tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17229004.post1454210798869856986..comments2024-03-22T03:02:53.585-04:00Comments on Swahili Time: Dumb Mitt Romney Quotes So FarChemi Che-Mpondahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16717731951202118305noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17229004.post-22193722509530774542012-10-11T15:15:51.942-04:002012-10-11T15:15:51.942-04:00Just think, if "The 47%" would only buy ...Just think, if "The 47%" would only buy horses, they could write off more on their taxes than they make in a year! Heck, with all that write-off, they could afford to pay their income tax! Problem solved. Just like all those kids who can't afford a college education. What idiots, that they didn't think to ask their parents to lend them the money.<br /><br />At these of all times, America doesn't need Mitt "Louis XIV" and Ann "Marie Antoinette" as its president and first lady.This absurd premise that when we hit hard times it shouldn't be the rich who pay a little bit more, it should be the poor, always reminds me of the Lily Tomlin character pondering the untapped consumer market for Nabisco of starving people in Africa: "These countries have millions of people who don't know where their next meal is coming from but the idea of eating BETWEEN meals has never even occurred to them."<br /><br />In another thread about this topic a woman argued, "What's the problem of requiring everyone to have some skin in the game?" It's the sort of insipid comment that sounds reasonable if you accept the premise that this is not at the moment so. Do they think it fashionable to pretend ignorance of what it means to live your whole life working paycheck to paycheck, just trying to stay ahead of your bills? "Skin in the game"?! Getting laid off, foreclosed on, having nothing to help your children make the most of their potential and keep from sliding into poverty, is being in the game right down to the bone.<br /><br />It is the Romneys and their supporters who don't have "skin in the game," sitting on high in their luxury boxes and dining on strawberries and Champagne while they watch the hoi polloi sweating and grunting trying to move the ball a yard or two down the field and casting aspersions upon one's class.<br /><br />Earlier today there was a clip of Mrs. Romney snapping that Republicans should stop criticizing the tone deafness of the Romneys. "Stop it!" She snaps. "This is hard!" She says, speaking about traveling the country on jet planes and riding in escorted motorcades and being the guests of honor at $50,000 a plate dinners while trying to fleece the 52% you think you have a shot at but are not in "the 1%" of casting their vote on a new round of "voodoo economics."<br /><br />It might be lovely to devote our entire existence to suitably endowing one's hooves with class, Mrs. Romney, as we taxpayers are forced to subsidize your horse in doing, but as far as most of us are concerned, prissy prancing and posturing just to win something isn't classy at all. There's more class in fighting for Americans' access to basic civil rights, basic health care, basic educational and economic opportunity, than in withholding them, Mrs. Romney. There's more class in the middle than at the top. And there is no class in suggesting that you and your husband are more American, or better understand what it means to be American, or have more class than do President and Mrs. Obama and their supporters.<br /><br />Brandon Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17229004.post-45548702853526281952012-09-25T10:39:55.392-04:002012-09-25T10:39:55.392-04:00If the Republicans can call this as 'MORE'...If the Republicans can call this as 'MORE' than a bump in the road - what do they call 9-11-01? The last time they were in office? What do they call the economy Bush handed off? A minor 'bump' in the road? Everything, EVERYTHING they say is backwards, and everything they touch has to be fixed - in exactly the opposite direction. You can't attract bee's with vinegar - you can attract them with honey. And we need bee's. Because without the bee's, in this case people of differing religions and viewpoints, without them ~ AMERICA becomes a FRAUD.....not the land of the FREE - not the land of the liberators - not the land espousing freedom - JUST A FRAUD. Unable to follow it's own badge of honor.