Mitt Romney and his plan for ‘the little people’ out there
“Mitt Romney held up the waiters and waitresses serving donors at a fundraising event Monday night as examples of people who aren’t doing well under President Obama.
Addressing 300 contributors who paid $2,500, $10,000 or $50,000 to hear him speak in Jackson, Miss., Romney acknowledged that the people in the room were well-off compared to many Americans. It was the middle class that had been let down by Obama, Romney said, and he pointed to the wait staff serving finger foods as an example.
“It’s tough being middle class in America right now,” Romney said. “The waiters and waitresses that come in and out of this room and offer us refreshments, they’re not having a good year. The people of the middle class of America are really struggling. And they’re struggling I think in a way because they’re surprised because when they voted for Barack Obama … he promised them that things were going to get a heck a lot of better. He promised hope and change and they’re still waiting.”
Let’s overlook the condescension in Romney’s description and instead focus on what the GOP nominee and his party propose to do for “the waiters and waitresses that come in and out of this room,” serving his contributors drinks and food at Jackson’s River Hills country club.
More than 30 percent of Mississippi residents live in poverty. Some 650,000, including no doubt some of those waiters ferrying drinks and food, feed themselves and their children in part on food stamps, which Republicans want to slash drastically. The House Agriculture Committee just approved a measure cutting food stamps by $16.5 billion over 10 years. Among other things, the change would force some 300,000 children out of the free-lunch program at school.
One in five people in Mississippi — again including much of that wait staff, I’d suspect — have no health insurance. Romney is intent on repealing the only real hope they have of attaining health coverage that citizens of almost every other industrialized country somehow enjoy, and he has offered no plans on how to replace it.
In fact, Romney proposes to make it worse. To help finance his plan to cut individual tax rates by 20 percent, Romney proposes to slash projected Medicaid funding, a step that would significantly increase the number of poorer Mississippi citizens without health insurance.
On the other hand, according to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, the resultant tax cuts would produce average annual tax savings of $231,971 for the richest 1 percent of Americans, including many of those in Jackson who contributed more than $1.7 million to the Romney cause Monday night. But it will have almost no impact on the take-home pay of those waiters and waitresses.
Births to unwed mothers are a major social and economic problem in Mississippi, where more than half of all births are to single mothers. Romney proposes to address that problem by eliminating Title X family planning funding, producing a savings of $300 million.
Federal support for worker training programs in Mississippi and other states would also be slashed. And if those waiters and waitresses serving Romney’s donors have a particularly bright child waiting for them back home, someone whom the family has high hopes of sending to college, that dream will have less chance of coming true under a President Romney, who proposes funding cutbacks in federal student loans and tuition assistance.
This is the deal that the compassionate Mr. Romney proposes to offer those for whom he expressed such concern Monday night in Jackson. But not to worry.
“We’re accused, by the way — in our party — of being the party of the rich,” Romney told the crowd among the tinkling of glasses. “And it’s an awful moniker, because that’s just not true. We’re the party of people who want to get rich. And we’re also the party of people who want to care to help people from getting poor. We want to help the poor.”
He just has a peculiar way of showing it.
– Jay Bookman
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Mississippi State Nickname - The Magnolia State
July 17th, 2012
9:20 am
46 percent of Mississippi Republicans not only oppose interracial marriage but believe it should be legally banned.
http://racerelations.about.com/b/2011/04/10/new-poll-finds-mississippi-republicans-oppose-interracial-marriage.htm
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
July 17th, 2012
9:20 am
Jon Stewart….
Mitt has “Bain Damage”
JohnnyReb
July 17th, 2012
9:20 am
And for all you Tax the Rich Moonbats, the latest calculations show the additional taxes on those making in excess of $250K would fund the government for about 8 days.
It’s political propoganda, not an answer to any of our challenges.
As much as Liberals don’t like it, the only way to fix the challenges is to cut spending.
And, you would be surprised how a reduced government check provides an incintive to work.
Michael
July 17th, 2012
9:21 am
Maybe he left a 30% tip, which is twice the amount of taxes he paid. Who knows, maybe he gave them one of his wifes’ two cadilacs.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 17th, 2012
9:21 am
the quote in its entirety:
There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. (Applause.)
