Beau of the Fifth Column: Let's talk about Romney, bribes, and cancelling debt....

[TexasTowelie]

[Warpy]

1. Rich men only see money getting away from them

and they feel that money is rightfully theirs because they are rich men.

What they'll never manage to get (other than the fact that the emptiness inside them can't be filled with money) is the multiplier effect;.

What that basically means is that money spent at the bottom over and above bare subsistence multiplies as it heads through the economy, that the rising tide that lifts anything but the superyachts has to start at the bottom.

No rich man wants to believe that, they consider themselves a species apart and that money has endowed them all with superior wisdom, and that wisdom sees everything from health care to living wages to forgiveness of unfair and crippling debt loads as bribes for votes.

I'm afraid this is the status quo until the next crash happens, they only allow timid reforms to get through when they feel like they've got nothing left to lose, they're down to that last billion.

Romney might have enough money to tell TFG to go to hell, but he's not our friend.

[BigOleDummy]

2. I like Beau more and more

He sees things so clearly and knows how to express himself so well.