This kind of decisiveness, this attack of success, is very different than what we’ve seen in our country’s history. We’ve always encouraged young people: Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.
Yeas what is it with these college kids anyhow, taking out government loans when their fat cat parents are sitting on piles of cash? Do they like spending the nest twenty five years of their lives paying back hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt?
Romney is EXACTLY the kind pf leader these kids need to emulate. One that avoided the war to hang out in France and push his religion on others, who had his dad purchase him the best education money could buy, who made his own money by taking over companies and sending their jobs overseas or liquidating them and divvying up the profits with the wealthy shareholders.
Clearly Romney's rallying cry to energize these young people will be, "Yes, I can...take what is yours and make a profit off it while destroying your way of life."
And look Mittens is not the ONLY Romney showing a connection to the
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Anny Romney also demonstrated her
Romney alluded to the fact that not all women can stay at home saying, “I love the fact that there are women out there who don’t have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too. And sometimes life isn’t easy for any of us.”
Yes, Ann Romney LOVES the fact that there are women who don't have obscenely wealthy husbands and HAVE to work for a living. If not for them WHO would she have hired to clean her house, raise her children, and give her her weekly beauty treatments?
Oh the Romneys! They are so much like all of us that seeing them is almost like looking into a mirror.
A very, very expensive, jewel encrusted golden mirror.
Thank you for posting this comment from the Mittster. I'm frustrated, though, that he said "borrow from your parents if you have to" on the Friday before the White House Correspondents' Dinner, when the worthless MSM media are so wrapped up in their reprehensible "nerdprom." The MSM are predictably self-referential, and provide the opposite of thoughtful, researched analysis.
ReplyDeleteThe most troubling aspect of this statement is that Romney lacks the imagination to even conceive what it's like to have been born in circumstances outside of the 1%. This is troubling on so many levels, yet crickets from MSM.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, if the MSM has jumped on this. I will gladly stand corrected.
It not just that he lacks the imagination but that he and the little wifie willfully do not make the effort, because they don't give a damn.
DeleteYou can say the same for all of the Rethugs who were vieing for the nomination.
It is the Louis XIV
O/T Baldy repost...
DeleteBaldy is at that Women's Conference in Bama today...here's a picture from some bot's FB...
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One word....FILTHY! She looks like she needs a bath...a shower...and then ANOTHER bath!
And apparently Beefy/Nancy is on duty today to drum up dollars for BaldyPac...because Beefy's post is of Baldy's Ccrap speech...
Oh..the funniest part of the post...Beefy/Nancy posted a picture of Baldy's shoes...as we all know Baldy got the nastiest looking hooves this side of the Atlantic...well she doesn't disappoint in this shot! Check out the ashy wrinkled ankles and the toes going OVER the shoe....EWWWWWW! LOL!!!
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And on that note...taking my girls on a picnic to the park...the weather is gorgeous and as Krusty the Klown says...time to go BREATHE...LOL!!!
For what it's worth: if you had tuned into Up with Chris Hayes on MSNBC this morning you could have heard a spirited discussion of Romney's crass remarks regarding borrowing from your parents to get an education.
DeletePeople like Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes are noticing these horrid remarks. We just have to support them so others want to emulate them. We get the media we deserve - make noise against those who don't do their job and praise those who do.
What if your parents have the money but don't want to lend because they don't agree with the school you're attending, or your major, or who you're dating, etc? Or do teenagers growing into adults and shaping their own opinions never ever have a disagreement with their parents?
DeleteI'm pretty sure that the "old" republican party (the one I grew up in with my now-tea-party parents)was all about making your own way and self reliance and whatnot?
Have no fear, the folks at MSNBC jump all over Mitten's statements all the time. He gives them so much to shake their heads at.
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Her quote reminds me of the time a woman at an event told George Bush that she had was divorced with three small children and had to work three jobs just to make ends meet. And Bush said:"You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean that is fantastic that you're doing that."