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.
Butch Cassidy (I)
July 17th, 2012
9:21 am
USin UK – “or did he see 1920 and then retroactively die???”
I can only surmise that Kayker feels that the black family was better off in the 1920’s due to the fact that family members could be dragged off in the middle of the night or hanged for no reason at all which would naturally mean more room in the house and more food on the table for the surviving members.
HDB
July 17th, 2012
9:22 am
kayaker 71
July 17th, 2012
9:04 am
“Hell, the black family was better off in the 1920’s with discrimination looming over their heads than they are now”
Have you ever thought that it was CONSERVATIVES and certain aspects of conservative systems that led to the decline of the black family?? In the ’20s, black males were HUNG by conservatives; now, black males are incarcerated at a rate 4 times greater than white males (the legal system)! Black men are UNEMPLOYED at double the rate of white men (the job market)! Those two CONSERVATIVE systems led to more single women-led families than any other issue….which led to the expansion of the welfare state!! Remember when it was ILLEGAL to educate blacks….now the decline in public education adversely affects ALL minorities……
Conservative systems……conservative applications…..conservative decline……
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 17th, 2012
9:22 am
If there is one important thing Obama’s ” peoples” have learned from him in 3 1/2 years, it’s this: BLAME SOMEONE ELSE, AND ASK THEM TO PAY FOR MAKING IT RIGHT. That is what this man is all about.
Peter
July 17th, 2012
9:22 am
Is this the guy the blogger talked about…….
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an African-American educator
Perhaps it is one of his current friends with the same name ?
Michael
July 17th, 2012
9:23 am
Yeh, right Johnny Reb. The only economist to agree with that premise would be Grover Norquist!
Michael
July 17th, 2012
9:23 am
Yeh, right Johnny Reb. The only economist to agree with that premise would be Grover Norquist!
Steve - USA "None of the Above"
July 17th, 2012
9:23 am
Peadawg – “Out of the entire United States…these guys are the best we could come up with. Really?”
Pretty sad state of affairs.
Michael
July 17th, 2012
9:23 am
Yeh, right Johnny Reb. The only economist to agree with that premise would be Grover Norquist!
Butch Cassidy (I)
July 17th, 2012
9:23 am
Peadawg – “Out of the entire United States…these guys are the best we could come up with.”
Unfortunately, they were the only choices left.
Fly-On-The-Wall
July 17th, 2012
9:23 am
Independent voter – get real. We’re working just like you. Where the heck do you get that info?
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 17th, 2012
9:24 am
“46 percent of Mississippi Republicans not only oppose interracial marriage but believe it should be legally banned”
which is WHY you don’t leave basic human rights (like … oh, say … MARRIAGE) up to the states.
ty webb
July 17th, 2012
9:24 am
so Obama is now 1/32 Cherokee too?
Don't tread
July 17th, 2012
9:24 am
0bama’s plan for the “little people” is to subjugate them with higher taxes and more government power, which should make the lefty statists happy.
Rightwing Troll
July 17th, 2012
9:24 am
“Then if we don’t give them EBT cards, they can’t get manicures, lottery tickets, ammo for their guns, booze and cash from the ATM machine to subsidize their needs.”
Why does the kayaker hate the second amendment so much???
Also the Yaker left tattoos, gold teeth and iPhones off the list…
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 17th, 2012
9:25 am
Butch – well, K71 can think whatever he wants … but to attribute it to someone who couldn’t have said it just to give it an air of legitimacy is … well … lame.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 17th, 2012
9:26 am
How many visits has Obama made to Mississippi to check on his “people” ? Truth be known, rednecks and poor blacks ain’t on his radar………..Why just look at their plight under his wonderful leadership in 3 1/2 years.
TaxPayer
July 17th, 2012
9:26 am
And for all you Tax the Rich Moonbats, the latest calculations show the additional taxes on those making in excess of $250K would fund the government for about 8 days.
Good. Now you can quit whining about how bad that tax booboo is gonna hurt.
