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That is tonight's question on "The Ed Show." I say no, this is a cynical ploy on Romney's part. What do you say?
but like all cowards, he finds someone else to blame because rich white old fucking vulture capitalists like himself are absolved of everything by the Greedy Old Pig party
rucky
(35,211 posts)by misinterpreting the swing "no" voters' motives.
at least I hope he's misinterpreting them.
Booster
(10,021 posts)employee jobs so it will cost you $10,000 to send your child to the 3rd grade (and every other grade) and $50,000 for someone to come out and squirt water on your house if it's on fire. If you put yourself in the shoes of the corporate CEO's, you can see why they are salivating at the thought of how much money could be made from all of these jobs - "no charge" for these things we depend on is driving them crazy.
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)after all, it was saint reagan who proclaimed that the "government is the problem not the solution".
by now it is accepted wisdom.
EC
(12,287 posts)Mass. (pun intended)
Retrograde
(10,073 posts)As far as I can tell, that's the only thing he believes.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)He just sees that many people respond to it and keeps their attention off the big issues.
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)They believe the private sector always does things better than the public sector, even though an objective look at the evidence shows the exact opposite.
But that's pretty much par for the course in wingnuttery. You have to believe that up is down, down is up, and that if you give rich people enough tax breaks, you'll eventually get trickled on.
BiggJawn
(23,051 posts)From what I read around Teh Intertubes and LTTE, We're lazy, overpaid, underworked, have really sweet benefits, pensions that pay more than what we got when we were working, yada, yada, yada...
Not sure RMoney believes it, but his mouthbreather legions do.