ReplyDeleteThe Silver Spoon Republicans are utterly clueless. Willard is going to have a hell of a time relating to the average voter. He'd be better off not trying.
Yes, I remember that awful moment with GWB.You can relive it (if you can bear to, it is) by visiting
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They even have the infamous David Letterman clip where Dubya was wiping his glasses on the coat a woman assistant was wearing as she bent over Letterman's desk during a commercial break. Yup, he was wiping his glasses just a breathe away from her arse as if she were just an object put before him to service his every need. The jerk - just another little rich boy seeing everyone else as servants.
I remember that jaw-dropping clip. Also the time Georgie wiped his hands on the back of Bill Clinton's shirt right after shaking the hand of some peon (who happened to be black).
DeleteI know, why not say, "I'm so sorry that our government has not been able to do more to ease the burden of people in your position. I just want to let you know that I am in awe of your work ethic and your dedication to yoru family.
DeleteWhat, GOP has no concept of basic diplomacy? (obviously not)
Doncha just love how that in-the-tank-for-Obama librul media has been all over poor Ann's case?
ReplyDeleteWhat can we do for poor Ann? She may be suffering. Is she one nanny short of a bushel?
DeleteNo one's doing anything to Poor Ann. She's doing it all to herself. Just as her also tone deaf husband is.
DeleteWho's writing their material, James Carville?
Yes, poor Ann. She may have to vacation on her family's private island or one of their mansions to escape the criticism. Pop open a $900 bottle of bubbly and get a personal masseuse to work out the kinks. Maybe she'll have her favorite horse flown in--- fuck it, fly the whole stable in.
DeleteNothing like the attacks Ms. Obama has endured these last three and a half years. The biggest difference is the attacks on Ms. Obama are contrived nonsense. What you call attacks on Ms. Romney are just a reiteration of what she has said.
DeleteThere really are problems when a political party choosing as their icons people who have no empathy.
ReplyDeleteLet face it just their saying the hated the word empathy 4 years ago told many of us just about all we needed to know to be able to see where the RepoNazi were going.
Although electing Bush number one and number two should have made it clear enough.
And don't forget their God, Reagan, saying that poor people like being poor and living on the streets.
(Just in case you missed it, “people who are sleeping on the grates…the homeless…are homeless, you might say, by choice.” POTUS Reagan 1984)
Yes. Republicans actually believe that poor people CHOOSE to be poor.
DeleteWhile people do make choices that can leave them poorer (gambling, substance abuse, divorce, excessive spending), most poverty today is the result of medical bills (#1 reason for bankruptcies in America today), sick children, lost jobs, and poor wages.
Remarkably, Republicans are currently seeking to promote MORE of those things through: wanting to deny affordable health care to all, promoting lower wages for all (by destroying unions), promoting massive job cuts (in both corporate America and the government).
The late, great Root Boy Slim, who was a Yale classmate of W, hit it out of the park with his song, "Rich, White, Republican." The person who put together this You Tube did likewise:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFkzfJCSg-c
London Bridges
Just dripping with condescension. Oh, and don't forget those stable hands. You know that Rich Bitch doesn't pick (remove manure from) her horse's stalls. I've seen the type; they have handlers pull the horse from the stall so they don't smudged their $$$ boots. She can relate... yeah right? I appreciate Romney promoting horses as an invaluable partner in healing, but she has absolutely no idea what her life would be like raising kid and working a real job while dealing with her health issues. Horses would be a distant dream in that scenario. I'd have so much more respect for her if she'd redirect some of that cash towards supporting equine therapy programs for the less privileged.
ReplyDeleteShe cannot even remember how many horses she has. Such a pity, to have the burden of keeping up with yourself.
DeleteRomney bitched that OWS was just a liberal attempt at class warfare but doesn't realize that his statements are what's raising hell. You CANNOT sell yourself as a John Everyman with our economy being what it is while you have several homes and make so much money that what you OWE in taxes is more than most families make in five to ten years.
