Seeking second term for US President Barack Obama, the top Democratic leadership launched a scathing attack against his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, stating that the latter, if elected, would take the country backwards.
"The decision we have to make this November is simple. Do we keep moving forward or do we join the Romney-Ryan retreat? Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class Americans make it in America.
"Let's send them back to the White House and keep on moving forward," House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer said in his address at the Democratic National Convention.
New York Senator, Charles Schumer said that Romney's plans would make things worse for the middle class.
"The last Republican president gave huge tax cuts to millionaires that exploded our deficits. Mitt Romney not only wants to make those tax cuts permanent, he wants to add more tax breaks for the wealthy that would make our deficit even bigger," he said.
Speakers after speakers on the second day of the convention explained how Romney as the US President would not be good for the country as a whole.
"Under the Romney-Ryan budget, education would be cut, cut by as much as 20%" Education Secretary, Arne Duncan said.
Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy warned that under a Romney Administration, Medicare would become a voucher programme, effectively ending the guarantee of health coverage for millions of senior citizens.
"Let's be clear. Let's be clear. It (Romney-Ryan budget) would shred the safety net that protects the middle class and those striving to be in the middle class. It would undermine FDR's New Deal, unravel Harry Truman's Fair Deal and leave us with Mitt Romney's raw deal," he said.
Elizabeth Warren, candidate for US Senate, alleged that Romney wants to give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires.
"But for middle-class families who are hanging on by their fingernails? His plans will hammer them with a new tax hike of up to 2,000 dollars. Mitt Romney wants to give billions in breaks to big corporations but he and Paul Ryan would pulverize financial reform, voucher-ise Medicare, and vaporise Obamacare," she said.
