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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney urges Americans to help Colo. fire victims by vacationing there
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. For anyone wondering how they can help fire victims in Colorado, Mitt Romney has a suggestion: Take a vacation.
Specifically, a vacation here in Colorado Springs.
Stay at hotels, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee urged his fellow Americans on Tuesday, go to restaurants and purchase local merchandise.
A Romney aide said the candidate made the suggestion at the request of some of the fire victims he had met with, who asked him to urge people to vacation in Colorado Springs.
Romney, having just returned from a vacation of his own at his waterfront compound on New Hampshires Lake Winnipesaukee, said Americans could help those suffering from the fires that ravaged Colorado over the past few weeks by spending money here.
Never mind that many Americans in the current economy a new Romney campaign banner dubs it Obamas Upside-Down Economy cannot afford to take summer vacations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/romney-urges-americans-to-help-colo-fire-victims-by-vacationing-there/2012/07/10/gJQAxMUTbW_blog.html
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)Give it to a member of the 1% and let it trickle down.
That'll work.
freethought
(2,457 posts)a substantial chunk of American workers don't take vacation time for fear of losing their jobs if they do.
Skittles
(152,918 posts)what the FUCK do he and Ann vacation FROM? I'm not being snippy here - I seriously want to know
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Skittles
(152,918 posts)yes INDEED
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)I don't know whether the bulk of the revenues from Americans who "summer" there would help. Maybe it would provide a few more waiters, busboy, cook, or cleaning person jobs, but would the tourist money remain in the local economy, or would it go to corporate headquarters of whatever hotel or restaurant chain is patronized? I don't know.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Fuck You, Mitt, You Clueless Prick.
GoCubsGo
(32,053 posts)They are being occupied by people who lost their homes in the fires, you goddamned idiot.
Just what those poor people need right now: Gawkers who are going to get in the way of trying to get their lives back together. The stupid. It burns.
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)The people who need the help are already IN those hotel rooms! Fucking moron.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)JI7
(89,151 posts)Initech
(99,881 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)I've ever seen. Who on earth is advising this man?
Every time he opens his mouth, something incredibly ridiculous comes out of it.