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kpete

(71,898 posts)
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 01:04 PM Sep 2012

I Don't Resent Mitt Romney for His Wealth-I resent Mitt Romney for the poverty of his ideas & values

Republicans and their standard bearers cannot be trusted with America's future. This much is clear and should influence all voters as we move toward November.




I Don't Resent Mitt Romney for His Wealth

I resent Mitt Romney for the poverty of his ideas. Even more, I resent him for the poverty of his values.


Not that Mitt Romney has no ideas. Far from it, he's full of them. It's just that the ramifications of the policies he espouses and the values they imply have at their core a bare skeleton of compassion and empathy, and the slimmest notion of what human communities need in order to thrive.

As usual, this take on what makes Mitt tick is inspired by a few things I read this morning in my usual hunt for what's up. I found this op-ed in the New York Times by James Atlas entitled "Don't Show Me the Money," a very compelling read. Though it talked about money and our society's current seeming obsession with it, the most compelling takeaway was a quote by a Harvard government professor:

“The most fateful change that unfolded during the past three decades was not an increase in greed,” Harvard professor Mr. Sandel observes. “It was the expansion of markets, and of market values, into spheres of life where they don’t belong.”

Exactly so. This is a defining, perhaps the defining judgment of our age. And it's an observation that works very well as a means of analyzing what makes Mitt tick and whether his notions have any value for the wider society.

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Much More:
http://www.theamericanhuman.com/2012/09/i-dont-resent-mitt-romney-for-his-wealth.html
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I Don't Resent Mitt Romney for His Wealth-I resent Mitt Romney for the poverty of his ideas & values (Original Post) kpete Sep 2012 OP
You have to look how Romney got his wealth Rosa Luxemburg Sep 2012 #1
exactly +1000 - he got his wealth in an immoral corrupt way firehorse Sep 2012 #4
The way Romney made his fortune was in no way, shape or form honest. Initech Sep 2012 #2
Being wealthy is no problem. How you attained it and what you do with it can be problems. appleannie1 Sep 2012 #3

Rosa Luxemburg

(28,627 posts)
1. You have to look how Romney got his wealth
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 01:08 PM
Sep 2012

feasting on the 'have-nots', tax dodging and jumping through the loopholes.

firehorse

(755 posts)
4. exactly +1000 - he got his wealth in an immoral corrupt way
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 01:14 PM
Sep 2012

He could care a less about us little people. He's outgrown corporations and now wants to own America itself.

Initech

(99,909 posts)
2. The way Romney made his fortune was in no way, shape or form honest.
Mon Sep 17, 2012, 01:13 PM
Sep 2012

Tax dodging, draft dodging, hiding his wealth in offshore bank accounts - laying people off by the thousands... he's a liar and a crook - no better than the vultures running things. He's completely dishonest and that's not what we should look for in a leader.

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