Should We All Start Praying for Mitt Romney?

from Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality:



Should We All Start Praying for Mitt Romney?
January 22, 2012

Absolutely. The GOP Presidential hopeful from Bain Capital has become a walking, talking object lesson on how plutocracy works — and why we desperately need to end it.

By Sam Pizzigati


Egalitarians seem to be doing a lot of praying since Saturday’s GOP primary in South Carolina. If you listen closely, you can hear their prayer: Please, Lord, let Mitt Romney win the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination.

Why this swelling of affection for one of the richest Americans ever to run for the White House? Over recent weeks, Mitt Romney has put a long-overdue “human face” on American plutocracy at its job-destroying, tax-avoiding worst.

Thanks to Mitt Romney, millions of Americans now understand how private equity kingpins funnel fortunes — to themselves — out of middle class misfortune. And millions more, thanks to Mitt’s on-the-stump candor, now have a window into the world of people so rich that $370,000 — Mitt’s income from speaking fees last year — rates as “not very much.”

Every day seems to bring another “teachable moment” on plutocracy from the Romney campaign: the intricacies of the “carried interest” loophole one moment, the allure of Cayman Islands offshore tax havens the next. ................(more)

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