Rightwing Troll
July 17th, 2012
9:26 am
“BLAME SOMEONE ELSE, AND ASK THEM TO PAY FOR MAKING IT RIGHT.”
As opposed to the George W Bush methodology which is to leave a big, unfunded, steaming pile of poo in the middle of the floor and get the heck out of there…
St Simons
July 17th, 2012
9:27 am
Now, this is how Fox/am radio would do it – you KNOW its true –
“It’s clear Mitt Romney has some investments overseas in the kiddie sex trade. I mean, why else would he be hiding his tax returns? I think it’s the only logical reason. Mitt Romney supports the child sex trade. Pervert. Fox & Friends/Rush will be back after these msgs from Survivor Seeds and Hoveround”
East Lake Ira
July 17th, 2012
9:27 am
If Romney ever deigns to release his tax returns, dollars to donuts there will be years he paid ZERO income tax and possibly some wherein he received a refund.
All hail the new aristocracy.
TaxPayer
July 17th, 2012
9:28 am
JohnnyReb is upset because Mitt pays, according to JohnnyReb, less than half the tax rate that he pays.
Joseph
July 17th, 2012
9:28 am
Ho hum… More ridiculous tripe from Jay…… LOL… I realize that you fruits on the left are in somewhat of a tizzy right now.. You just can’t seem to understand why the polls aren’t moving with all the negative ads about Romney… It’s because most folks take it for what it is.. Smoke and mirrors to cover for Obama’s failed policies… Think about it… Obama has forced more people out of the middle class in to gubmint dependency… As a direct result of his policies… Small business’s are not going to hire until they see how Obamacare will effect them… They will not hire until they are assured how much of a tax burden they will have… Its a fact Republicans are pro business.. Middle America see’s that and they realize that’s where the jobs are…
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 17th, 2012
9:28 am
“How many visits has Obama made to Mississippi to check on his “people””
wow. poor and/or black folks are only in Mississippi??? who knew??!!
(and, let’s be honest, I don’t think rednecks are exactly the Dem’s base)
curious
July 17th, 2012
9:29 am
98% of Mississippi Republicans support marriage between First Cousins.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 17th, 2012
9:29 am
I guess we are to well armed to end up like South Africa for Obama.
zeke
July 17th, 2012
9:29 am
johnny reb, nice moniker, the wealthy have made more gains since the 2007-8 debacle, and i’d bet their sons and daughters are not serving in the military, so they need to pay a little more but maybe raise the thresold to make sure small business owners not hurt.
Mama Says
July 17th, 2012
9:31 am
I certainly agree that at times it looks like those in government forget about the “little people” and I would agree that it appers that the rich certainly forget. With that said it is no better on the other side of the isle Jay.
The image of Obama, who set the record for campaign financing, and/or Kerry-moving his yacht to avoid taxes does little to assure the middle class that the rich democrats care any more then rich republicans.
The entire arguement of who cares more seems a bit insincere when it is a rich person arguing they are for the poor, be they democrat or republican.
Be it in front of $50,000 a plate fund raisers for Romney or $100,00 a plate raisers for OBAMA.
The truth is neither party wants to help the middle class. Be it the republicans cutting the benefits or the democrats taking from it via taxes, they are ultimately two rich guys arguing that they want to throw a crumb to the help !
the real difference in the parties is that conservatives believe you should work for your penney.
there is no news here, whomever is talking.
move on to an issue that shows us a difference in the canidates please
Peadawg
July 17th, 2012
9:31 am
“the quote in its entirety:”
Yes I’ve read the entire quote before I posted my comment. Your point?
Obama’s made bonehead comment/decision after bonehead comment/decision the past month or so. Job numbers aren’t even keeping up w/ the population. And Romney? Just no.
Nobody’s winning in November (I mean voters). So sad….
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 17th, 2012
9:31 am
and now … a meeting … later taters
Steve - USA "None of the Above"
July 17th, 2012
9:31 am
“If Romney ever deigns to release his tax returns, dollars to donuts there will be years he paid ZERO income tax and possibly some wherein he received a refund.”
