New one going around Facebook

[xmas74]

For the past week or so I've noticed this message:

"Apparently I'm supposed to be more angry about what Mitt Romney does with HIS money than what Obama does with MINE."

I've made simple comments about sending money overseas doesn't make me, the voter, feel confident that he is confident in the American financial sector. I've also made the comment that if he took some of that money that might be floating around overseas and invested here stateside, it would create more jobs. (I'm not going into the other charges-that will lose them.)

Anyone, in the past week, one has deleted the comment, one has ignored the comment, and one has now blocked me.

[Skidmore]

1. I think Matalin started that BS on This Week last Sunday.

Since then it's been making the rounds.

[xmas74]

4. That's around the time I started noticing it.

That time frame sounds right.

[n2doc]

2. Since mitt is running entirely on his record as a businessman, it is important

If he wanted to run on his record as Governor, then maybe it would be less so. But he is the one making the big deal about Bain.

Ask these bozos- so the republican led congress has no say in the budget?

[xmas74]

5. They don't want to talk about Congress.

We tried that in the past about something a year ago.

[sufrommich]

3. Maybe mention that what Romney does with his

money is pretty much proof that the "trickle down theory" is a lie. Rich people won't create jobs if given more money and nobody proves that better than Romney.

[xmas74]

6. We've tried that in the past about other things.

I went to high school with these people and most don't want to talk about it-they just want the sound bite.

As to the whole Obamacare/Romneycare-yeah, they're angry it even exists. A few of them are like the people in the audience demanding the hypothetical 30-something die from his injury/illness if he doesn't have insurance. (Remember the debate? Yep, a few posted after that if it were a real case then he deserved to die.)

[brewens]

13. When it comes down to it, they'll all be like Ayn Rand signing up for Medicare.

It was the end of civilization as we know it but when it paid her medical bills, Ayn was right there to take it.

[xmas74]

16. And they'll tell you exactly why it is owed to them.

I hear it all now.

Someone made a nasty comment a few months ago about unemployment. This same person is on disability. When I pointed out how they were receiving government money the comment was that it was "owed" to them, while unemployment is for lazy bums.

(The person receiving disability worked for a total of three years before applying.)

[Life Long Dem]

7. America! America!

America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

[xmas74]

10. That's exactly how they act on fb.

Sometimes it goes a bit too far, especially when they begin bashing everything else.

[Blue Meany]

8. It' now what he did with his moeny, it's how he got it. The only difference between Romney

and a pirate is that regulations had been slashed to make his form of piracy legal. All the wealth he acquired was at other people's expense, including American taxpayers. Workers lost their jobs, their homes, their pensions to feed his greed.

[xmas74]

12. they don't seem to care about any of it.

It's really all about blaming a black man.

Damn, I never thought I'd actually say it.

[Life Long Dem]

21. "they don't seem to care about any of it."

That's not shocking.

[xmas74]

22. Things have changed.

It's surprising how much they've changed.

[Johonny]

9. For people so concerned with what Obama does with their money

how come they never know anything about the actual tax rate, it compared to the historic rate, what the government really spends money on, that the Republicans in the house are the primary reason for stupid spending etc...

I'd believe they were concerned if they bothered to know anything about Obama's actual presidency.

[xmas74]

14. they really don't want to know.

They want someone to feed it to them in sound bytes.

[maryellen99]

25. I dont get these people

Especially the ones who post about how he should take a pay cut and how too much is spent on his security details.

[Johonny]

27. Someone yesterday told me about Reagan's huge budget surpluses

They applaud congressional hearings on Sox the cats white house mailing list and don't give a * about Republican presidents losing trillions in programs that don't work and would never work. Yet they want you and me to think they are really concerned.

[Ganja Ninja]

11. Apparently the right is not full of deep thinkers.

Who knew?

If you're giving huge tax breaks to all those "job creators" and waiting for results, you might want to know what the mega millionaire and billionaires are doing to produce jobs in this country. Apparently it's not much of anything.

[xmas74]

15. I just wonder when the change happened.

We all went to school together. They were never this conservative back then.

[Wounded Bear]

17. You might mention that, as a venture capitalist...

What Romney did was mostly with other peoples' money, not his.

But of course, RWers tend to only talk, not listen.

[xmas74]

18. They don't care about that.

They only care about how they can be just as rich as he is.

One of them actually said that the reporters doing news reports on him (Diane Sawyer was called by name) make more money than him. Well, duh, if his is all from interest while hers is from salary!

Gotta love how they turn it around.

[maryellen99]

26. wannabe one percenters nt

[JHB]

19. His economic plan (such as it is) adds to the deficit...

...and the only loopholes he could close to make up for it are ones that benefit the middle class (home mortgage deductions, etc.), so it isn't so much what Mitt does with his money as much as what he'll do with YOURS.


Mitt got (more) rich by engineering deals that benefited investors at the expense of the rank and file. If you weren't at the "We're VIP" Hamptons shindigs, then YOU are "rank and file".

[ananda]

20. If Romney becomes prez..

.. your money will be his and based on his record,
you know what he'll do with it.

[randr]

23. A lot of what Mitt calls "his money"

are our tax dollars.

[arbusto_baboso]

29. EXACTLY! Plus, the pension plans of companies Bain deliberately failed...

had to be picked up and paid by someone. Who? The US taxpayer...

[Fozzledick]

28. Do they enjoy paying taxes so that Romney doesn't have to?

[nc4bo]

30. Humph

I've got one that's ignoring Romney's indiscretions and still talking birf certif'cates and how Obama should be impeached of it. Oh yeah, lots of secrets about Obama and there's a conspiracy why he's still POTUS.

I told him/her if there were any issues with Obama they've been solved already and I've no doubt whatsoever the GOP would have used it!

Yet, he/she claims he/she is an independent but in reality is in denial - he/she is really a teabagger/birther but don't to know it.

There will be certain segments of the voting public who are proud to live in an alternate reality, no matter how much proof you provide.

Eff 'em.

[xmas74]

31. One of the people is a gay male

who really thinks that everything will be better under a GOP rule. Another is a woman who tells everyone that liberals are just lazy and just stick their hands out for benefits. (She's on disability, receives food stamps, heating assistance, lives in Section 8 housing that helps her pay her electric, etc, but feels that anyone on unemployment doesn't deserve any assistance whatsoever.)

Strange lot of people. Glad the only contact we have now is via the internet. No way I'll be attending my 20 year reunion.