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The deadly serious conservatives who are committed to boycotting Home Depot on account of that business's support of gays and lesbians might find it interesting that  that Mitt Romney holds several hundred thousands of dollars of stock in Home Depot, as evidenced in his recently-released tax return--the ONLY one he has released thus far. Romney is thus a co-owner of Home Depot, along with other stockholders.  Is he then to be condemned?  When you boycott Home Depot, you are hurting Romney's bottom line, but not by much, since he is feelthy rich.

 

Just thought inquiring minds might like to know.

I yam what I yam and that's all I yam--but it is enough!

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Originally Posted by daddy joe:

Why would you be critical of Romney, or of anyone for that matter, for being successful?  I don't get it...

Because along with him being "successful", he doesn't feel he or other "successful" folks, just as himself, should fairly pay their taxes on the financial windfall from that success. With him being filthy rich, he believes he should pay smaller percentages on his income than a person making under the $250,000.00 a year benchmark.

 

That's the problem!

 

His being rich has nothing to do with it. He has ridiculed OBama for his stand on same sex marraige but he holds stock in a business that supports homosexually? How can he believe it to be wrong but be part of a company that's has clearly stated it's support of it? I don't like OBama, but at least he has admitted his stand on it. I am & always have been a Republican, but my problem is trying to decide if I should vote at all. I'm not sure which one is the lesser of two evils.

Originally Posted by daddy joe:

Why would you be critical of Romney, or of anyone for that matter, for being successful?  I don't get it...

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You have to understand, Romney is a republican.  ONLY democrats are allowed to be "feelthy rich" without being attacked for being rich. 

AND you won't catch those filthy rich democrats paying a penny more than they can get away with either. They can also own stock in any company they want without the contendah's of the democratic  party saying a word. Romney could be like obama and never release any truthful information about himself.

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Wealthy socialite and Grammy-nominated songwriter Denise Rich has renounced her U.S. citizenship and resides in London, her spokeswoman Judy Smith said Tuesday.

Rich's maiden name, Eisenberg, appeared on April 30 in the Federal Registrar's Quarterly Publication of Individuals Who Have Chosen To Expatriate, though she left in November 2011.

By handing in her American passport, tax lawyers say she is able to legally avoid paying significant taxes on her estate.

Rich, 68, is the ex-wife of billionaire commodities trader Marc Rich, who was pardoned in 2001 by then-president Bill Clinton for oil profiteering and tax evasion after he fled to Switzerland. The pardon was considered controversial because of Denise Rich's financial contributions to the Democratic Party and to the Clinton Library.




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Contenduh:  Home Depot is a company that's risen from nothing in the last 25 years, and their stock is widely held in most pension funds in this country.  Does that mean millions of people with 401K's are also "owners", and are supportive of gay initiatives?  NO!  Is a company being neutral on the gay issue the same as "supporting" gays?  NO!

 

You need to get a life and move in the real world.

Originally Posted by Bestworking:
Originally Posted by daddy joe:

Why would you be critical of Romney, or of anyone for that matter, for being successful?  I don't get it...

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You have to understand, Romney is a republican.  ONLY democrats are allowed to be "feelthy rich" without being attacked for being rich. 

AND you won't catch those filthy rich democrats paying a penny more than they can get away with either. They can also own stock in any company they want without the contendah's of the democratic  party saying a word. Romney could be like obama and never release any truthful information about himself.

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Wealthy socialite and Grammy-nominated songwriter Denise Rich has renounced her U.S. citizenship and resides in London, her spokeswoman Judy Smith said Tuesday.

Rich's maiden name, Eisenberg, appeared on April 30 in the Federal Registrar's Quarterly Publication of Individuals Who Have Chosen To Expatriate, though she left in November 2011.

By handing in her American passport, tax lawyers say she is able to legally avoid paying significant taxes on her estate.

Rich, 68, is the ex-wife of billionaire commodities trader Marc Rich, who was pardoned in 2001 by then-president Bill Clinton for oil profiteering and tax evasion after he fled to Switzerland. The pardon was considered controversial because of Denise Rich's financial contributions to the Democratic Party and to the Clinton Library.




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Last time I checked, Denise Rich was not running for either president or vice president. 

Originally Posted by Contendah:
Originally Posted by Chuck Farley:

A bunch o' silliness meant to distract from President Obama's dismal failure.

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You can now conveniently and lazily adopt that little canned response as your :"answer" to just about any criticism of your plastic man candidate. It will keep you from having to think things through.

Think what through, do you think I give a flying fudge about Romney's stock holdings?  I'm worried about the economy, about my kids getting jobs, about my 50 year old neighbor ever working again.  You Obama people are delusional.

 

 

Last time I checked, Denise Rich was not running for either president or vice president

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Last time I checked, Sarah Palin and no other tea party member is running either, but that doesn't stop you from whining about them constantly. Last time I checked there were plenty of "filthy rich" democrats funneling money into the democratic party, and plenty of "filthy rich" democrats have run for the office. Were you this concerned about kerry's millions/billions and how HE avoids paying taxes? Plenty of lowlife good for nothing democrats have run for, and are running for, offices. Are you looking into their tax returns??? I'd bet that you aren't.

Originally Posted by Bestworking:

Last time I checked, Denise Rich was not running for either president or vice president

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Last time I checked, Sarah Palin and no other tea party member is running either, but that doesn't stop you from whining about them constantly. Last time I checked there were plenty of "filthy rich" democrats funneling money into the democratic party, and plenty of "filthy rich" democrats have run for the office. Were you this concerned about kerry's millions/billions and how HE avoids paying taxes? Plenty of lowlife good for nothing democrats have run for, and are running for, offices. Are you looking into their tax returns??? I'd bet that you aren't.


