Romney: "I Want to Help the 99 Percent"

[kpete]

Romney: "I Want to Help the 99 Percent"
7:31 PM, JAN 25, 2012 • BY JOHN MCCORMACK

After asking Mitt Romney twice whether the amount of taxes he paid was "fair," Univision host Jorge Ramos cut to the chase. "Governor, how much money do you have?"

"Well, you tell me and I'll tell you--I'm kidding," Romney replied, with a characteristic Romney chuckle. He said he'd already put that rough figure out in a financial disclosure forms, but Ramos wanted specifics. "Two hundred and fifty million?" he asked. "It's between 150 and 200 some odd million dollars," Romney finally replied. "I didn't inherit that money," he added.

During his appearrance at the candidates forum at Miami-Dade College, Romney deflected questions about his wealth by casting himself as the champion of average American workers. "I know what it takes to make America the most attractive place for jobs again," he said. "I want to do that not because I'm worried about the one percent. The 1 percent's doing fine. I want to help the 99 percent. I want to help middle-Americans get jobs that pay good wages."

more:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/univision-grills-romney_618576.html




In an emailed transcript from Univision radio, we discover that Occupy Wall Street is still driving the national conversation—even in the GOP primary!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/25/1058515/-Mitt-Romney-practices-the-politics-of%C2%A0envy?via=blog_1

[onehandle]

1. Class Warfare! Why does Mitt Romney hate the 1%? nt

[liberal N proud]

2. I need to get my hip waders...

The manure is getting deep!

[rhett o rick]

3. LOL, yeah the asshole just ordered a giant cake. nm

[Skittles]

4. oh FUCK YOU Mitt, you .001% fucking thieving BASTARD

you have NO FUCKING CLUE

[tridim]

5. CLASS WARFARE!!!!!1111

What an idiot.

[Systematic Chaos]

6. Well then, holding his breath for about 8 or 9 minutes should help the 99% quite a bit!

[yardwork]

7. That's ok, Willard. We'd prefer to handle this ourselves. We've got it.

[marmar]

8. Mittens has got to be the most plastic, disingenuous candidate....

...... I've seen in a good long while.

[DRoseDARs]

9. Well asshole, you can start by buying me a new pair of jeans. I just pissed mine laughing. eom

[Johnny Noshoes]

46. NT.

[yardwork]

10. Oh, and then there's this!

As for the fairness of his tax rate, Romney said that "when you add together all the taxes and the charity, particularly in the last year, I think it reaches almost forty percent that I gave back to the community."

What charitable donations?! Why, he's referring to the millions that he's given to the Mormon Church, which they've used to take away my rights across the country.

That's Romney's idea of charity.

[lumpy]

15. Giving to a church isn't charity. Charity is giving to causes that benefit people other than church

members.

[Retrograde]

52. Charity is also given freely

not as a condition of church membership - it's like saying pre-Vatican II Catholics were semi-vegetarians because they didn't eat meat on certain days.

"I didn't inherit it" - really? No step-up or advantages or connections from being the son of a governor of what was then a large and prosperous state? No one to give you that boost up to the first rung of the ladder? You really did it all by yourself?

[6000eliot]

11. "By parking my cash in the Cayman Islands!"

[FailureToCommunicate]

12. "I didn't inherit that money"

No, he 'EARNED' it by feeding off the carcasses of companies Bain was 'helping'
and then gamed the tax codes and off shore havens- including that country with the Alps- to keep from paying any taxes
let alone his 13.9 %

Yeah, Mitts an Occupy guy all right...

[Moonwalk]

33. True that! Somehow, I don't think a history of killing off companies that....

...would have provided the 99% with jobs makes his assertion all that convincing.

[Firebrand Gary]

13. I am surprised that he did not compete in the Olympics.

Considering his gift for gymnastics.

[usrname]

14. Oh Rmoney,

Won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz,
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

[Johnny Noshoes]

47. I'll take...

I'll take a nice Jag XJL please. Come on Mittens!

[99th_Monkey]

16. No one can tell me OWS hasn't changed the nat'l conversation.

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color me happy, that this deleterious dork has to borrow language
from a protest that he detests because he knows they are speaking
the truth, and he knows that the people also know that.

sweet.

[woo me with science]

24. +1

[harun]

31. Totally Agree.

[xxqqqzme]

54. I don't think he 'knows' that.

I think his campaign has explained it to him, in slow but deliberate incremental steps. It may finally be getting through. He doesn't believe a word of it though. If he did, he would sound genuine.

[midnight]

63. It sure sounds like it.

[alp227]

17. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHH HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Mr. Lucky Sperm Club who's been handed everything since birth now wants to reach out to those outside his lucky familial lineage and social class?

[SammyWinstonJack]

58. Send all the one-percenters to newts moon colony. Since they won't pay to play

we're better off without them.

[lonestarnot]

19. Oh sure sure sure you do fuckwad, about like you don't hose down a dog that you caused to shit on

itself out of fear from riding on the top of your fucking car you pig. I hope the hose water splashed in your fucking ignorant face and you had to smell shit for at least a week!

[The Second Stone]

20. He wants to help relieve them of their jobs

and their pensions.

[ScottLand]

21. I'm confused. Is he going to help us before or after the hike he told us to take?

[MrMickeysMom]

60. I think he'll help us when we get to the top of the hike, which is when he promises...

to push us off the fucking cliff.

[ScottLand]

61. No doubt. Glad I'm not the only one that sees it coming.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

22. Here's a Mitt vs. you income calculator

Mitt Romney released his 2010 tax return on Monday. His total income for the year was listed as $21.6 million, more than one-half of which came from capital gains. How does that stack up against your income? Use this calculator to find out how long it would have taken Mitt Romney to earn the same amount of money.

http://tinyurl.com/6rgqsev

[unkachuck]

23. "I want to help the 99 percent..."