DeleteOh, those Romney folks are getting stupider and stupider... and we haven't even heard from their exciting five sons yet. Mitt may somehow find a campaign slogan that sounds good but those of us who are politically astute will be hearing, "Let them eat cake!" every time he opens his mouth. Seriously, people, this man and his puppet-masters must be stopped. They are up to no good (except for themselves and their buds.)
ReplyDeleteMitt Romney's Maids' Salary Raises Questions
ReplyDeleteWASHINGTON -- For a woman with three houses and sixteen grandkids, Ann Romney doesn't have very much help around the house, according to her 2010 tax return.
IRS forms released Tuesday by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign show that despite reporting income of $21.7 million, the couple paid only $20,603 in taxable wages for household help in 2010. This figure was divided among four women: Rosania Costa ($4,808), Kelli Harrison ($8,667), Susan Moore ($2,238) and Valerie Cravens Anae ($4,890).
According to a number of Boston-based domestic staffing agencies, the salary range for a housekeeper is between $20 and $30 an hour, which adds up to an annual salary of $40,000 to $50,000 based on forty-hour weeks and two weeks of paid vacation a year.
But this number is only for one house, and the Romneys have three houses -- a 2,000 sq. ft. townhouse in Belmont, Mass., a 5,400 sq. ft. lake house on 11 acres in Wolfeboro, N.H., and a beach house in La Jolla, Calif., that is undergoing renovations to double its size.
Even if the Romneys avoided spending time in La Jolla in 2010, they spent plenty of time in New Hampshire, with regular visits in the summer from five sons and their families.
Yet the Romneys still paid only half of the lowest range of an average housekeeper's salary, which raises the question of who cleaned the Romney houses the other 50 percent of the time. A Romney campaign adviser declined to respond to questions from The Huffington Post about the housekeeping salaries.
Wouldn't it be nice to learn that the Romneys split up household cleaning between them on days when the housekeeper was out? After all, Mitt Romney was "unemployed" in 2010, as he infamously reminded a group of voters in Tampa, so he had some extra time. And Mitt even knows how to do laundry, according to a photo tweeted Monday by his son Tagg Romney.
The more worrisome alternative is that the Romneys underpaid their household help.
The Massachusetts Coalition of Domestic Workers holds a meeting on the third Tuesday of every month to work towards passage of a statewide Bill of Rights for domestic workers, but so far their efforts have fallen short.
UPDATE: 5:27 p.m. -- At least one of the four women paid for domestic work by the Romney family in 2010 also worked as chief of staff to the executive director of Mitt Romney's Free and Strong America PAC at the same time.
Kelli Harrison was paid wages of $8,667 by the Romneys for personal assistant-type tasks and errands, said a source with knowledge of the situation. Harrison was the most highly paid of the four women listed as domestic employees of the Romney family, and the other three women did not work for the Romney PAC at all, the source confirmed. Harrison was paid for her PAC work with PAC funds.
The designation of household employees is broad, and can include housekeepers, baby-sitters, personal assistants and other house-related tasks. It's possible that the Romney's hired an outside cleaning service to clean their houses and that managed the payroll, but the campaign declined to elaborate on their arrangement. Given the private nature of jobs like these, most high-profile individuals prefer to maintain their own staffs of people who know them well and who they trust.
Another employee, Valerie Cravens Anae, may be the same woman whose Facebook profile indicates that she attended the Mormon-affiliated Brigham Young University. Anae was paid $4,890 in taxable wages for domestic work at the Romney house in 2010.
The campaign declined to specify whether Harrison was still working for the Romney family personally. The other two women listed as domestic employees, Susan Moore and Rosania Costa, could not be located.
http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html?t=11235592#page:showThread,11235592
That is disturbing. Perhaps they should be investigated: talk about wage slaves.
