Just keep it up Mitt. One day you may realize that money isn't everything.

what's a few million to Mitt?

joint...

A forest of walnuts, chestnuts, hazels, apples, pears, peaches, apricots, serviceberries, cherries, persimmons, plums and oaks. Let people walk through in the summer and fall, collecting as much food as they want, and whatever they don't eat is there for the wildlife to enjoy. Occassionally do sustainable hunting to manage the wildlife populations and put some meat in the freezer. It would be my own personal slice of heaven that I could share with others as a renewable source of fresh, healthy food.

I just planted 50 fruiting trees and shrubs this spring around the yard. I have 200 hybrid chestnut and Russian walnut tree seeds sprouting in pots in my garden, and only have room for a dozen or so. The rest I have to give away to friends, family, coworkers, etc. I also have 20 apricot seedlings, 5 pear seedlings, 10 apple seedlings for grafting that I'll need to find homes for as well once they grow.

I really need a farm.

Because America has room for 100 million golf courses.

He wipes his ass with $100's

Everyone cannot be rich, everyone cannot be an employer, everyone cannot be a successful corporate raider or speculator: you cannot have a social order of winners and losers in which everybody wins!

The rubes believe and vote for the Campaign Lie - "us Republicans will make you rich!" Then can't seem to connect the dots when the Governing Truth is an agenda to make them poorer while making themselves richer.

Perfect.

I will have a elevator in every garage, a pool in every yard, and a golf course. Boy I can't wait to be rich.

Wow, this douchebag is even more delusional than I imagined.

Everything's relative.

what he would describe as a pool would be what you or I might describe as a pool.

A golf course, not so much, even for everyone in the 1%. But, Yeah Mitt, it's the ultimate goal we're all trying to attain.

Luckily, we have a good number of family-owned Greek restaurants around here that have pizza that tastes 10 tons better, anyway.

to everything Koch brothers that I'm boycotting....Maybe we'll all have to stay local, if possible other than pizza. That one's easy.

near campus. NY style, very good.
I went in one night and Rachel Maddow was on the tv machine. I went to the owner and thanked him.

I'll never patronize one of those places ever again.

I've come to the point where I avoid ALL major, corporate, restaurant chains.

I eat from local business establishments whose owners I like and whose food I trust.

That limits my options severely, but it is well worth it.

always have better food with fresher ingredients.

I can't stand fast food anymore.

Plus, it puts my dollars back into MY community - not some corporation's coffers.

He's front and center in all his commercials. He'll be there with a major sports figure, but he gives himself the line and the best camera angle. You see the sports hero standing by this pudgy-faced, self-satisfied worm, and the worm is doing all the talking. Who could have guessed the worm was a Republican? Last Papa John's Pizza for me.

It's kind of expensive but their pizzas are delicious! (Although they're not exactly local as it was founded in Chicago, but it doesn't matter all that much.) Double Dave's is pretty good as well, but they're only in Texas for the most part.

than some snobs hitting a ball across the lawn.

What an idiot he is.

like they did for Romney's family

Romney's family fled the USA and the laws that prohibited their chosen lifestyle, and when that didn't work out they used the gov't to re-establish themselves in the good old USA?

Do I have that straight?

I had to look twice to make sure it wasn't The Onion. Nice way to boost your cred with the working folks of America, Mitt!

oh, right, that means you can't keep "certain people" out.

and BTW, if you rich want to have your won pools and golf courses, go right ahead. I suggest putting them in the Cayman Islands with the rest of your stuff.

... public pools and municipal golf courses, paid for with that evil socialist tax money!! Mitt's just afraid he'd get a rash on his lily white behind having to spend any time among us unwashed masses.

it seems as if the stress is getting to him. This makes no sense at all. I guess George Clooney doesn't have a pool or any other democrat. What a maroon.

.... Mitt bought him Pebble Beach and Brandon Dunes.

I have a pool, put it in for my back...I wonder if his friends with pools invite all the neighbor kids and grandkids to swim like I do?