So what? Romney never held an office that could make changes to the Federal Tax code. Even Warren Buffett said Romney would be a fool to pay more taxes than he was obligated to.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 17th, 2012
9:33 am
East Lake Ira……………I’ll bet you a doughnut he didn’t break any laws on his taxes. Both parties share the blame if he didn’t pay anything. Ask Odumbers bubby Jeff at GE how to make SIX BILLION and PAY NO TAXES…..ALL LEGAL. don’t shoot Romney for taking advantage of Charlie Rangle’s (D) tax laws
Project Dreamz
July 17th, 2012
9:34 am
Are YOU a registered voter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP6Mcvgdrtg
Atlantan
July 17th, 2012
9:34 am
Republicans hate everyone – even themselves! We all know they just want to take from the poor so they can have more and make the poor their slaves. I say take all their money away and throw them in jail. You know they got rich by lying, cheating and stealing! Save us Obama! Save us!
JohnnyReb
July 17th, 2012
9:34 am
zeke – check this out, then tell me how the Moonbat claim the rich don’t pay their fair share holds water?
http://www.kiplinger.com/features/archives/how-your-income-stacks-up.html
TaxPayer
July 17th, 2012
9:35 am
So what? Romney never held an office that could make changes to the Federal Tax code. Even Warren Buffett said Romney would be a fool to pay more taxes than he was obligated to.
Difference being, Warren says the rich can afford to pay more while Mitt promises to cut his taxes even more if elected.
Peter
July 17th, 2012
9:35 am
Asked if he thought choosing former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — who describes herself as “pro-choice” — as Romney’s vice presidential pick would be a mistake, Santorum thought it would make a Republican victory less likely, “this is non-negotiable for a vice presidential pick.”
Santorum piled on the fiery comments, comparing Obama to Italy’s former dictator Benito Mussolini and urging Romney to attack Obama’s “imperial presidency” on the stump.
Well the Repub’s continue to shoot themselves in the foot !
Common Sense
July 17th, 2012
9:37 am
So the “little people” are your words and not Romney. Yet you title your blog as if that is what he said.
How deplorable.
Jay
July 17th, 2012
9:37 am
“I guess we are to well armed to end up like South Africa for Obama.
Why whatever do you mean by that, “Liberal”? Please, expand upon your interesting thought.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 17th, 2012
9:37 am
So now Romney is a bad person for making money and following the idiot tax laws to pay no taxes. What else you got. We haven’t talked about him pushing the kid down on the play ground yet today. always a lib crowd pleaser.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 17th, 2012
9:38 am
I assume AJC management is aware that Jay’s Blog is nothing more than a campaign site for Obama.
But then ………. that’s what makes it a liberal newspaper.
Recon 0311 2533
July 17th, 2012
9:38 am
The Democrat solution is to get more people beholding to the federal government, so they can buy votes through food stamps and other government provided sustenance programs. The problem is that these taxpayer funded programs are running out of money but that doesn’t bother the Democrats with their get elected/reelected at any cost mentality and the tools who vote for them. Romney on the other hand says we need to raise up the middle class and those living in poverty by creating the environment for private sector business growth and regaining a healthy economy that Obama has failed to accomplish. The choice couldn’t be clearer in November the continued deterioration of our economy and disappearing middle-class as we get closer to bankruptcy with each passing day or a new administration with the experience and vision to get this nation back on track.
Steve - USA "None of the Above"
July 17th, 2012
9:38 am
“Difference being, Warren says the rich can afford to pay more while Mitt promises to cut his taxes even more if elected.”
Nice deflection, that has nothing to do with PAST tax returns in the post I responded to.
Having said that I agree with your point looking forward.
St Simons
July 17th, 2012
9:38 am
I tell you, when Biff & Muffy down heah at the Yacht Club cringe
at the aloof arrogance, now THAT’s impressive. congratulations Mitt
I just don’t get why the walmart republicans swallow that crap
and follow them down the hole.
Erwin's cat
July 17th, 2012
9:39 am
The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
Speaking or moronic statements
Erwin's cat
July 17th, 2012
9:40 am
“of”
East Lake Ira
July 17th, 2012
9:40 am
Steve and fake liberal dude: If you don’t see how the optics of Romney not paying taxes in a given year will play out with the 10% – 15% of the electorate that will actually decide this election, you are too far gone for any substantive debate.
