Occupy New Hampshire Protester Takes Romney to Task for Declaring "Corporations Are People"

[KansDem]

(excerpt)

MITT ROMNEY: OK, not let’s get to facts, all right? There are two places they can go. Hold on. It’s my turn. You’ve had your turn. Now it’s my turn, all right? First of all, you’re right it goes to dividends, all right, which is to the owners. But they’re not the 1 percent. All right? They’re not only the 1 percent. I’m sure, among the dividends, go to the 1 percent, but also go to the people who have pensions. All right? There’s a guy. You don’t—are you in the 1 percent? No. He’s got dividends and retirement plans, 401(k)s. They’re filled of the dividends that come out from corporations. That’s number one.

Number two, you are right, they can go into retained earnings, which then can be used for capital expenditures or growing the business or hiring people or working capital. When a business has profit, it can do good things: give it to the shareholders and grow the enterprise. And by the way, the only way it can hire people is if it grows the enterprise.

Now, corporations, they’re made up of people, and then, of course, the buildings that people work in. The buildings don’t pay taxes. The only people that—the only entities that pay taxes are people. And so, corporations are collections of people that are trying to have good jobs for themselves and promote the future. And so, corporations are made up of people, and the money goes to people, either to hire people or to pay shareholders. And so, they’re made up of people. So, somehow thinking that there’s something else out there that we could just grab money from and get taxes from, and everything could be better, that doesn’t involve people, well, they’re still people. And what I want to do is make America a place where those corporations that have that money decide to invest here.

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/5/occupy_new_hampshire_protester_takes_romney

I don't see how these statements answer the question...

[gratuitous]

1. I sprained my cranium reading that gobbledygook

What in the blue hell is Romney talking about? Let us know if he ever gets to the facts, whatever he thinks they might be.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. This must be the legendary "spin"

because my head is spinning as well.

[qb]

2. The 1% got themselves one smooth-talking prostitute in Mitt Romney.

[randome]

3. Yeah, he didn't really answer anything, did he?

Just went on and on and on on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and...

[SpiralHawk]

4. Romney has no freaking idea what he is trying to say

but it probably boils down to: \"Shut up, bend over and meekly submit, like the Freepers and Baggers, and the other Suckers. Sneer.\"

[Uncle Joe]

5. Corporations are legalized, authoritarian entities and Romney is a corporate supremacist,

that's why the corporate media loves him so.

His statement never did answer the question, because he wanted to obfuscate the issue instead and that's all his answer was intended to do.

Thanks for the thread, KansDem.

[ronnie624]

7. !

[pinboy3niner]

8. Cut the crap and what you're left with is "Number two" nt