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Romney scolds protester for asking about the 99 percent
“Is it possible that a candidate worth close to a quarter of a billion dollars, who refuses to release his tax returns and who reportedly has millions stashed away in the Cayman Islands, is having trouble connecting with the common man?”
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/201...bout-the-99-percent/



That is what happened When Mitt Romney Came To Town 

video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BLWnB9FGmWE

 

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Originally Posted by Ronnie P.:

How many jobs does class warfare create and what does it say about a leader that divides his own people?

 



What is created in a class war such as conducted by a Mitt Romney in a greedy pursuit of pure profit  is really just one big sorry mess. Corporate pirates like him suck the money out of profitable companies, then hit the road to their next victim, with no thought of the wreckage left behind.


In Miami, story of profits and layoffs highlights debate over Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain

 Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital as a turnaround specialist and job creator is the backbone of his presidential run. But his experience with a Miami company paints a different portrait.


Off a gritty bend in the Miami River, a few miles from a warehouse where he recently touted his job-creation plans, there’s a complex of buildings that bear witness to a time when Mitt Romney’s private equity firm laid off hundreds of workers, shuttered a profitable factory and made out with hundreds of millions of dollars.

 

It started in 1995, when Romney’s Bain Capital targeted the company that became Dade Behring, which made blood-testing machines and performed animal research at its Miami campus.

Bain borrowed heavily to buy the company and closed a factory in Puerto Rico to improve the bottom line. About 400 lost jobs there. Then in 1997, Bain shuttered Dade Behring’s Miami operations, costing another 850 jobs and a $30 million payroll in the community.

 

Before growing debt consumed the company, Bain executed its exit strategy and made $242 million.

 

“What bothers me most is that Romney’s campaign says he was a creator of jobs,” said Cindy Hewitt, a Miami resident who was a human resources manager at Dade Behring. “I didn’t see that in any way, shape or form. He didn’t create jobs. He slashed and burned jobs.”

 

Read the rest of the whole sorry mess Mitt Romney created - just one of many:

http://www.miamiherald.com/201...-of-profits-and.html


What does the 99 percent taste like?

Diners can find out at BLT Steak, the restaurant where President Obama took the first lady for her birthday dinner Tuesday night.

The steak house’s Political Burger Board features a rotating smorgasbord of inside-the-beltway-inspired options, sometimes including the 99 percent burger (the cheapest burger on the board at $9.99), and its 1 percent counterpart, which piles braised ribs, foie gras, gold leaf and Grey Poupon on top of the beef. The Obama, a more permanent fixture on the menu, costs $28 and includes half a pound of American Kobe ground beef, bacon, cheddar cheese, burned tomato ketchup and scallion mustard.

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Originally Posted by Bestworking:

What does the 99 percent taste like?

Diners can find out at BLT Steak, the restaurant where President Obama took the first lady for her birthday dinner Tuesday night.

The steak house’s Political Burger Board features a rotating smorgasbord of inside-the-beltway-inspired options, sometimes including the 99 percent burger (the cheapest burger on the board at $9.99), and its 1 percent counterpart, which piles braised ribs, foie gras, gold leaf and Grey Poupon on top of the beef. The Obama, a more permanent fixture on the menu, costs $28 and includes half a pound of American Kobe ground beef, bacon, cheddar cheese, burned tomato ketchup and scallion mustard.

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Irrelevant.

January 17, 2012

THE ONE PERCENT: Obama Biggest Donors: Tax-Free Harvard , University of California, and Stanford. Technically, of course, it’s not those institutions, but the faculty and staff at those institutions. Wonder if hearing that Joe Biden thinks their salaries should be lower will soften their support?

Note that going by this chart, these institutions are among the biggest donors, but they are not the biggest donors. Well, the University of California is #1, but Harvard is behind Goldman, Sachs. And Stanford is behind J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup, and a few others.

UPDATE: Reader Kevin Greene writes:

Hey … doesn’t Harvard have $35 billion tax-free dollars they’re hoarding in their endowment? Why shouldn’t Republicans … you know … redistribute that money to more worthy people? After all, this money is being laundered to Democrats via enormous unjustified salaries (Joe Biden’s characterization, not mine) and those salaries then fund Democrat political candidates. Pretty transparent, no?

Why should Republicans allow that to continue when there are hungry, homeless people out there?

Like Obama says, everybody does better when you just spread the wealth around a little.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader David Powell points to Harvard Law Professor Daniel Halperin’s piece: Does Tax Exemption for Charitable Endowments Subsidize Excessive Accumulation?


http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/135461/

Originally Posted by Bestworking:
Dec 29, 2011 11:53am
 
 

Michelle Obama’s Pricey Vacation Wardrobe

 

The Obamas have been drawing heat for their 17-day Hawaiian holiday, estimated by some media outlets to cost taxpayers $4 million.