....we don't want your 1% help; we want your money....or our good paying jobs and bailout money back....

[lovemydog]

25. has he presented any policy proposal

other than lower taxes for the 1%

[Harry Monroe]

26. Wanna help the 99% Mitt?

Drop out of the race and vow never to run for President again. We don't need you as President, you clueless asshole!!

[Amonester]

29. Actually, just by running again and again, and losing and losing...

the narcissist .00001 percenter sure does help the 99%, although, in some sort of twisted, UNINTENTIONAL way!

It's like a non-stop show of all that is wrong with these thieves.

[Phlem]

27. To become the

99.9%

OT kpete, always love your posts. U Rock.

-p

[Devil_Fish]

28. Hey Mitt, I'm part of the 99% you want to help. How about half a mill? I'm not greedy.... NT

[EC]

30. He always has to say he didn't inherit the money.

I'll bet just like him, his father had trusts set up for him long before he died. Romney set up trusts for his kids at $100 M each. Good head start program there.

[Moonwalk]

32. But?

Where's the "but"? "I want to help the 99% but...." You know there is a "but" in there. Like "but I won't change the tax laws that would help them" or "I won't support paying them unemployment so they can survive till they find work..." or "But I still want to do away social security" or "But I don't want anyone to have to give them health care..."

Something like that. There's always a "but" when a repuke says things like that.

[olddad56]

34. Well, Bless his cold little heart.

[LibDemAlways]

35. Mittens misspoke. What he meant to say was

"I want to help (myself to tax breaks) the 99% (don't enjoy)."

[Mz Pip]

36. So he wants to help the 99%

That's nice. How? Seriously, what are his plans other than more tax cuts for the non job creators?

[gordianot]

37. I am convinced that Romney is a Changeling.

Republicans have a choice either a vicious troll (Newt) or a nasty creature that changes his identity on a whim (Romney).

[jmowreader]

38. He didn't feel that way when he was at Bain Capital

Okay, Mitt, how many people who had good jobs did you fire when your company took over theirs?

[closeupready]

49. That's exactly right. He's lying IMO.

nt

[wordpix]

66. ditto when he failed to disclose "unknown amt" of income from Swiss bank acct. last year

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jfKwAFOcZHbgbGvnn_qsyyu4VgOQ?docId=e572ce821c0a4406bd2f492e5276bed5

snip: Earlier Thursday, it was disclosed that Romney and his wife, Ann Romney, failed to list an unknown amount of investment income from a variety of sources including a Swiss bank account on financial disclosure forms filed last year. His campaign said it was working to correct the omissions.

Gingrich also failed to report income from his 2010 tax return on his financial disclosure. The former Georgia congressman will amend his disclosure to show $252,500 in salary from one of his businesses, spokesman R.C. Hammond said.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

39. Thanks Mitt...

... when we decide we'd like to be minced into soylent green we'll let you know.

[JohnnyRingo]

40. But not too good wages.....

Because once someone begins pulling down union wages, he's "earning too much", and needs some "reigning in"..

It's relevent because the breaking point seems to be about $56,000 a year.... What a coincidence.

[ehrnst]

41. "...But not enough to pay the taxes that you people pay." (nt)

[TBF]

42. It doesn't matter that you didn't inherit it you clueless idiot -

while folks are losing jobs, losing homes, and worried about where their next meal is coming from (both in this country and worldwide) you should think about why any one person really doesn't need 150-200 million dollars for themselves.

Capitalists suck.

[santamargarita]

43. And Heckle and Jeckle are real!

[Mosaic]

44. We can't let people make money off of money

This guy made millions sitting on his ass, and paid a fraction of taxes of what a normal worker did. The class war, waged by them silently, gives unfair advantages to the privileged. We can end privilege and we should. America does not want an aristocracy, we are too modern for that. We must become more democratic, more unified, not less.

[a2liberal]

45. lol (n/t)

[closeupready]

48. Oh, yeah, I am sure you want to.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

50. "The 99% are 2/3 people my friend." nt

[ThomThom]

51. he made 20 mil off 150 mil, I guess he didn't have it in an interest

paying checking account. I made 50 cents off mine last year

[hunter]

53. Wait, wait, I think there's something in the Bible about this...

"I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

I think that means you need to give all your money to someone like Doctors Without Borders, Remote Area Medical, or even the SPCA. But please, please, not a church, most have a bad reputation, and will spend the money on something evil, like denying the civil rights of gay people...

And then, Mr. Romney, you have to do actual work that makes the world a better place, to the best of your abilities...

Hmmmm, seems you're a skilled corporate liquidator, self promoter, and spewer of bullshit, Mr. Romney. These things don't really help people...

Can you clean toilets?

[Roland99]

55. You know what's interesting about that quote? That he actually said "99%"

The Occupy movement set that meme. The GOP can't take that away.

[LiberalLovinLug]

56. That's what I was going to say!

You beat me to it.

The more the 1% and their stoopid supporters use those terms, the more it will sink in to the greater population.

[and-justice-for-all]

57. bullshit...

His idea of helping is eliminating...

OBAMA BIDEN 2012.

[Quantess]

59. There he goes, flip-flopping again.

Just last week he said the 99% vs 1% was about envy and not wanting to work hard. Asshat!

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

62. BAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAAA!!

really, that cracked me up *wipes tear*

hoo boy, that was hilarious. just...wow

[politicasista]

64. Flipper wants to help no one but himself n/t

[wordpix]

65. hey Tax Haven Mitt, give US back the tax $ you would have paid if your million$

weren't parked in the Caymans and Bermuda all those years.

And also, the million$ you helped other richies evade in taxes.

Maybe then I'll start listening.

Until then,