August 16, 2012

Ann's body language

at the exact moment the interviewer mentions the off shore accounts in Ann's name she suddenly squirms and crosses her legs. Lying liars.




Ann Romney Not So Sympathetic When Talking About Taxes
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/08/ann-romney-deployed-put-sympathetic-face-tax-returns/55804/

August 16, 2012

ann romney is one tax return interview away from a wire hanger moment

lol found on Twitter

August 15, 2012

Chelsea Clinton Mezvinsky

Interviewed for next month's Vogue. Described by Huma Abedin as the "smartest person I've ever met", working on her doctorate at Oxford, considering politics someday. WOW.




http://todayonthetrail.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/08/15/13294061-chelsea-clinton-reveals-politics-kids-are-a-possibility

August 14, 2012

Ryan's brother former Bain employee

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/14/paul-ryans-major-private-equity-connection/

Paul Ryan's major private equity connection

Vice presidential candidate's brother involved with private equity, Bain.

FORTUNE -- Rep. Paul Ryan only has been Mitt Romney's running mate for a few days, but he has a much longer connection to another private equity executive: Tobin Ryan, Paul's older brother and a partner with Seidler Equity Partners.

Seidler is located just outside of Los Angeles, but Tobin Ryan works out of his home state of Wisconsin. He joined the firm in October 2010, following a three-year stint with local private equity firm King Equity.

Before that, he served as chief operating officer for Tomah Products, a maker of industrial ammonia that is now owned by Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (APD). It was during Ryan's time at Tomah that he first got to know the folks at Seidler, when the firm helped sponsor a management buyout from another outside shareholder. Tomah's CEO at the time, Steve King, is a major player in Wisconsin's Republican Party, last year serving as one of three transition team members for newly-elected RNC chair Reince Priebus.
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August 14, 2012

49% of Seniors “living on a food budget of about $5 a day"

The wealthiest nation in the world has half of its seniors living on $5 a day for food; that’s an out and out scandal. That’s completely unacceptable but more than that – it’s the result of an economic system that doesn’t allow people to save for decades. You have people who lost a fortune by reckless banks investing in risky credit derivatives and financial schemes … and in a blink – people lost their life savings. It is untenable.

We’re not talking about some minority of people who were simply irresponsible … we’re talking about HALF of America’s seniors. And the ONLY reason that number isn’t higher is because of Social Security; without Social Security … more families would become caretakers of their parents and for those without families … they would end up dying in some homeless shelter somewhere. And – no … that’s not hyperbolic; that’s reality.

The NY Times writes HERE:

Seventy-five percent of Americans nearing retirement age in 2010 had less than $30,000 in their retirement accounts. The specter of downward mobility in retirement is a looming reality for both middle- and higher-income workers. Almost half of middle-class workers, 49 percent, will be poor or near poor in retirement, living on a food budget of about $5 a day.

Read more: http://www.classwarfareexists.com/49-of-seniors-living-on-a-food-budget-of-about-5-a-day/#ixzz23WY1j2tm

August 13, 2012

America’s clear choice: Franklin Roosevelt or Ayn Rand

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blogs.ft.com/the-a-list/2012/08/13/americas-clear-choice-franklin-roosevelt-or-ayn-rand/?
Simon Schama
August 13, 2012

This much you have to give Mitt Romney: by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate he has made it impossible to avoid turning the presidential election into a genuine and long overdue debate on the nature, extent and responsibilities of American government. By doing that, whatever the outcome, he will have rendered a service to the American people, who deserve to be drawn into in an all-out contest of principles rather than the usual beauty-pageant cum pratfall-watch that consume most autumn campaigns.

Because Mr Ryan (unlike the top of the ticket), is in the habit of actually attaching numbers to his budget proposals, there is a faint possibility that the debate between Americans who want to retain the institutions of the New Deal and the 1960s (such as Medicare), and those who believe that under Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson the country took a fatal step towards collectivism, will actually have to consider evidence rather than collapse into the usual exchange of uninformed abuse that gets confused with argument.

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August 11, 2012

I predict a Gary Hart downfall for Ryan

He is young, (some think) attractive, obsessed with his physique, likes his drink, has a huge inflated ego, now suddenly a rock star with teabilly groupies throwing their red white and blue panties at him. In the mix his general soulless materialistic personality and lack of integrity, plus ruthless ambition and lust for power= trouble, just wait.

August 11, 2012

Ryan's plan and nursing home care

up to now, if 89 y.o. Aunt Millie breaks a hip and needs a nursing home, the family is not responsible for the cost, she spends down all her assets and then applies for Medicaid. Under Ryan's plan, that would change. She would no longer be eligible for Medicaid until YOUR assets are also depleted. You, dear nephew or grandson, would have a lien placed against YOUR home, to recover any costs for her care. Our nations elderly, who worked and fought for and built this nation, will be abandoned and left blowing in the wind. Think this will never effect you? Think again.

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/medicaid/153957-ryan-budget-under-attack-for-potential-cuts-to-nursing-home-care

August 11, 2012

Senior citizens on Paul Ryan

August 8, 2012

No war for the sons of privilege

Josh is the one considering politics, the one who smugly and arrogantly says "well, there are other sacrifices as well, I hope to someday make one of that caliber". Sounds like daddy Willard wants to invade Iran. So Josh, does that mean you will volunteer to go to Tehran? (He is a major campaign surrogate, and is not "off limits".)

His sons "sacrifice"


Our sons sacrifice