DeleteM from MD
People like the Romneys do not have professional cleaners take care of their homes. That would open them up to too many eyes seeing things they'd rather not let anyone outside their influence see. I am not talking nefarious things, but most wealthy people are very nervous about their privacy. They may have people like other Mormons coming in to do the house work in exchange for something else, barter like.
Deleteat some point we ought to talk about how really young ann romney looks for her age. bet that stay at home mom work really works wonders on gray hair and facial wrinkles.
ReplyDeletemore power to her - but not many women can afford it and it certainly is not covered by most health insurance policies.
I don't resent those who are rich, successful, wanting for nothing. What I do resent is when the try to pretend that they understand the rest of us. They truly have no clue, and it is insulting at the very least for them to act as if they do. We need less false empathy and more working for the "little people." Less tax breaks for the rich, and more fairness for everyone. These people are so insulated from the real world. They need to keep their mouths shut about things they have no idea about.
ReplyDeleteEXACTLY. It's the hypocrisy of someone who was born into privilege acting like they know what it's like to survive off oatmeal and ramen.
DeleteOkay. I know the White House Correspondents Dinner is tonight, which allows the Romney camp to beyond blatantly lie. Today:
ReplyDeletehttp://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/224371-romney-campaign-claims-auto-bailout-was-his-idea
Mitt "Let Detroit go Bankrupt" Romney (Nov 2008) now claims the auto bailout was his idea!
The MSM owes it to American citizens to not only call Mitt out on this beyond blatant lie, but to keep a running tally/timeline of his fucking flip-flops. If they don't keep track of all WMR's lies, then Romney's folks will continue to lie every weekend (I think they're smart enough not to lie during the week) and Romney will continue to get away with his "gaffes" i.e., inability to see anything outside the 1% perspective.
Sorry for cursing, but this is getting ridiculous; with the MSM frolicking on the sidelines. Frustrating...
I know that Romney is credited with saying, "let Detroit go Bankrupt." Now, one of his advisers is claiming that the car industry bailout was Romney's idea. Are they kidding?
DeleteAuukkkk! These people are just not in touch. Borrow money from the parents? You can borrow for college, but a 40, 50-some parent can't borrow for retirement. Yes, let's all lend our kids $60,000-+ and we can all go live with Ann and Mitt until the kids pay us back.
ReplyDeleteWe can do odd jobs for the Romney stables, and play pranks with the Romney boys, like Tag did, duct- taping his brother in the campaign bus bathroom(per MSNBC this morning).
Ask any financial adviser anywhere and they will tell you to put you cash into your retirement fund. Let your kid get their own loans. Romney is giving people the exact opposite of financial adviser who know what they are talking about. A parent has only so many years to build up a fund to care for them in their older years.their kid has twice that time in most cases, to pay off school loans and build their own retirement funds.
DeleteRomney is an financial idiot.
They have a snowball chance in hell of getting elected. Period.... the more Mittster and his wifey open their pie holes, the deeper the ditch they dig. To be so callous, unaware,not give a shit about us real Americans have been going through since that last Republican retard was in office, is just plain unacceptable. To so many people, he is not your father's republican role-bearer. Now, while I think a good portion of this country is brain-dead from years of watching Fox, there is no frigging way he speaks for the majority,just the 1%er's who of course have to be on his bandwagon. People who have never voted Democratic are going to because of him. He is a gift from the universe for the President. Obama landslide coming right up. I just hate the thought of having to listen to Romney's bullshit all the way to November though...ugh.
ReplyDeleteYou might try the latest in technology, the MUTE button. Some esoteric models even have a FAST FORWARD button. Ain't technology grand?!
DeleteThere is opportunity even for the 99% to invest wisely in the market and remain somewhat in the "grey area" between the 1% and the 99%. Many of our lives have not changed for many years, regardless of the Administration in the White House. Life goes on, life happens. If one lives wisely, and invests wisely, then politics matters very little. The President is but a small part of our nation as a whole, who sits in the Oval Office matters very little to the overall health and wealth of our nation. The highest office is predetermined by powers that are much greater than the individual voter, as if 2004 didn't prove that? We must take care of ourselves, regardless of who is POTUS. Becoming too invested in national politics is exactly the diversion that allows people to become blind to the actually reality of life in America. Life is good, and can be good regardless of politics.