Seeing as that’s the case here’s some red meat for you:
Romney hiding behind Teresa Heinz-Kerry skirts proves he is a Nancy-boy.
It’s all Bushes fault.
Obamacare will save money over time.
Mama Says
July 17th, 2012
9:41 am
I say that all poor people should unite and take down the rich greedy bast**ds.
I say we should destory the very thing that we all strive to be, the rich.
I say we should then find a way to finance the government, since we will be missing the 60% of the collected taxes that they pay.
JohnnyReb
July 17th, 2012
9:41 am
Bain…Bain…Bain
Bill O’Reilly hit the nail on the head last night comparing Obama’s attack on Mitt and Bain Capital versus Obama’s embrace of Jeffry Immelt and GE.
GE has over 300K employees with less than half in the USA.
GE has been the benefactor of government loans and green energy subsidizes.
GE keeps the profits they make from overseas operations overseas, it does not come back to benefit Americans.
GE paid zero federal income tax in 2010.
Obama choose Immelt to head a committee on increasing employment. Was that increase in Europe/China?
Point being, the whole attack on Mitt is BS. Who has taken more jobs overseas? Mitt or GE? Who is Obama’s buddy?
Moonbats – grow up.
TaxPayer
July 17th, 2012
9:41 am
JohnnyReb says it’s them poor peoples that is ruining everything. All they do is take and take til they done took 30 percent of his money. I even hear some of them poor people has running water and a phone and a stove and a refrigerator and a roof and a cadillac, no, make that a BMW. How dare they take his money and spend it on food. JohnnyReb should vote yes for T-SPLOST and all other consumption taxes so them poor people will have to learn to pay their own way like everyone else.
Grasshopper
July 17th, 2012
9:41 am
“So, tell us libs…how many years on government assistance does it take for somebody to stop being poor?”
The answer is…78.2 years.
mm
July 17th, 2012
9:41 am
The cons are very adept at fooling the less educated voters. They blame the Dems for doing something or not doing something, but they stick it to the middle class everytime.
Two examples:
My mom, who lives in GA, was complaining recently about her property value going down, but her property taxes going up. I questioned her and found that her homestead exemption was gone. I asked her which party ran the state of GA. I then told her that continuing to vote GOP was not in her best interest.
One of the con regulars on this blog the other day did not even know there was a law passed by congress years ago that gave tax breaks to companies that ship their jobs overseas. And twice in the last 3 years, the cons have voted down a bill which would have reversed this idiocy so that companies got a tax break for hiring in America.
The cons should look into what their party is doing before voting for the person with an “R” by their name. Unless you make a million dollars a year, there is no reason in the world you should be voting for the cons.
kitty
July 17th, 2012
9:42 am
Peadawg: So we have a choice between Romney, who comes off as condescending, flip flopper, and a total hypocrite, and Obama, who lately has weekly bonehead quotes like this gem: “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
Out of the entire United States…these guys are the best we could come up with. Really?
————————————-
Sigh! Been my thought more than once this election cycle.
TaxPayer
July 17th, 2012
9:43 am
I think GE should pay more taxes. Cons think GE needs another tax cut as an incentive to brings those jobs back on shore.
Steve - USA "None of the Above"
July 17th, 2012
9:43 am
JohnnyReb@9:41
Stomping of feet and crying “but..but..that’s not the same thing” in 3-2-1
In the Middle
July 17th, 2012
9:44 am
“the black family was better off in the 1920’s with discrimination looming over their heads than they are now. 70% of children born out of wedlock. No family to speak of. No supervision of the thugs that roam Atlanta and Macon GA at will, shooting most anyone they please.”
You know, I’m from Macon and I don’t recall seeing Booker T Washington walking around and neither did my parents who were born in the 20’s. Please keep his words in their proper context…don’t add, don’t take away!!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 17th, 2012
9:44 am
“Prominent business groups condemn President Obama for saying, ‘you didn’t build that,’ in speech suggesting business owners owe their success to government investment.”
