Wouldn't you like to be able to fire people who provide services to you?

By Boris Borovoy

Mitt Romney captured the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night easily beating back his Republican competitors by a wide margin, with Ron Paul finishing in a strong second place and an energized Jon Huntsman coming in third. The landslide for the former Massachusetts governor follows on the heels of his Iowa success. The first time Republican has won both contests since 1976 and he took 13 delegates. At stake in the New Hampshire contest are 12 delegates. Perfect shot!

If Romney wins the nomination, he may prove a more formidable fall opponent than some of Barack Obama's advisers currently believe. Rhoades' team has spent the better part of a year gathering material to use against the President once the primaries are over. Among the most promising: putting a human face on the nation's grim economic statistics. Obama's lieutenants, no slouches themselves at dragon slaying, plan to showcase the names and stories of workers who lost jobs at the hands of Romney's companies. 

Romney's ultimate margin of victory will have a significant bearing on the story coming out of New Hampshire. His numbers appeared to be slipping in some polls over the weekend as he weathered sustained criticism for his private-sector career with equity firm Bain Capital. Romney's critics accused the firm of predatory practices that led to unnecessarily large job losses among companies it bought and sold. Oh, yes, he like to fire people. He is enjoing it!

Earlier, Mitt Romney got into trouble for saying, "I like being able to fire people who provide services to me." To comprehend why the political class reacted as if Romney had just praised Hitler, you must understand that his critics live in a world in which no one can ever be fired. A world known as "the government."

Wherever there is government, there is malfeasance and criminality and government employees who can never be fired.

For years, the New York City school budget included $35 million to $65 million a year to place hundreds of teachers in "rubber rooms," after they had committed such serious offenses that they were barred from classrooms. Teachers accused of raping students sat in rooms doing no work all day, still collecting government paychecks because they couldn't be fired.

In 2010, 33 employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission -- half making $100,000 to $200,000 per year -- were found to have spent most of their workdays downloading Internet pornography over a five-year period.

Not one of the porn-surfing employees of the SEC was fired.

They weren't even embarrassed. One appealed his 10-day suspension, complaining that it was too severe. The government refused to release any of their names. How splendid!

These are the people who are going to be controlling your life if Obama would't be out of his office. There will be only one insurance provider, and you won't be able to switch, even if the service is lousy (and it surely will be). There will be bunch of regulations of what you eating, drinking, smoking etc. done by the same douchebags.

Obamacare employees will spend their days surfing pornography, instead of approving your heart operation. They can steal from you and even physically assault you. And they can never be fired. Period.

What Romney said is:

"I want individuals to have their own insurance. That means the insurance company will have an incentive to keep you healthy. It also means if you don't like what they do, you can fire them. I like being able to fire people who provide services to me. You know, if someone doesn't give me a good service that I need, I want to say I'm going to go get someone else to provide that service to me."

That's one huge difference between community organizer and governor right there: If you don't like what your insurer is doing in Massachusetts, you can get a new one.

Now, wouldn't you like to be able to fire people who provide services to you?

I do.