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Title: Romney Donor Says ‘Lower Income’ People ‘Don’t Understand What’s Going On’
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URL Source: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2 ... ont-understand-whats-going-on/
Published: Jul 9, 2012
Author: tp
Post Date: 2012-07-09 16:31:18 by tom007
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Romney Donor Says ‘Lower Income’ People ‘Don’t Understand What’s Going On’

By Judd Legum posted from ThinkProgress Election on Jul 8, 2012 at 9:21 pm

Today, Mitt Romney is holding a series of fundraisers in the Hamptons, culminating with a huge event at the home of billionaire David Koch. The LA Times is on the scene and reporter Maeve Reston caught up with a donor on her way into one of the events.

The woman, who wouldn’t reveal her name, said the following:

I don’t think the common person is getting it…my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.

The recommended contribution for the event she was attending was $25,000.

Earlier in the campaign Romney received criticism for saying, “I’m not concerned with the very poor.” He later said he misspoke.

Romney’s tax plan would give the richest 0.1% of Americans an average tax cut of $264,000

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#1. To: tom007 (#0)

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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”

—Samuel Adams

America: Israel's Handmaiden

Eric Stratton posted on 2012-07-09 16:56:10 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

#2. To: tom007 (#0)

The recommended contribution for the event she was attending was $25,000.

If I had that kind of cash right now, I sure would not be living where I am in an apartment in Southwest Missouri.

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings posted on 2012-07-09 18:35:35 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

#3. To: tom007 (#0)

>I don’t think the common person is getting it…my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.

Fuck you.

Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?

farmfriend posted on 2012-07-09 22:06:20 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

#4. To: BTP Holdings (#2)

If I had that kind of cash right now, I sure would not be living where I am in an apartment in Southwest Missouri.

I'd be driving a better car.

Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?

farmfriend posted on 2012-07-09 22:07:11 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

#5. To: tom007, All (#0)

I don’t think the common person is getting it…my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.
The recommended contribution for the event she was attending was $25,000.
Earlier in the campaign Romney received criticism for saying, “I’m not concerned with the very poor.” He later said he misspoke.

Excerpts from veteransnewsnow.com 7-6-12:

Romney’s “retreat” in Park City Utah for his 700 biggest donors featured Condi Rice, who reportedly electrified the crowd and received two standing ovations during her passionate keynote speech defending a return to a George W. Bush-style foreign policy while trashing Obama for not being aggressive enough towards enemies like Iran and China.
Romney also told 100 donors at a breakout session on U.S.-Israel relations that “he had just been briefed by Israeli ambassador Michael Oren, speaking about the situation in Syria, the elections in Egypt and the effort to isolate Iran…” Bill Kristol, Michael Chertoff, and former Senator Norm Coleman also were invited guests who spoke at the meeting. One might reasonably be disturbed to learn that a presidential candidate is getting advice on sensitive foreign-policy issues in direct meetings with an ambassador whose country has a clear interest in creating certain perceptions, but apparently no one in Park City Utah was upset by Romney’s revelation.
Addressing the U.S.-Israel session were William Kristol, a founder of the Emergency Committee for Israel that recently ran ads accusing Obama of not doing enough to stop Iran; Michael Chertoff, the Bush administration Homeland Security secretary, who is Jewish; and Norm Coleman, the former U.S. senator from Minnesota, who is also Jewish.
To attend the retreat, donors either had to have donated $50,000 to the campaign or raised $250,000.
GOP stars such as tactician Karl Rove, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen Jon Thune (R-S.D.) and Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the U.S. House of Representatives majority leader, were in attendance, a sign of a unified front
Park City was the site of the [Romney run] 2002 Winter Olympics, [My note: where he harassed the Boy Scouts and barred them from participation for being "politically incorrect".]

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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC

GreyLmist posted on 2012-07-10 14:40:04 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

#6. To: GreyLmist (#5)

Oromneystein or bust...

I am to the point I would rather see the country go bust.

Then we could round up those people in Washington, give them all one day in court, and then hang the lot of them.

Cynicom posted on 2012-07-10 14:52:39 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

#7. To: farmfriend (#4)

I'd be driving a better car.

You have a car?

I sense a disturbance in the farce. Much gnashing will ensue.

Turtle posted on 2012-07-10 14:55:46 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

#8. To: Turtle (#7)

You have a car?

LOL yes I drive a POS. Not the best brand but they are cheap.

Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?

farmfriend posted on 2012-07-10 15:03:25 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

#9. To: farmfriend, Turtle (#8)

You have a car?
LOL yes I drive a POS. Not the best brand but they are cheap.

I knew it, BOURGEOIS in our midst.

Cynicom posted on 2012-07-10 15:07:08 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

#10. To: tom007 (#0)

The GOP. It's an elephant let loose in the china shop.

Watch these clowns bust all the merchandise to flinders over the next few months.

Bammy in November.

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken

randge posted on 2012-07-10 15:10:32 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

#11. To: tom007 (#0)

I don’t think the common person is getting it…my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.

I think it very likely that I could run rings around this idiot classist bitch.

Money, mere material wealth, is not a measure of intellectual ability nor is it a measure on one's attainment of knowledge or wisdom.

Diogenes owned only the clothes on his back, and yet his name is still known for wisdom nearly 2,500 years later. Socrates was not wealthy either. Charles Dickens, the greatest novelist of the Victorian Era, spent much of his youth in dire poverty and acquired a piecemeal education. Yet, by his own bootstraps drawn, became the Master of his chosen profession.

Who will remember this shit for brains cunt in 2,500 years?

Perseverent Gardener"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha

Original_Intent posted on 2012-07-10 15:51:10 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

#12. To: Cynicom, Turtle (#9)

I knew it, BOURGEOIS in our midst.

LOL. Oh man, exposed. I mean caught, I mean...

Never mind.

Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?

farmfriend posted on 2012-07-11 9:55:49 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

#13. To: tom007 (#0) (Edited)

I understand this much about the economy:

The billionaires who own the Republican Party -- the people the Republicans call "job creators" -- have had their Bush tax cuts uninterrupted for ten years -- and they still aren't creating any jobs!

How about abolishing the Bush Tax Breaks for Billionaires and having a special deal for the highest tax bracket - they pay the Clinton Era rate on their billions with a new discount: 1% reduction for every 5000 people they hire for fulltime jobs! It might be worth letting a few billionaires go tax free to get a million people employed!

Shoonra posted on 2012-07-12 12:53:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

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