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Bestworking--re your latest string of irrelevancies:

 

Last time I checked, Sarah Palin and no other tea party member is running either, but that doesn't stop you from whining about them constantly. [Apples and oranges, BW.  You brought in Denise Rich as your purported response to information I  posted relative to investment activity of a presidential candidate.  Whatever Denise of her husband or any other Democrat chose to invest in and whatever she, her hubby, or any other Democrat did to avoid taxes has no relevance to where Mitt Romney chose to invest his money or where he decided to stash it. Just more of your irrelevant "so's yer old man" non-answer.  Yes, I mention the regrettable Ms. Palin from time to time, but I do not do so by way of attempting to show that she did something equally as stupid, objectionable or illegal as some other person mentioned in some other post of mine or of anyone else’s.  THAT kind of “so’s yer old man”irrelevancy is in YOUR domain, not mine.  Same goes for any comments I make on the Tea Party throwbacks]   Last time I checked there were plenty of "filthy rich" democrats funneling money into the democratic party, and plenty of "filthy rich" democrats have run for the office. [I have no problem with Democrats or Republicans being rich, or even “feelthy” rich.  Allow me to remind you that it was not Romney’s wealth, per se, that was the focus of my initial post, but the FACT that he has invested in a business that is anathema to many conservatives owing to its support of pro-gay and lesbian causes.] Were you concerned about kerry's millions/billions and how HE avoids paying taxes? [The topic and my discussion of it never referred to Romney or any other Republican avoiding taxes.  That is not at play in this string.  We will not know very much at all about his tax situation until and unless he releases more than a couple of tax returns. And do you have specific information on how Kerry avoids taxes.  You seem to take it for granted that he does, but you offer nothing in support of that.]  Plenty of lowlife good for nothing democrats have run for, and are running for, offices. Are you looking into their tax returns??? I'd bet that you aren't. [It is not my responsibility to decide which Democrats are low-lifes and to proceed from that to conduct research into their tax status.  Like you, I have only 24 hours in a day and I do not choose to spend those hours chasing information on candidates’ tax situations. But the subject of taxation comes up relative to a candidate for the highest executive office in the country, that is of legitimate concern and interest to the electorate, and the candidate’s rigid reluctance to release more than a couple of returns is justifiably regarded with suspicion.]

 

 

 

[It is not my responsibility to decide which Democrats are low-lifes and to proceed from that to conduct research into their tax status.  Like you, I have only 24 hours in a day and I do not choose to spend those hours chasing information on candidates’ tax situations


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Just your "responsibility" to chase information on republican candidates. IF you did spend more time worrying about the democrats you might have a better party. And YES-"so's yer old man" applies to EVERYTHING you post.

Originally Posted by Bestworking:

[It is not my responsibility to decide which Democrats are low-lifes and to proceed from that to conduct research into their tax status.  Like you, I have only 24 hours in a day and I do not choose to spend those hours chasing information on candidates’ tax situations


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Just your "responsibility" to chase information on republican candidates. IF you did spend more time worrying about the democrats you might have a better party. And YES-"so's yer old man" applies to EVERYTHING you post.

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One word:  WEAK. It is hardly "chasing" information on Romney's Home Depot investments when that information came up on my TV screen without any effort or expectation  on my part and I was able to read enough of it to see the "Home Depot" entry.  "Chasing"?  Not by any rational definition of that term.  But I forget; I should not expect you to be rational in discussions of this sort.

Originally Posted by Bamaman1:

Contenduh:  Home Depot is a company that's risen from nothing in the last 25 years, and their stock is widely held in most pension funds in this country.  Does that mean millions of people with 401K's are also "owners", and are supportive of gay initiatives?  NO!  Is a company being neutral on the gay issue the same as "supporting" gays?  NO!

 

You need to get a life and move in the real world.

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"[M]illions of people with 401K's" are not running for president while having left behind a mixed and morphing message where they stand on same-sex marriage or other gay initiatives. If Romney is, as he claims, "severely conservative." then he needs to explain to the many other "severely conservative" folks where he stands on issues concerning the "rights" of the LGBT critters.  

I don't really care about a candidate's stance on Gays, and I don't really care what side they're on with abortions.  (I'm pro life.)  Talking about either subject just opens a can of worms.

I just want our new president to do a 180 degree turnabout to whatever B'Oama is doing.  I don't see any initiative he's taken that's in anyone's short or long term benefit.  And, he's up to 104 golf games while our government is going to Hell in a Hatbasket.  What a bum!

Originally Posted by Bamaman1:

Contenduh: Is a company being neutral on the gay issue the same as "supporting" gays? NO!

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Originally Posted by Bamaman1:

I just want our new president to do a 180 degree turnabout to whatever B'Oama is doing. I don't see any initiative he's taken that's in anyone's short or long term benefit. And, he's up to 104 golf games while our government is going to Hell in a Hatbasket. What a bum!

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I wouldn’t exactly call Home Depot neutral. Back in 2011, when it was reported on the news that Home Depot had donated money to support & promote the homosexual agenda and that they had sponsored and participated in homosexual events, festivals, and parades nationwide, Home Depot, when asked, offered no more than a No Comment.

But it’s not just HD, some other major companies that openly support the homosexual agenda is Macys, American Airlines, Absolut Vodka, Ford, & Subaru.

[my statements is not meant to be negative in any way against gays]

 

I agree with you about wanting Romney to do a 180 degree turn, but I don’t see it being 180, IF he gets President. How anyone could want Obama to put this country in even more debt for 4 more years is beyond me. I guess that's just part of being a democrat.

I know a man that is so hard core democrat, he wouldn't care what he stood for or what his agenda was as long as he was a democrat & running for office.

Sadly, I can’t see Romney beating Obama. He just doesn’t have what it would take.

 

 

 

         

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