Pic Of The Moment: Trust-worthy?

[EarlG]

1994 Willard Romney: "The BLIND TRUST Is An Age Old RUSE"

[MADem]

1. He's got that lying psychopath's stare, doesn't he?

[onehandle]

2. 'People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.' nt

[tk2kewl]

3. K&R

[Ganja Ninja]

4. Are there like two of these guys walking around?

Maybe he's got the GOP amnesia. There's a lot of that going around.

[geardaddy]

5. Ohhhh Willlarrrd!

[Plucketeer]

6. LOL!!!

There's a BUNCH of folks who ignorantly "Blind Trusted" their monies to a kindly gent named Madoff. Such truly "hands off" investing is risky at the very least. Do we REALLY want a president who stashes cash in matresses he's knows nothing about?

[Smarmie Doofus]

7. Bloomberg's been using that "blind trust" bullshit in NYC for 10 years.

With more than a few DUers defending it.


Is it possible to vote for the *1994* Romney?

[lark]

8. The '94 Romney would never have been nominated

in the 2012 tea crazies environment. That's his real problem, trying to pretend that 1994 guy was someone else.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

9. FUCK YOU, rMONEY

[ChoppinBroccoli]

10. Maybe Next He'd Like To Explain.........................

......................how his 401K, which has a limit on how much can be contributed to it per year of $44,000, presently has roughly $100 million in it. He's apparently been contributing the maximum amount to his 401K every year for the last THOUSAND YEARS or so.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. "Blind trust" describes the way Republicans vote.

[ohgeewhiz]

15. GREAT!!! I'm going to steal that and use it!!!

But, of course, you can claim credit here, and you really were the first person I read who said it, so you deserve all the credit.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. Feel free to steal it.

Way back when I was posting in ATJ in the 90's I would post something in the morning and that night I would hear it repeated word for word in a late night monolog which told me the writers for The Tonight Show and Letterman were trolling our newsgroup for ideas. It happened so often I guarantee you that I could have gone into one of their bull sessions and they would have heard of me.

The way I look at it, if you post it in a public forum: It becomes public domain.

[Thor_MN]

12. When exactly, was this current "Blind Trust" established?

[Bill USA]

13. recommended. bookmarked.

[ohgeewhiz]

14. Great suggestion for us all

DO bookmark this, folks!

If Obama folks don't have an add like this running in all swing states by October, they should!

Such a wonderful juxtaposition.

Now, let's remember who Romney was running against for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1994, ANOTHER VERY RICH MAN, you may have heard of him, Ted Kennedy, I believe his name was, Edward M or Ted, I'm not sure which, or maybe both. No matter, back then, Romney didn't like the idea of blind trusts as being a cover for someone who was probably richer than Romney was in 1994. But AFTER 1994, Romney learned how to play all the bells and whistles of investment schemes and all sorts of more profits, after all, in 1994, Romney had only closed down a half dozen companies, and Staples was his big up and up company.

That was then, this is now... Now, of course, we should believe Romney's "blind trust" invested in his own son's business, to the tune of 10 Million $. This is pure coincidence, and a new upstart company with no track record of profits was certainly worth someone's 10 million investment, "blindly".

Jezus, how phony can an American rich white guy get?

[GeorgeGist]

17. These young ladies knew.

[sabrina 1]

18. That's the trouble with lying, you have to be smart enough to remember the lies.

Not only is he a liar, he is not even a smart liar. I hope he is asked about this, but I wouldn't count on the MSM asking him.

[Peaceful Protester]

19. Romney's Donors Share His Love of Offshore Tax Havens

Offshore tax havens are as damaging to the federal government and American taxpayers are they are lucrative for the culprits. They deprive the government of as much as $100 billion per year in tax revenue, according to one study by the US Public Interest Research Group, which means it costs the average taxpayer $434 per year.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/168810/romneys-donors-share-his-love-offshore-tax-havens

[Peaceful Protester]

20. In Case You Were Wondering...

Yes.

Rupert Murdock shares Mitt Romney's love of offshore tax havens.

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Rupert Laid Bare | The Economist
Mar 18th 1999

Newscorp Investments is Rupert Murdoch’s main British holding company. Although the group’s profits over the past 11 years add up to £1.4 billion ($2.1 billion), it has paid no net British corporation tax

News Corporation has paid an effective tax rate of only around 6%. By comparison, Disney, one of the world’s other media empires, paid 31%.

Finding out the specifics of News Corporation’s tax affairs is difficult because of the company’s complex structure. In its latest accounts, the group lists roughly 800 subsidiaries, including some 60 incorporated in such tax havens as the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, the Netherlands Antilles and the British Virgin Islands, where the secrecy laws are as attractive as the climate.

http://www.economist.com/node/319862

[Honeycombe8]

21. Wow. This better show up in a TV ad. This is dyn-o-mite. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

22. K & R