Thursday, October 25, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
Romnesia
Do you forget the specifics of your tax plan? Then you might have Romnesia. Can't remember if you support a woman's right to equal pay? Than you probably have Romnesia. Can't remember all those American companies you bought and then sent the jobs to China? You might have Romnesia.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
Not A Big Surprise
My Liberal Identity
You are a Social Justice Crusader, also known as a rights activist. You believe in equality, fairness, and preventing neo-Confederate conservative troglodytes from rolling back fifty years of civil rights gains.
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Friday, September 28, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The 47%
The Republican presidential nominee has stated the 47% of Americans who do not pay income taxes are moochers and who feel that they are entitled to food, shelter, and medical care.
Who are these "moochers"? Well, according to the The Tax Policy Center , nearly half are senior citizens. These seniors, according to Romney feel entitled to the social security they paid into all those years they were working. One third of those "moochers" are the working poor who make less than $20,000 a year.
Mitt Romney has stated that his job as president is not to worry about those people.
I can only marvel at the crassness and obliviousness of Romney. I think the image below says it all:
Romney, by his own words, considers the elderly, disabled veterans, the working poor, and children living in poverty to be "moochers".
Like many other Americans in this economy, I teeter on the edges of being part of that 47%. Many years ago, I was part of that 47%. It was the safety net of a Pell grant, subsidized housing, the earned income credit, and the child care credit that enabled me to become a income tax paying citizen.
Past presidents like FDR, JFK, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and yes, even George W. Bush did care about the 47%. President Obama likes the moniker of Obamacare, because as he said, he does care.
A nation's greatness is reflected in how its most vulnerable citizens are treated. A nation cannot progress if people are starving. A nation cannot progress if laws are unjust and onerous. A nation cannot progress if people lack shelter. A nation cannot progress if people lack education. A nation cannot progress if disabled veterans do not receive the care they need.
Romney is not a leader. He knows how to game the system and has made millions upon millions on the backs of American taxpayers while all the while outsourcing American jobs overseas. Romney and his company, Bain, are directly responsible for many of those who find themselves as part of the 47%:
Romney is—you know, the old-school industrialists, like Mitt Romney’s father, they were men and women who built communities. They had factory towns. They were very anxious to leave, you know, hard legacies that people could see: hospitals, churches, schools—you know, the Hersheys of the world, the Kelloggs. But these new owners have absolutely no allegiance to American workers, American places, American communities. Their only allegiance is to the investors and to themselves. And so, it’s not at all uncharacteristic to have these situations where people are pleading for their jobs or they’re saying, you know, "We’ll tighten our belts, if you just make this concession and keep us." That’s irrelevant to the Mitt Romney-slash-Bain Capital-slash-Carlyle Groups of the world. They’re entirely about making profits. And if that means shipping jobs to China or eliminating jobs, that’s what they’re going to do. And that’s the new generation of corporate owners in this country.
Romney has no real investment in America. His true vision is profits. He's an opportunist who doesn't create any tangible wealth. What will he do with the United States if he is elected president?
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Cruelty: Romney & Ryan Go Hand in Hand
Romney has a streak of cruelty as evidenced from the treatment of his dog Seamus and how he treated a fellow classmate he thought was gay.
His company Bain Capital speaks volumes about what truly drives Romney: the lust of money without thinking about who it may harm.
Romney doesn't want to release details of his tax plan. Perhaps, because it would be greeted the same way as Ryan's tax plan. People just couldn't believe it would be so cruel.
The newly adopted GOP platform will allow for Romney's tax plan to eliminate the home mortgage deduction.
Paul Ryan co-sponsored a bill with Congressman Todd Akin to redefine rape. The bill would have also prevented women who had been raped, either by a stranger or family member, to get an abortion.
Both Romney and Ryan do not seem care about who they harm. Romney didn't care about the thousands of good American jobs he sent to China. He didn't care about his dog Seamus. His actions with his classmate show that he is a bully. His tax plan will harm 98% of Americans while allowing the wealthiest to have their offshore bank accounts become even more stuffed.
Ryan's abortion plan would have forced a victim of rape or incest to carry to term any pregnancy that resulted. To me, this just means that a women is being raped by the government.
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