Mitt Romney returns to stage with vow to fight 'scourge of poverty'
Source: L.A. Times
In his first public remarks since telling GOP donors that he is weighing a third bid for the White House, Mitt Romney suggested Friday that if he does run he would alter the focus that led to his loss in 2012 to President Obama.
I believe in the post-Obama era we need to stand for safety, and for opportunity for all people, and we have to stand for helping lift people out of poverty, Romney told hundreds of Republican National Committee members and their guests at a dinner aboard the aircraft carrier Midway, berthed in San Diego Harbor.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-republicans-romney-20150117-story.html
global1
(25,285 posts)Poverty? Right!!!! Opportunity for all People? Right!!!! Stand for safety? Right!!!!!
I don't believe one word he says.
louis-t
(23,309 posts)He's gonna fight the "scourge of poverty"? Maybe he means himself? Stop hitting yourself, Mitt.
IdiotsforPalin
(170 posts)is excellent at creating poverty
LadyVV
(12 posts)mitt, no means no.
mountain grammy
(26,658 posts)oh the horror!
rickford66
(5,530 posts)Maeve
(42,297 posts)Trillo
(9,154 posts)Rmoney.
eggplant
(3,915 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)By Kathy Ruffing - January 6, 2015
...More specifically, heres what people need to know:
* The last two reallocations have shortchanged DI, underfunding it compared with the retirement program. Congress redirected a big chunk of payroll taxes from DI to OASI in 1983 and only partly offset that in a 1994 law. (See graph.) If DIs tax rate had remained at its pre-1983 level, we wouldnt need to replenish the fund today. Yet nobody claims that the 1983 reallocation, which helped stave off OASIs imminent depletion, robbed DI nor could they reasonably claim that reallocating in the other direction would rob OASI.
* A reallocation would have only a tiny effect on the retirement programs solvency. Reallocating taxes to put the two trust funds on an even footing would prolong the DI trust fund by 17 years (from 2016 to 2033), while advancing the OASI funds depletion by just one year (from 2034 to 2033). The reason is simple: OASI is much bigger than DI, so a modest reallocation barely dents OASI. And before then, policymakers will almost surely address Social Security solvency in a comprehensive fashion.
* Most DI recipients are older people, so helping DI helps seniors. The risk of disability rises with age, and most DI beneficiaries are older. Seventy percent of disabled workers are age 50 or older, 30 percent are 60 or older, and 20 percent are 62 or older and would actually qualify as early retirees under Social Security...
http://www.offthechartsblog.org/house-rule-could-hurt-vulnerable-disability-beneficiaries/
Most of the comments are very good and worth reading.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)You go, Mittsy!! Never give up!!
groundloop
(11,527 posts)Lord help us if voters fall for that charade again.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)We all now know how you really feel: it's on record, pal!
valerief
(53,235 posts)SunSeeker
(51,745 posts)Poverty is the consequence of bad government policies and indifference. The poor are the victims, not the problem.
3catwoman3
(24,070 posts)Yeah, right. Even for a position chameleon like Mitt, it's tough to completely alter your basic nature We know he's only be doing it to get votes, not because he's really had a change of his 1%er privileged heart.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)your gop party, like you, have no compassion.
Gothmog
(145,666 posts)undeterred
(34,658 posts)Is there any other subject where he has so little credibility?
cstanleytech
(26,334 posts)say to the Fiction sub forum over at Reading & Writing.
xocet
(3,873 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Certainly he's a bit demented after his car elevator hit him in the head!
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)can't afford to throw away $10,000 on a bet.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)lastlib
(23,322 posts)Turns out he was talking about the "own-a-ship society". Meaning tax cuts for everyone who had a yacht. Mittens is going down that same road.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)that wanted to trade 1980/90 cars, not on the official list.
People always thought that war criminal, *, was lying. He wasn't. He just wasn't talking to us, the invisible.
truthisfreedom
(23,159 posts)Because he'll refuse to reveal what investments he's made with his son's company.
Chemisse
(30,817 posts)That awkward moment when you realize yours isn't the biggest private jet at the airport.
George II
(67,782 posts)TeamPooka
(24,264 posts)acquiring businesses and firing employees, off shoring, and developing businesses like Staples that drove small business owners out of business then he should really shut the fuck up about wage and income inequality.
jmowreader
(50,567 posts)I wonder what percent of poverty in the United States is directly attributable to the work he and his competitors in the Mergers and Acquisitions (aka "private equity" industry did?
corkhead
(6,119 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)explain to Romney that he doesn't have to run for president to do what he suggests needs doin' - although nothin' specific..as usual..
Right now he could stand for safety and promote strong gun rules - that's what I mean by specific....
