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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney is the Least Compassionate, Thieving-est, Lying-est Mother Fucker ever to run for President!!
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This Story Royally pissed me off... What an asshole lying thieving son of a bitchMitt Romney Crippled Model Anti-Smoking Program In Massachusetts
WASHINGTON -- In the mid 1980s, Massachusetts Department of Public Health official Gregory Connolly began a seemingly hopeless campaign to end smoking in his state. He had no full-time staff and a piecemeal budget. More people complained about his smoking cessation clinics than attended them. If he wanted to check his effectiveness with his own colleagues, he just had to get up from his desk and inhale.
"My building was filled with smoke," he told The Huffington Post. "Doctors, nurses smoked."
It was hard to see a public policy solution. At the time, nearly one-third of the state's residents smoked, with little hope of kicking the habit. The U.S. Surgeon General affirmed in 1988 that cigarettes were as addictive as heroin.
Still, Connolly, who worked out of the dental health division, kept chipping away, speaking out at community forums, organizing with other health groups and buttonholing any member of the state Legislature who would listen. In 1992, with a push from the American Cancer Society, Massachusetts residents passed a ballot initiative to fund his smoking-prevention work through an increase in taxes on cigarette sales. The tax generated $123 million that first year, of which Connolly's program received $56 million.
Connolly invested the money in community programs, municipal grants to enforce laws against selling cigarettes to minors, and lobbying to pass local bans on smoking indoors. If a resident wanted to quit, the program offered free nicotine patches, counseling and a quitters hotline. New initiatives were geared toward youth smokers and pregnant women. And the program alarmed every Massachusetts resident, smoker and nonsmoker alike, with its ad campaign.
One ad featured a man showering with a hole in his throat. In another, a mother spoke just before her death about what it might be like to say goodbye to her children and how she struggled to breathe with her emphysema-wrecked lungs. In a third ad, a doctor squeezed a deceased 32-year-old smoker's aorta like a tube of toothpaste until a mass of fatty deposits squirted out.
In a short time, Connolly started to see dramatic reductions in smoking rates in Massachusetts that far outpaced the rest of the country. The Massachusetts program was so successful that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) used it as a national model. Dozens of other states put Connolly's ads on TV. Even other countries latched onto the campaign, beaming the ads into television sets as far away as Crete and Australia. They continue to serve as a model for public service ads today.
"We had the cure for cancer," Connolly said. "It was the most exciting thing anyone could ever experience. We achieved the impossible."
But 10 years into his crusade, Connolly met a tougher opponent than Big Tobacco: Mitt Romney.
you can read the entire horror story here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/03/mitt-romney-anti-smoking_n_2057840.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
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Romney is the Least Compassionate, Thieving-est, Lying-est Mother Fucker ever to run for President!! (Original Post)
trailmonkee
Nov 2012
OP
added Thieving-est to the list.... man, I wish we had more letters for the titles...
trailmonkee
Nov 2012
#4
Sounds like another $10,000 bet waiting to happen. Another asshole will come along.
HopeHoops
Nov 2012
#5
Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
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dchill
(38,444 posts)2. Wow. Never thought I'd see...
A Republican who makes W look like a nice-guy moderate.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)3. Willard will destroy this country if elected
Willard invited Satan into his soul in his youth and has lived and flourished since.
trailmonkee
(2,681 posts)4. added Thieving-est to the list.... man, I wish we had more letters for the titles...
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)5. Sounds like another $10,000 bet waiting to happen. Another asshole will come along.
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)6. and creepiest
don't forget that. Someone will search the history books and Rmoney will come out #1.
trailmonkee
(2,681 posts)7. only anecdotal evidence..
It's only a matter of time before they find proof of his creepiness
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)8. I have a link to back this up:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021702866
From the article:
* Women are subordinate to men.
* People of color are, or were, morally underdeveloped compared to white people.
* Gays cannot become gods, i.e., will be damned.
* The correct political philosophy is libertarianism.
* The best form of government fosters free-market capitalism with minimal regulatory oversight of business and industry.
* Earth is only a temporary home to be used as a stepping stone, not necessarily to be preserved or conserved.
* War in the Middle East is inevitable as part of Gods plan for the last days.
* Lying for the cause of righteousness, such as winning the election, is morally acceptable.
He is just creepy, I have not been able to imagine him as president at all, he would bring so much trouble with him.
From the article:
* Women are subordinate to men.
* People of color are, or were, morally underdeveloped compared to white people.
* Gays cannot become gods, i.e., will be damned.
* The correct political philosophy is libertarianism.
* The best form of government fosters free-market capitalism with minimal regulatory oversight of business and industry.
* Earth is only a temporary home to be used as a stepping stone, not necessarily to be preserved or conserved.
* War in the Middle East is inevitable as part of Gods plan for the last days.
* Lying for the cause of righteousness, such as winning the election, is morally acceptable.
He is just creepy, I have not been able to imagine him as president at all, he would bring so much trouble with him.