 

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/en...y-vacation-wardrobe/

 

I wonder how much it cost us for Bush to fly back and forth to his home state for his many vacations. How come you ain't complaining about that?

I have a higher opinion of ambulance chasing lawyers and used car salesmen  than I do of corporate raiders. However, all 3 are legal ways to screw somebody, so I don't hold that against Romney.

The problem , in his case, is he claims to be able to produce jobs - a complete opposite of what he did. What he DID was make himself and his buddies a lot of money.
Running this country is a far, far , different thing than running a business. No matter how much the R's want to say running a business qualifies someone as president, it just aint so.

In a lot of respects , Romney seems kinda - well, dumb. I don't believe he has any idea what an average person in this country lives with every day : to him $375,000 a year is "very little".

All the R candidates are on record that they would support a "personhood" amendment to the Constitution. As anyone who understands the biology of human reproduction knows, that personhood thing would make most forms of birth control illegal.

The one who can't be Googled is on record that he is opposed to birth control , however the day after Romney told Huckabee he would support a Personhood amendment, a young lady ask him why he was opposed to birth control (the pill) and he responded that he wasn't against birth control. Well, which is it Mitt ? I just think that man has no real world common sense. He may be able to make a few hundred million,dollars, but like I said, he ain't got a clue what it is like to walk in "our" shoes.

 

You younger women who are all for one or more of this bunch , ask yourself the question- do you want to give up birth control and go back to the abstinence of the pre-60's and have pizzed off husbands ?  Now, logic would dictate that anyone (and that's all the Rs) who wants the government big enough to monitor each and every uterus in the country - well, ask yourselves, do you really want that big and intrusive a government, or do you want someone who wants that as president ?

  

Originally Posted by seeweed:

I have a higher opinion of ambulance chasing lawyers and used car salesmen  than I do of corporate raiders. However, all 3 are legal ways to screw somebody, so I don't hold that against Romney.

The problem , in his case, is he claims to be able to produce jobs - a complete opposite of what he did. What he DID was make himself and his buddies a lot of money.
Running this country is a far, far , different thing than running a business. No matter how much the R's want to say running a business qualifies someone as president, it just aint so.

In a lot of respects , Romney seems kinda - well, dumb. I don't believe he has any idea what an average person in this country lives with every day : to him $375,000 a year is "very little".

All the R candidates are on record that they would support a "personhood" amendment to the Constitution. As anyone who understands the biology of human reproduction knows, that personhood thing would make most forms of birth control illegal.

The one who can't be Googled is on record that he is opposed to birth control , however the day after Romney told Huckabee he would support a Personhood amendment, a young lady ask him why he was opposed to birth control (the pill) and he responded that he wasn't against birth control. Well, which is it Mitt ? I just think that man has no real world common sense. He may be able to make a few hundred million,dollars, but like I said, he ain't got a clue what it is like to walk in "our" shoes.

 

You younger women who are all for one or more of this bunch , ask yourself the question- do you want to give up birth control and go back to the abstinence of the pre-60's and have pizzed off husbands ?  Now, logic would dictate that anyone (and that's all the Rs) who wants the government big enough to monitor each and every uterus in the country - well, ask yourselves, do you really want that big and intrusive a government, or do you want someone who wants that as president ?

  

 

Yeah. Uh Huh.  "I don't believe he has any idea what an average person in this country lives with every day : to him $375,000 a year is "very little".  You're talking Obama? Right?


Nice to see him partying with the "average people".


Spike Lee Hosts Obama Fundraiser in NYC

by KEITH KOFFLER on <abbr class="published" title="2012-01-19">JANUARY 19, 2012, 9:34 PM</abbr>

President Obama raised up to $1.8 million at a fundraiser last night at Spike Lee’s home in New York City.

The event was one of an incredible four Manhattan fundraisers attended in a single evening by president. Obama also held court twice at the s**** Daniel restaurant in Midtown and appeared at the Apollo Theater before getting home to the White House after midnight.

The campaign did not release the fundraising total, but tickets for the Lee shindig were $35,800, according to reports, and the pool report said seating was for 50.

The Middle Class Warrior-in-Chief last August mingled with Lee at a party on Martha’s Vineyard, where the director apparently also takes his vacations during the summer.

Other Famous and Fabulous People were in attendance, including Mariah Carey, her husband Nick Cannon, and retired New York Knicks guard Allan Houston.

From the pool report:

At about 8 pm the pool was ushered through the foyer and a corridor of Spike Lee’s Upper East Side home and into a small dining room with 5 tables of 10 seats each as the director’s wife, writer Tonya Lewis Lee, was introducing POTUS.

