Comments on: Romney as poster boy for the 1%

By: Adam Herman

Adam Herman — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:52:40 +0000

That’s right up there with Obama being a socialist atheist Muslim. No Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid? Same policies as Bush? For one, Romney’s going to get rid of the crony capitalism that has been pervasive in the Bush and Obama administrations. He’s not just going to cut taxes, he’s going to reform taxes in a revenue neutral way. He’s going to cut spending where Bush increased it more than any President since LBJ.

In other words, Romney promises to follow a similar course to Bill Clinton, and that worked out pretty well. Obama elected to stay on the Bush path, and that didn’t work so well.

By: Tim Hogan

Tim Hogan — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 02:53:37 +0000

Romney and the Republicans are crazy for doing the same thing Bush did but, on steroids and thinking anything different will happen this time; no Middle Class, no jobs, no unions, no seniors, no working poor people, no students, no Social Security and no Medicare or Medicaid. Imaging your world without these. If you like it, vote for Romney.

“Dr. Doom” says; “It’s Bush’s fault” for the lousy US economy!

http://money.msn.com/mutual-fund/article.aspx?post=09d90714-2402-4772-a6c5-86d2af7ccaed

But facts don’t matter in the post-Citizens United Republican World!

“It’s Republican World, where the Earth’s three moons shine all day and all the poor people are dead. It’s Republican World, where ideology rules the day, and facts don’t cloud your head!” (c) Tim Hogan, 2012

Yes, Erich, it’s a song but, you won’t help me do the music. I can sing it but, it needs a ukelele as it’s instrumental. Where’s Hank when you need him, anyway? Hey, mates, wassup in Australia?

By: Adam Herman

Adam Herman — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:37:21 +0000

Romney is a poster boy for the 1%. As was Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. In fact, Democrats haven’t built up a mythology around ho-hum Presidents of modest origins like Bill Clinton and Harry Truman. But Roosevelt and Kennedy were made into icons, larger than life, and their families became like American royal families.

The Romneys are just as respectable, if not moreso. Democrats and liberals should state their real problem with Romney: it’s not that he’s rich. They like rich. No, they LOVE rich. IT’s that he’s Republican.

By: Niklaus Pfirsig

Niklaus Pfirsig — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:59:55 +0000

Romney is a callous jerk. Salon has a very interesting article about one of the companies Bain capital to hold on to. Keep in mind that Bain often abuses bankruptcy laws to profit handsomely from destroying the businesses they buyout, the extreme fascist top-down dictatorial management style at CRC Medical Group's member companies have resulted in several deaths of children through institutionalized abuse and negligence. As a father of a child with a severe learning disability, I know how many private contractors tap into public funds and provide little or no treatment for the children in their care.

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:58:18 +0000

You nailed it. Of critical importance, and something that is being overlooked, is the fact that the UBS Whistleblower, Bradley Birkenfeld, told the Bush Department of Justice in 2007 that UBS had a desk that dealt solely with what they called “Politcally Exposed Persons”…American politicians. Their acronym was “PEPs”.

He also told them that the kingpin of the UBS tax fraud, Martin Liechti, knew all the names of the PEPs and that Liechti needed to be taken into custody to nail the UBS investigation and to get the names of the PEPs. Liechti was apprehended almost a year later and held for over 4 months in the U.S. But the DOJ secretly gave him immunity and let him quietly leave the country.

Either the Bush DOJ deliberately did not ask him about the PEPs or they got the names and protected them by simply letting them come in under the IRS amnesty programs, to stay forever anonymous. Either way, it was a blatantly corrupt political cover-up.

It is time to find out if Romney was one of the PEPs who was protected by the Bush DOJ.