off your student loans, or any level of freedom as to whom and how you treat, you want the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) repealed. The federal government will set payment rates similar to the system used under Medicaid and Medicare. Doctors have quit treating Medicare and Medicaid patients because the payment rates are significantly lower than those paid by insurance companies; under ObamaCare, there will be no more choice. Furthermore, doctors will have few choices to refrain from executing procedures which they find morally reprehensible.
How many of you will get sick anytime between now and when you die? ObamaCare will negatively affect your experience, also. Obama’s promise that you may keep your doctor and insurance plan is technically true, but the bill is designed to incentivize companies to dump their employees onto the government plans. At that point, your choices are few.
How many of you have heard of Watergate? That has nothing on Benghazi-gate. Libyan ambassador Chris Stevens was brutally killed by an anti-American terrorist group. Contrary to the Administration’s original claim that an “anti-Islamic” video incited a random attack, the consulate knew of threats far before the attack took place, such as the 40-foot hole blown in the embassy’s outer wall weeks earlier. The president denied further help. There were CIA and Navy SEAL teams ready, and the only person who could have stopped them was the Commander-in-Chief himself. Further, the President then lied to … America. He has yet to acknowledge that the attack was premeditated by terrorist groups, and even let his Secretary of State fall on the sword for him. Ambassador Stevens could’ve used some bayonets and horses.