She noted that Spike’s hosting the fundraiser might seem odd to some since he has been critical of POTUS on occasion. But, she added, “I’m sure he doesn’t like all of Spike’s movies.” (Laughter, including from SL; fyi, as POTUS would recall, Lee also hosted an event at his Martha’s Vineyard home during a presidential vacation there.)

She called for “another four years” and to warm applause POTUS took the mic.

He said Spike Lee has long been special to him because, as he previously recalled at the MV event, “on my first official date with Michelle” he took her to see “Do The Right Thing” — “I was showing my sophistication” by taking her to a movie by a hot new director.

“Good thing you didn’t choose ‘Driving Miss Daisy,’” Spike Lee interjected, cracking himself up.
POTUS hit the same points as at the prior two fundraisers — “We’re obviously at a historic moment …but this is also a moment of great promise…”

 

http://www.whitehousedossier.c...bama-fundraiser-nyc/


however the day after Romney told Huckabee he would support a Personhood amendment, a young lady ask him why he was opposed to birth control (the pill) and he responded that he wasn't against birth control. Well, which is it Mitt ? I just think that man has no real world common sense. He may be able to make a few hundred million,dollars, but like I said, he ain't got a clue what it is like to walk in "our" shoes.


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Ignorant question by, apparently, a very ignorant woman.

You younger women who are all for one or more of this bunch , ask yourself the question- do you want to give up birth control and go back to the abstinence of the pre-60's and have pizzed off husbands ?  Now, logic would dictate that anyone (and that's all the Rs) who wants the government big enough to monitor each and every uterus in the country - well, ask yourselves, do you really want that big and intrusive a government, or do you want someone who wants that as president ?


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  NO one is trying to ban birth control. So either you are being dishonest about it on purpose, and think people will just take your word for it, or you haven't bothered to check the facts. I've posted that I don't take anyone's word for anything, especially when it just does not sound right to me. So all I can say is you can still pass around false information in the hopes of scaring people into voting for the democrits, or you can actually read and research things and be truthful. Intrusive government? Surely to goodness you're kidding. Intrusive is all the democrits want to be, and they want to intrude in to every area of our lives.


They want to tell us who we have to hire, (not talking about race or gender here, although you guys love to accuse us of that), and you want to tell us when we can, (but actually you want to make sure we never can), fire them, no matter what they do. You want businesses to take care of EVERY aspect of their employees life above paying them for their work. You want to take away people's rights to recover their property when people take it and refuse to pay for it. You don't think a person should have a dream to be successful, unless they understand the government can take what they acquire and give it to others who are to lazy, or to irresponsible, to make their own way. Then you want to accuse us of "hating the poor" if we don't gladly hand it over.

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No one ever gave me or my family a thing, we never expected them to give us anything. It was our place to make our way.  I have worked since I was 13 years old. It was never to get rich though, it was to help me and my family survive and do better in life. So please tell me why others are "better and more deserving" than we were/are. Please tell me why I have to worry about supporting people that know better but still make "bad decisions"? You guys are so messed up it's hard to know where to begin. Are you that dense or are you just a hypocrite?

Just the tip of the iceberg so to speak. It would probably be impossible to list ALL the filthy rich that for some reason known only to them, get a pass from the democrits. These are their salaries for a year, not what they're actually worth.

 

http://www.therichest.org/ente...-stars-in-hollywood/

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ku...ghest-paid-athletes/

 

When are they going to "occupy" hollyweird and the sports centers??

Originally Posted by Bestworking:

You younger women who are all for one or more of this bunch , ask yourself the question- do you want to give up birth control and go back to the abstinence of the pre-60's and have pizzed off husbands ?  Now, logic would dictate that anyone (and that's all the Rs) who wants the government big enough to monitor each and every uterus in the country - well, ask yourselves, do you really want that big and intrusive a government, or do you want someone who wants that as president ?


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  NO one is trying to ban birth control. So either you are being dishonest about it on purpose, and think people will just take your word for it, or you haven't bothered to check the facts. I've posted that I don't take anyone's word for anything, especially when it just does not sound right to me. So all I can say is you can still pass around false information in the hopes of scaring people into voting for the democrits, or you can actually read and research things and be truthful. Intrusive government? Surely to goodness you're kidding. Intrusive is all the democrits want to be, and they want to intrude in to every area of our lives.


Well, let's just see : From their own lips:

Rick Santorum :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2MKZZ9c4kQ

Mitt Romney - @5:27 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkrOt9Qposg

Newt Gingrich  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UexN5YOQajA

Ron Paul signed on to be for the Persohnood amendment, but I can't find any youtube.and it's too late to look it up. 

Now how would the Personhood amendment affect hormonal birth control (ie: the pill) ?

