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Title: America the Gutted: What's middle-income to Mitt Romney? On ABC's Good Morning America, Mitt Romney says "middle income is $200,00 to $250,000."
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Published: Sep 15, 2012
Author: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/glo
Post Date: 2012-09-15 09:50:24 by tom007
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America the Gutted: What's middle-income to Mitt Romney? On ABC's Good Morning America, Mitt Romney says "middle income is $200,00 to $250,000." T According to the Census Bureau this week, real median household income in the United States fell to $50,054 in 2011. That number is down 1.5 percent from the previous year and, when adjusted for inflation, is at a 17-year low. It's about 9 percent lower from its 1999 peak, the Census Bureau said in a new report. The downward income trend is another unpleasant reminder of just how difficult it's been for middle class Americans in recent years, particularly since the start of the Great Recession. Enter Mitt Romney, who's wooing middle class voters by arguing that his economic policies are best for the US economy. Romney tried to make that case again this morning on ABC's Good Morning America program. It didn't quite work out that way, at least in his attempt to make middle class voters believe that he understands their problems. See this exchange with host George Stephanopolous, as reported by Gawker. "No one can say my plan is going to raise taxes on middle-income people, because principle number one is (to) keep the burden down on middle-income taxpayers," Romney told host George Stephanopoulos. "Is $100,000 middle income?" Stephanopoulos asked. "No, middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less," Romney responded. Romney's campaign quickly pointed out that their candidate meant middle income for households, not people. But, even so, that household number is four to five times larger than what the Census Bureau reported this week.
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
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I never considered a quarter of a million a year to be middle income. This guy is so out of touch with reality. One might wonder if he is insane, but I think he is just stupid. God is always good!
I see his campaign staff is stupid too. God is always good!
I guess they think there are five or six workers per household, too.
Rivers of blood were spilled out over land that, in normal times, not even the poorest Arab would have worried his head over." Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Yeah, see, this is why gringos will vote in that thumb-sucker currently in the White House this fall. Republicans continue to do things that reinforce the notion that they are the boss class and have no notion how most folks live. Most dem voters vote that way because they fear repubs. O'Romney's a clutz and will soon go away - unless someone contrives an event. hi historian! long time! what do you think of what's going on in the mideast right now?
I suppose to a cancerous POS born with a silver spoon in mouth, where millions of dollars rolled into his bank account each year of his life, 200 grand per year is close to poverty level.
Yes, the shame of being seen in a lowly C-class Benz or, gasp!, a pedestrian Lexus sedan!!
"No, middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less," Romney responded.
#2. To: tom007 (#0)
Romney's campaign quickly pointed out that their candidate meant middle income for households, not people.
#3. To: RickyJ (#2)
#4. To: tom007 (#0)
#5. To: historian1944 (#3)
#6. To: tom007 (#0)
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#7. To: FormerLurker (#6)
-Alex Kurtagic
#8. To: FormerLurker, 4 (#6)
There is Income, then there's Adjusted Gross Income (after all business expenses and deductions), and then there's the Income that you get after paying fedgov-jew your tribute. I doubt that willard's ever been troubled with those nuances of life.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#9. To: christine (#5)
I think that it'd not be possible to have a group of people leading the government less likely to be able to successfully navigate their way through the myriad of problems in the Middle East right now. I also think that Romney's group of advisors is no better. There have been many calls for action, but what action? Should we randomly kill a host of people in Egypt, Libya and Yemen to prove a point? The best that can be done is to simply denounce the actions of persons in Libya, and allow that government (such as it is) to bring the miscreants to justice. They'll likely settle a few old scores rounding up the usual suspects to "pay" for the crime (that they likely didn't commit.) The most absurd argument I've seen for why this happened is because Obama has been insufficiently aggressive in his policies. It's been often said that he's a closeted Muslim and that when asked about siding with Muslims in a dispute, he said he'd take their side. If his actions are what he calls taking their side, heaven help them if he doesn't. He's been quite promiscuous in his killing of Muslims everywhere he's capable of doing it. The best solution in my mind is to pull back contact with groups of disorder, at least for the time being, to prevent events like the death of the ambassador from happening. I also was thinking about that scene in the movie "The Hangover" when the guy with Mike Tyson remarks about their theft of Tyson's tiger, and he says something like "If Mike was around, this sh*t wouldn't have gone down so smooth." I wonder if Qaddafi would have countenaced such an event. I'll end with a Carl Sagan quote, from his book "Pale Blue Dot" where he says "It's beyond our ability to know the future. Catastrophes have a way of sneaking up on us."
Rivers of blood were spilled out over land that, in normal times, not even the poorest Arab would have worried his head over." Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
#10. To: historian1944 (#9)
Denounce Israel and make an uneasy truce with the muzzies: they stay out of Western nations and we establish petro-trade with them. IOW, we revert back to the diplomatic and cultural relations with the ME prior to the invention of Israel when we had no enemies in the ME. Win-win. There have been many calls for action, but what action?
-Alex Kurtagic
#11. To: X-15 (#10)
Reunite the Ottoman Empire and get the hell out.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#12. To: X-15 (#10)
In the 1920's the US had great admiration from the Arab world. Denounce Israel and make an uneasy truce with the muzzies: they stay out of Western nations and we establish petro-trade with them. IOW, we revert back to the diplomatic and cultural relations with the ME prior to the invention of Israel when we had no enemies in the ME. Win-win.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#13. To: Lod (#11)
That is so funny and so Texas. Reunite the Ottoman Empire and get the hell out.
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#14. To: tom007 (#13)
heheh - down here, we like those old maps and what they represented. Let the muzzies have theirs and give us ours back. Peace everywhere.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#15. To: Lod (#8)
Hell no, not with his top shelf accountants and legal advisors. In fact, laws are passed to give people like him "special treatment", and are immune to the level of "sacrifice for the common good" most of the rest of us have to endure. I doubt that willard's ever been troubled with those nuances of life.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
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