DeleteAnd yet there are many dirt-poor folk living in the US who will vote for this "person" all because of his skin color.
ReplyDeleteRead The Real Romney by by Kranish and Helman to find out the real story of how Romney came to "start" Bain Capital - with his boss's money (Bill Bain), no risk guarantee, a cover story to be able to return to the main company if Bain Capital failed, and a promise to get his old job back with full salary plus any raises he would have been up for should he flop at getting Bain Capital (p. 133).
ReplyDeleteRomney, just like GW Bush, always had someone covering his ass, always had reassurances that someone else would take the fall. No wonder he isn't in touch with the average American. We rise and fall according to our own effort as well as the whims of others. No one covers our asses like that.
Romney doesn't have a clue because he's never been in our positions and never will be.
Today I met Raggedy Ann Romney. I say "Hello"; Raggedy Ann smiled broadly.
ReplyDeleteShe smiles even while knowing that with her sawdust brain, she doesn't now and can never have any feelings like real people do.
Real people such as those who have to work for a sometimes meager paycheck that frequently doesn't leave enough left over for such frills as savings accounts, or vacations, or multiple luxury cars, or multiple homes -- or sometimes even one home.
Real people that sometimes have to work more than one job just to support their families.
But that's OK, it really is.
Raggedy Ann Romney has to be kept; being nothing but a shell filled with stuffing, having no abilities, no compassion, she will always have to be owned by someone. She can never be free and claim title to being a "real person".
Before I turned to leave I looked at Raggedy Ann. Her empty eyes saw nothing, but Raggedy Ann smiled broadly. Raggedy Ann's smile is painted on, you see, so she always smiles but cares little.
I cannot imagine a more clueless, unrealistic couple than the Romneys. Both of them are so stuck in the bubble of inherited wealth that they simply cannot connect with the other 99% of Americans. It must really distress both of them to have to stand in the same room with people who are not of their social standing!
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“I love the fact that there are women out there who don’t have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too. And sometimes life isn’t easy for any of us.”
ReplyDeleteThis is as idiotic, myopic, naive, and cruel a remark as Bachmann's infamous boast about Minnesota being the most "workingest" state in the union (see http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2008/01/16/18911/bachmann-jobs/)
You're right Ann: Most of us see you as nothing more than a vapid trophy wife whose biggest tribulation concerns the shade of pink you want you use on those pretty little toes of yours.
Fucking pathetic.
Signed,
A Thinking Man
They used to have additional home in Park City, Utah. Sold it a few years ago for $5,000.000+.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/17/mitt-romney-in-utah-estate-of-the-day/
That is an old photo of her. She looks much older now.
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable! Ann Romney just may be more clueless than her husband!
ReplyDeleteSheesh
Does anybody know what her real hair color might be? Eyebrows look pretty dark. Just curious.
ReplyDeleteOnly her riding instructor knows for sure! Unless she gets those full brazillian wexes?
ReplyDeleteThey're both so out of touch with the middle class and the struggles real families are going through. I don't blame just their wealth, I think it's part of being isolated and only relating to people in their tax bracket/ mormon culture.
ReplyDeleteMitt has a problem with connecting to people, and Ann lives in a fairy tale world where she has help with everything.
I have one in college, one two years away and one four years away. We've been planning since they were born, and are still not sure how things will turn out. These people live a relatively unchallenged life.
...and the real beauty of it is that these two will be calling their critics elitist all through the election. And it will work too.
ReplyDeleteYou are all being too hard on Mitt. Don't forget, he is a middle class American just like the rest of us.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/romney-says-hes-part-of-the-middle-class/