I love seeing them have fun splashing around.

I think that's one of our main differences between dems and repubs, we want to share with others and they are me mine!

I have read a dozen articles about what additions/renovations that are best to add value to a home. A pool ranks as one of the worst. Not everyone want the additional work or expense in keeping one and the expense in putting in one does not payback when the home is sold.

Golf courses!? I have no f_____g interest in golf. How about some conservation land or preserved open space!

What's next Mitt? Everyone having an elevator for our multiple Cadillacs?

weeks except they didn't want the pool.

He bought a nice family house in New Hampshire and the in-ground pool seemed a nice plus, at least when he and his wife were in the early stages of buying and occupying the home.
Now, some years later, he has told me that if it didn't cost thousands to dig it up and get rid of it, he would. Nor does he fancy the expense and time to keep it. He's stuck with it. He makes the best of it though. What alternatives are there?

I don't think anyone should own a fucking golf course while people are starving or homeless. It's as simple as that. If it were up to me the land would be taken away and used for something productive like growing food for the hungry. I couldn't care less about Mitt Romney and John Schatter's incessant whining about how they "earned" everything. As far as I'm concerned they are worthless parasites.

those mean old democrats don't want you to own a pool or golf course. They're just plain mean; most are more concerned about those starving poor children or people who can't afford health care or people who don't have jobs; instead of swimming pools and golf courses that we all deserve (or at least my base).

It's idiotic to say that it's just in any way.

Until this country's direction is righted, every US citizen should work to help make it so before tending to their excesses. Until everyone can get affordable health care, I don't want to hear whether you can have a pool or a golf course in your backyard.

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Another kick.

those poor people in Benton Harbor, MI.

Doesn't Mitt have a golf course coming there so he can play a round with Maytag execs?
Pathetic.

I was thinking instead of a private golf course how about some really nice public housing and a community center.

what the GOP loves to do. Pander to the rich and tell them that Dems want to take their riches away.

NO, Dems want the rich to pay their fair taxes, and Dems also want EVERYONE to be able to own their own pools and golf courses if they desire.

What a f**k.

Obviously, Mitt and Papa John think it's more important that the idle rich have their little fantasy islands.

Democrats aren't actually against wealth for the sake of being against it; they (not being American, I can't say 'we', but I'm with you in spirit) are realists, and also have a decent sense of priorities - as opposed to the indecency of Romney.

Of course, plenty of Republicans don't want everyone to have a golf course - or even to be fed and healthy. Rick Santorum, for instance, was campaigning on the premise that suffering is good for people (as long as they're not Republicans, that is). And he had a hell of a lot of support.

“You know, if a Democrat were here he’d look around and say everyone should have an opportunity to live like this. Republicans come here and say only certain people should live like this.”

No need to thank me, Mitt. I'm sure you really wanted your true views to be known before the election.

Can anyone possibly be this deluded, divorced from reality and just plain STUPID and really expect to get elected to national office?

There is so much wrong with Willard's imbecilic statement that unpacking it would take several pages.

Is Willard now promising a pool and golf course for everyone??

Who will clean the pools and tend the grounds? I don't suppose Messrs. Romney or Schnatter spend much of their time doing the maintenance work on their many possessions.

Without his supporting cast of clowns during the ye-gods-ANOTHER-republican-debate? days, he's out there all alone -- and he's just not prepared to be a solo act.

Mmmmmmkay, Willard. Now where are we going to put a hundred million golf courses??

Moon golf.

He truly has no clue what regular people aspire to nor how they want to live.

Could you imagine their reaction to one of "those people" buying a golf course in their gated community?

The ones who do own the pools and golf courses.

I don't know anyone who owns a golf course.

I do and he is a world class douche bag and a phony too.

Democrats want people to have food to feed their children, a decent job, and a good education. Republicans want everyone to have a golf course and a pool. Which is living in the real world?

pizza so guess I'll pass on that one.