A little schoolin' from a Liberal  on the Birds and Bees :http://slog.thestranger.com/sl...e-birds-and-the-bees

So, all 4 candidates are on the record as stating that they are "FOR" an amendment to our Constitution that  gives personhood to a fertilized egg; "the pill" prevents that egg from being able to implant in the uterus, thereby making taking the pill like unto abortion. 

The Persohhood national group from time to time actually on their web site states they are opposed to birth control. 

I don't know what your argument will be, but it is what it is, although I suspect that poor ole Romney is just ignorant, and said what he thought right wingnuts want to hear, and Gingrich iprobably knows but dosen't really care.

 

They want to tell us who we have to hire, (not talking about race or gender here, although you guys love to accuse us of that), and you want to tell us when we can, (but actually you want to make sure we never can), fire them, no matter what they do. You want businesses to take care of EVERY aspect of their employees life above paying them for their work. You want to take away people's rights to recover their property when people take it and refuse to pay for it. You don't think a person should have a dream to be successful, unless they understand the government can take what they acquire and give it to others who are to lazy, or to irresponsible, to make their own way. Then you want to accuse us of "hating the poor" if we don't gladly hand it over.


I have no idea who you are addressing on that, most certainly not me or anybody I know

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No one ever gave me or my family a thing, we never expected them to give us anything. It was our place to make our way.  I have worked since I was 13 years old. It was never to get rich though, it was to help me and my family survive and do better in life. So please tell me why others are "better and more deserving" than we were/are. Please tell me why I have to worry about supporting people that know better but still make "bad decisions"? You guys are so messed up it's hard to know where to begin. Are you that dense or are you just a hypocrite?


I've worked all my life as well, and still do from time to time even being retired. I inherited some good tools when my father died some 45 years ago, but no money. I don't want to support people who don't work, and for sure I don't want to support multi millionairs on the back of my Social Security and Medicare that I paid into all my life, and still do whenever I work.


I get pretty tired of hearing the same old crap that you people use all the time, that you are supporting others who won't work, just lay around and drink beer, watch the plasma TV  (you somehow leave off the Black part, but Newt put it in pretty good). I dont' know why you have that idea , except for the likes of Fox News (which you claim not to listen to) , and Rush , both of which have one agenda and that is the propaganda for the Republican party. If you would actually take a little while and look at where your tax dollars are actually going, you will find that most of it goes to the military, mostly contractors building submarines, tanks, and planes that the Army, Navy , and Air Force say they don't need or want. Counting the cost of casualities of our most current wars, the  cost of defense is over 65% of the budget. If you want to whine on and on about welfare, start there, with corporate welfare. .

Instead of some jealous concern about some boor ******* getting $200 a month worth of food stamps, you should worry about the millions of dollars that go to the oil companies, and the millions of dollars that they are supposed to pay for the oil they pump out of our national land, but are excused . (would you let 'em drill for oil and pump it out from your property free of charge ?) well, you are actually.   You should worry about  the millions given every year to big agriculture , and the millions of dollars that help the tobacco companies.  
You people are the ones screwd up, you pick fly doo doo out of pepper.

I get pretty tired of hearing the same old crap that you people use all the time, that you are supporting others who won't work, just lay around and drink beer, watch the plasma TV  (you somehow leave off the Black part, but Newt put it in pretty good). I dont' know why you have that idea , except for the likes of Fox News (which you claim not to listen to) , and Rush , both of which have one agenda and that is the propaganda for the Republican party. If you would actually take a little while and look at where your tax dollars are actually going, you will find that most of it goes to the military, mostly contractors building submarines,

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You can get as tired of it as you want, it won't change the fact that it's true and I can name names. $200 in food stamps? Ha! Try over $700.00 a month in a food "stamps". They aren't stamps anymore. You sit there and try to tell me I don't know. I see it every day and I'm sick of it. Sick of people that really need help getting passed by OR having to jump through hoops to get something, but a freaking alcoholic or dope head can get any kind of government aid they want, You get no where with me when you yak about fox news or rush limbaugh because the things I "speak about" are the things I see and know to be true myself. And you're the typical democrit, you had to sling out that race card. Well for your information the people I have in mind are white. But again that makes no difference to you, you can't "debate" unless you toss that race card out on the table. Let's see here, do I want a submarine or do I want to support my local junkie/prostitute? I'll take the submarine.

Originally Posted by JimiHendrix:
Originally Posted by Bestworking:
Dec 29, 2011 11:53am
 
 

Michelle Obama’s Pricey Vacation Wardrobe

 

The Obamas have been drawing heat for their 17-day Hawaiian holiday, estimated by some media outlets to cost taxpayers $4 million.

 

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/en...y-vacation-wardrobe/

Irrelevant.

Not so. The Obamas are spending MY money for all this splendor, Romney is spending money he earned.

 

But it seems you know little about earning money.

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