Spreading Santorum: Slick Rick is a big fan of income inequality

[marmar]

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Tuesday that he was "for" income inequality, but also wanted "equality of opportunity."

"The reason you see some sympathy among the American public for them is the grave concern -- and it's a legitimate one -- that blue-collar workers, lower-income workers, are having a harder and harder time rising," said the former Pennsylvania senator at a campaign stop in Pella, Iowa, according to the Des Moines Register.

"They talk about income inequality. I'm for income inequality. I think some people should make more than other people, because some people work harder and have better ideas and take more risk, and they should be rewarded for it. I have no problem with income inequality."

He then launched an attack at President Barack Obama. "President Obama is for income equality. That's socialism. It's worse yet, it's Marxism. ... I'm not for income equality. I'm not for equality of result -- I'm for equality of opportunity." ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/20/rick-santorum-iowa-caucus-2012-income-inequality_n_1161061.html

[Enrique]

1. he claims to be a devout Catholic

some reporter should ask him if he realizes the Pope is 180 degrees opposite on him on this?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/pope-benedict-xvis-peace-message-calls-for-wealth-redistribution/2011/12/16/gIQA0Z9nyO_story.html


VATICAN CITY — Noting a “rising sense of frustration” at the worldwide economic recession, Pope Benedict XVI said that a more just and peaceful world requires “adequate mechanisms for the redistribution of wealth.”

The pope’s words appeared in his message for the World Day of Peace 2012, released on Friday (Dec. 16) at the Vatican.

The message laments that “some currents of modern culture, built upon rationalist and individualist economic principles, have cut off the concept of justice from its transcendent roots, detaching it from charity and solidarity.”

Authentic education, Benedict writes, teaches the proper use of freedom with “respect for oneself and others, including those whose way of being and living differs greatly from one’s own.”

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[rocktivity]

2. "Slick" Rick. LOVE IT!!!

rocktivity

[hifiguy]

3. It's Mister Hankey,

the Christmas poo!