Wasn't it just recently that insanity or some other faux clown, complaining low income families owned televisions, microwaves, cell phones and refrigerators so how can they be poor?

So now rmoney thinks we should all have pools and golf courses? Can I just have a smallish course and use it to grow food instead?

... who would be willing to mow those greens and clean those pools? That is the sort of lifestyle that depends on a large number of low-paid workers. I guess these workers just aren't part of the "everybody" Mitt is talking about.

It refers to people with light skin (or brown from the sun), no funny accents, and at least 10 million in the bank.

right MITT? I mean why use facts? The GOP has been at this for a long time. They are experts in that game.

I don't have a golf course but I do have a pool.

This guy is so out of touch.

but we have a realistic plan to achieve that. It's called building public swimming pools and golf courses that everyone can enjoy.

The rich don't want everyone to have a pool and a golf course. If they did, they would support public swimming pools and golf courses. As it is, they just build their own private pools and courses and exclude those of us who don't have as much money as they do.

And I can use them any time I want. (When the "help" has them ready to go and opened up.)

I'm a taxpayer in the City of Dallas Texas. And a Democrat.

ever. I also want health care. Our needs are really pretty simple compared to what they have but that does not mean that I want them to have less. Just help us survive.

Republicans worry about swimming so soon after having food.
Dems just worry about having the food.

My family owns a swimming pool, and we're solidly left-wing. They just make shit up, I don't know how they get away with this.

No Mitt - they don't. The Republicans only stand for greed, corruption, and excess. They want a government like Somalia where everyone has guns and no one's in charge. Why do you think the GOP's always against handouts? They want everyone to work - for less wages than we were making four years ago. Electing a man who made a living stripping businesses of their assets and shutting them down is going to do jack shit to help our economy. Hell Mitt probably likes it the way it is - he profited handsomely from Bain Capital doing what they did. Go on Mitt and laugh it up with your rich buddies while the rest of us fight for the scraps.

over basic necessities like food, shelter, and healthcare. Everyone owning a pool does this country no good if people are starving or dying from lack of healthcare.

Of course, this spiel was only meant for the "have mores"...that's the same base he shares with the Bushes.

He still can't afford to buy a clue? Surely he's got a credit card. Hell, he could at least rent a clue, you would think.

All Republicans should have people to clean, the pools, and cut the grass on OUR Golf Courses and Pools that we only allow certain people on.

The rest of us aren't working hard enough to chase the pipe dream that everyone CAN be a millionaire if we just try hard enough.

I personally dislike golf courses because of how often they take natural spaces and turn them into a giant fake field displacing numerous animals so people can run around chasing a ball. To me it is a huge waste of space, other games/sports don't suck up as much for people to 'play'. I'd rather see that land stay 'wild/natural' or be used for homes/businesses/etc that benefit many more people than a golf course does.

Beyond the absurdity of this comment, it blows that you can't facking shop ANYWHERE! Papa Johns sucks too. Big surprise. We boycott Mall-Wart. Haven't been in one in 8 or 9 years. That's very difficult to do around here (no options). It's especially hard because we like to shop at night, but almost everything closes by 9 or 10 pm.

Living in small town IA, we have one grocery store. Not a fan of the owner, so we don't shop there. We can drive 25 miles to a town that has more, but still doesn't have enough. Quad Cities, IA/IL is 60 miles away. Madison, WI is 120 miles away. So we get out when we can, but get a lot of stuff 25 miles away. The local grocery chain there, Hy-Vee, has a lock on the area. Their prices and service suck accordingly (they don't have to woo you because they know you don't have many options). The Target is lame. They keep re-doing the inside instead of just building a nice big SuperTarget. Of course, you're supposed to boycott Target too (and Amazon, and...). Can't really do that, as boycotting Mall-Wart is hard enough. There's a Scum's Club, but that's the same as Mall-Wart. There's just nothing around here. Then you can't eat THIS pizza or shop at THAT store.