Or - opportunity for all people - well, then promote Universal Healthcare - and an infrastructure jobs initiative...or oppose Keystone - no real jobs there - and just a boondoggle for so many right now (not that it hasn't been a boondoggle all along) - considering a foreign company wants to ship their crap down pipelines over our land..I digress..
help lift people out of poverty - okay then, promote a higher minimum wage - bring tax money back to US shores - quit the attack on SSDI - and SSI - increase the tax on the 1% - like you Mitt!
See Mitt, you will never be president - but you sure can do the most good for the most people...right now....I await your suggestions at the next Republiklan meeting....sigh;
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)At the risk of getting slammed... he may actually believe it if he really follows Mormon teaching.
If you know any Mormons on a personal level, they are very giving. If you are fortunate to have one as a neighbor, they'll bend over backwards to help you out if you need it.
I'll have to add my usual when I comment about things like this: I'm an atheist.
JI7
(89,279 posts)conservatives. they might give to those they personally know or come across. but it ignores the many who wont be so lucky to know someone who could help them out.
he is almost 70 years old. i doubt he has changed his position on issues much. but he is willing to do or say whatever he thinks will help him become president.
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)and it doesn't look like he's done anything remarkable.
Certainly doesn't look like he's done squat since the last election.
Hey Mitt, you don't need to be elected President to help the poor
(and self-serving contributions to your church really don't count)
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)I wonder what Mitt Rmoney considers "poverty"? I bet it's 10 figures. Kinda like Clinton's "dead broke" BS... The 1% have it so tough...having to hide all their fabulous wealth offshore, so they don't have to pay their fair share. Not that Mitt or anybody's ever done that...
Botany
(70,614 posts)Bain Capital's working model was to buy up businesses, off shore the jobs,
fire the people, borrow money against the biz, sell of the parts, and dump
the health care and retirement costs onto the government.
hibbing
(10,110 posts)After all, that has worked so successfully in helping poor people in that past.
Peace
OnionPatch
(6,169 posts)I'm betting before I even read it that his plan involves some sort of tax breaks or deregulation (relaxed labor/environmental standards, etc.) for the uber-rich.
progree
(10,924 posts)because no more info is to be found there.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)orbitalman
(1,098 posts)davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)If he gave everything he had to charity, I might consider taking him seriously. I mean, I'd least consider it. Seriously though... Mitt? Go fuck yourself very much.
douggg
(239 posts)over there.
TeamPooka
(24,264 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,134 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,878 posts)about anyone but the 1%?
wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)Skittles
(153,220 posts)and living off investment earnings
so, fuck no they don't know
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)But, then, you have to feel sorry for the guy, his wife claimed that he bought some shirts from Costco to try and be homey.
Unfortunately for Rmoney, Homey don't play that!
olddad56
(5,732 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)killbotfactory
(13,566 posts)lob1
(3,820 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,159 posts)He's floating shit, and it floats.
Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)His solution will be some combination of:
- Keystone XL
- Cutting or abolishing food stamps
- Cutting the time you can claim unemployment
- Cutting the taxes of the rich so they can create jobs
- Getting rid of those burdensome regulations
King_Klonopin
(1,307 posts)Carly Fiorina (GOP whore) made this exact talking point on
Bill Maher's show last week. I almost had a stroke....
The empathetic GOP is now going to reverse the trend of "income
inequality", their own Frankenstein's Monster which they created
out of their twisted ideology, while blaming this huge injustice on
Obama and the Dems !! How they plan to do this is anyone's guess.
The shamelessness of this is outright galling and nauseating.
The good news: this is all the scumbags have -- and the public ain't
gonna buy it one bit.
The only measurable index that hasn't improved under a Dem
POTUS is the income gap, mostly due to the stagnant middle
class wage and personal debt. So, let the first questions to Mitt-
Head be, "Do you think the minimum wage should be raised, that
labor union membership should be encouraged, that predatory
banking practices should be punished and prosecuted, and that the
Bush tax cuts for the wealthy made matters worse ????"
Just askin' Mitty, you fucking fraud.
sakabatou
(42,186 posts)sendero
(28,552 posts)...... what if you really *aren't* destined to become President of the US? What if no amount of lying on your part could make it so?
You'll forgive me if I choose to believe what you said to a select group of followers in a setting you thought was private over obvious crap you say to the public.
packman
(16,296 posts)someone tapes him in a soup kitchen telling the homeless how he doesn't care what the 53% of the people in the country-or better yet- the 1%'ers.
lark
(23,166 posts)how you Repugs lie! You know damn well that cutting taxes and regulations on business doesn't increase jobs but decrease them and decrease the pay, yet that is what your, ahem, plan to reduce poverty actually is increase wealth for the richest and forget the 47%.
Yet, you will keep up this false framing, aided and abetted by Faux Snooze and the ultra rich, hoping that enough sheep will follow you. Americans haven't made that mistake in 2 previous tries, so good luck with trying the same thing again.
elleng
(131,197 posts)OUR challenge: inform the electorate!