A Romney supporter underscores my view of the GOP as being elitist and out of touch with real economics in average families in this country. I believe it's the NJ gov. and he just stated that Romney would create jobs at Sports Authority and Staples and those jobs would put food on the table ( agreed ) and send their kids to college....... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :roll:
Well, at least he's truly and admittedly "elite"....mostly due to his own efforts. As opposed to those who live like they are elite on the taxpayer's dime and pretend they represent the "common man" while living high on the hog and trying to hide it.
So just how do you go to college on food stamps? Maybe folks can find great manufacturing jobs building solar panels. :roll: Well there's always those great construction jobs building the Keystone pipeline. :roll:
Do you believe it easier for them to put food on the table and save for college collecting government assistance or working? I've yet to see anybody earn a promotion or work their way up the unemployment ladder.....
Those might not be possible but I just want a politician to call a spade a spade and not make ******** up about what a 9 dollar/hr job will get you other than a run down apartment and some food on the table and a lousy healthcare plan if you're lucky enough to get 32 hours or more. It's worse yet when like this someone seems to be clueless. Just say that a job at Walmart gets someone off the couch and puts food on the table and leave it at that.
Does it not give them a start? Does it not give them an opportunity to better themselves, self-determination and personal accountability? Isn't that the way it's supposed to be? In that regard, is it not then vastly superior to govt assistance.....no need to answer.
More of a slim opportunity to advance to a real job is more like it. As I say....better than the couch and yes gov't. assistance and certainly the managers at Walmart/Sports Authority etc. will allow their employees to interview at will with other firms for better paying jobs..... :shock: The bottom line is that the job itself will not put anybody's kids through college and to say so is like George Bush Sr. not knowing how to swipe groceries at the grocery store during a recession..... :wink:
I'd like to know what MCG thinks of Romney's Bain Capital. I saw over the weekend that, for all the phony angst the Dems and rival GOP candidates are displaying daily about this, The Dems received 60% of all the campaign donations made by Bain. Typical hypocrisy that eludes those who rely on sound bites.
Well, we're making progress. Given that "the couch" and gov't assistance are the prescribed Obama cures, you've at least acknowledged how poor and ineffective his policy answers have been.....
Where is it official that those are Obama's "cure". What policy statement or action says he endorses that over job creation?
It is where we are...you can't really believe that any nation seeking a healthy and productive economy can sustain this....the numbers just don't work. That is not a political statement, it is arithmetic. His solution is to blame his predecessor and that approach - while politically popular - can never solve the problem. Solving the problem is the job.....he has failed. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...government-as-record-number-get-benefits.html
A record 49%..... Does that count aging baby boomers receiving social security checks? I think that just might skew those numbers like dropped passes skew a Qb's completion percentage. Otherwise......a clear statement of tough times more than pure generosity by the Obama government. I think as time goes by Obama will have less to stand on as far as blaming things on "tough times" but no one in modern times has inherited a worse mess than he did except for maybe FDR. .
There has been more than enough time. There is no dispute that he inherited a tough situation.....that is a given. What everybody must now realize is that his complete lack of leadership, populist class warfare mongering rhetoric and socialist central government policy approaches have not only not led to a solution, they have made the situation worse......he now must be judged on what he's done, not what he inherited, but what he has done about it.....he has had 3 full years. He has failed.....
And that my friend will be the subject of great debate from the close of the GOP convention here in Tampa until the final vote is counted in November.
This is unquestionably the most divisive president we have ever had. That is beyond dispute. He has actively promoted division between white and black, rich and poor, union and management, Christian and Muslim etc., etc. he not only promotes division.... he campaigns on it!
You want divisive don't look now but isn't another budget deadline coming up in a few weeks? That will be fun. We'll see what the Tea Party Republican congressmen can hatch up this time to draw attention to themselves...... 8)
I think they need to increase taxes on the young and the rich and the poor.....oh....and on medical providers such as dentists...and on electronics distributors.....and on financial advisors....and on history teachers......and on lawyers...... That way they can leave me out of it...... :wink:
Last Week: Team Obama Pounds Romney Over Swiss Bank Account. Today: Obama Releases List of Top Campaign Fundraisers That Includes Swiss Banker… Disgraced former MF Global CEO Jon Corzine also appears near the top of the list, raising more than $500K. The list of the Obama campaign’s bundlers — or, they’re trying to rebrand them, “volunteer fundraisers,” contains the usual mix of celebrities and financiers, personal friends and professional operatives. It also includes one bundler based in Geneva, Switzerland, Charles Adams, who heads the office of the law firm Akin Gump in the swiss capital. Adams raised more than $100,000 for Obama, according to the report. When he and several colleagues joined the firm in 2010, Akin Gump touted the group’s expertise in “tax optimization for multinational corporates and high-net-worth individuals.” Adams, who is a specialist in international arbitration, not tax law, is quoted saying: “We look forward to bringing our capabilities and standards to bear in international arbitration, international tax planning, and Swiss corporate and commercial law to benefit the firm’s world-class client base.” Obama’s bundlers have another Swiss banking connection: Robert Wolf, who heads the U.S. office of the Zurich- and Basel-based UBS, raised between $50,000 and $100,000. Obama’s likely rival, Mitt Romney, has come under fire from Obama aide David Axelrod and others for keeping his money in a Swiss bank.