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kpete

(71,997 posts)
Fri Aug 24, 2012, 01:56 PM Aug 2012

You want a thriving middle class in American again? STOP VOTING REPUBLICAN.

The Bain Files: an illustration of why America is going broke?
Posted on August 24, 2012

“So, what’s the worst aspect of Romney’s character? What does he know he has to run away from, even though he continually fails to do so? Simple: the perception that he’s a rich asshat who thinks he’s too good for the little people he deigns to rule. That he thinks so little of us that he demands the right to be our leader without giving anything in return.”

— Pandagon’s Amanda Marcotte, on why a Gawker document dump, showing Mitt Romney as a serial tax dodger, matters. |


Maybe some people will finally see that the result of all these perfectly legal financial shenanigans, in all Romney’s / Bain Capital’s various schemes and loopholes and shelters and business practices, that THIS is why the United States is going broke, not because it would be nice to extend Social Security and Medicare for the next generation or provide health care for people.

The GOP has been rigging the system for the wealthy for decades. Mitt Romney is the chicken that’s come home to roost for the non-wealthy, evangelical voting base. These conservative social-issue rubes support the Republican candidate automatically, like zombies or Manchurian candidates, trusting these establishment politicians when they claim to actually care about stopping marriage equality (they can’t stop it!) or overturning Roe v. Wade (they won’t ever overturn it — have they EVER been close?). The Republicans don’t care about those things! They’re patronizing you. They just want more money, more deregulation, more income redistribution from the bottom to the top.

You want a thriving middle class in American again? STOP VOTING REPUBLICAN. Also: Stop watching Fox News. Stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.

http://underthemountainbunker.com/2012/08/24/the-bain-files-an-illustration-of-why-america-is-going-broke/
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You want a thriving middle class in American again? STOP VOTING REPUBLICAN. (Original Post) kpete Aug 2012 OP
A shortened form would make a great bumper sticker! flor-de-jasmim Aug 2012 #1
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