Damn, Willard!

[Token Williams-Black]

This will be moved to the political thread; I just placed it here first because I wanted folks who avoid the Politics & Religeon section to take a glance at it.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/romney-naacp-booing-if-they-want-more-free

I mean, damn!

[giovanni_hotel]

'If they want more free stuff, tell them to go vote for the other guy.' -Romney.
Wow.

More jobs, better public education and affordable health care is 'free stuff' I guess to Willard.

What I call FREE is when the 1% on Wall Street get a $700 billion bailout, interest free, from the American taxpayer and not one bank executive responsible for selling junk derivative stocks around the world goes to prison.

This economy collapsed from the top, not the bottom.

[Tiffany Anne]

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This economy collapsed from the top, not the bottom.

And yet it's the bottom that got poorer.

Hey, I guess trickle down economics does work!

[Ben]

'If they want more free stuff, tell them to go vote for the other guy.' -Romney.
Wow.

More jobs, better public education and affordable health care is 'free stuff' I guess to Willard.

What I call FREE is when the 1% on Wall Street get a $700 billion bailout, interest free, from the American taxpayer and not one bank executive responsible for selling junk derivative stocks around the world goes to prison.

This economy collapsed from the top, not the bottom.

The initial bailout was $700 billion. The overall bailout may have topped $23 trillion. But it's definitely in the trillions. How much, well, we aren't sure.
It isn't transparent; it's a secret. (If you look at political science theory or what the Founders said, well, the way government is supposed to work is that government is supposed to be completely transparent. We, the citizenry, are supposed to see what they're doing. Except in very rare cases.
And the INDIVIDUAL is supposed to live in a wall of privacy. Unless there's evidence that we're committing a crime, of course.
But we've reversed that.) Anyway, the point is: we don't know the exact amount (most likely, again, in the trillions) that the taxpayers handed over to the banks. It's a secret.
Anyway, what does bailing out banks have to do with capitalism? What does subsidizing the oil sector have to do with a market system?
The thing is: corporate power want big government. For themselves. But not for the average person. Why? It suits their parochial interests. I mean, it's the way of the world.

[Merkurie]

'If they want more free stuff, tell them to go vote for the other guy.' -Romney.
Wow.

More jobs, better public education and affordable health care is 'free stuff' I guess to Willard.

What I call FREE is when the 1% on Wall Street get a $700 billion bailout, interest free, from the American taxpayer and not one bank executive responsible for selling junk derivative stocks around the world goes to prison.

This economy collapsed from the top, not the bottom.

Well said.
Fanned for truth.
Should never be forgotten.

[Ben]

Romney Invested Millions in Chinese Company Profiting from US Outsourcing:

Romney Invested Millions in Chinese Company Profiting from US Outsourcing - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB4PYK36mnY&feature=plcp)

[Willie Escalade]

And yet poor Mid-western and southern folks want this dude to lead the country...smdh...

[llemming]

funny

[Silcc69]

And yet poor Mid-western and southern folks want this dude to lead the country...smdh...

Relgion trumps anything and everything to them and the republicans are the champions for the religious folks.

[Willie Escalade]

Relgion trumps anything and everything to them and the republicans are the champions for the religious folks.

People are quick to vote against their best interests just because...

[Helvis2012]

He's a scary guy.

[Ben]

He's a scary guy.

I think the institution itself is scary. It's the system, the structure that is scary.
Plus he does come from the corporate world, as it were. And the corporate structure changes you. As you internalize the corporate temperament, as it were. He might be the nicest guy. I don't know.
But he's merely serving his own interests by running for president. That I know. Not all politicians are like this. Some actually do want to do good. And actually serve the people, as it were. I don't get that sense from Romney. (I didn't even get that sense from Obama. Nor Bush.
Now government -- like corporations -- are not benevolent institutions. And, again, that's what you internalize.
I mean, you can't humanize people. Because people are already human. But you can dehumanize them. And that's what the corporate structure/tendency does. Whereby you focus on yourself. And no one else matters. That runs counter to the core of being a human being. Which is care, compassion and concern for others. Mitt is the antithesis of that. Not by his own design. Just by how he was brought up, where he worked etc., etc.)
Romney is a moderate. His policies might veer slightly to the right of Obama's. I don't see him as overly scary. He was the moderate of the bunch.
Now Santorum -- he's scary.

NOAM CHOMSKY: Gain wealth, forget all but self (THE CORPORATION) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJrEQtQDmXQ)

[Tiffany Anne]

I I don't see him as overly scary. He was the moderate of the bunch.
Now Santorum -- he's scary.

You show your naivete. The scary one is never the one standing there going booga booga booga.

Santorum is crazy, but he's known and was never going to be left with the keys to the car. Romney does what the people who give him money tell him to do. He has no principles of his own, no thoughts. Hell, the party leaders have already said of him they just want someone who'll do as he's told and sign the things they put in front of him.

[Ben]

You show your naivete. The scary one is never the one standing there going booga booga booga.

Santorum is crazy, but he's known and was never going to be left with the keys to the car. Romney does what the people who give him money tell him to do. He has no principles of his own, no thoughts. Hell, the party leaders have already said of him they just want someone who'll do as he's told and sign the things they put in front of him.

Tiffany, you wrote and I agree: "(Romney) has no principles..."
However, I think the same applies to Obama. Wherein Obama has no core principles and doesn't really care about issues.
I've ruminated on Romney and thought: what's his motivation? I've no idea. Human behavior is just so complex. I mean, we don't even understand the behavior of insects. Let alone people.
He was the Chairman and CEO of Bain, of course. CEOs are constrained by an institutional framework. And he would've learned and understood that. Maybe he likes serving institutional power structures.
If a CEO does not increase profit and market share, well, he or she is out. So, the institutional position requires that behavior. And, too, you internalize that belief system. Romney most certainly does. You know, you're in the capital/corporate game, as it were, to enrich yourself.
I think the core question is: why does he or she do that. Perhaps in childhood the likes of Romney was inculcated about institutional roles. Who knows.
Again, core questions are why do people do what they do.