Yep …………… he’s a socialist if there ever was one and if the truth be known worse.
Mama Says
July 17th, 2012
9:44 am
If Romney paid 1% in taxes he would still be paying 99% more than the rest of us do. It’s called math.
1% of 700 billion is more than 20 % of $70,000, someday you folks will get it. without the rich we have no government funding, without the government funding the democrats cannot pay for all their programs.
Jefferson
July 17th, 2012
9:45 am
What is the deal on Romney and the mom jeans ? Is he trying to look more “common” or “cool”, the dude is play dough.
Tundra Dude
July 17th, 2012
9:45 am
Steve Atl…… How are the Republican’s paying off the Iraq War debt ? What was the plan.or what is the plan ?
Answer: “We don’t need no stinkin’ plan.” We just put it on Obama’s tab. (yuk yuk)
Six years ago, “it was standard practice not to pay for things,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
“We were concerned about it, because it certainly added to the deficit, no question.”
Lord Help Us
July 17th, 2012
9:47 am
‘without the government funding the democrats cannot pay for all their programs’
Like the military…
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
9:48 am
Stands – 8:43
It was just a question.
fair enough. I’ll answer–no, I don’t believe I’m blinded by religious dogma, since I am a devout religious and ideological skeptic (and by “skeptic,” I mean that I’m a show-me kinda guy. You say your religion turns out better people? show me how. You say your ideology makes stuff work better? show me how.)
Redneck
July 17th, 2012
9:49 am
Romney will wipe out the poor and middle class by eliminating all Goverment support. Food stamps for the poor, gone. health care everybody, gone. public education for the poor and the middle class, gone. This guy has people around him who don’t know how to run a country and are hell bent and determined to crush everybody but the rich…..
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 17th, 2012
9:49 am
Jay, South Africa…..Where certain known wrongs, and they were, are being made right by the government ( land, assets) by government mandate rather than free market reforms to foster a climate by all to succeed by hard work, effort, obeying the law, and education to help correct a wronged society. I know this is old and silly, but Obama believes in giving away fish rather than teaching people to fish. He has a big problem with ” forcing it to much”…………..A 50 million well armed population army.
willydoit?
July 17th, 2012
9:49 am
I hate rich people!!! Except on payday!
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
9:50 am
he’s a socialist if there ever was one and if the truth be known worse.
I am a truth seeker. Enlighten me.
You don't say
July 17th, 2012
9:50 am
Kayaker
Are you sure that was Booker T Washington and not Freddie “Boom Boom” Washington from Welcome Back Carter?
Recon 0311 2533
July 17th, 2012
9:52 am
Obama admits his lack of qualifications for office and the resultant failures in his first term.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McnsuhsbVUg
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
9:52 am
I hate rich people!!! Except on payday!
talk about out of touch.
I think it’s safe to say that those who genuinely hate rich people ESPECIALLY hate them on payday.
DevilDogOz
July 17th, 2012
9:52 am
Wow, Jay’s blogging what, three or four times a week? This must be the definition of ‘running scared’. Typical liberal screeching on all counts – we need more food stamps, more health care, blah, blah, blah… and taxes? Hey Jay – the waiters and waitresses you describe arent paying any now? So who did you want to redistribute from to ‘impact on the take-home pay of those waiters and waitresses’.
independent thinker.
July 17th, 2012
9:52 am
Hey Repubs – Time to wake up – no tax returns – no nomination. It is not too late. How did that 401 K grow so enormously???????????????
”””””””””””’The most mysterious of the unexplained mysteries about Mitt Romney’s considerable wealth is how he was able to amass between $21 million and $102 million in his individual retirement account during the 15 years he was at Bain Capital LLC.
How did he do it, given the relatively small amounts that the law permits to be contributed to such a plan on an annual basis? Romney has not explained this conundrum, and seeing as he wants to become president, he would be wise to start talking — if for no other reason than there might be many Americans who would like to emulate what he did. “”"”"”"”"”"”"”"”
Huffington Post July 15 2012
You Repubs capable of pulling that off? A little government loophole or plain old tax fraud on the value of the investments put in it? Or is that just something the little people can’t do because of Obozo?