It makes sense that big businesses would be righties (doesn't actually make sense, but I get it). They want everything for themselves, no decent wages, etc... Lefties have almost no places to shop. The big one I can think of is Costco. Nothing makes me happier than shopping there. We've been members for 10 years, even though we didn't have one in state until 2004 (not like that location matters, because it's 250 miles away). One's opening in Iowa City in June, but that's 100 miles away too. Where the hell can you shop/eat/spend your money without contributing to the bad guys???? I know people want to shop local, but that's not even much of an option here (and local business owners aren't always much better than the Waltons).

Please excuse the rant.

Sorry, John - your pizza does suck now.

We order and frequently eat at either a local pizzeria or a better national chain (one's called Marco's and it's pretty damn good!)

Wife refuses to order from Pizza Hut, Domino's, Blackjack's and now Papa John enters in our list.

When Papa John stops donating or hosting Republican fundraisers, let me know, and I'll taste their pizza to see if their ingredients has improved.

Note: I remember a certain driver calling the cops on a MMJ patient, after he detected weed. Hopefully that Papa John's driver got fired as a result.

but yeah, they are dead to me too.

I rarely eat pizza but whever we had a group pizza order I'd usually go with Papa John's.

Screw that now!

Any one of them beats Papa John's or Dominoes. Chain pizza is a crime against nature.

Via Veneto's, Franzone's, Kosmo's, Papa Guido's, I could go on and on.

Rosati's is fantastic but they're not local.

We are, however, fortunate enough to have a few local places, though. Palio's, in particular was definitely good, as was Pizza Getti(none here in Frisco, though, as far as I know), and there are a couple other places that we can try, but other than that, we just don't have the variety that certain other places do, or at least my neck of the woods, anyway.

In the Philly area, and of course New York, is where you can get really good pizza. I've had relatives who moved west and one of their complaints is a lack of decent pizza (and steak sandwiches also).

If you really believe that, then why do your policies favor to those who ALREADY live like that, at the expense of those you claim you WANT to live like that?

IF THEY CAN'T PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE!

Asshole.

Well, except of course, the rich.

The mere middle class can spend all their money on health until they're destitute. Then the emergency rooms are free, and you can qualify for medicaid maybe. Good system.

...because we're gonna need a whole lot of non-pool-and-golf-course owning people to maintain the pools and lawns.

"Everyone should live like this?" I'd love to hear the economic theory behind this all-millionaire society.

Meanwhile, he wants everyone to be able to afford a pool and a golf course, while he repeals the plan that will give everyone the ability to afford health care. Glad to see he has his priorities straight.

about abusive treatment and intolerable work conditions.

That's the big problem we have with the GOP.

Making it impossible for anyone but a tiny elite to actually live like that.

for the rest of us, this is such an out of touch statement it is unbelievable.

And whatever four legged animal you rode in on.

and they are just drooling and dreaming about the prospect of putting an underwater elevator in their gigantic pools so they can more easily go deep skin diving in the spacious back yards of their estates.

Don't know if I ever had one, but I sure won't now.

I got fired for it too. It was 1986 or 87, and I worked in his original restaurant in Jeffersonville, IN. I was a delivery driver. I was high at the time, and ended up dropping a pizza on his shoes. He had the store manager fire me that night. I was embarrassed about this, but over the years, the embarrassment has faded, and now I'm proud to say that I ruined a pair of his shoes. But, if I had kept my nose (and his shoes) clean, I imagine I'd be head delivery driver by now. Oh well.

Pizza on his shoes! Perfect. I hope they were Bruno's or some other very expensive brand. I've never had a Papa John's but I'm sure they belong on the bottom/or top of Schnatter's shoes.

... (completely disregarding the math), Republicans believe that everyone should be in the top 1%.

Does not compute, Will Robinson.

Rmoney is so unlikeable on so many levels it is frightening.

"Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too."

If the Republicans really wanted everyone to live like that they would not fight against increasing the minimum wage. In addition, they would not oppose other programs that would increase social mobility.

What an idiot.