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Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 09:04 PM Jul 2012

Romney 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 Hampshire’s 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 “Obama’s 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

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Canuckistanian

(42,290 posts)
1. God forbid that you should give money directly to help the victims
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 09:07 PM
Jul 2012

Give it to a member of the 1% and let it trickle down.

That'll work.

freethought

(2,457 posts)
2. I think Mitt forgets
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 09:12 PM
Jul 2012

a substantial chunk of American workers don't take vacation time for fear of losing their jobs if they do.

Skittles

(152,918 posts)
3. returning from his own vacation
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 09:12 PM
Jul 2012

what the FUCK do he and Ann vacation FROM? I'm not being snippy here - I seriously want to know

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
6. So many hotels and resturants in America have been corporatized now
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 09:15 PM
Jul 2012

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.

GoCubsGo

(32,053 posts)
9. How the hell can vacationers "stay at hotels"?
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 09:16 PM
Jul 2012

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)
12. That's what I was thinking.
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 12:04 AM
Jul 2012

The people who need the help are already IN those hotel rooms! Fucking moron.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
15. He is the most clueless politician
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 10:50 AM
Jul 2012

I've ever seen. Who on earth is advising this man?

Every time he opens his mouth, something incredibly ridiculous comes out of it.

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