“”"”"
Joe Hussein Mama
July 17th, 2012
9:53 am
Steve atl — “Reasons to vote for Romney…”
Of course, you don’t tell us what Romney would DO about all those things.
You might as well be telling us that those are *also* reasons to vote for Barney the Purple Dinosaur.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
9:53 am
also, Willy @ 9.49–
“In every one of those little stucco boxes there’s some poor b@stard who’s never free except when he’s fast asleep and dreaming that he’s got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.”
–George Orwell
Thomas Heyward Jr.
July 17th, 2012
9:53 am
“We want to help the poor……………………….but please…..pardon our strange penchant for analyzing your urine”.
HDB
July 17th, 2012
9:53 am
Erwin’s cat
July 17th, 2012
9:39 am
“‘The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.’ Speaking of moronic statements.”
Not quite moronic….quite ACCURATE!! Remember..the Internet was created by DARPA…and expanded upon when commercial applications were developed; the Interstate Highway System was developed by the government for the expeditious movement of military personnel…but expanded upon when commercial applicatons were developed; TANG and freeze-dried foods were developed by NASA….but the technology was expanded upon by General Mills for commercial use!!
Better think again…….
East Cobb RINO, Inc (LLC)
July 17th, 2012
9:53 am
“The waiters and waitresses that come in and out of this room and offer us refreshments, they’re not having a good year.”
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But that is OK because “they have a safety net”. Which if Myth Romney is elected will become significantly smaller. BTW, the construction of safety nets will be outsourced to China.
Joseph
July 17th, 2012
9:53 am
I like the way the Romney campaign is running… Yes many Republican pundits are criticizing them for not being more forceful but that’s the way they ran their primary campaign… Sit back and let the Oblama campaign spend spend spend to no avail. The needle hasn’t moving and they’ve reportedly spent $100 million dollars the last 3 weeks on negative campaign ads. Wait till September and October and unleash the beast… LOL… Just like 1979 all over again with an epic landslide….
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
July 17th, 2012
9:53 am
Addressing 300 contributors who paid $2,500, $10,000 or $50,000 to hear him speak in Jackson, Miss. . .
Well, I had no idea waiters and waitresses got paid that good. Heck, I feel downright short-changed. I can’t hardly afford a meal at one of them sit-down restaurants—you know, the ones where you don’t have to get up and go to a buffet. Maybe I need to look into waitering instead of finishing up my career as a beer truck driver.
Maybe by the time Mitt’s thru his 1st term I’ll be able to pay $2,500 or even $50,000 for a meal. I know he’s got my needs in mind. It’s for dang sure the boss down at the warehouse don’t. This’ll make 3 years since I even got a raise. I’d like to deliver a big steak to the boss at his country club and then set down at his table to chew the fat with him while we spoon out the caviar.
Anyhow, I guess I’ll just need to wait till we can throw out the Socialist Muslim Usurper. Yes sir, things is looking up.
Have a good Tuesday everybody.
Tundra Dude
July 17th, 2012
9:54 am
One in five people in Mississippi — again including much of that wait staff, I’d suspect — have no health insurance.
Mississippi, dead last.
Health Care is Worst Where Republicans Poll Best
http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/health-care-worst-where-republicans-poll-best
Keep Up the Good Fight!
July 17th, 2012
9:54 am
and taxes? Hey Jay – the waiters and waitresses you describe arent paying any now?
Yes, of course, you’re a genius…. you know how much they earn and they pay no sales taxes, no SS, no medicare, no gas tax, etc, etc. With a brain like that, you smart enough to be on Family Feud or Price is Right.
St Simons
July 17th, 2012
9:57 am
Has Steve Miller sued him for playing “Take The Money And Run” at
campaign rallies yet?
Road Scholar
July 17th, 2012
9:58 am
I wonder what kind of tip Romney left for the waiters and bus boys? Trickle down?