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17229004.post-10649777211688327422012-09-24T15:41:37.995-04:002012-09-24T15:41:37.995-04:00Obama is smarter. First, he did cause change in ou...Obama is smarter. First, he did cause change in our society. First, he brought out a racial and political tension that still simmers amongst many groups of people. Second, he kept quiet while people down graded his birth, education, race, and religion, that made him a disqualified American. Then he out witted the Lilliy'est (historical context correct) SUPPOSEDLY best businessmen in America. He quietly brought Mr. Romney to his knees. He is just a better Politician, and businessman himself. All the while he did not compromise his belief to help those who are in compromised positions. Yes, we are in major debt. Yes, our economic system will collapse. Do not charge him with this. He was learning the very system in college that is failing us now. He is trumping everyone. Anyone wants change, but this is a hard lesson. Things you want always don't come on your terms. Source: History, Justice, Morality, "We the People", Past human suffering of the less thans', discourse. Our constitution only meant equal for Anglo folks. This is a cycle in history where power is shifting to those who want a better future. FROM THE GROUND UP. Any scholar would know this.<br /><br />Mariannenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17229004.post-69108241513292178312012-09-21T13:46:52.377-04:002012-09-21T13:46:52.377-04:00"Our country is in a huge debt of 16 trillion..."Our country is in a huge debt of 16 trillion."<br />Let's examine where the debt came from. I know you Republicans do not like facts but here goes.<br /><br />97–98 1981–1985 32.5% 43.8% +823 +11.3% Reagan<br />99–100 1985–1989 43.8% 53.1% +1,050 +9.3% Reagan<br />101–102 1989–1993 53.1% 66.1% +1,483 +13.0% GHWB<br />103–104 1993–1997 66.1% 65.4% +1,018 -0.7% Clinton<br />105–106 1997–2001 65.4% 56.4% +401 -9.0% Clinton<br />107–108 2001–2005 56.4% 63.5% +2,135 +7.1% GWB<br />109–110 2005–2009 63.5% 84.2% +4,521 +20.7% GWB <br />111–112 2009–2011 84.2% 99.6% +4,334 +15.4% Obama<br /><br />Let us add up the increases during Republican tenures = $10,012,000,000<br />Let us do the same thing during Democratic tenures = $5,753,000,000<br /><br />As you can see there has been a DRAMATICALLY greater increase in the deficit under Republican administration than Democratic administrations. You wanted to go back to the 80's that is where the deficit problem started.<br /><br />Now look at the deficit that the Republicans are attributing to President Obama.<br />These are the credit card charges run up by GWB that President Obama is paying off with his deficit.<br /><br />Iraq War and Afghanistan Wars $1,469 b;<br />TARP bailout balance 2008-2010 $319 b; <br />Rrecession revenue losses due to failed Bush policies $773 b; <br />Medicare Part D mandated but unfunded $211 b; <br />Medicare Drug Program $190 b; <br />Lost revenues from Bush tax cuts to wealthy & corporations $1,812 b<br />Sorry to burst your bubble, <br />The Republicans are wrong to blame President Obama for this one. He was handed the bill after Bush charged billions to a future credit card payment...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17229004.post-91441001499900283402012-09-21T11:47:56.064-04:002012-09-21T11:47:56.064-04:00I think the most demeaning comment made by Mr. Rom...I think the most demeaning comment made by Mr. Romney in the recently disclosed fund raiser with his billionaire friends was his opinion of the 47% who he will "never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. " WOW! What a completely insulting remark to the single mom struggling with two jobs to make ends meet or the disabled veteran who served his country. Wonder how many of those 47% are actually billionaires? Mitt, we'll never know about you since you so guard your tax returns!<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17229004.post-10577998418445243602012-09-21T11:47:05.327-04:002012-09-21T11:47:05.327-04:00There are many people working two jobs, minimum wa...There are many people working two jobs, minimum wage jobs; there are people who are working multiple part-time jobs. But these are the people that most politicians don't care about. Why? Because they are not the big donors to political campaigns. Then there are the people who make a decent living and find that on April15th they owe taxes and pay them. Most politicians don't really care about them either because even if they do donate to the campaigns they don't donate huge amounts.<br />Then there are the people who make incredible incomes -- the CEOs, CFOs, etc. and they have the best tax attorneys and tax accountants to find every tax loop hole and tax haven to avoid paying taxes, to keep their taxes at a minimum. And the politicians love them because they can donate huge sums of money and hold private fundraising parties and create Super-Paks.<br /><br />The system is totally designed to help those with the most keep more and more and everyone else to have less and less.<br /><br />America is drifting to a two-class society: rich and poor.<br /><br />And who is to blame? Ourselves. We continue to elect politicians who do not serve the best interests of ALL Americans but who only serve those with the most. Why? Because we seem to buy the lies of the politicians without even thinking about it. Because we listen to "news" programs and talk-show programs that are propaganda machines.<br /><br />It's our own fault. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com