John Stewart plainly explained the discrepancy in Romneys’s tenure at Bain last night. While Romney claims he stopped working for Bain in 1999, the tax records show him as CEO up to 2002. Romney claims he ended his duties and did no work at Bain after 1999. Then Stewart showed that Romney…wait for it…was paid $100K a year for the three years after 1999! $100k for doing nothing? Was that a tip for his past performance? Then Romney’s aide stated that he retired retroactively from 2002 to 1999! What? As Stewart said…Romney has a time machine!
So for all youz guys who think Booker T Washington couldn’t say what he said….he used Romney’s time machine!!!!!!!!! Maybe he’ll make “Back to the Future” Part 4?
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
9:58 am
A little government loophole or plain old tax fraud on the value of the investments put in it?
I think the former is a) most likely, and b) equally if not MORE damning than the latter, because it only reinforces the notion that the system is rigged to favor those who’ve already go theirs.
There’d be a lot of voters who could forgive outright fraud. And before y’all get shocked,shocked at that… who hasn’t ever, in their lives, fudged some deduction (”I had a receipt somewhere, I’ll just guess what that contribution was…”) or maybe forgot to include some income that’d be a PITA to bother reporting?
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
9:59 am
Has Steve Miller sued him for playing “Take The Money And Run” at
campaign rallies yet?
Probably waiting for the right time in the news cycle to do that. Steve is, if nothing else, a shrewd businessman, if memory serves.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
July 17th, 2012
9:59 am
You don’t say – 9:50 – since he went radio silent after being called out on it, I wouldn’t hold my breath for a response.
although that is funny.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
July 17th, 2012
10:00 am
I like the way the Romney campaign is running…
me too. I can live with him losing by a ~60 electoral vote margin. (But it’d be nice to get the likes of Indiana back into the fold again, of course.)
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
July 17th, 2012
10:01 am
stands for decibels (SfBA) :
You’ll never admit it because you are probably one yourself.
Matti's favorite mascot t-shirt
July 17th, 2012
10:01 am
Wait… so… according to Rmoney, it’s Obama’s job to take care of working folk like food servers? I thought it was HIS job as a rich guy.. er, I mean private-sector “job creator.” If food service workers aren’t making enough, why don’t Rmoney and his job creator friends TIP THEM MORE? Better yet, why doesn’t he bring back some of the steady jobs HE outsourced? Is Rmoney trying to tell us that job creators aren’t job creators after all, and that it’s the government’s job to take care of the working poor?
WOW.
carlosgvv
July 17th, 2012
10:02 am
stands – 8:43
Of course, you must know that, sometimes, they really ARE out to get you.
Erwin's cat
July 17th, 2012
10:03 am
HDB and all that happened …..”so that all the companies could make money off the Internet”?????
Butch Cassidy (I)
July 17th, 2012
10:04 am
USinUK – “I wouldn’t hold my breath for a response.”
I know, I can see k71 now hopelessly scouring the internet for just a shred of evidence to back up his comments. Some one needs to tell him not to take it so hard, we all end up with our head up our a$$ at one time or another.
Jefferson
July 17th, 2012
10:04 am
If Romney’s taxes were a tip, he’s under the 15% line … better check the food if you dine with the tightwad.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
July 17th, 2012
10:05 am
The real entertainment value on Jay’s blog is reading you people defending this guy everyday. If you base grading a president by past ones down through history, the guys gets an F. ” it could of been worse if not for me” is not much to hang your hat on. He;s really just over matched by the job with advisers around him that are clueless other than “making it right” with the current power to do it.
St Simons
July 17th, 2012
10:05 am
Isn’t the real question “When is Romney going to release his Swiss,
Barbados, Caymans and Mexican Tax returns?”
I am SURE that Trumps investigators are on the way.
Road Scholar
July 17th, 2012
10:06 am
Oh and watch John Stewart from last night. He also gives insight into what a great business man he is/was. The tape of Romney explaining what a blind trust is is priceless. He stated that he didn’t do anything to influence his investments…and then contradicted himself..twice. He then said he did nothing. So a business man who does nothing is really the person I want to run this country…right?
Butch Cassidy (I)
July 17th, 2012
10:07 am
I guess if waiters and waitresses are “middle class” now, the lady who cleans my apartment will be thrilled to know that she has just moved up into the 1% crowd.
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